organic garden on Hettiefred Road.
(Keelin Daly/ Greenwich Time photo)
Couple grows a smorgasbord of organic treats
By Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
For years, Richard Harnett said he whittled away his leisure hours jogging, playing chess and relaxing with his wife and son by the pool.
A Greenwich High School assistant football coach has quit after several of his players were arrested for throwing eggs at his cars, athletic officials said.
Phil Tarantino, who worked as a receivers' coach for the perennial powerhouse Cardinals, has resigned from the team, said Gus Lindine, the school's athletic director.
"He has decided to step down," Lindine said Friday.
Lindine confirmed that "several football team members were involved in the situation" but declined to elaborate, referring questions about the matter to Tarantino.
Messages seeking comment from Tarantino, who lives on Bible Street in Cos Cob, were left Friday and Thursday at his home.Board may review cop at GHS
The school system may re-examine the School Resource Officer program at Greenwich High School if a poll shows overwhelming opposition to it following an officer's use of a Taser on a student, a school spokeswoman said.
On May 13, School Resource Officer Carlos Franco used a Taser to subdue student Victor Hugo Londono when the student resisted arrest after refusing to report to the assistant headmaster's office following his suspension.
Soon after the incident, school officials sent out an annual satisfaction survey, the Harris Interactive School Poll, to parents, students and teachers, appending a question about the SRO program at the school.
"I support having a School Resource Officer at Greenwich High School," the survey stated, and asked readers to give a response ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree."
Though the mailing deadline for the surveys was June 6, the results will not be available for several months, said Kim Eves, a spokeswoman for the school system.
Members of the Board of Education and the GHS parent-teacher association appended the question to this year's poll, Eves said, "simply as a way to open up a discussion" with members of the community following the controversial May 13 incident. However, the question - which appeared alongside another item about the need to "teach character and ethics" in school - should not be viewed as an outright referendum on the SRO program, Eves stressed.
If, for instance, the results came back....
With public funding of elections available for the first time this year in Connecticut, four of the six candidates on the General Assembly ballot in Greenwich are accepting taxpayer money for their campaigns outright or are leaning toward doing so.
By Meredith Blake
Staff writer
Learning how to harvest honey was a sweet way to spend the day.
Like most twin brothers, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss travel in the same circles. The 26-year-old Greenwich natives each attended Greenwich Country Day School, Brunswick School and Harvard University, where they excelled academically and athletically.
Investing in today's market environment is a particular challenge for retirees who depend on their investments to cover their living expenses.
Golf group helps members improve networking, game
Coleen Banks has done more than improve her golf game since joining the Fairfield County Chapter of the Executive Women's Golf Association. The Stamford resident also has made some valuable business connections.
The group provides valuable opportunities to network not just with fellow chapter members but also with members of other chapters across the country, said Banks, operator of an Ameriprise Financial office in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
"I joined in the early 1990s. I wanted to learn how to play the game for business reasons," Banks said, adding that her participation has helped her acquire clients outside the chapter....
Others likely would have welcomed fieldTo the Greenwich Time editor:
I am writing to say how very disappointed I am with some of the residents in Riverside and our town officials. I have lived in Byram for all of my 47 years. I believe if there were a piece of vacant town-owned land - unfortunately, I don't think there is because a lot of it has been used for affordable housing - and children used their energy to create a magnificent Wiffle ball stadium, I could safely and proudly say our neighbors wouldn't complain. They would have embraced the spirit and energy and pitched in to help. Parents and their children alike would play on that field together.
As adults, we constantly try to get our kids to get off the couch; we tell them to be active and creative, and that is just what these kids were doing. However, their reward was a lesson in the law and a reality check. The world, and especially our beautiful town of Greenwich, has changed.
Would it be such a horrible thing for the neighbors near the stadium to listen to the sounds of kids playing, to listen to youth and happiness, for the rest of the summer, a few short weeks? School will be back in session before we know it, and the stadium would become quite a quiet place again.
It's a shame that some adults have forgotten how it felt to be a kid, in the summertime, in Greenwich. My own childhood was filled with whole days spent playing outside, when we would take just a few minutes to go home and gobble down a quick sandwich, only to return to the playground to play with our friends.
I thank all of the kids who built their beautiful stadium. Thank you for bringing back a spirit that, unfortunately, has been lost in some of us.
Happy summer!
Sue Frano
Byram
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