TOP SYORY:
Seven years after helping with the grim recovery effort at Ground Zero, one of Greenwich's finest is returning to the site.
Police officer Bob Ferretti is taking a rather circuitous route, however.
To help raise money for police officers killed in the line of duty, Ferretti is riding his bicycle to the World Trade Center site from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
To help raise money for police officers killed in the line of duty, Ferretti is riding his bicycle to the World Trade Center site from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
He will start his journey on Sunday and arrive at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, traveling via local roads such as Route 9, which runs through several states.
"Thinking about all the rescue workers that walked into those buildings, it's a great motivator," said Ferretti, 47, a Port Chester, N.Y., resident who is married with four children.
This will be the fourth consecutive year that Ferretti will be riding with fellow law enforcement officers from around the country in the peloton of the Tour de Force, a charity endurance event established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Joe Romano has been waiting for this day for eight years. The town coordinator of John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000 in Greenwich, Romano is reprising that role this year and will be on the convention floor tonight in St.
Late Morning Update:
These Stories Have Just Been
Released On The Greenwich Time Web Site
All Of These Stories Were Available At
10:00 PM Last Night When The Paper Was Published
At The Connecticut Post Facility
Yet, the Lazy Web Master At The Greenwich Time
Treats The Greenwich Times' Web Site Users
Like Red Headed Step Children.
Doesn't Greenwich Time Editor David Warner
Know That The Internet Is The Papers Only Salvation?
Even, If David Warner Folds The Greenwich Time
And Also Folds The Stamford And Norwalk Advocates
Into The Connecticut Post
He Is Still Going To Need The Internet
To Save These Combined Newspapers.
For months I have been warning Greenwich Time readers that there is a very good chance that The Greenwich Time will probably soon be a Riverside News Bureau Of A Greatly Expanded Connecticut Post.
I know there are a few soon to be converted subscribers that think the Greenwich Time is healthy as a back country horse, but have they looked at the Greenwich Time Real Estate web page lately.
It's been combined with the Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate and Norwalk Advocate real estate pages.
The page doesn't even have the Greenwich Time Green in the header anymore. It's kind of like a Norwalk Advocate RED now.
Have you also seen how the has all of a sudden, your Greenwich Time Events Calendar became kind of a Coneticut Postish, sort of like a Fairfeild County - Events Calender?
Clifton (20)
Englewood (1)
Fairfield (1)
Manhattan (3)
Milford (1)
New Canaan (6)
Ramsey (3)
Ridgefield (1)
Ridgewood (2)
Englewood (1)
Fairfield (1)
Manhattan (3)
Milford (1)
New Canaan (6)
Ramsey (3)
Ridgefield (1)
Ridgewood (2)
Is it possible that web news articles come out earlier at the Connecticut Post for a reason?
Why do Greenwich Time web users get a couple of stories that were ready at 10:00 PM at 2:30 AM and then a few more 10 hours later in the day.
When Is The Greenwich Time Going To Wake Up And Notice That All of the New York Daily Newspapers put their news up on the web as it happens, there is no 12 to 24 hour web delay.
In fact, the New York Times earns half of it's profits on it web properties
The Los Angeles Times, doesn't even put out a bulky Sunday real estate section anymore, it's 100% on the Internet.
Well Anyhow, here are the belated local news stories from the paper that is BEHIND THE TIMES......
GREENWICH TIME WEBMASTER CAN"T GET IT UP !!!!
This Story Was Available On The Front Page, since it was published last night, but the pitiful Greenwich Time web master did not manage to get it up until.....
Article Launched: 09/04/2008 07:58:10 AM EDT
Report: FAA took proper course
Opponents of a controversial aircraft rerouting plan are challenging the conclusions of a new government report that found that the Federal Aviation Administration followed correct procedure in developing the flight paths....
Opponents of a controversial aircraft rerouting plan are challenging the conclusions of a new government report that found that the Federal Aviation Administration followed correct procedure in developing the flight paths....
MORE FROM BEHIND THE TIMES......
There is an old saying that when you are at the top the only place to go is down. Apparently Terry Lowe and his Greenwich High School Water Polo team have never heard that old adage.
Today's Top Greenwich Time Living & Health Feature:
Despite all the planning, Diane Mulvehill knows that when the 31st Norwalk Seaport Association Oyster Festival opens Friday night, it will take on a life of its own.
Today's Top Greenwich Time Business Story:
Connecticut Light & Power Co. said Wednesday it finished running the overhead lines on the $1 billion Middletown-to-Norwalk transmission line.
From The Greenwich Time Editors:
Today's Editorial
A recent situation involving the state and Norwalk raises a profound issue for all of our communities, one that gets to the nature of government - how it too often is and how it is supposed to be.
After learning all about NORWALK at least a Greenwich Time Reader can still read about local issues in the LETTERS TO THE Editors section.....
To the editor:
Thanks to columnist Bernie Yudain for the exemplary history lesson on the Greenwich Republicans (Greenwich Time, Aug. 3).
Note: Please See....
I find it a testament to the growth and maturity of the town of Greenwich that the actions of these hallowed members of the old Greenwich GOP are now being duplicated and refined by Greenwich Democrats in 2008.
Some people remember an up-and-coming Greenwich activist by the name of John Olsen, who is now a member of the Democratic National Committee - that's the Sam Pryor role in 2008. Or how about that virtually unknown Greenwich Democratic candidate Ned Lamont, who went national and spawned a movement right out of this town? A quick researcher might discover U.S. House candidate Jim Himes ran a few of the Democratic picnics right around the same time of year as the clambake.
Key national finance chairpersons direct money to the Obama campaign just like the Republicans did in the old days. For Democrats, Greenwich is certainly the place to be these days, and it is clear that Greenwich is moving too in that direction.
The truth is that, even according to GreenwichTime, the Republicans just aren't what they once were, and the Democrats are ascendant in local and national matters. And I invite you to see this for yourself at the Democratic Party Picnic, Sept. 21 at 1 p.m. at the Montgomery Pinetum, to which everyone is invited.
Bet you won't get that offer from the other party.
Frank Farricker
Cos Cob
The writer is District 2 leader on the
Democratic Town Committee
============================================
Please send your comments, news tips and press releases to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com
No comments:
Post a Comment