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Thursday, August 14, 2008

08/14/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Thusday


Convict recounts jewelry sales with Golder
An alleged accomplice of Alan Golder said he sold off ill-gotten jewelry provided by the suspected jewel thief throughout 1997 before Golder vanished as police investigated him for a series of brazen burglaries of town mansions.

Was primary a waste of money?
Here's some food for thought from Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary won handily by party-endorsee Jim Himes over petition candidate Lee Whitnum - she received about half as many votes as signatures she collected to get on the ballot.


Glenville parents pass out school supplies
The Parent-Teacher Association at Glenville School has made a yearly ritual of placing back-to-school supplies - from pencils and Magic Markers to sticky notes and glue sticks - atop each student's desk before they arrive for their first day of class.

Teens find summer work cleaning up townWorking with whips, sheers, hand pruners and rakes, is just one day on the job for a group of teens getting paid to help clean up Greenwich.

Town twins go for the gold
BEIJING -Greenwich rowers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss will compete for gold this weekend after finishing second in Wednesday's 2,000-meter qualifying race of pair's rowing.
Greenwich Water Polo makes waves at Junior Olympics
Greenwich Water Polo's four A teams proved that they could compete with the absolute best the sport has to offer at the boys USA Water Polo Junior Olympics recently
To the Greenwich Time editor:

In July of 2000 we moved from Greenwich to Walla Walla, Wash. In July of 2008 we received a bill collector's notice from the town of Greenwich demanding payment of unpaid taxes for 1999 due in July of 2000 for two cars we owned at the time plus eight years of interest. To say that I am ourtaged that the town of Greenwich would wait eight years to decide to tell us about a tax we may have owned, plus accumulated interest, would be an understatement.

The bill collector, American National Recovery Group Inc., has sent a sheet explaining that under Connecticut statue and case law there is no obligation for the tax collector to send a bill, and lack of receipt is no excuse for non-payment. Moreover, the taxing entity cannot forgive interest.
I am stunned. The absurdity of it is surpassed only by the injustice. If, in fact, we owe a tax, we will, of course, pay it, but eight years of interest? Either the town of Greenwich is incompetent in its record keeping, or this is a deliberate scam to raise funds in a most unethical way.

This is not simply a matter of legal equity, it is a matter of moral turpitude. After all, what is the difference between this behavior and the behavior of private entities engaged in the corrupt practices of organized crime?

Steven E. Woolley
Walla Walla, Wash.
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