A crewman aboard the maxi yacht Rima 2, in the IRC Super Zero class, gauges the boat's proximity to the start, while behind him Genuine Risk closes fast in Long Island Sound off Stamford Harbor, the start of the annual race to Martha's Vineyard and back.
(Paul Desmarais/Greenwich Time Staff photos)
Greenwich Time
As he waited for the start gun, Greenwich resident Tom O'Connell made a half-serious vow to never lose again to his sailing buddy, Benoit Ansart, who last year finished ahead of him in the annual Vineyard sailing race, sponsored by apparel company Vineyard Vines.
"I finished second" of two, O'Connell joked. "Not this time."
The two men were among the more than 500 skippers and crew members who turned out Friday for the 74th annual Vineyard Race. The competition, which launches from the Stamford Yacht Club, is the final contest of three in the Northern Ocean Racing Trophy.
The course spans 238 miles and typically takes about 35 hours, bringing racers east out of Long Island Sound, past Block Island, R.I., to the light tower at Buzzard's Bay off Martha's Vineyard and back....
Greenwich Post
With the end of summer vacation, Greenwich looks to fall. The quintessential image of fall leaves is given new meaning at the new exhibit at Les Beaux Arts Gallery at Round Hill Community Church, which opens Sunday, Sept. 7 and runs through Oct. 7.
Since Rosetta Stone is no longer offering its service to libraries, we thought we'd share another neat language learning site that we found: Livemocha.com ...
Sorry I haven't been around lately, but I still need to get my computer up and running again. Right now, Brent is visiting for a few days so I won't have time...
RSC Equipment Rental weathers times
Arizona Republic
... publicly traded company has become the second-largest equipment renter in North America, after United Rentals, a Greenwich, Conn., company with about 700 stores. Olsson says his company is the leader when it comes to growth and profitability. The ...
Too late for charges in N.Y. oil br.....
Observer
... with a lower court that the deadline to reinstate most of the dismissed charges against Frederic Bourke Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., had passed. The ruling did not immediately effect related charges pending against investment promoter Viktor Kozeny, an ...
Associated Press NEW YORK
A federal appeals court on Friday refused to reinstate charges against a businessman accused of offering hundreds of millions of dollars to top officials in Azerbaijan in exchange for favorable treatment in oil deals.
In its ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed with a lower court that the deadline to reinstate most of the dismissed charges against Frederic Bourke Jr., of Greenwich, had passed.
The ruling did not immediately affect related charges pending against investment promoter Viktor Kozeny, an Irish citizen of Czech background who is in the Bahamas appealing an order of deportation. Kozeny cannot fight the U.S. charges unless he returns to American soil.
Earlier this year, the government dropped charges against a third man, David Pinkerton of Bernardsville, N.J.
Bourke and Pinkerton, who are U.S. citizens, were charged along with Kozeny in 2005 with conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Travel Act.
Prosecutors alleged that the trio schemed to pay tens of millions of dollars to buy off senior officials from the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan from 1997 to 1999.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime to offer payment to foreign government officials to obtain or retain business. Besides cash, the defendants also provided jewelry and luxury items and free medical treatment to the officials, prosecutors said.
Azerbaijan, rich in oil resources, began .....
'48 Hours Mystery' looks at Skakel case
Connecticut Post
... bludgeoned to death with a golf club on her family's property on Oct. 31, 1975. The case remained unsolved until Greenwich Police charged Skakel in the case in 2000. Assistant State's Attorney Susann Gill, the prosecutor who has championed Skakel's ...
Greenwich Post
For the past three and one-half decades, this has always been Greenwich High School football coach Rich Albonizio’s favorite time of year.
OK, maybe not as much as late November and early December some years when he’s accepting a championship plaque or two.
But there’s always something special about the first week of football practice.
OK, maybe not as much as late November and early December some years when he’s accepting a championship plaque or two.
But there’s always something special about the first week of football practice.
Orphans get a funding boost for college
NewsTimesLive.com
... vice president of his class. And now he is the recipient of the first full-time scholarship available through the Greenwich-based Stewardship Foundation, which provides college funding to orphans and young adults from foster care families. He will ...
Riverside's Lund enjoys successful summer, placing 4th U.S. Junior Women's Singlehanded Championship
Greenwich Time
With waves as high as 10 feet and winds that exceeded 20 knots, it wasn't exactly smooth sailing for those who competed in the 2008 U.
Greenwich Post
The Greenwich High School Class of 1973 is holding its 35th reunion on Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 17 to 19.
Aquarion Approved For Rate Increase
Hartford Courant
... In December, the company imposed rate increases ranging from 11 percent in the southern division, which covers the Greenwich and Mystic areas, to 33 percent in the western division, which supplies Stamford and neighboring towns. Attorney General ...
The front yard is the last place you'd expect to find a vegetable garden in tony Greenwich, yet that's exactly where Laura and Stephen Cunningham planted their organic 40- by 23-foot vegetable patch.
Dear reader, the mind boggles that the Hearst Corporation, new owner of our wildly unpopular local rag, AKA *Yellowwich Time*, for some reason continues to...
Greenwich Post
The Aug. 14 Board of Selectman Meeting is airing on Greenwich Community Television (GCTV) twice daily through the weekend, at noon and 9 p.m. on Friday, at 8:30 a.m. and at 2:55 p.m. on Saturday and at 9:10 a.m. and at 6 p.m. on Sunday.
A federal appeals court on Friday refused to reinstate charges against a businessman accused of offering hundreds of millions of dollars to top officials i...
Rothschild Slams Winners, Will Play for Emory
Westport News
... and handled the tougher competition well. "I definitely felt more pressure to keep winning, especially against Greenwich, but I liked it," recalls Rothschild. "I didn't beat Greenwich but I gave it my best." This year, he reached the Class L singles ...
The developer of a software product that has made the documentation process easier for vessels to enter ports around the world has broken away from the business that his father sold two years ago to start his own company.
Fritz Heidenreich, president and chief executive officer of Heidenreich Innovations, will leave Heidmar Inc. on Monday to establish his new business at 165 Mason St., in Greenwich, sharing a building occupied by a office operated by his father, Per Heidenreich, who founded Heidmar 25 years ago and sold it to subsidiaries of Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. in September 2006.
In connection with Heidenreich's departure, Heidmar will transfer the www.Q88.com and www.Baltic99.com Web sites to Heidenreich Innovations and will enter into a contract with the new company for consulting services.
The Q88 Website was launched in June 2001, and the Baltic99 Website was launched in June. There are 580 questionnaires available on these Websites, and they are being used by more than 390 ship owners, representing 4,900 vessels.
Greenwich Post
Girl Scouts of Connecticut will recognize two exceptional female role models at its fourth annual Women of Achievement: Paving the Way leadership breakfast on Friday, Sept. 5, from 7:45 to 10 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich.
All are welcome to reserve a seat and sponsorship opportunities are available.
More effective than bribing the maitre'd The man pictured above, "Eddy", was our fishing guide for a few days this week and Thursday night we invited Ed an...
United Rentals Names Kneeland President, CEO and Director
Rental Equipment Register
... voided greater cuts by helping institute other measures to cut back on expenses and improve efficiencies. Based in Greenwich, Conn., United Rentals is North America's largest rental company, No. 1 on the RER 100.
Contracts for August 29, 2008
Department of Defense News
... is Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., (SP0600-08-D-9406). World Fuels Americas dba Trans-Tec, Greenwich, Conn., is being awarded a maximum $47,378,119 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for fuels. Other locations of ...
United Rentals Names Kneeland President, CEO and Director
Rental Equipment Register
... voided greater cuts by helping institute other measures to cut back on expenses and improve efficiencies. Based in Greenwich, Conn., United Rentals is North America's largest rental company, No. 1 on the RER 100.
Contracts for August 29, 2008
Department of Defense News
... is Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., (SP0600-08-D-9406). World Fuels Americas dba Trans-Tec, Greenwich, Conn., is being awarded a maximum $47,378,119 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for fuels. Other locations of ...
Greenwich Forum
Arrest made in YW bomb threats - Greenwich Time - Comment, last updated on Saturday Aug 30 by ghost
Arrest made in YW bomb threats - Greenwich Time - Comment, last updated on Saturday Aug 30 by ghost
It was a day many people never thought they'd live to see, and one that could presage so much more. For the first time in this country's history, someone other than a white man won the presidential nomination from a major political party.
Greenwich News
'Dinnertime Bandit' Convicted; Those Responsible Exult - He called himself the "best second-story man in the business," but Alan Golder, dubbed the "Dinnertime Bandit" for allegedly robbing or attempting to rob...
Global Markets-Oil rises on Gustav, dollar posts big August gain
Quamnet
... competitiveness, notably relative to Europe," said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. in a note to investors. Data showed euro zone consumer prices grew at a less-than-expected 3.8 percent ...
'Dinnertime Bandit' Convicted; Those Responsible Exult - He called himself the "best second-story man in the business," but Alan Golder, dubbed the "Dinnertime Bandit" for allegedly robbing or attempting to rob...
Global Markets-Oil rises on Gustav, dollar posts big August gain
Quamnet
... competitiveness, notably relative to Europe," said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. in a note to investors. Data showed euro zone consumer prices grew at a less-than-expected 3.8 percent ...
Greenwich Library Today's Events
Closed - *When:* Saturday August 30th, 2008 - All Day Labor Day
Ruth All-Stars Had Right Mix
Greenwich Citizen
... the results could be varied, interesting and sometimes downright scary. That's what makes the summer run for the Greenwich Babe Ruth 13-year-old All-Star team even more impressive. The boys returned home from the Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series ...
Chung Making Her Point Quickly
Greenwich Citizen
... Fencing Association. She's also ranked No. 35 nationally for 12-under fencers. The soon-to-be fifth grader at Greenwich Academy also won the gold medal for both the Y-12 and Y-14 mixed (boys and girls competing together) foil event at Connecticut's ...
*Greenwich Time says......* *Small fixes are left for Ham Ave.** * *Written By The **Board Of Education's Boy* *Colin Gustafson* A variety of unresol...
On AP and Newspaper Cancellation
Rebuilding Media
... Communications, and meanwhile is managing partner of the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Two forces have shattered the news media. Technology is the first. Although media technology is undergoing its ...
Clearing out the clutter
Greenwich Time
On AP and Newspaper Cancellation
Rebuilding Media
... Communications, and meanwhile is managing partner of the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Two forces have shattered the news media. Technology is the first. Although media technology is undergoing its ...
Clearing out the clutter
Greenwich Time
Greenwich resident Stefania Masoni has been a feng shui consultant for area residents and corporations since 1999.
PW Daily
Publishers' Weekly
Just Books Planning Grand Re-Opening by Kevin Howell
PW Daily
Publishers' Weekly
Just Books Planning Grand Re-Opening by Kevin Howell
Just Books, the independent bookstore in Old Greenwich, Conn., is holding a grand re-opening and open house on Saturday, September 6 to celebrate its new ownership and show off the ...
Beach cars lead town to tax cheats
Beach cars lead town to tax cheats
Greenwich Time
Ali Karimi is giving new meaning to the word "beachcomber." A personal property appraiser in the assessor's office, Karimi has been combing through the list of Greenwich beach card holders for those failing to register their motor vehicles at their town addresses.
Christ Church Greenwich has turned a page in its musical history with the appointment of an internationally recognized organist, Jamie Hitel, as the new director of music.
What were you thinking Senator McCain? As a strong Obama supporter, I am extremely happy that you picked Governor Sarah Palin, but I am sure Republicans ...
Dead fish litter Milford Harbor
Connecticut Post
... "It's a level that's lower than normal," he said. On Thursday afternoon, UConn station readings off the coast of Greenwich showed oxygen at only 2.4 ppm at the bottom. At the surface, near Bridgeport, the reading was 10.2. In windier, colder ...
So last week when I was up on the roof, watering the plants in the skybar, I noticed what looked like a branch moving around under the stream of water coming...
Greenwich Time
A regulation that allows only residents to park during the daytime on Idlewild Manor has been made permanent, despite complaints from a renter on the block about the rule's impact on family members and guests visiting her.
Grenwichite - Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
Crazy Wives of Windsor - First Diana, Now Camilla
Crazy Wives of Windsor - First Diana, Now Camilla
Does Prince Charles attract nutty women for his wives or does he drive them crazy post-marriage? That's the question we should be asking now that Camilla, re...
Wiscasset Tidal Plant
Wiscasset Newspaper
... publicity generated last year over plans to build a coal plant in Wiscasset. Proposed by National RE/sources of Greenwich, Conn., the project was stopped when townspeople voted not to raise the town's height limit. A grass-roots citizens' ...
Wiscasset Tidal Plant
Wiscasset Newspaper
... publicity generated last year over plans to build a coal plant in Wiscasset. Proposed by National RE/sources of Greenwich, Conn., the project was stopped when townspeople voted not to raise the town's height limit. A grass-roots citizens' ...
Julia Plants, 41, of 25 Owenoke Way, Old Greenwich, turned herself in Wednesday night and was charged with failure to appear in court, according a police report.
Raymundo Reyes, 33, of 39 Meadow Street, Norwalk turned himself in to Greenwich Police Wednesday night and was released on $15,000 bond. He had been arrested in November 2002 for driving while intoxicated.
Both Reyes and Plants are due to appear in Superior Court in Stamford Sept. 5.
Greenwich Time
Fifty years ago, the Greenwich Council, Boy Scouts of America, signed a deed of ownership on 75 acres of backcountry forestland where it soon created a lake for campers to swim, canoe and fish in every summer.
Pipeline approved for water bottler
Sun Journal
... said Thursday that Nestle Waters North America's proposal meets permitting requirements. The company is based in Greenwich, Conn., and is part of Switzerland's Nestle SA. Regulators earlier decided the project isn't likely to harm surface or ...
Sun Journal
... said Thursday that Nestle Waters North America's proposal meets permitting requirements. The company is based in Greenwich, Conn., and is part of Switzerland's Nestle SA. Regulators earlier decided the project isn't likely to harm surface or ...
To the editor:
I would like to clarify Neil Vigdor's account of the issues surrounding the potential removal of trees in Bruce Park.
As I explained to Mr. Vigdor when he called to inform me that trees were being posted with notices by the office of Bruce Spaman, the town's tree warden, we first discovered that several old specimens were diseased and declared to be at high risk last September when, in the course of researching the museum's renovation and expansion plans, our architects undertook an independent study of the health of the trees with the help of professional arborists from Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories.
Once we had this information, we were legally obliged to share it with the town, whose responsibility it is to monitor and maintain the trees in public spaces. The information was submitted to Mr. Spaman and reviewed with him on the museum's property last November.
By posting notices on the trees this week, it is assumed that Mr. Spaman concurred with the report and its recommendations. It therefore is incorrect to suggest that the museum requested or made an application for the trees' removal.
I might add that in our planning, we have taken the stewardship of the park very seriously and seek to save as many old, healthy trees as possible, proposing to replace diseased specimens with new plantings.
Our plans also call for environmentally responsible, "sustainable" building materials and practices. One need only visit the museum at the moment, when we have three interrelated shows on climate change, to appreciate the Bruce's ongoing commitment to nature and the environment.
Peter C. Sutton
Greenwich
The writer is the executive director of the Bruce Museum.
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