04/16/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: This Just In....

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Greenwich Avenue building plan moves ahead Greenwich Time By Frank MacEachern A plan to erect a new three-story building at the foot of Greenwich Avenue is part of a trend that is seeing Greenwich lose its ...

Greenwich girls golf nipped by New Canaan in opener Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA By Rob Kelley Greenwich High School's Leigh Wellington studies a putt during the Cardinals' season-opening 196-200 loss to New Canaan at Griffith E. Harris ...

Greenwich baseball routs Danbury for first win Greenwich Time By Tom Forde The first three games of the 2009 baseball season did not go as the Greenwich baseball team and coach Mike Mora had planned. ... The Latest Greenwich Business News Brief: You wont read this online at the Greenwich Time

Balducci's stores sold to investment group Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA ... the Balducci’s sale includes stores in Scarsdale, N.Y.; Westport, Conn.; and Greenwich, Conn. Also included are the company’s licensing, catering and gift basket operations. With the exception of the Greenwich store, all of those assets have been transferred to the new owners, according to Balducci.’s. The Greenwich transfer awaits “customary approvals,” the company said. ... ....Balducci’s was founded in 1916 in New York. In 1999, Bethesda-based Sutton Place Gourmet, which had been founded in 1980, acquired Balducci’s. Sutton Place, in turn, was acquired by Bear Sterns’ merchant banking group in December 2003, and the following year the Bethesa company changed its name to Balducci’s.

Clueless Ex-Greenwich Time Editor And Now Hearst Newspaper Business Reporter Jim Zebora Has No Idea That A Supermarket Has Changed Hands In Greenwich. Even Greenwich Roundup and His Local Real Estate Sources Gave This Report Nine Days Ago. What Up With The Greenwich Time? Would Some Please Place A Mirror Under Current Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Nostrils To See If He Is Potent Enough To Fog The Mirror. PLEASE SEE:

04/07/09 Will The Greenwich Balducci’s Be Closing Soon ? Could Balducci’s be underperforming in a town that loves upscale groceries? Balducci’s managers are shuttering both Balducci’s stores in Manhattan — one in Chelsea and the other on the Upper West Side — on April 26. In addition, Balducci’s announced the closing of two other stores, in Ridgefield, Conn., and Washington, D.C. The management called those four stores “underperforming.” (Five other Balducci’s stores, which are evidently “performing,” will continue to operate in Virginia, Maryland, and Scarsdale, N.Y.) The Greenwich store, which was formerly a Hay Day Market is supposedly "preforming" according to Balducci’s managers, but Greenwich business and real estate insiders tell Greenwich Roundup that might not be true. However, when Greenwich Roundup visited the store to today it appeared to be somewhat busy. Apparently Balducci’s Has Been Sucking Wind For A While: Where Did Balducci’s Go? April 19, 2006

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There Is A New Greenwich Based Blog By Technorati Greenwich Police Watch was an MSN Group that was forced to close when Microsoft ended the old MSN Groups service last February. MSN sold and transfered the group to the social networking site known as multiply. sportsfitness-newsblog.com - http://sportsfitness-newsblog.com/

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