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Norwalk Advocate
By Neil Vigdor
Article Launched: 08/17/2008 02:37:53 AM
GREENWICH - Call them sappy, but a number of Havemeyer Park residents have developed an attachment to a giant silver maple tree in their neighborhood.
They say that the tree, which stands about 80 feet tall and measures 53 inches in diameter, provides shade during the summer, helps reduce noise and sequesters carbon associated with global warming.
The tree, which was planted at 38 North Ridge Road about 60 years ago when the subdivision was developed, has soothing qualities, according to its devotees.
"It's found that wooded settings lower blood pressure," Halsey Drive resident Helene Wilson said to laughter last week during a public hearing held by the town's tree warden. "It's true."
Wilson's blood pressure is on the rise, however, thanks to a neighbor's request to the town to cut down the towering maple because of safety concerns - the tree's massive limbs branch out over that family's house.
Now, she and several other residents are trying to fight the potential loss of the tree.
"Let's keep the green in Greenwich," Wilson told town tree warden Bruce Spaman during Thursday's hearing at Town Hall....
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