News:
• School starts next week with an emphasis on improving student performance in weak subject areas and standardized tests
• Mosquitoes in Greenwich test positive for West Nile Virus
• Incoming Greenwich High School freshman Sydney Schieffelin wins national pageant on a platform of community service
• Man arrested and charged with threatening ex-girlfriends he met online, including one Greenwich woman
• Police uncover ‘drug factory,’ bust five teens using texting and cell phone records
• Town gets audited for primary results
• Despite rainfall earlier this week, officials continue call for water conservation
• Parking fee reduced in one Old Greenwich lot to encourage more shopping
• U.S. Rep. Jim Himes to visit 17 towns in 17 days
Opinion:
• With student performance floundering, we should put officials to the test
• With the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in mind, Talking Transportation columnist asks if we’re ready for the next big storm
• Aging Matters columnists talks about the hardship of seeing a loved one lose basic faily functioning skills
• Joe Pisani questions hold old the food in the fridge is
Sports:
• Catching up with three Greenwich High School alums who are playing at the collegiate level
• Former GHS player to captain Harvard’s volleyball team
• New athletic director takes the helm at Brunswick
• Greenwich Old Timers announce its annual scholarship winners
Around town:
• Teens gain work experience and friends through summer youth conservation project
• Wildlife in Crisis fundraiser at the Audubon Society to feature the release of rehabilitated great horned owls
• Tree Conservancy, Abilis form beneficial partnership
• Greenwich Arts Council to open show that features a wide range of Latino art
• Oktoberfest event to toast United Way
• Luxury timeshares: Greenwich native reimagines boating as a shared investment
Arts & Leisure:
• The Mark Twain Library's 50th anniversary book sale is coming up on Labor
Day weekend in Redding, a fund-raiser that harks back to its namesake
• The Reel Dad is not impressed with Nanny McPhee Returns
• A wren is photographed hugging a rock, wings outstretched, why?
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