Survivor Africa winner Ethan Zohn shows the kids at Greenwich Country Day School the ball he is dribbling from Boston to Washington D.C. to raise awareness about AIDS.
(Helen Neafsey/Greenwich Time Staff photo)
Survivor winner dribbles for a cause
After dribbling a soccer ball along the road 179 miles from Boston, wearing down three pairs of sneakers and three soccer balls, "Survivor" winner Ethan Zohn arrived in Greenwich Monday.
Invoking the names of Barry Goldwater and Ron Paul, Libertarian candidate M.A. Carrano kicked off his campaign Monday in Connecticut's 4th Congressional District with a conservative appeal for less government and a noninterventionist foreign policy.
Bria
Jason Cunningham, one of two suspects charged with drug possession following the investigation into the 2004 overdose death of John Bria Jr., entered a not guilty plea Monday.
The 24-year-old Cunningham, who was arraigned in state Superior Court in Stamford Monday morning, is charged with one count of possession of narcotics - a felony charge.
Matthew Maddox, the Stamford-based attorney representing Cunningham, said the case was granted a continuance until Oct. 20, at which point a pre-trial conference will be held.Maddox did not comment further.
Cunningham was charged Sept. 9, nearly nine months after police had re-opened the investigation into the case, citing new evidence, according to Chief David Ridberg.
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....Bria, 19, was found dead in his Hollow Wood Lane house on Jan. 16, 2004, in what the state medical examiner ruled an accidental heroin and cocaine overdose, according to police reports.
Cunningham and several other friends had been at Bria's house the night prior for a party in which drugs were taken,according to a police report. At the time of the death, no charges were filed against those who attended the party.
Maddox previously stated that he does not think the state has enough evidence to prove the charge against Cunningham, saying police typically need to recover physical evidence of the drug from the suspect.
Savanna Jean Lamotte, 23, of 70 Fountain St., New Haven was also charged with one count of possession of narcotics on Sept. 9, police said. She is scheduled to appear in court Friday. Police said the charges facing Cunningham and Lamotte do not implicate them in Bria's death.
A state Superior Court judge Monday stiffened the bond provisions for Gerardo Lombardi, the 75-year-old Pemberwick man charged with murdering his former daughter-in-law early this month.
Ham Ave. civil rights suit tossed
...While noting major disparities between Hamilton Avenue School and other public elementary schools, the investigators "found insufficient evidence ... that comparable resources were denied on the bases of race and national origin," wrote Ralph Montalvo, a compliance officer involved in the probe.
Fifty-seven percent of Hamilton Avenue students are minorities, far higher than the district's average among elementary schools of 25 percent, officials said. With 40 percent of students qualifying for subsidized lunch, the school also has the largest population of poor students in town.
Hamilton Avenue students left their old, mold-infested building in 2005 so that renovations could begin there, and soon moved into the modular buildings with the expectation that they'd be staying for 18 months while the school was being rebuilt.
However, delays plagued the construction project, and students remained in the modulars until March 2008, when officials discovered a mold infestation and, following an emergency evacuation, dispersed the students to other schools across the district.
The tables at Baang CafŽ and Bar were filling up quickly Monday night at the start of a fundraiser benefiting the Sound Beach Volunteer Fire Department.
First-time juvenile offenders from Greenwich will soon be offered a second chance under a Juvenile Review Board pilot program, a project run by the Police Department and social service organizations.
Greenwich High School senior setter Katrina Wells knows what's going to happen after she sets up teammates Erika Videtto and Sarah Gally.
Looking back, LeAnn realizes her daughter left a trail of evidence, signs that she was slipping away.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig was on the radio Sunday morning talking about the end of Yankee Stadium when he said that other than the Colosseum in Rome, no other stadium has had more of an impact on a society than The House That Ruth Built.
To the editor:
The article in the Greenwich Time on Sept. 20 about Theresa Stanton's bout with the wild turkey at Greenwich Point ("One tough turkey: Henrietta leaves mom with concerns for safety") was of great interest to me, having had the same experience the previous week. It was very scary.
In my declining years, I don't need to be playing tag with a belligerent wild turkey.
As noted in recent articles, the turkey now sees humans as a source of food. I suspect there have been numerous similar encounters with "Henrietta" as well.
Before someone gets injured or the town finds itself with another lawsuit against it, I strongly urge those in control to relocate the bird to a less-populated area than Greenwich Point.
Betty Grossman
Riverside
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