Boy Scouts fill a need with annual food driveSteven Bozzuto, 11, went to several homes on his Glenville street early Saturday morning to collect grocery bags filled with canned goods and non-perishable food for the Boy Scouts annual food drive.
Local Scouts collected items from their neighborhoods and brought them to the Glenville and Cos Cob fire stations, where they were sorted and counted to be taken to Neighbor to Neighbor, a Greenwich-based food pantry for low-income families.
Earlier in the week, Steven, a member of Troop 35 in Glenville, had placed notices and plastic bags in his neighbors' mailboxes asking them to donate any items. The neighbors then placed the filled bags on the porch or on the mailbox for Steven to collect....
Town unemployment hits record high
Unemployment in Greenwich reached its highest level in nearly 40 years in January, surpassing a record set during the recession of the early 1980s, according to the latest figures from the state Department of Labor.
After playing professionally for 13 seasons, Bobby Darula can tell baseball stories all day. Many of his minor-league experiences he'll never forget.
New job for laid-off moms: stay-at-home motherhood
NEW YORK -- Soon after New Yorker Geralyn Lucas was laid off from her television job in January, she took her 2-year-old son to the playroom of her apartment building......
NEW YORK -- Soon after New Yorker Geralyn Lucas was laid off from her television job in January, she took her 2-year-old son to the playroom of her apartment building......
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... Mary Quinn, a 48-year-old mother from Greenwich, Conn., was laid off in December after 18 years at a Manhattan investment company, but a severance package has bought her some time to find a new position. After years in which her husband was the main caregiver, she is finding the time off with her children to be an unexpected blessing.
Paul Palmer, 85, has worked his own griddle frying up pancakes at the annual Old Greenwich Lions Club Pancake Fry for more than 45 years........
Check out refinance programs for breaks on payments
"Sue" wants to lower her mortgage payments. She's wondering whether she can take advantage of the refinancing provisions of the new Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, which is aimed at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages.
Highway signs signal start in stimulus spending
"Sue" wants to lower her mortgage payments. She's wondering whether she can take advantage of the refinancing provisions of the new Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, which is aimed at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages.
Highway signs signal start in stimulus spending
HARTFORD -- Compared with the $3 billion the state stands to receive in federal stimulus dollars.......
It's easy being green at parade
STAMFORD -- It was a great day for the Irish -- and the Polish, Puerto Ricans, Italians and English -- who participated in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
More train cars available for holiday
Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line will have more train cars on its regularly scheduled forays to New York City on Tuesday.....
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Scene "¦ Robert De Niro was back in Stamford recently, filming a scene in front of Nobu Florist of Stamford on Main Street for his new flick "Everybody's Fine," also starring Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale. ..... BLAH ...... BLAH ....... BLAH ...... BLAH ...... BLAH ....... BLAH ....... BLAH ...... BLAH .......BLAH ........ Boring ......... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .......
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