Monday, July 25, 2011

07/25/11 Scientific Breakthrough at Greenwich High School and more news from the Greenwich Topix News Message Board

Greenwich - News July 25, 2011

Scientific Breakthrough at Greenwich High School (Patch)
"This is likely to be the most significant building block that these students will have in science," said Dr.

Recycling Gets Bigger, Better, Easier in Greenwich (The Daily Greenwich)
Separating plastics from aluminum will be a thing of a past in town when single-stream recycling begins Aug.

Greenwich 10th-graders fall below peers on CAPT (Connecticut Post)
For the second straight year, Greenwich scored in the bottom half of a ranking of 19 demographically similar school districts on each section of this year's Connecticut Academic Performance Test, state data shows.

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Athletes join together in Greenwich to raise funds for ALS cure (Connecticut Post)
As temperatures climbed to 110 degrees Friday at the peak of a brutal heat wave, organizers of a three-day, 270-mile bike ride from Massachusetts to Connecticut decided to cut the trek short for the day and loaded all of the 250 participants onto buses....

... Connecticut decided to cut the trek short for the day and loaded the 250 participants onto buses. Everyone except Greenwich Police Lt. Richard Cochran and two officers. Cochran, who had previously participated in the ride with a broken elbow, defied ...

July 24, 2011: Bikes, Brunch, The Benton and CPR (Patch)
2.A The Tri-State Trek is the signature fundraising event for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis , often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease.A On Saturday, participants in theA 270-mile bike ride A from Newton, MA to Greenwich, CT left from their overnight stay at theA University of Connecticut A campus in Storrs, to beginA Day 2 of the three-day ride.