After Greenwich Roundup Gave An 8-Bit Bitch Slap To Greenwich Time Managing Editor Jim Zorba's Lazy And Complacent Reporters They Started Posting News Stories Just After Midnight.
Our Greenwich Time / Stamford Advocate Insider Says:
We Smacked The Greenwich Time So Hard It Was Felt It At The Hearst Newspaper Corporate Headquarters.
tabs firm to pick chief
By Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:57 AM EST
The Board of Education has taken the next step in its search for a superintendent of schools by selecting a private firm to identify and vet a roster of top candidates in hopes that a new chief can take office July 1.
After reviewing bids from the five search firms that applied, the board selected Glenview, Ill.-based Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, Ltd. to conduct a nationwide search for the town's next schools superintendent, members said Tuesday.
That firm is the same one that was selected by the town's school board in 1998 to track down a successor for then-outgoing schools superintendent John Whritner, who later became a paid consultant for the search firm.
For the current search, the firm has tapped two consultants with local experience: Deborah Raizes, former president of the Board of Education in Scarsdale, N.Y., and John Chambers, former superintendent of the Byram Hills Central Schools District in Armonk.
"The two of them bring great credentials," said Hank Bangser, chief executive officer of Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates. "They certainly understand public education at the highest-performing levels in the Northeast."
In choosing the firm Dec. 23, Greenwich board members specifically requested that Whritner, who served as superintendent between 1990 and 1997, not be involved in this search so as to avoid potential conflicts, board member Steven Anderson said.
"Some might say it's not fair that he's involved, and others could say he should influence" the search, Anderson said. By not involving Whritner at all, he continued, "nobody can draw a conclusion, positive or negative, period."
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Breaking news
Posted 2:02 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008
By Colleen Flaherty
Staff Writer
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:56 AM EST
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:56 AM EST
How will Greenwich, a town hit hard by the recession of 2008, ring in 2009?
Like it always does, with some slight adjustments, say residents, restaurateurs and local businesspeople.
"People are still buying, but they're buying less," Douglas Nevins, general manager of Wine Wise said Tuesday. "What I mean is that instead of buying in the $25-to-$50 (per bottle) range, they're looking in the $10-to-$20 range."
"I think people are just adjusting to the economy and what's going on right now," he said.
And as for the midnight toast?
"We certainly try to promote that you don't exactly have to go for Champagne champagne," said Nevins. "We've got a lot of nice sparklings from Italy, Spain and California."
Like Nevins, Jean-Louis Gerin, longtime owner of Restaurant Jean-Louis on Lewis Street, said he's offering even more value this New Year's Eve than in years past.
"Last year, we charged $95 for the first seating and $120 for the second seating," said Gerin. "This year we are charging $100 for everyone." .......
In Fact Jean-Louis Gerin Is Having So Much Trouble. There Have Been Last Minute Internet Postings Touting The Avaiability Of Seats For Tonights New Year Eve's Event.
PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING POSTING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SNOOTY JEAN-LOUIS GERIN'S PROBLEMS FILLING SEATS FOR HIS NEW YEARS EVE EVENT:
There Will be a church service at my church, Harvest Time Church, followed by a night of family fun to ring in the New Year.
After, the service everyone is moving over to Harvest Time's massive air dome. You have to see this place to believe it.
There will be a pie eating contest, Sloppy Joe's, music and other family fun events.
Versailles' car blast caused by
cigarette
By Debra Friedman
Staff Writer
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:32 AM EST
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:32 AM EST
Fire officials in Virginia believe a cigarette is to blame for the deadly vehicle fire that claimed the life of a former Greenwich restaurateur.
Maurice Jean Clos-Versailles, 64, died on Dec. 11 after his GMC Yukon burst into flames in Gordonsville, Va. He was the owner of Versailles Restaurant on Greenwich Avenue and had moved to Virginia in 2006, according to Ablemarle County Fire Marshal's Office.
"As it appears now there was a liquid petroleum gas leak inside the vehicle that ignited by a cigarette," said James Barber, Fire Marshal and Assistant Fire Chief with the Albemarle County Department of Fire Rescue.
"Every indication is that it was just a tragic accident. It does not appear that there was any criminal wrongdoing."
Fire officials did not immediately know what set off the large explosion in Clos-Versailles vehicle, however evidence suggested a vapor explosion and fire inside the SUV, officials said. The cause of death was thermal inhalation burns, the medical examiner determined.
Barber said Clos-Versailles was carrying a liquid petroleum gas tank in the passenger compartment of the Yukon......
Blumenthal lends hand to PTAs
Groups owed $75,000 from Seattle-based company
By Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:32 AM EST
The state's attorney general is throwing his support behind five Greenwich parent-teacher associations in their effort to recoup tens of thousands of dollars in overdue fees they say a bankrupt Seattle-area company owes them.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that his office is investigating potential violations of consumer protection laws by Bellevue, Wash.-based Count Me In, an online company that assists organizations nationwide collect registration dues and donations.
"Count Me In has no right to retain or redirect money ... that belongs to PTAs and other organizations serving our children," Blumenthal said. "Money that Count Me In should have simply held safely and then forwarded has now vanished without explanation."
In a consumer advisory issued Tuesday, he also urged parents in Connecticut to stop making registration payments to the company, which is currently undergoing Chapter 7 liquidation proceedings in federal bankruptcy court.
Blumenthal's warning comes after members of five local parents-teacher associations, at Parkway, Old Greenwich, North Mianus, Cos Cob and North Street schools, sent his office a letter alleging that Count Me In owed them $75,000 in unreimbursed fees.
The associations had been using the online service for more than two years to process parents' registrations for afterschool programs and association memberships, according to Julia Faryniarz, president of the Greenwich PTA Council......
......Blumenthal said he decided to launch the civil probe last week as a way to help the five associations recoup at least a fraction of their alleged losses to Count Me In. Under federal bankruptcy proceedings, he said, the company could end up having to pay its remaining assets to only a handful of primary creditors, leaving the associations and dozens of other clients with little or no money.
"There's certainly that concern" that the most of the overdue fees could remain unpaid, Faryniarz said. "We are happy to have the power of the attorney general on this, but we have to be realistic about being able to reclaim most of this money."
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BREAKING NEWS
Blumenthal: Count Out Count Me In
WFSB-TV Hartford
GREENWICH, Conn. -- Attorney General Richard Blumenthal issued an urgent warning Tuesday to parents and school groups against making payments to register their children for sports and other programs through Count Me In, a recently bankrupt company.
Count Me In, a Washington state-based company recently forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, has allegedly failed to transfer tens of thousands of dollars, and possibly more, to several Parent-Teacher Associations in Connecticut and organizations elsewhere, he said.
Blumenthal said he began an investigation after complaints from five PTAs in Greenwich that they were denied $75,000 collected in their name. They and other organizations contracted with CMI to administer registration for sports and other programs, police said.
Let The Record Show:
That Greenwich Roundup Was The First Connecticut News Outlet To Report That CMI was ripping off Greenwich School Parents.
Furthermore, weeks ago we were asking why the Greenwich PTA's had not contacted Blumenthal office and criticized the PTA's for hiding the $75,000 loss and not advising them to call their credit card company immediately reverse the charges.
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The PTA's Are Missing A Lot Of Money
Where Is The Parents $75,0000?
hockey defeats Fairfield, 5-1
By Rob Kelley
Special Correspondent
Posted: 12/31/2008 01:00:00 AM EST
Posted: 12/31/2008 01:00:00 AM EST
The Greenwich High School boys hockey team was tired. Less than 24 hours after the Cardinals battled New Canaan to a scoreless tie in front of a capacity crowd at the Dorothy Hamill Rink, they returned to the ice to take on visiting Fairfield Warde/Ludlowe in a Tuesday matinee.
By Peter Healy
Staff Writer
Posted: 12/30/2008 02:45:27 AM EST
Posted: 12/30/2008 02:45:27 AM EST
Jonathan Levine was ready to sell chandeliers, garden lights, paddle fans, swimming pool lights and track lights to homeowners at the height of the real estate boom when he opened Stamford Lighting Fixture Co......
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:35:22 AM EST
Connecticut's year-old compromise law that requires all hospitals in the state to provide emergency contraception to rape victims seemingly will be overridden by an ill-advised last-minute change in federal regulations by the Bush administration.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, despite pleas from at least 13 state attorneys general, including Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal, and several governors has issued a rule to go into effect Jan. 18, only days before President Bush leaves office. The rule adds to protections for health care workers and institutions that refuse to provide certain services, such as issuing the emergency contraceptives, for personal reasons.
In promoting the rule change, the federal government cited the 2007 Connecticut law, but apparently was unaware that the hard-fought compromise, approved with bipartisan support in the state General Assembly, allows hospitals to opt out and hire a contractor to dispense the medications, known as Plan B.
The medications do not terminate a pregnancy but stop ovulation. They can significantly reduce the risk of pregnancy if taken within three days of intercourse.
But here is a crucial fact that the White House needs to take into consideration: None of the state's 30 hospitals chose to hire contractors after Connecticut's law went into effect - including the four hospitals operated here by the Catholic Church.
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Staff Reports
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:31 AM EST
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:36:31 AM EST
Gun show hosted by Westchester group
The fourth annual East Coast Fine Arms Show, sponsored by Westchester Collectors, will be held Friday through Sunday at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, 1800 E.
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Posted: 12/31/2008 01:00:00 AM EST
To the editor:
While rocket attacks on innocent Israelis must be vigorously denounced, so too must we decry disproportionate retaliation, especially when widespread destruction and loss of innocent life is inflicted. It is unfortunate and certainly not helpful that our government seems to condone such action - just as it did during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon that wreaked widespread and totally fruitless havoc on the country.
You would think that our wise leadership might at some point ask why it is that the Palestinians have resorted to such desperate, and rather ineffective, tactics, knowing that the reprisals will be ever more severe. Could it possibly be that after 41 years of dispossession, subjugation and denial, they no longer care about the consequences? Have they lost all hope of attaining any normalization in their lives or a future for their children?
I hope to God that we Americans have not been a party to such despair. What has been happening in the Middle East for decades and continues to happen today is not in Israel's interest, not in the Palestinian interest and is certainly not in our interest. The United States must assume a role only it can play - that of an active and determined participant promoting a just and enduring peace in the region.
For too long we have been missing in action.
Oliver James Akel
Cos Cob
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