The Greenwich Board Of Education Listens To Eastern Greenwich While Ignoring Western Greenwich.......
School district will add Riverside, Old Greenwich bus stops in wake of outcry
School officials plan to add a bus stop to the district's routes this school year, after some Riverside parents complained that proposed changes to the routes would endanger their children walking to school.
At a Board of Education meeting Thursday night, Superintendent of Schools Sidney Freund announced that a stop will be added at Lancer Road and Sound Beach Avenue Extension to what the district calls Bus Route 4 during the 2009-10 school year. That bus stop was eliminated under the proposed changes in school bus services.......
......The public works and police departments are conducting studies to assess the pedestrian safety conditions along the routes where service is eliminated under the proposed changes, school officials announced at the meeting..
Additionally, the district will hire a traffic consultant to assess middle school pedestrian crossing routes to schools within the 1.5-mile radius. The results of these studies will be used to develop a plan for bus routes and stops during the 2010-11 school year......
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Greenwich bookkeeper sentenced for embezzling over $250K
A former bookkeeper for a Stamford towing company received a suspended five-year sentence at state Superior Court Thursday after pleading guilty to stealing a quarter of a million dollars from her
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Credit card thieves strike again in Greenwich
Two women at the center of a statewide credit card theft spree allegedly struck again Tuesday afternoon, stealing a woman's credit card and using it to buy items at a Greenwich store, police said.
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Himes pitches federal bond programs
As he kicked off an effort Wednesday to publicize the availability of millions of dollars in federal bond programs for the region, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Greenwich, said Wednesday he expects record
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Stamford police arrest two suspects in bank robbery spree
STAMFORD -- Two city men who police say worked both together and alone in a dozen bank robberies throughout lower Fairfield County this summer were arraigned in state Superior Court Thursday.
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Human-powered helicopter race is on
For those people who watch seagulls cutting and gliding through the air over Long Island Sound and think, "I could do better," now's your chance to earn $250,000 while proving it.
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Heidenreich strengthens its grip on tanker data
Before an oil company hires a ship to schlep a batch of crude from the Persian Gulf to Europe or the U.S., it tends to have a few questions of the broker: - Will the ship fit through the Suez Canal?
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