02/02/08 - Greenwich News Wire

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Crusaders Stunned Greenwich hands Trinity first league loss
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT
By Jesse Quinlan

GREENWICH - Clay Graham made only two shots last night - but one of them just happened to be the biggest in the history of Greenwich High ...

Greenwich wrestlers takedown Brunswick
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

As always, the annual regular season meet involving the Cardinals and Bruins featured a championship atmosphere, so when Gonzales of Greenwich tangled with ...

Woman hit by truck worked on the Avenue
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

She routinely stopped at Starbucks Coffee, at the corner of Havemeyer Place and Greenwich Avenue, for a bagel, he said. Watson had worked at many of the old ...

Town Briefs
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 8:30 am to 1 pm today at the First Congregational Church, 108 Sound Beach Ave. ...

'Grave Indifference' Contributed to Death of Greenwich Surgeon
Greenwich Citizen - Greenwich,CT
By Anne W. Semmes

STAMFORD - Prominent Greenwich plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Rubins, who died of an apparent drug overdose on Jan. 23, was left in a comatose ...

Greenwich's Helmsley palace hits the market at a record price
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
A cool $125 million listed by David Ogilvy, whose Greenwich agency carries his name and is the exclusive Greenwich affiliate of Christie's Great Estates. ...
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Woman Killed By Garbage Truck
Hartford Courant - United States
By MAGDALENE PEREZ | The Hartford Courant 12:44 PM EST, February 1, 2008 GREENWICH - A 64-year-old woman was taking her morning walk Thursday when a garbage ...
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1. A.M.BRIEFING

   Centre Daily Times

   ... then lost control of his Buick, slid off the road and overturned. State police at Lamar said Tom Clendenin, of Greenwich, Conn., was given two citations after he and a passenger left the scene of a wreck. According to police, Clendenin was trying to ...

2. At Temple Israel, a changing of the guard for rabbis

   Palm Beach Post

   ... Chapin to the congregation, which confirmed his appointment with a standing ovation. Chapin, 58, comes from Greenwich Reform Synagogue, a 250-family congregation in Greenwich, Conn., one of the wealthiest towns in America. It is the one-time haunt ...

3. Microsoft and Yahoo (Microhoo?) Makes Time-Warner/AOL Merger Look Good

   Rebuilding Media

   ... Communications, and meanwhile is managing partner of the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Check out: The AppGap , a new group blog on the future of work and the workplace February 2, 2008 Microsoft and ...

   
   

4. Stanwich offers deal to neighbors

   Norwalk Advocate

   ... Planning and Zoning Commission approval for a new 750-student campus at 257 Stanwich Road, has met opposition from Greenwich Residents for Appropriate Land Use. The GRALU has hired a lawyer to argue that Stanwich School should scale down its plans. ...

5. Sex offender arrested for violation of conditions

   Norwalk Advocate

   A former Greenwich man convicted of possession of child pornography and videotaping young boys faces a felony charge for violating the conditions of the Connecticut State Sex Offender Registry by living in a ...
   

6. Town Briefs

   Norwalk Advocate

   Red Cross to hold blood drive at church The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the First Congregational Church, 108 Sound Beach Ave.

7. Schools check students' residence

   Norwalk Advocate

   Reality or not, concerned taxpayers and parents believe there are many nonresidents attending Greenwich Public Schools taking up tax dollars and classroom seats.

8. Lesnar's Orginial WWE Gimmick, Vince Doesn't Get HD, More

   ProWrestling.com RSS Feed

   ... the USA Network or Sci-Fi channel in HD. Humorously enough, Cablevision, the cable provider that services the Greenwich, CT area including Vince McMahon's family mansion does not offer either network in High Definition. No doubt that Vince could get ...

9. Howard to man the phones for Clinton

   Norwalk Advocate

   ... His wife, actress Cheryl Howard, will be out canvassing the community for the Clinton campaign. The famous Greenwich couple is helping kick off Clinton's 'Ready for Change, Ready to Knock' canvass kickoff in Stamford days before the Super Tuesday ...

10. Job shadowing shifts from boardrooms to bakeries

    Norwalk Advocate

    GREENWICH - Cara Schneider and Marlene Keller had filled a metal tray with purple and pink flowers made from cake icing when their teacher-for-a-day issued a new task.

11. Local high school squads prepare for county event

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... competitions and work out the kinks before county events and the state championships in March. Stamford and Greenwich high schools participated in the Wolcott High School Competition last weekend. Stamford finished first and Greenwich eighth. ...

    
    

12. Expansion of Stanwich would add to road dangers

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... how many more accidents will occur? The proposal to build there a high school/grammar school larger than the Greenwich Town Hall is wrong. Cat Rock Road passes through a part of town described by the Planning and Zoning Commission as a ...

13. Sailfish denies 'blowup' rumors

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... may throw up a 'gate,' preventing investors from leaving. Similar restrictions were enforced recently by Greenwich-based Mercury Partners LLC, when they stopped withdrawals from two of their hedge funds stricken by the credit crisis, according to ...

14. GHS boys basketball scores historic upset over Trinity Catholic

    Norwalk Advocate

    The 6-foot-6 sophomore scored on a tap-in with seven seconds remaining as Greenwich, backed by its frenzied home crowd, pulled out a 56-55 victory over Trinity Catholic in what could only be described as a ...

15. Cardinals swim past Westhill

    Norwalk Advocate

    The Greenwich High School boys team ruled the pool against another FCIAC foe yesterday.

16. As primary looms, candidates plan visits to state

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... Fairfield at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, visited Stamford and Greenwich earlier this week. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have announced that they will both be in the state on Monday. Few ...

17. Woman hit by truck worked on the Avenue

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... Avenue, as she did everyday. She routinely stopped at Starbucks Coffee, at the corner of Havemeyer Place and Greenwich Avenue, for a bagel, he said. Watson had worked at many of the old line Greenwich Avenue stores that have since disappeared, ...

18. Introducing

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... and Christopher Aversano of Norwalk, a boy, Joseph Aniello Aversano, Jan. 8 To Sandra and Richard McMurray of Greenwich, a boy, Richard Jay McMurray, Jan. 8 To Heather and Rhett Drugge of Stamford, a girl, Katherine Martyn Drugge, Jan. 9 To ...

19. Girls Basketball Trinity beats Cardinals; Stamford, Westhill win

    Norwalk Advocate

    Trinity Catholic 74, Greenwich 30 - Da'Shena Stevens scored 26 points, grabbed 20 rebounds and dished out six assists to lead the Crusaders to the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference victory.

    
    

20. Greenwich wrestlers takedown Brunswick

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... cheering them on while they battled in the 275-pound match of yesterday's anticipated showdown between rivals Greenwich High School and Brunswick School. As always, the annual regular season meet involving the Cardinals and Bruins featured a ...

    
    

21. $125M for Leona's Lair

    New York Post

    Leona Helmsley's sprawling Greenwich, Conn., mansion is about to hit the market for $125 million - legendary curse included free of charge.

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Unemployment Sounds Warning About Economy
New York Times
... are going into panic mode," said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners, a research and trading firm in Greenwich, Conn. "We're going to have a slowdown, but I don't think we're going to have a recession." While filings for jobless benefits ...

Female customers focus of Talbots
Connecticut Post
... according to its Web site; there is a Talbots Kids at West Farms Mall, as well as in Ridgefield, Westport and Greenwich. The 61-year-old company opened its first children's store in 1990, and its first men's location in 2003. "They really weren't ...



Dorothy Hamill Undergoing Treatment For Breast Cancer
WUSA-TV Washington
... the tour in Fort Lauderdale, where it stops Jan. 16-17. With her bright smile and bubbly personality, Hamill, a Greenwich, Conn., native, became America's sweetheart when she won the gold medal in the 1976 Olympics. Girls across the country flocked ...

Recession fears whack stocks
KCPQ
... dips" worked well in August and in November, said Doug Cliggott, chief investment officer at Dover Management in Greenwich, Conn. "I think you should [be] as defensive as all get out," he said. He favors sectors such as utilities, whose earnings ...


Woman hit by ball near Palm Beach Par 3 course sues town, golfer
PalmBeachDailyNews
... by a lightning bolt. It was extraordinarily painful. The worst pain I've ever felt." Georgas, of Palm Beach and Greenwich, Conn., was walking north on the sidewalk adjacent to the town-owned Par 3 Golf Course when a golf ball hit her right eye ...


These days, pets are being treated more like children
Register-herald.com
... 10 million during the past decade, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturing Association (APPMA) in Greenwich, Conn. The APPMA reported that more than half of all U.S. households (about 65 million) own pets, a national menagerie that ...


Recession May Be Near in U.S. After Jump in Jobless Rate, Economists Say
Bloomberg
... this week's data and very open to a much weaker economic scenario,'' Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets in Greenwich, Connecticut, said in a note. A ``collapse'' in consumer spending last month would prompt him ...


Shark Snared By 12-Year-Old
Lakeland Boating
... "I live with it." It's quite a fish story to come back and tell your school mates. Medley, a seventh grader from Greenwich, Connecticut, was on vacation with his family in Florida when he boarded the charter boat "Thumper" for a day of fishing. ...


Benazir Bhutto: Memories of a Courageous, Gracious Woman
Greenwich Citizen
Al Primo remembers Benazir Bhutto as a woman with "evangelical passion." The Old Greenwich resident met Bhutto in her London home eight years ago.


Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing
Business Wire
... clients across the US in optimizing health plan costs without raising premiums or reducing - 01/04/2008 - 10:08 AM GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) today announced that it will provide earnings guidance for its ...


Risky business
St. Louis Business Journal
... tax their way out of this situation because the numbers are too big," said William Wechsler, a consultant with Greenwich Associates of Greenwich, Conn., in a March 2007 report by the investment consulting firm. "Instead, they are trying to invest ...


Fedele says state air space issue could be eased
The Brookfield Journal
... selectman of Ridgefield, have been enlisting the support of municipal boards and commissions from Bridgewater to Greenwich to mount a $1 million drive to stop the FAA's plan. "Five years from now, it's going to be too late," Mr. Marconi said during ...

GA's Tammaro Heads To Field Hockey Hall
Greenwich Citizen
Angela Tammaro, the longtime coach at Greenwich Academy, will be enshrined in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame at the group's 2008 Awards Luncheon Saturday in Hartford.


A Call For Help
Greenwich Citizen
Starting over is never easy. Starting anew can be even more trying. That's why this, my initial column for the Greenwich Citizen, is a call for help: to all of you.


New Red Cross CEO Hopes to Ratchet Up Preparedness
Greenwich Citizen
Joan R. Irish, new CEO of the Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross. After 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and similar heart-wringing disasters, you've probably heard a thousand times or more: * Get A Kit.


Wetlands Agency's Approval of Stanwich Expansion Upsets Residents
Greenwich Citizen
... Wetlands and Watercourses Agency. But the chorus of concern expressed within the nearly full Meeting Room at Greenwich Library Wednesday night demonstrated there are potential roadblocks ahead. Dr. Mary Lou Lange, who heads the Greenwich Residents ...

Transactions
Norwalk Advocate
... O Woods Road for $1,600,000. Dawn Cerbone sold to 71 West Avenue LLC, property at 71 West Ave. for $409,000. GREENWICH (Transactions recorded through Nov. 30.) Joel R. Dichter sold to Magnus and Lisa Lejdstrom, property at 7 Butternut ...

United Rentals to Provide Guidance Regarding 2007 Results and Preliminary Outlook for 2008
Business Wire
... Company is a member of the Standard & Poor ' s MidCap 400 Index and the Russell 2000 Index and is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn. Additional information about the Company is available at www.unitedrentals.com .

Dr. Rock Positano: Skiers, Beware
16 hrs ago The Huffington Post
... of orthopedic and biomechanical problems that include the foot, ankle, knee, hip and back. Dr. Alisa K. Miller, a Greenwich Connecticut foot specialist, remarks that " a skier with medical problems should first consult a health care professional who ...


Natural Gas Falls in New York on Ample Supplies, Warmer-Weather Forecast
Bloomberg
... average. ``Natural gas supplies are pretty ample,'' said Tom Orr, director of research at Weeden & Co. in Greenwich, Connecticut. ``It's really just being driven by the weather.'' Gas for February delivery fell 3.4 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $7.64 ...


Caliber Snags 268,800 SF in...
GlobeSt.com
... about the Oklahoma City economy." Caliber, which is owned by private equity company Wexford Capital LLC of Greenwich, CT, has just completed two 45,000-sf office buildings at the Quail Springs Corporate Park at 14000 Quail Springs Pkwy, about 10 ...


Back for more Byrne, Caldwell want to return to RTM top spots
Norwalk Advocate
... really is the primary attraction for me,' said Byrne, who joined the RTM in 1988 and represents District 6/Old Greenwich. Joan Caldwell, 75, the moderator pro tempore since 1990, said she enjoys playing a major role in the RTM affairs, from ...

Home sweet home: After five road games, Greenwich boys hockey opens...
Norwalk Advocate
There wasn't much for Greenwich High School boys ice hockey coach Bob Russel not to like about his Cardinals performance against Westhill High School last night.


Wrestling
Norwalk Advocate
... Cardillo (W) inned Jerrod Blakeny 1:16; 285 -AOENate Bass (W) pinned Joe Bateman 2:18. Records: M 2-3. Greenwich 68, Norwalk 2 103 - Jesse Freccia (G) win by forfeit; 112 - Victor Cerio (G) winner by forfeit; 119 - Dan Maxwell (G) pinned ...


Book events
Norwalk Advocate
Tuesday GREENWICH LIBRARY Byram Shubert Book Club Book discussion for adults in the Main Library.


Laurence Cohen: Charity Scold Ignores Economic Miracle Of Season
Hartford Courant
... into double-digit pay raises for the columnists. You can imagine how unimpressed we were by Raymond Dalio, a Greenwich rich guy who received 15 seconds of fame by urging us all to cut back on holiday gift spending and donate to charities instead. In ...