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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

06/18/08 - Intern Accidentally Deletes Greenwich Citizen News Stories Five Days In A Row


GHS INTERN SEVERELY BEATEN

A Greenwich High School intern working at the Greenwich Citizen newspaperwas was nearly beaten to death by co-workers yesterday, after she deleted Greenwich Citizen news and sports reports five days in a row while trying to print the sme document for over a week.

Greenwich Police Officers were aghast at the horrific scene that they encountered upon their arrival, with one officer calling it “the most ghastly crime scene I’ve ever witnessed.” When Greenwich Citizen employees quickly told the officers what the Greenwich High School itern had done, the atmosphere quickly changed, as the men in blue “looked away” so the outraged Greenwich Citizen reporter, Patricia McCormack could get a few last good kicks in.

“She erased all of our Greenwich news reports for the last five days! Now what the heck am I going to do?” Greenwich Citizen editor Don Harrison shouted hysterically. “The only reason our readers make it through the workday without going psycho is the ability to check out updated Greenwich High School sports reports and the latest news on the Greenwich Beaches! Now our website visitors have to visit the frequently updated Greenwich Post news web site.”

Greenwich Citizen web site visitors were heard unleashing blood-curdling screams and banged their heads on computer monitors all over town.

Greenwich news consumers are tired of reading the same lead story at the Greenwich Citizen for five days in a row.....

Holding a Popular Principal Accountable: D'Amico to Return

... D'Amico had "made false statements and knowingly misrepresented the facts multiple times to multiple people over nine days to his superiors and others in the school community."

Sternberg's strongly worded six-page investigative report, made available to reporters on the FOI act (plus payment of $6.50), tells of those nine days commencing on May 6 when D'Amico turned away parent Frank Carbino from delivering his ice cream birthday cake to his daughter's class on the grounds it was school policy. The principal then added the "policy" online to the student handbook where he believed it should have been in the first place.

For reasons known only to D'Amico, he chose not to admit over the course of nine days his inclusion of the school policy after Carbino's visit. But the computer-savvy Carbino discovered just when he had added the "Birthday Celebration" policy after his visit and communicated this to Sternberg and her deputy, Kathy Greider.....

Greenwich Police Officers tased the intern three times and before announcing that they will not bring any charges against Greenwich Citizen Reporter Patricia McCormack or the other Greenwich Citizen staffers that participated in the Greenwich High School student.

“Where are we going to find 12 jurors that will convict these people? They’re heroes if you ask me”, stated Assistant States Attorney Steven Weiss.

The interns parents were not surprised to hear of the tragic beating of their child. The mother explains: “She has always been kind of awkward, the kind of child that would messing things up all the time, never on purpose mind you, but she was always screwing something up.”

The mother continued,"I can understand why the Greenwich Police Department gave her a fifty thousand dollar bail."

The next issue of the Greenwich Citizen will highlight Greenwich community groups in that are conducting fund-raisers, hoping to raise enough money to purchase tasers all of the towns high schools teachers. Unfortunately, nobody has found out how much all those new tasers will costs.

Greenwich Citizen Sports reporter Scott Farrari said," These Greenwich High School students are out of control. Last time I was at the school some kid from Byram dropped a water balloon on my head!!!!"

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06/18/08 The White Birch Polo Team has won more high goal polo tournaments than any other single team in the past 25 years.


Thomas B. Glynn Memorial Results

The men in green and white simply outplayed their opponents. Both Mariano Aguerre and Ulysses Escapite had six goals. Mother nature must be a White Birch fan as the skies opened up with a thunderstorm and torrential downpour just minutes after the final horn.

PoloBlogs - http://www.poloblogs.com

More:
Greenwich Polo Club (CT)

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06/18/06 Shoot The Messenger: Real Estate Columnist Chris Fountain Tried To Warn Local Realtors And Homeowners, But The Greenwich Post Shut Him Down


Ex-Citigroup boss cuts price on Greenwich mansion

The median home price fell 8.1 percent in Greenwich in the first quarter from a year earlier. Declines were as much as 25 percent in 14 of 19 wealthy Manhattan suburbs in Connecticut, New Jersey and Westchester County, New York, ...

Ex-Citigroup CEO Having Hard Time In Housing Market

The Huffington Post

... of the housing slump. Now he's having a hard time selling his home. Prince's five-bedroom Tudor-style house in Greenwich, Connecticut, has been on the market for six months. He has cut the price by $300,000 to $5.85 million, according to the ...


Chuck Prince Discovers the Housing Slump

The Big Picture

... Bloomberg article details the difficulties that former Citigroup Inc. CEO Chuck' Prince III is having selling his Greenwich home. Bloomie ironically notes that Prince "lost his job because of the housing slump" -- and the same slump is giving him a ...

New Housing Problem for Ex-Citi Chief

DealBook

... ousted last year amid the troubles emanating from the bursting of the mortgage bubble, is now finding it hard to flush out a buyer for his own home, Bloomberg News reports. Mr. Prince’s country estate in Greenwich [...]

DealBook - http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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06/18/08 - Real Estate News - Buckingham Partners and Sun Homes announce the opening of the model residences at Palmer Hill


Palmer Hill Announces Opening of Model Residences

PRWeb

... model residences at Palmer Hill, a private community ideally positioned where vibrant Stamford meets charming Old Greenwich. The community, beginning occupancy this summer, will feature 81 condominium homes and 114 townhouses situated on nearly 20 ...

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06/18/08 Today's Top Story: Man Trades Wigs For Prison Uniform


In the Massachusetts and South Windsor robberies, Kertesz entered the stores wearing a wig and women's clothing, before pulling out an Uzi-type firearm on an unsuspecting clerk. He escaped with $388,000 in jewelry from the Natick store and $259,000 from the South Windsor store. His take from the Glastonbury store was $200,000.

The unexpected appearance of a Greenwich police officer apparently rattled Kertesz, who dropped the backpack while making his escape from Betteridge Jewelers

Jewelry Store Robber Gets 21 Years In Prison
Hartford Courant
Two other conspirators, Eric Ortiz and Ernesto Ortiz, pleaded guilty to charges related to their roles in the Greenwich robbery. ...

Jewelry robber sentenced to 21 years in prison Boston Globe

Jewelry store robber gets 20 years Connecticut Post

Boston Channel.com

Also:

Betteridge bandit gets 21 years

By Martin B. Cassidy
Greenwich Time / Staff Writer

A former Bridgeport man has been sentenced to 21 1/2 years in prison after admitting to being the gun-toting motorcyclist in a chaotic holdup at Betteridge Jewelers on Sept. 1, 2006, during which he stole nearly $5 million in jewels.

Charles Kertesz, 38, was sentenced to 20 years on four counts of Hobbs Act Robbery in connection with the unsuccessful Betteridge heist and three other jewelry store hold-ups in Connecticut and Massachuetts between July 2005 and September 2006, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Connecticut.

The Hobbs Act is a federal law prohibiting violence that could affect interstate commerce.

According to court affidavits, Kertesz planned the Betteridge robbery and held up the store using a semiautomatic weapon, before walking out with a backpack stuffed with more than 60 pieces of jewelry worth $4.7 million....

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06/18/08 Greenwich Post News Links For Wednesday


Shays panel outlines infrastructure needs

Transportation is the key to remaining a leader in the global economy, according to a panel of experts who took part in a special conference organized by U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays earlier this week.

No Duh....

The panelists agreed America’s aging infrastructure is in desperate need of repair and must be expanded and enhanced if the nation is to accommodate its growing transportation needs.

Here Is An Innovative Idea From 1998....

Mr. Shays, a Republican who represents the 4th District, which includes Darien, said federal, state and local officials must recognize the current transportation crisis and then come together as a nation to meet its challenge.

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06/18/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Wednesday


Antoninette Macri, born in 1931 in Greenwich and a Native of Byram, gives her oral history to Eric Knutsen during oral history day at Greenwich Library yesterday. Chairman of the oral history project Catherine Ogden next to the wall of residents who have told their stories to the library. Contributed photo Town retail legend Chancy D'Elia's photo from the wall of photos at the library. D'Elia's oral history is available at the library.
(Bob Luckey Jr./Greenwich Time Photo)

Oral History Project recalls simpler times

While some of her friends went off to war after graduating from high school, Daphne Finney, 83, worked at Greenwich Library as a clerk.

Himes' congressional TV ads debut

NORWALK - No need to double check your calendar - those political ads popping up on television don't mean it's time to put away the swimsuit, start packing school lunches and rake the leaves.

Judge dismisses grocer's claim

In another setback for a town grocer and his wife in their seven-year battle with the town's voter residency requirements, a New Britain judge has denied their bid for reinstatement to Greenwich's voter rolls.

A group of wealthy contributors that includes the Empire State Building's owner is threatening to walk away from its offer to donate $15 million toward the Havemeyer Building's transformation into an arts center unless the town approves a lease of the downtown landmark by year's end.

Another band of thunderstorms felled trees and power lines in Greenwich Monday night.

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06/18/08 Greenwich Library News

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Evaulating a Website

Where: Greenwich Library at Training Center This 1.5 hour session will offer tips and techniques for evaluating materials found on the Internet. Come to this session if you plan on using the Internet as one of your research ...

Greenwich Library | Today's Events - http://www.greenwichlibrary.org

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

06/17/08 A Letter To The Greenwich Time Editor


Don't Panic If Most Out Of Town Beach Visitors Are Hispanic

How would someone from Greenwich feel if they took a visitor to new York City to see all the sights and was told Central park was only for New York City Residents.

Or if a group of Greenwich School children went to see the statue of Liberty, but they were not allowed on the ferry, because they were not accompanied by a new work city resident.

All Public Parks Belong To All The Public.

That's why they are called public parks.

You don't hear taxpayers in Nebraska complaining about their tax dollars being spent on having the Coast Guard being first responders to Greenwich Ferries and Islands.

Please read this letter to the
Editor of the Greenwich Time:

Another break for nonresidents

To the editor:

Greenwich, we did it again, Thank you, former First Selectman Jim Lash, for opening our beach islands to anyone, without any real input ("Islands open to everyone," Greenwich Time, June 15). Those of us who live here and pay taxes to maintain the islands gladly would have outsiders share for the same ferry ticket price we pay, and yes, let them take all our parking spaces, as Sam Romeo said.

As I said before to all taxpaying residents: Maybe we should all move out, and that way we can come back and enjoy all the amenities Greenwich has to offer for free.

Dodi Fallanca McCollem

Riverside

The writer is a Representative Town Meeting member from 12 District.

Unfortunately, Dodi Is Fanning The Flames Of Intolerance In Greenwich

Go on to the Greenwich Time Message Board and many of the comments are beyond parody and beneath contempt.

How long do you think Greenwich can thumb thier nose at decent America before there is some type of consequences?

In n 2001 we were told you had to open the beach on reasonable terms, but instead of complying, our spineless politicians spent outrageous tax dollars catering to hateful windbags.

First Selectman Peter Teasi, should be commended for having the guts to tell residents the truth. Unfortunately, Jim Lash choose tax dollars while pandering to intolerant windbags who put hateful comments on newspaper message boards.

What are these uncivilized and intolerant windbags going to want their politicians to do next?

Maybe they will want the town attorney to argue that Greenwich owns all of the air space over the Town of Greenwich and no air planes will be able to fly over

Maybe, the uncivilized and intolerant wind bags then you can get a pandering politician like Dodi Fallanca McCollem to say that Greenwich owns the all the air in Greenwich and non-residents wont be able to breathe in town.

Maybe, Dodi McCollem can get the town to rope of the beaches, there could be a non-resident and resident sections of the beach.

We are sure that Town Attorney John Wayne Fox will get one of his sleaze bag consulting lawyer buddies to charge the town hundreds of thousands of dollars to argue that seperating the beaches is perfectly legal.

We can hear Mr. Fox now telling the newspapers how things at the beach are going to be seperate but equal.

Maybe, Dodi McCollem and John Wayne Fox should organize a KKK rally right on the beach to make their point about non-residents using the beach.

At Times, Greenwich can be become so intolerant, unwelcoming, classist, and, yes, racist?

Some of the comments on the Greenwich Time message board are showing us that a form of quiet racism and bigotry raising its ugly head in Greenwich.

Comments like this are uncalled for....

  • i hope u speak spanish says...."get ready for boom boxes playing mexican songs loud, families of 25 setting up shop for the whole day on the grills and not a word of english being heard. Welcome to Greenwich".
While other comments like this are a bit more low key....

  • Sugarmags says....." I just hope it stays clean and safe like it's always been."
Safe????

What, is Sugarmags afraid of being mugged as she gets off the ferry?

Will women be raped and killed right in front of their families by criminal non-resident gangs who don't speak English?

No wonder Greenwich is once again the laughing stock of the nation as AP wire features the town's foolishness.

The taxpayers of Greenwich should stop wasting their time fighting over "cupcakes and beaches".

The single family home-owners of Greenwich need to start fighting to stop the town politicians from wasting their tax dollars on the many useless, bottomless, money pits that they pursue or support.(endless studies, excessive employee waste, useless lawsuits, bloated consultants, etc, etc, etc).

More Letters To The Greenwich Time Editor

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06/17/08 The Greenwich Building Inspector Had Better Not Illegally Issue A TEMPORARY Certificate Of Occupancy For Hamilton Avenue School


Greenwich Building Inspector William Marr Had Better Not Improperly Cover Frank Mazza's Rear End With An Illegal Certificate Of Occupancy Because...

There are now hundreds of parents who will be going over Hamilton Avenue School with a fine tooth comb.

Some of these parents now have their own lawyers and industrial Hygenists.
Maybe, the Greenwich Time trusts Frank Mazza.....

Hamilton Ave. gets the once-over

By Hoa Nguyen
Staff Writer

Frank Mazza needs no reminder that parents are expecting the new Hamilton Avenue School to open {safely} on Aug. 27.

"We're well aware of that," said Mazza, the head of the building committee who has been under pressure to help get the much-delayed school project completed this summer. "We'll have it finished."

The town building department is expecting to begin final inspections at the new Hamilton Avenue School today. The final inspection approval process, which involves sign-offs from several departments, including building, zoning, health, fire and engineering, could take weeks to complete, officials said.

"We're starting the certificate of occupancy process, which is not a simple process," Mazza said.

"We're going to try and get one wing approved and we'll go from there."

The project's schedule....
The Town Of Greenwich Had Better Not
Cut Corners On The Inspections,
Because Greenwich Roundup Will Not Allow
Innocent Children To Be Put At Risk

Greenwich Roundup will be filing freedom of information
requests in the future.


All building, zoning, health, fire and engineering that concern Hamilton Avenue School are public documents that can be published here at Greenwich Roundup.

All Town employees should remember that small innocent children will be using the building they are inspecting.

And the citizens of Greenwich will never forgive a public official that puts their children at risk.


Let's Give Hamilton Avenue School A Popper And A 100% Legal Inspection.

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06/17/08 Greenwich Post News Links For Tuesday


Maija Baldauf, Sarah Wilbanks and Amy Wilbanks, all seniors, were recognized for achieving the Girl Scout Gold Award.

Girls get gold and silver at Scout ceremony

Three seniors at Greenwich High School received the Girl Scout Gold Award and 10 Cadette Girl Scouts received their Silver Award at the Hyatt Regency at the first annual Greenwich Girl Scouts Gold and Silver Awards Ceremony June 1

Selectman Lin Lavery was the keynote speaker for the event, which included the Girl Scouts, their friends and families, and Barbara Lawrence, a former officer of the Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecticut.

ALSO:

  • Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter

    People with parking permits now have extra incentive to properly display them: a fine if they don’t.

    The Board of Selectmen unanimously approved Parking Services Director Allen Corry’s request to issue a $15 ticket for failure to display for people who don’t display their permits for handicapped spaces or for commuter spaces at town train stations. Previously when those permits weren’t displayed and the driver was ticketed for illegal parking, the fine was voided once the permit was shown to parking services. Now, the driver will still be able to get the parking ticket voided, but will be subject to a fine for not displaying in the first place....

  • Emergency services play ball

  • On June 28, the three town emergency services will hold the first annual Greenwich Police/Fire/EMS Charity Softball Game at the Old Greenwich Civic Center from 3 to sundown.

    The afternoon includes fire truck and ambulance tours, a bake sale, and special guest stars including Regis Philbin and Judge Judy Sheindlin. Donations will be accepted at the event for this year’s chosen charity, the Greenwich Department of Parks and Recreation Scholarship Fund.

    All are welcome to come as spectators and cheer on the three teams.

    For more information, call Drew Marzullo at 618-0731.


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06/17/08 - Greenwich Time News Links For Tuesday


Jeffrey Salamon applauds his daughter Samantha after she made a presentation in honor of her father's installation as the Cos Cob postmaster, while Bob Palmer, postmaster of Old Greenwich, introduces Salamon's youngest daughter, Alexis.
(Helen Neafsey/ Greenwich Time News photo)

School welcomes new Cos Cob postmaster
Jeffrey Salamon stood before hundreds of Cos Cob elementary school students, some 30 years after having been one himself.

Harbormaster slot attracts boatload of candidates
More than a dozen people want to become the town's new harbormaster, a post the town hopes to fill by July, officials said.

Cutting the red tape and reducing the amount of time pediatric patients must wait for an appointment is a priority for the Greenwich Hospital dental clinic, officials said.

Reverting to a policy that restricts nonresidents from riding town ferries unless they are accompanied by a resident would be impossible to justify if challenged in court, First Selectman Peter Tesei said yesterday.

Teen arrested on sex assault charge
A Byram teen was arrested Saturday on multiple felony counts for statutory rape of a teenage girl, according to police.

I'll admit it. I picked on Selectman Peter Crumbine. I was happy to see him in the room, I told members of the Northwest Greenwich Association.

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06/07/08 The Greenwich Post Says That The Greenwich Time And First Selectman Peter Tesei Are Wrong!!!!

Greenwich Post Web Site Continues To
Deliver Wrong Information To It's Readers


Island policy here to stay

By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer

Reverting to a policy that restricts nonresidents from riding town ferries unless they are accompanied by a resident would be impossible to justify if challenged in court, First Selectman Peter Tesei said yesterday.

"Like I said, it's pretty straightforward. You look at all the facts that are out there on the table, I think that's a likely conclusion that most people can draw," Tesei said.

Tesei was responding to an onslaught of criticism from residents over allowing outsiders to ride the ferries to Island Beach and Great Captains Island for the first time this past weekend. About one-third of the ferry passengers were from out of town during one stretch Sunday afternoon, drawing the ire of Greenwich residents who said they pay for the upkeep of the ferries and islands.

"They come in. They take over the whole island. I don't think it's right. I think it's awful," said Mary Pellegrino....


The Greenwich Post is still reporting today.....

Jazz on the Sound begins June 22


...The next concert of the season will be on Sunday, July 13. Rain dates for all Jazz on the Sound concerts are the following Sunday. You must be a resident of Greenwich and possess a current beach card to ride the ferry.

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06/16/08 The Greenwich Post Editor Looks Like A Fool By Running Parks Depepartment Press Releases Through A Spell Checker And Then Publishing Them As News


Greenwich Media's Watchdog:

One way in which people who write blogs and people in the "mainstream media" are alike is their endless fascination with examining themselves and their colleagues/counterparts.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, if you are interested in such things, which not only media people are.

And it's just not the main stream media that needs to be examined.

Blogger's often get the story wrong plus no one ever looks into the fact that the blogosphere is an overly chummy place.

Please see this article about how sports blogs need to be held accountable....

Do you have any thoughts on why blogs are less critical of other blogs?

Blogs are suffering from the same problem as the Mainstream Media.

We think if we ignore our shortcomings, no one will notice them.

Greenwich Roundup has started to fill the void and began the process of holding blogs accountable, just as we have started to hold Greenwich Newspapers accountable.

There are some reporters who think that there is not an audience for media accountability in Greenwich, but they are wrong.

In fact, many Greenwich News readers have felt that sorry state of local reporting in Greenwich needs to be exposed.

If the local media is not accountable, then our local politician's official will not be accountable. The single family home-owners need to know what is really going on at Town Hall and the school administration offices.

Just as there is a good-old-boys network among local cable, newspapers and and radio news reporters.

There is also a good-old boys network amoung bloggers that will eventually get shaken up.

Lips will get removed from asses at some point.

Some political insiders and government officials say that the local media or bloggers should have opened a can of whip ass on Greenwich Roundup a long time ago.

We say bring it on - This is America.

We are ready, willing and able to compete in the marketplace of ideas.

  • We think we will win the argument that local Greenwich media and some bloggers do not hold the dysfunctional Board of Education and failed school administrators accountable as the waste 120 million a year.

  • And we think we will win the argument that local Greenwich media and some bloggers do not hold town officials accountable and treat the single family home-owners of Greenwich like second class citizens.

  • We also think that we will win the argument that local Greenwich media and almost every Greenwich blogger ignores members of Greenwich society who live on the west side of town.

Greenwich Roundup might be not be as pretty as the mainstream Greenwich news web sites, nor are we as slick as many of the local blog sites, but it's not about being who has the prettiest presence on the web.

Greenwich Roundup might be the the junkyard dog of Greenwich Media, but this junkyard dog intend to be a Greenwich's Media Watchdog.

It's time for the "pretty" local media outlets to wake up and remember.....

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

Finley Peter Dunne


This famous quote is about a hundred years old and just as true today as it was then.

Bad journalism comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted.

That is a breach of journalistic duty.

We need local journalists to step up to the plate and get at the truth and to keep watch against abuses of power.

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06/17/08 Greenwich Citizen Is Still SOS - Stuck On Stupid


The Greenwich Citizen News Web Site Has Not Been Updated For A Least Four Days

They Are Still Reporting About.....


...Glenville PTA co-chair, Celia Fernandez. "We know he had multiple opportunities to tell the school superiors. We don't condone the lying part."

For Fernandez, "What Betty did was appropriate. He did not get off scott free. What we can do best is to look forward." Last Thursday, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Betty Sternberg, speaking at a press conference in the Havemeyer building....

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Monday, June 16, 2008

06/16/08 Why Didn't Greenwich Educators Use The Money To Buy Dispersed Hamilton Avenue School Students Supplies And Text Books? (Updated)


Parents Have Complained That Dispersed Hamilton Avenue School Children Have Done With Out School Supplies And Books, Because Their School Materials Are Contaminated And Locked Up.

Yet, Insensitive School Administrators On The East Side Of Town Are Donating Over A Thousand New Books To New Haven!!!!

Wouldn't have been nice if Twenty-two Eastern Middle School students, five teachers and Principal Ralph Mayo delivered over a thousand books to the under privileged children at Hamilton Avenue School

These Greenwich Public School children, who have suffered so much, would have loved to get four books of their choice, with additional books for Hamilton Avenue teachers?

Didn't the Hamilton Avenue School children loose a week of school, because of screw ups by failed school Aministrators?

Please Read:

Focus on education

Eastern Middle School students recently conducted a Read For Change project, a read-a-thon to raise money to buy books for children at Timothy Dwight Elementary school in New Haven. Through their fundraising and the generosity of Scholastic publishing's discount program, Eastern's students raised enough money to buy for every student at Dwight four books of their choice, with additional books for teachers and the school's media center. Twenty-two Eastern Middle School students, five teachers and Principal Ralph Mayo then visited Dwight where they spent a morning reading to the children and helping them choose their books.

Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story

It is time for the Greenwich Public Schools to start trying to fix what has happened to the innocent little children at Hamilton Avenue School.

Maybe, these Failed Greenwich School Administrators should start a program where Junior And Seniors High School students can meet their 50 hours of community service requirement by helping Hamilton Avenue Students catch up over the summer.

What was Eastern School Principal Ralph Mayo thinking as he hauled over a thousand books up to New Haven?

Maybe the Timothy Dwight students will read their new school books in the school's recent new addition.

Please read:

Architectural Record Building Types Study | Timothy Dwight ...

Formal name of Project:
Timothy Dwight Elementary School Addition

Location:
New Haven

Gross square footage:
9,300 sq. ft.

Total construction cost:
$2.7 million

Owner:
City of New Haven, New Haven Board of Education
54 Meadow Street
New Haven, CT 06511
www.cityofnewhaven.com

Architect:
Michael Haverland Architect/Yale Urban Design Workshop
60 East 9th Street, Suite 612
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-780-9188
Fax: 212-780-9357
www.michaelhaverland.com


Maybe the poor little displaced Hamilton Avenue School children didn't need the books, because they are more "resilient" than the
Timothy Dwight Elementary school students in New Haven.

This Administrator gets a grade of C for Clueless.

06/16/08 "Actors who do it well have to be at the top of their game — physically, emotionally and vocally," Michael Rogers said.


Michael Rogers, center, plays the title role in a production of "Julius Caesar'' with Marcus Naylor, left, as Antony and Peter Bretz, rear, as Cassius.

Aiming to conquer 'Caesar' role
Connecticut Post,

Yale School of Drama alumnus Michael Rogers has returned to Connecticut to play the title role in the Shakespeare on the Sound production of "Julius Caesar," running..

..For more information, visit www.shakespeareonthesound.org The same production will be presented in Greenwich's Roger Sherman Baldwin Park from July 4 to 13
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06/16/08 The Greenwich Post Editor Looks Like A Fool !!!


Oops She Did It Again !!!!!!!!!

Headline:

Once Again Greenwich Post Editor Kristen Zimmer Is A Sleep At The Switch

Quote:

Department of Parks and Recreation Director Joesph Siciliano said. "I'm sure somebody just pulled last year's press release off the shelf, plugged in the new dates and then sent it out. Anybody who buys a day pass can buy a ferry ticket and listen to the Jazz on the Sound."


Story:

Jazz on the Sound begins June 22
Greenwich Post, CT
Posted at 11:30 AM Today


The Department of Parks and Recreation will hold the first Jazz on the Sound Concert of the summer on Sunday, June 22...

...The next concert of the season will be on Sunday, July 13. Rain dates for all Jazz on the Sound concerts are the following Sunday. You must be a resident of Greenwich and possess a current beach card to ride the ferry.

It Looks Like Editor Kristen Zimmer Didn't Know That The Top Story In Greenwich Has Been The Fact That Anyone Can Now Ride The Ferry.

The Front page of Today's Greenwich Time shows three pretty girls girls from the Bronx riding on the Ferry.


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Nonresidents May Board Ferries
Hartford Courant


GREENWICH — - The town has rescinded a decades-long restriction on access by out-of-towners to two prime beaches. For the first time, nonresidents may board municipal ferries to visit Island Beach and Great Captain's Island.

Previously, nonresidents were barred from the ferries, which began their seasonal run Saturday, unless they were accompanied by a Greenwich resident.

The policy change was made last fall by then-First Selectman Jim Lash, but has not been publicized. Town parks director Joseph Siciliano said the policy was not properly communicated to staff, resulting in incorrect information on the town's website and in a news release for a jazz concert.

Greenwich's beach policy has landed the town in hot water. In 2001, the state Supreme Court struck down its residents-only beach policy.


Greenwich now allows nonresidents to visit 2 prime beaches
Newsday, NY
Jun 15, 2008

AP Connecticut - GREENWICH, Conn. - Greenwich has rescinded a decades-long restriction on access by out-of-towners to two prime beaches.

For the first time, nonresidents may board municipal ferries to visit Island Beach and Great Captain's Island.

Greenwich islands, ferries are open to out-of-towners

Norwalk Advocate
06/16/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT

By Martin B. Cassidy

GREENWICH - For the first time, the town is offering out-of-towners easy access to two prime Greenwich beaches, Island Beach and Great Captain's Island, after rescinding a restriction that had been in place for decades.

In a policy change not announced or publicized by the town, nonresidents now have full access to board the three municipal ferries running to the islands. Previously, out-of-towners had been barred from the ferries unless accompanied by a town resident.

"The ferry will be available to nonresidents with the ability to ride the ferry using a day pass along with a ridership ticket," town Parks Director Joseph Siciliano said. "There is no residency restriction."

The former policy had been in effect for at least 25 years, he said. Town ferries started their seasonal runs Saturday.

The policy change makes the two islands the most accessible of Greenwich beaches for nonresidents. The ferry dock is near the downtown train station, adjacent to several large municipal parking lots and within walking distance of Town Hall, where beach passes are on sale on weekdays....

...Last week, the town's Web site continued to show the old policy, while a Department of Parks and Recreation statement for a Jazz on the Sound concert next Sunday on Island Beach said, "You must be a resident of Greenwich and possess a current beach card to ride the ferry."

Siciliano said the incorrect information on the Web site and in the statement were because the policy was not correctly communicated among staff.

"It's incorrect," Siciliano said.

"I'm sure somebody just pulled last year's press release off the shelf, plugged in the new dates and then sent it out. Anybody who buys a day pass can buy a ferry ticket and listen to the Jazz on the Sound."

According to Lash, the change was prompted by the realization that the policy failed to meet a federal mandate enforced by the U.S. Coast Guard requiring a plan to screen passengers on ferries instituted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....

Many residents agitated over new island policy
Greenwich Time
06/16/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT

By Neil Vigdor

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Brendan Leydon, a Stamford attorney who successfully sued Greenwich in the state Supreme Court in 2001 to open town beaches to out-of-towners, said the now-abolished ferry policy was legally questionable and might have provoked a constitutional court challenge if left unchanged.

"I think it is probably smart they changed the previous policy which appears to be of dubious legality," Leydon said. "Barring nonresidents who are not accompanied by residents probably would not be sustained in the courts."

Town Attorney John Wayne Fox countered Leydon's suggestion that the ferry policy was changed because it was in conflict with the court decision. He said the policy change also was unrelated to the recently concluded federal lawsuit of Stamford bicyclist Paul Kempner, who claimed the town's beach policies continued to violate the 2001 verdict.

"I don't think the lifting of the restriction had anything to do with the Kempner case or concerns about the town's standing legally on the beach policy - or any restriction which was in conflict with the Supreme Court case," Fox said.

He said the incorrect information on the Web site would be fixed soon.

Some residents will not be happy about Lash's decision to loosen the restriction without public input, said Sam Romeo, a North Mianus resident and former town legislator.

For example, Romeo said, out-of-town motorists visiting Island Beach might use parking spaces in Horseneck parking lot adjacent to the ferry intended for permit-holding Greenwich residents.

"I don't think that things were well thought out, and I think there are unintended consequences that will come with this," Romeo said. "They should have had some public comment."....

Of Coarse Bloggers Know
That The Beach Is Open To Everyone

Please see:

We Can All Go to Greenwich's Island Beach Now

by Tom Andersen + Gina Federico

Judging from this story, in the Greenwich Time, it seems as only a couple of old curmudgeons object, including one woman whose opinion was immediately challenged by her husband:. "I think everybody should stay on their beach," resident ...
sphere - http://thissphere.blogspot.com/

ALSO THE STORY IS ALL OVER THE NEWS WIRES:

Greenwich now allows nonresidents to visit 2 prime beaches
WTNH, CT
Greenwich's beach policy has landed the town in hot water. In 2001, the state Supreme Court struck down its residents-only beach policy.

Greenwich now allows nonresidents to visit 2 prime beaches
Waterbury Republican American,
Greenwich's beach policy has landed the town in hot water. In 2001, the state Supreme Court struck down its residents-only beach policy.

When Is Greenwich Post Editor Kristen Zimmer Going To Start Fact Checking Town Of Greenwich Press Releases?

Kristen Had Better Double CheckPress Releases From The High Paid Department of Parks and Recreation Director Joesph Siciliano, Because He Tends To Screw Things Up All The Time.

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06/16/08 Is Lee Whitnum running for Congress because she wants to be a member of Congress or because she has something against Jim Himes?


Lee Whitnum and the Greenwich Time

by Gabe

Given the nature of some of the subject matter of this post, it is sad, but I feel that it has become necessary to disclose that I have no relationship with the Himes campaign outside of fervently hoping that he gets elected and donating on several occasions. I have never been paid by the Himes campaign or by anyone else (although I am open to money, please call me) (note, that last bit was sarcastic) for anything that I have written.

I have no idea why the Greenwich Time is dignifying these ravings by printing them, but they are:

In a case of ‘he said, she said,’ Congressional hopeful Jim Himes is accusing fellow Democrat and Greenwich resident Lee Whitnum of calling him a Nazi on her campaign Web site and on a popular Internet blog.

First of all, this is not “a case of ‘he said, she said’.” The post by Lee Whitnum, which has been removed from her website, is still available, right here, where she posted it on My Left Nutmeg. Helpfully, it is entitled Jim Himes Nazi Connecticut, by Lee Whitnum Candidate for Congress. In it, she writes, “I went to bed a congressional candidate and I woke up to find myself in Jim Himes’ version of Nazi, Germany.” There is no “he said” here - her words have been immortalized online.

The reason for this attack? “[T]he powerful Himes has completely sown [sic] up the Internet media in my state.” Generally speaking, as a Jew, I find it insulting, and I push back on, when people accuse others of antisemitism for no discernible reason (because it robs the term of meaning in a time where antisemitism still exists), but truly, this is too stupid to even be offended by! Is that what the Nazi’s were doing? Sewing up the alternative media? (In retrospect, maybe its not too stupid to be offended by)

[Incidentally, the quote as it appears on the GT website is, “the powerful Himes has completely sewn up the Internet media in my state” - why did they clean up her spelling error? No idea.]

In the non-existent “she said” portion of the article, Whitnum (negated the “he said,” but I digress) stood by her comments (!) and admitted that they previously appeared on her website (aside, if she stands by them, why don’t they still appear on her website?), but justified them:

“At the time, I tried to defend myself against anonymous bloggers,” Whitnum said. “I felt like I had stepped in Jim Himes’ version of Nazi Connecticut - not that he’s a Nazi.”

Let’s take the two parts separately. The first part simply isn’t true - she named the bloggers she had a problem with in the linked post (which, in case you were wondering, was available to the reporter who wrote this “article” - yes, I used scare quotes to say article, sue me*). Further, even if the bloggers, named by Whitnum in her “defense” (I just can’t stop, apparently scare quotes are “addictive”), actually were anonymous (and not named by her), how does that justify what she said? Anonymous bloggers said something mean about you so the candidate who they support, you know the candidate that you accused of paying them utterly without evidence, is a Nazi? That is absurd!

The second part is just ridiculous on its face. When you write the words, “I woke up to find myself in Jim Himes’ version of Nazi, Germany” in a post entitled, “Jim Himes Nazi Connecticut,” you are calling someone a Nazi, no matter how crazy it makes you look later.

The article also, with studious fairness, documents the campaign finance foibles of the Whitnum campaign:

A check of the Federal Election Commission’s Web site showed that Whitnum’s campaign finance report for the first quarter was dated April 15, the date it was due, but was received May 12 by the agency. Her year-end report for 2007, due Jan. 31, was filed April 26 with the commission.

Whitnum said she had not received any notification that she was in violation of campaign finance rules.

“If there’s something amiss, then nobody’s telling me,” Whitnum said.

In case anyone out there is curious, and didn’t feel satisfied by the reporting in the article, the FEC generally frowns on missing a filing deadline by three months (filing more than 30 days after the deadline is so late that it is actually considered to be a non-filing, rather than a late filing).

I understand that the GT is on the Right (or Republican) side of the political spectrum - and that is their prerogative. I would do things differently, but I don’t own a newspaper (yet - I’m looking at you Mr. Murdoch). But simply owning a newspaper and not agreeing with a candidate does not justify giving a platform to anyone willing to say something bad about them - even if what they say is offensive, and a little crazy. Why is the GT giving this nonsense an uncritical airing?

*Just kidding, please don’t really sue me.

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06/16/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Monday


Bronx residents Melanie Paredes, 15, her friend Kiara Figueroa, 15, and Melanie's sister Rachelle Paredes, 4, take in the scenery on a ride to Island Beach. (Helen Neafsey/Greenwich Time Photo)

Many residents agitated over new island policy
If only Gerry Christophersen could vote people off the island the way contestants do on the show "Survivor.

As if the heat of competition isn't enough to contend with, environmentalists warn that student-athletes who use the town's synthetic playing fields could potentially be exposed to an invisible threat next time the mercury soars - toxic vapors from the artificial turf.

Study finds high level of mold at Ham Ave modulars
The air in two classrooms at the modular building once used by the Hamilton Avenue School shows active mold growth, according to a report released by the Board of Education.

New Lebanon School sits on one side of town, the International School at Dundee on another. A quarter of the students at New Lebanon School qualify for free or reduced lunches, while 7 percent of Dundee students qualify.

Many residents agitated over new island policy
If only Gerry Christophersen could vote people off the island the way contestants do on the show "Survivor.

Julian Curtiss School recently held Field Day where the theme was "Take Me Out to the Ball Games." The children were encouraged to wear shirts of their favorite ball sports and to focus on good sportsmanship and teamwork.

With only a street dividing them, two communities are coming together to create a unified vision for their future.

Focus on education
Eastern Middle School students recently conducted a Read For Change project, a read-a-thon to raise money to buy books for children at Timothy Dwight Elementary school in New Haven.

School calendar
June 18 Last day of public schools (except for Hamilton Avenue): Early release. Greenwich High School graduation: 6 p.m.

Hey, Cherie! I'm done with school. I mean, I'm really done with it, even though I'm in ninth grade and don't finish classes until June 21.

Today's Greenwich Time News Links Deserves A Grade Of I
For Incomplete And Needs Improvement


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06/16/08 Greenwich Post News Links - Really? That's It?


The Greenwich Post News Website Is Putting It's Readers To Sleep

Top Story:


Library offers new database

Greenwich Library has added JSTOR to its electronic database collection.

Please Read The Full Library Press Release

Also:

YWCA camp has openings


Comment:

Are these really news links or are they community calendar postings?


You Can't Even Give Today's Pitiful Greenwich Post News Links
An E For Effort


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06/16/08 News Links From The Greenwich Citizen For Monday - Surprise There Are None !!!!


The Greenwich Citizen wastes more bandwidth
than any other news website in Greenwich

The Greenwich Citizen Is Soooooooo Proud That It Was By Far The Last So-Called "News" Website To Report about...

When the verdict was known that Marc D'Amico would return to his post as principal of Glenville School, the mother of two students, Jen Ukperaj ....


....They Have Featued The Late News Story For The
Last Four Days !!!!!!!!!

The Greenwich Citizen Get's An F For Failure To Deliver News
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