Town man dies in Colo. accidentA Riverside father of two was killed while riding a snowmobile Sunday morning in a Colorado park when he lost control and crashed into a tree.
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EAGLE COUNTY — A 40-year-old Connecticut man died in a snowmobile accident near Grand Lake on Sunday morning. The man lost control of his snowmobile and hit ...
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... suffered in a snowmobile accident has been identified as Williams S. Bradford of Riverside, Conn., according to Grand County Sheriff Rod Johnson. ...
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Grand County Sheriff Rodney Johnson, reported that William Swan Bradford, Age 40, of Sunshine Drive, Riverside, died of blunt force trauma at Sunday morning when his snowmobile hit a tree in Arapaho National Forest in Grand Lake County.
Mr. Bradford is survived by a wife, Monique Salazar, and two sons, ages 3 and 18 months.
News reports indicate that Mr.Bradford was a managing director at JP Morgan Chase's offices on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
Our condolences go out to Mr. Bradford's family.
Ridership on Metro-North's New Haven Line hit an all-time high in 2008, but rail officials predict the gains might be erased if job losses and other effects of the recession persist, railroad President Howard Permut said.
Report: Shays campaign details alleged fraud"How could this have occurred? There were clearly significant efforts to conceal this activity and these transactions, these unauthorized transactions," said Michael Fox, a spokesman for Shays.
Fox said Sohn racked up about $190,000 in unauthorized expenditures, ATM withdrawals and forged checks made out to himself for cash during the 2007-08 election cycle.
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HEY BIG SPENDER: The campaign documents claim that Ex-Christopher Shays Campaign Manager Sohn took about: $83,000 in campaign checks written to himself; $70,000 through more than 100 ATM withdrawals; $16,000 in payroll; $11,000 in Verizon charges; and $11,000 in other unapproved spending, including a ticket to a Red Sox baseball game.
Michael Sohn has been a focus of a criminal investigation into the disappearance of the funds. Sohn was subpoenaed last month by a grand jury investigating the missing campaign money.
Connecticut Post
By Peter Urban
Posted: 02/09/2009 08:37:01 PM EST
WASHINGTON - In documents expected to be filed Monday night with the Federal Election Commission, former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays was to detail nearly $190,000 in misappropriated funds that he has accused his former campaign manager of embezzling......
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02/10/09
What The Heck Is Going On At Hearst Newspapers ?????
Was there some inaccuracies or libelous material in the story about former Shays campaign manager Michael Sohn?
Why was the story pulled down soon after it
was put up in all the Hearst Newspapers?
State supreme court rules in favor of town in police promotion suit.....Although three Supreme Court justices ruled in favor of the town, two others dissented, stating they felt the trial court made the correct decision.
"I would determine that the trial court properly concluded that the town had breached the contract by failing to promote the plaintiff," the dissent brief states.
News of the decision pleased town officials, who have spent more than $500,000 battling to prove they are not legally bound to promote the top scorer to upper level municipal positions.
"It took them a while, and obviously there was some disagreement, but we are very pleased we were successful," said Town Attorney John Wayne Fox.
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In a 3-2 decision, the state Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the town and reversed a Superior Court decision claiming Lt. Gary Honulik was wrongly passed over for promotion.
The decision was released this morning and denied Lt. Honulik’s claims that former Chief of Police James Walters unfairly passed him over when he promoted former Capt. Michael Pacewicz in 2004 despite Lt. Honulik scoring higher on the captian’s examination. Lt. Honulik claimed in his suit that because of personal issues between them, Mr. Walters had promoted Mr. Pacewicz over him by not relying entirely on the exam results and instead using an interview evaluation as part of the decision.
Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled that Lt. Honulik could not demonstrate that he had been “maliciously singled out” with intent to injure by the town
WHERE IS THE GREENWICH TIME AND THE GREENWICH CITIZEN ?
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What the Greenwich Time fails to tell its readers is that they changed the rules in middle of the selection process, and this was unethical and unfair.
In theory the town could keep making Lt. Gary Honulik jump through unlimited hoops until their choice of then Lt. Michael Pacewicz would win the Captains job.
The town has spent $50,000 to get a split decision that can allow political considerations to trump merit.
The split decision has very significant implications on the authority and discretion involved in how the town makes promotions.
Soon it is going to be totally unnecessary for the police department to test for raw talent or merit, because the final determining factor will be a good ole boy interview with the Greenwich Chief Of Police.
Joan Caldwell, chairman of the Representative Town Meeting's Labor Contracts Committee, said the ruling affirms the town's right to dictate who it promotes to managerial positions.
When the town lets merit and raw talent take a back seat to political considerations, then the taxpayers will suffer.
Now, police commissioner, Peter Tesei will begin working with Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg to immediately to assess how to the town should move forward with filling current vacancies.
If there is going to be an interview process that is going to trump merit based testing, then a panel of independent Greenwich Citizens should conduct the interviews without political interference.
Shame, Shame, Shame On The Town.
Lt. Gary Honulik has served Greenwich well and scored highest on the police exam only to get screwed over by Michael Pacewicz.
The Town Should Immediately Appoint Lt. Gary Honulik To The Captain's Position He Rightfully And Fairly Earned.
Further, The Town Should Give Lt. Honilik The Back Pay That He Was Cheated Out Of Instead Of Having The Greenwich Retirement Board Giving Michael Pacewicz Benefits For Years He Did Not Work.
What Is Right Is Right And What Is Wrong Is Wrong.
The Town Gave All Of That Extra Pay To Pacewicz, Spent $50,000 On Pacewicz And Wants To Give Pacewicz A Massive Pension Bump For What.
Pacewicz Is Out Of Here !!!!!!
Pacewicz Is Laughing At Greenwich Taxpayers All The Way To The Bank
Three years after removing an acre of an invasive brush at Greenwich Point, town tractors returned recently to clear another with the aim of building a healthy forest over the next ten years.
The project, which first began in 2006, is part of a habitat restoration plan that is occurring in the woods near the clambake area at the town-owned property in Old Greenwich to kill the invasive plants that have destroyed many of the native trees and driven out birds and animals, according to Bruce Spaman, the town tree warden, who is in charge of the project.
"What was growing there was not productive," he said, "We had to convert it to something else.".....
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All that bulldozing around the clambake area at Tod’s is not, as I feared, yet another Kiwana’s “improvement” but the second stage of a long term plan to rid the Point of invasive species. Next would be be Ned Cole, I suppose.
US woman in 'milkshake murder' to seek 2nd appealDikky SinnAssociated
Press Writer
Posted: 02/10/2009 07:38:10 AM EST
....The statements, which addressed Kissel's mental state, undermined the defense's claim that Kissel was suffering from psychiatric problems at the time of the killing.
Kissel said her husband, a 40-year-old investment banker for Merrill Lynch, was an erratic whiskey-swilling workaholic who also snorted cocaine and forced her to have painful anal sex. She testified that she killed him in self defense as he was threatening her with a baseball bat in a quarrel.......
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An American woman convicted in Hong Kong of killing her banker husband by serving him a laced milkshake and then bashing him on the head won approval Tuesday to move ahead with her appeal.
Nancy Kissel, dressed in a black skirt and black cardigan, smiled and appeared calm as a three-judge panel granted her request to file a second appeal before the territory's high court.
The high court, known as the Court of Final Appeal, will now decide whether to hear the appeal. Kissel lost the first appeal of her conviction in October.
Kissel was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2005 in the case widely referred to as the "milkshake murder." She was convicted of drugging her husband with sedatives in 2003 and then bludgeoning the wealthy banker on the head with a metal ornament.
Senate clears way for $838b stimulus plan
WASHINGTON -- The Senate cleared the way Monday for final approval of an $838 billion economic stimulus bill that would send fewer dollars to cash-strapped states than an earlier version adopted by the House.
In town YWCA offers vacation camp
The YWCA of Greenwich, 259 E. Putnam Ave., will offer a school vacation camp for elementary and middle school children during the school holidays today through Saturday.
Camp activities, which will be held daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., will include swimming, sports, games, arts, crafts and more.
For more information or to register, call 869-6501, ext. 251.
HARTFORD -- Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment in Stamford, is not taking chances with her nomination to the state Board of Education.
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Business smarts aside, the governor's nominee to fill an empty seat on the state Board of Education raises questions of suitability.....
.....No Connecticut school would condone the ring behavior of the WWE's biggest headliners. Some lessons a child might learn from watching a WWE event: Being a violent bully is cool. Smashing someone over the head with a metal chair won't cause serious injury. Women are sex objects and attracted to the most brutish men. It's entertaining to make fun of people.
Ms. McMahon has every right to run a business that sends such a message, but given her line of work we believe the governor erred in recommending her for a seat on the state school board.
This nomination should be pinned for the count
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M. Jodi Rell announced Saturday that she has appointed Linda McMahon of Greenwich, the WWE’s chief executive officer, to the 11-member Board of Education....
Three-year old Braden Zils, bundled up in his snow jacket and boots, carefully examined the tracks in the snow for any sign of wildlife at the Audubon Greenwich.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed the U.S. Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations
GREENWICH TIME EDITORIAL:
GREENWICH TIME EDITORS AGREE WITH GREENWICH ROUNDUP THAT DOCTOR STACY ZARAKIOTIS SHOUD GET A THUMBS UP !!!!
Thumbs up -- Thumbs downThumbs up to Dr. Stacy Zarakiotis of the Greenwich Pediatric Dental Group, who at the request of town health officials provided a free day of screenings, cleanings and fillings to some of the town's neediest children as part of "Give Kids A Smile Day," a program of the American Dental Association.
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The mere mention of a trip to the dentist is enough to send shivers up the spines of many youngsters -- but not for 7-year-old Luis Quisumbing.....
....Dr. Stacy Zarakiotis of Greenwich Pediatric Dental Group, 42 Sherwood Place, provided the services for free at the request of town health officials, who selected the students to receive the services during screenings at town schools this past fall.....
ALSO TWO THUMBS UP FOR DOCTOR STACY ZARAKIOTIS FOR HELPING MEMBERS OF GREENWICH SOCIETY WHO ARE A LITTLE LESS FORTUNATE
God has always had a special tenderly concern for
the widowed, orphans and the poor
Of course, God loves the poor; he loves everybody
But it's not so simple as that.
Some of us have attitudes toward the poor that are mostly disdain and fear.
"The poor are dangerous and different. Sometimes there's a suspicion that their condition is their own fault, that they're simply lazy or inferior."
Other are more kind-hearted, but prefer not to look at the poor too closely,
"Poverty is depressing, and the poor are not fun people to be with."
These attitudes are a world away from God's attitudes
Neediness arouses compassion and action in God
If God values the poor, we have to be more like Dr. Zarakiotis
and think about what that means for us.
If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. Deuteronomy 15:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. Proverbs 29:7
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor. Psalms 140:12
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