Children have fun at library's annual Valentine's workshopBy Meredith BlakeStaff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:04:41 AM EST
By taking different-shaped hearts and making them into a smiley face, Cassidy Koopmann, 8, carefully constructed a Valentine's Day card for his mother.
"I think she is going to really love it," he said, whispering as she sat next to him.
Cassidy was one of more than a dozen children who took part in Cos Cob Library's annual Valentine's card-making workshop Saturday.
By Colleen Flaherty
Staff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:05:49 AM EST
Andrea Chisholm calls it the Academy Awards for dogs, while her husband, Colin Chisholm III, sees it as the canine Olympics. Leora Levy thinks it's most comparable to the Miss America Pageant.
All three Greenwich residents agree, however, that the Westminster Kennel Club's annual show -- which their pooches will compete in Monday and Tuesday at New York's Madison Square Garden -- is the big time.....
Bruce looks to cut budgetBy Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:05:05 AM EST
While discouraged by the potential loss of state funds for a planned museum expansion, officials at the Bruce Museum say they understand the need for belt-tightening measures by the state at a time when they too are looking to trim their budget.
In her budget address Wednesday, Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposed canceling upward of $400 million in bond authorizations made in the past five years, including half of a $1.5 million bond package for a campaign to renovate and expand the Bruce Museum.....
By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:05:50 AM EST
A group that includes real estate mogul Peter Malkin and Chamber of Commerce head Mary Ann Morrison is pressing the town to clean up its image.
Malkin and Morrison met with First Selectman Peter Tesei and other senior town officials on Friday to discuss enhancements to the appearance of
the central business district, which they said is not as tidy or well-kept as residents expect.....
Fundance films show students' flairBy Meredith Blake
Staff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:04:40 AM EST
When 10-year-old Greenwich Country Day School student Austin Albano created a short animated film about westward expansion for his fourth-grade class, he never thought he would enter it into a competition.
"I did it for extra credit," he said.....
By Colleen Flaherty
Staff Writer
Posted: 02/08/2009 12:05:48 AM EST
One day last winter, "Julia" drove to New Jersey to ask the younger brother she loved and for whose life she feared a single question.
With Julia, a 60-something woman who asked that her real name not be used, were her husband, older brother and cousin, as well as Paul Sorensen, executive director of the Greenwich Center for Hope and Renewal......
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Madoff victims may be able to recover taxes they paid on fictitious income they reported on their tax returns from previous years.
"I'll have grounds more relative than this. The play's the thing "Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.....
Governor Rell's budget proposal is both revolutionary and inadequate. It's revolutionary for turning government in Connecticut away from decades of ineffectual and stultifying growth and for rejecting tax increases....
GREENWICH TIME EDITORIAL:
In the wake of the latest revelations concerning U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd and his controversial mortgage dealings, the same question arises again: How could such an experienced politician have handled this so clumsily?
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