01/27/10 Attention Greenwich Nonprofit Organizations: First County Bank Foundation 2010 Grant Apps Now Available

FIRST COUNTY BANK FOUNDATION

GRANT APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

60 nonprofit organizations in Fairfield County

received $559,050 in 2009

GREENWICH, Conn. — In response to the economic times and significant need for financial help, First County Bank Foundation has extended the period of time nonprofit organizations have to fill out and submit grant applications. Regular grant applications, defined as amounts of $2,500 or more benefiting economic development, housing, children and families living and working in lower Fairfield County, will be accepted from January 1 through March 31. In prior years, the foundation only accepted grant applications during a one-month period. Grant recipients will be notified by June 1. Eligible organizations can view or download the 2010 grant application at: www.firstcounty.com/FCB_Found_App.pdf.

Also new this year, according to First County Bank Foundation Vice President Katherine Harris, is a short-form application available April 1 until the end of the year. Short-form applications are defined as grants of $2,500 or less for those applicants who fit the regular grant criteria, and $1,000 or less for those applicants that do not fit the regular grant criteria.

To be eligible, all applicants must have nonprofit tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and serve the communities of Stamford, Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk or Westport. The announcement of new short-form applications is a first for the foundation.

“Through the dedication and charitable nature of First County Bank, its directors, corporators, officers and employees, the bank strives to make a difference in the communities it serves,” said Harris. “This is accomplished by helping to ensure that local charitable needs continue to be met.

“More than 60 nonprofit organizations throughout Fairfield County received $559,050 in grant money from First County Bank Foundation in 2009. This was the largest amount of money donated by this community bank in its 158 year history,” said Harris. “However, there are more than 200 nonprofits in Fairfield County and we want to make sure all of these important causes have access to grant money. So we expanded the period of time for filling out applications and also loosened eligibility for many organizations in need of financial support throughout the year.”

About the First County Bank Foundation

Established in 2001 in honor of the bank’s 150^th anniversary, the First County Bank Foundation was created to distribute funds annually to nonprofit organizations that support community and economic development for children and families. As a mutual bank with no shareholders, First County Bank considers contributions made by the foundation a means of paying dividends back to the local communities it serves. Through 2009, the foundation has been able to award 343 grants totaling $3.5 million to various community organizations.

First County Bank is an independent mutual community bank with 15 branches in Stamford, Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk and Westport offering deposit products, mortgages, trust and investment services, business banking services and online banking. First County Bank has assets in excess of $1.2 billion. For additional information, please visit www.firstcountybank.com.

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01/27/10 Greenwich Resident Stephanie Millien's 75 Year Old Father Is Helping Fellow Haitians In There Time Of Need

Susan Campbell: Gone Back To Haiti, Looking For His People

The Hartford Courant

The earthquake hit after the children had gone home.Since 1996, 175 students of Ecole le Bon Samaritain (School of the Good Samaritan) have met in the Carrefour home of a retired Haiti-born Episcopal priest who'd served in Connecticut.

At the time of the catastrophe, the priest, Jean-Elie Millien, was in the U.S. seeing his doctor, and he was frantic to get back.

Don't go, his adult children told him.

It's not safe.

"And to that, he said, 'These are my people. I have to be there,'" said one of his daughters, Stephanie Millien of Greenwich.

In short order, Millien, 75, returned to his wife, Mona, who was unharmed, a heavily damaged school, and children whose whereabouts are, at present, known only to God.

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01/27/10 Greenwich Resident Tom Foley's Campaign Corner

Tom has been working overtime here at headquarters developing his plan for turning Connecticut around. It's called A Plan Forward for Connecticut and we will release it online in the coming days. A Plan Forward for Connecticut details Tom's ideas for bringing back jobs and the economy in our state, reducing the cost and size of state government and reducing the tax burden on working families. Tom realizes that if we want to accomplish these goals we first have to change the way business is done in Hartford. Hartford is broken and broke and Tom's Plan Forward for Connecticut is the first step in trying to fix it. Tom knows that if we're going to rescue our state's financial future we need a fresh, outsider perspective: not the same Hartford tactics that got us in this predicament. Thanks again for your support of Tom and be on the lookout for his Plan Forward for Connecticut. Regards, Justin Clark Campaign Manager, Tom Foley for Governor Tom Foley for Governor Larry J. Lawrence, Treasurer PO Box 110384 Stamford, CT 06902 (203) 335-2010

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01/27/10 The UPI Says Forget About The Greenwich Time, We Get Local Greenwich News From Greenwich Roundup

UPI Uses Greenwich Roundup Post To Report On The Top Earners In The Town As Hearst Newspaper Editor David McCumber's Crew Is A Sleep At The Switch.....

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01/23/10 Big Fat Paychecks: 120 Town Employees Get Over $17 Million Of Your Hard Earned Tax Dollars

What Recession?

Greenwich Is Very Very Good To It's Police Officers

Over $3.5 million of the $17 million of Greenwich's single family home owner's tax dollars were paid to just 26 Greenwich

Police officers.

The top two earners:

#1 Lt. Mark Kordick

#2 Ex Captian Michael Pacewicz

Pacewicz who retired early in 2009 and given a monstrous one-time payout just to go away.

And this doesn't include the additional One Million that Greenwich Homeowners shelled out in the Pacewicz related lawsuits.Who says crime doesn't pay.

01/24/10 Ex-Greenwich Police Captain Michael Pacewicz Is Once Again In The News

Michael Pacewicz Made Out Like A BanditGreenwich Taxpayers Taken For A Ride As Pacewicz Laughs All The Way To The Bank......

READ IT FIRST HERE: Top Earners in Our Greenwich's Government ...

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United Press International (UPI) is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. A mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press (AP) and Reuters.

The news wire's daily coverage includes domestic and international top news, business, entertainment, sports, science, health and "Quirks in the News" through its traditional NewsTrack newswire, as well as coverage and analysis of emerging threats, the security industry and energy resources through its "premium" service. UPI's content is presented in text, video and photo formats. Its news stories are filed in English, Spanish and Arabic. Readers on its Web site can also listen to the English- and Spanish-language news stories by clicking a small icon at the top of each article.

Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854–1926) created the first chain of newspapers in the United States. After the Associated Press refused to sell its services to several of his papers, Scripps together with partner Milton A. McRae combined three regional news services (the Publisher's Press Association, Scripps McRae Press Association, and the Scripps News Association) into the United Press Associations, which began service on June 21, 1907. Scripps founded United Press on the principle that there should be no restrictions on who could buy news from a news service. William Randolph Hearst entered the fray in 1909 when he founded International News Service.

The AP was owned by its newspaper members, who could simply decline to serve the competition. Scripps had refused to become a member of AP, calling it a "monopoly, pure and simple" and declaring it was "impossible for any new paper to be started in any of the cities where there were AP members." (AP appeared in 1848, when six New York City newspapers formed a cooperative to gather and share telegraph news, but the name Associated Press did not come into general use until the 1860s.)

Scripps believed that there should be no restrictions on who could buy news from a news service and he made UP available to anyone, including his competitors. He later said: "I regard my life's greatest service to the people of this country to be the creation of the United Press."

After 57 years with UPI, its best-known reporter Helen Thomas resigned her position as UPI's chief White House correspondent in May 2000, the day after it was acquired by News World.

In 2004, UPI won the Clapper Award from the Senate Press Gallery and the Fourth Estate Award for its investigative reporting on the dilapidated hospitals awaiting wounded U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq

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01/27/10 Forget About The Greenwich Time: You Can Comment On These Greenwich News Stories At The Greenwich Topix Message Board

Top Story: Key Figure In Hamilton Avenue School Mold Fiasco was escorted from his job at the Greenwich BOE
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Greenwich Public Schools Facility Director Tony Burns was escorted from his job at the Board Of Education last week by security because he is under investigation for receiving kickbacks on the modular project and the Hamilton Avenue School building project.
So far the official BOE spin for his firing is that he falsified time sheets.
That's Why Western Middle School Parents Are Crazy, If They Trust The BOE With The Situation At Western Middle School.Who Knows Maybe Tony Byrne Was Taking Kick Backs From Charles Schwartz, who the Hamilton Avenue School parents proved was no longer licensed, nor is his company Environmental Assessments & Solutions, Inc. registered with any reputable Environmental Agency or Group. Anything Is Possible At The Fraud Plauged Greenwich BOE. Why Do BOE Administrators Keep On Insisting On Using Charles "I Didn't Need A Stinking License" Schwartz?
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Bringing Atkins Back From The Dead (forbes)
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KKR to form firm with Kaplan ex-CEO (washington.bizjournals)
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Maxum Petroleum Selects Zytax for Excise Motor Fuel Tax Compliance and Determination (businesswire)
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S&P 500 May Extend Drop to 11%, MKM Says: Technical Analysis (businessweek)
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Nestle Strikes Deal to Stay in Connecticut (cpbn)
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Bearish Options on Emerging Markets ETF Increase to 17-Month High on China (bloomberg)
Traders pushed options bets that pay off when emerging-market stocks retreat to a 17-month high, speculating Chinaa s actions to restrain inflation will slow the global economic recovery..... ... looking for protection,a said Caitlin Duffy , an equity options analyst at Interactive Brokers Group Inc., a Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage that handles one-seventh of U.S. equity derivatives trading. a oeThe news from China caused ... Comment

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01/27/10 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Overnight Edition

The Latest News Reports About Greenwich

Nestle Waters Moves Headquarters From Greenwich To Stamford Drinks Business Review By Staff Reporter Nestle Waters North America, a producer of bottled water, has said that it will relocate its headquarters from Greenwich to Stamford, ...

Harding, Gary put end to Greenwich boys basketball's winning streak Greenwich Time "Greenwich has given us some trouble down here over the years and they're more than capable of sneaking in there. Their big guys gave us fits, ...

Plainfield Says It's Cooperating in Manhattan Probe BusinessWeek 26 (Bloomberg) -- Plainfield Asset Management LLC, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, said it was cooperating with a fraud investigation by the ...

The Business Insider Cliff Asness Is "Appalled" In Greenwich, Calls On Bankers To Rise Up Against Obama The Business Insider In his latest paper "Appalled in Greenwich, CT," written to stumblingontruth.com, Clifford Asness slams the crap out of Obama. The manager of AQR says our ...

URI junior murdered during winter break URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar 01/27/10 - In what Connecticut police are referring to as a murder-suicide plot, University of Rhode Island junior Amanda Dobrzanski, 20, of Greenwich, ...

French film series in Stamford Danbury News Times Stamford's Avon Theatre and the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich are teaming up to host the second edition of French Cinematheque, a three-part series ...

Police blotter Greenwich Time Two Greenwich High School students were arrested Friday after a fight broke out on school grounds, police said. Conor Lendenmann, 18, of 95 Indian Head Road ...

Valbella's re-opens following fire Stamford Advocate Staff Photo Neafsey,Helen Photo: File Photo / Greenwich Time File Photo GREENWICH -- One month after fire damage forced Valbella restaurant to close its ...

The Little Chocolate Company™ Opens First Retail Shop Online PR News (press release) 2 in Greenwich, Connecticut Online PR News – 25-January-2010 – On February 2, 2010, owner and chocolatier Martine Coscia is opening the doors of her first ...

Rain smacks area, taking down wires and causing accidents Stamford Advocate ... down trees and making travel a chore for motorists as more than 2000 area residents were left without power from Greenwich to Wilton by early afternoon. ...

WORLD FOREX: Dollar Up Against Euro, But Gives Up Some Gains Wall Street Journal ... and is unwarranted," to the degree it had invaded markets, said Andrew Wilkinson, senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers in Greenwich, Conn. ...

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Clifford Asness: Appalled in Greenwich, CT Sense on Cents By Larry Doyle We were first introduced to Clifford Asness in the midst of the Chrysler bailout last May. At that point, Mr. Asness unabashedly took on President Obama in. Sense on Cents - http://www.senseoncents.com/

Dr. Dana Flavin on The Health Secret Show (AM 1490 WGCH/Greenwich ... By admin Dr. Dana Flavin has been invited to speak as a weekly guest on The Health Secret Show (AM 1490 WGCH/Greenwich) starting next Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010. The show airs each Wednesday 4:00 – 5:00 pm on AM 1490 WGCH/Greenwich. ... FCMR - http://www.collmed.org/

Programs at the Garden Education Center of Greenwich In the Garden By Bill Cary A couple of programs at the GEC: Terrific Terrariums~ Glass house gardening in your own home. Monday, February 1 10:00am - 11:30am* Add a touch of the. In the Garden - http://gardening.lohudblogs.com/

Greenwich Eatery Reopens - WSTC/WNLK Local News on wstcwnlk.com A Greenwich restaurant damaged by fire last month has reopened. A storage shed near Valballa went up on December 20th, causing the damage. The blaze was investigated by arson experts but has not been officially classified as such. ... WSTC/WNLK Local News - http://wstcwnlk.com/localnews/

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A.J. Albano is McMahon's New Head Coach FCIAC Football Blog By timparry Madaffari did take Albano's head coaching experience with Greenwich's wrestling team into consideration, too, though it's a different sport. He feels that leadership will transfer into success with McMahon football. ... FCIAC Football Blog - http://fciacfootballblog.com/

Weight-loss pill on the anvil By Ani Henri Roca, medical director of Greenwich Hospital's Centre for Integrative Medicine, has suggested a holistic weight loss program that would help each person develop healthy habits for lifetime fitness. ... Health News - http://blog.taragana.com/health/

Bill: Cliff Asness from AQR Tells It Like It IS By bill is allowed when appalled in Greenwich . In New Canaan it's frowned upon. Individuals and non-bank companies played their major parts as well, buying and. building too many houses, with too little equity contribution. People spent too ... Bill - http://williamjacoby.blogspot.com/

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1/27/10 QUICK READ: It Takes A Minute To Read The Greenwich Time

Top Story #1

Deaf students open up Bruce Museum exhibits to new world
Two young volunteers at the Bruce Museum will soon give visitors to the museum's Web site a new way to see its exhibits.

Top Story #2

Metro North service slowly returning to New Haven line
Staff Reports
BRIDGEPORT ---- Metro North Railroad had to suspended service in both...

Consultant's report outlines potential costs of nursing home renovation
BET Chairman Stephen Walko said the report outlined the potential cost to taxpayers ranging from nothing to $45 million.

Auditorium, fire station rehab supporters make their case
By Neil Vigdor, Staff Writer
First Selectman Peter Tesei told proponents of both projects Tuesday night...

Prosecutors continue to build case in assault trial
By Debra Friedman, STAFF WRITER
The son of a Byram woman who claims she was beaten with a shovel during a...

Himes and state legislators warn of budget crunch
By Martin B. Cassidy, STAFF WRITER
President Barack Obama's sudden call for a budget freeze reflects a...

H1N1 furor tapers off, but vaccines still available
By Amanda Cuda, Staff Writer
Cases of H1N1 influenza have dipped in the state in recent weeks, but...

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01/27/10: Breaking News: North Porchuk Road Closed As Firefighters Fight Huge Morning Fire. No Injuries Reported

Where Are The Greenwich Time Reporters ???

Limo Driver Alerts Firefighters to Greenwich Fire
WVIT-TV


By LeAnne Gendreau
NBCConnecticut.com

A massive building on North Porchuck Road in Greenwich that might house artwork has been heavily damaged by fire.

A limo driver spotted fire at the 14,000 foot building, which is under construction, at around 4 a.m., and reported it, officials said.

It took about four and half hours for firefighters to put out the blaze. By the time it was extinguished, fire had damaged about half of the building, officials said.

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01/26/10 The Greenwich Time Is A Dollar Short And A Few Days Late With This News Story

Greenwich Roundup And Other Bloggers Have Been Reporting This For Over 3 Days....

Police and public schools brass top list of town earners Greenwich "Better Late Than Never" Time Michael Pacewicz earned more than any other town employee except Kordick in 2009. Pacewicz, who agreed to step down as part of a separation agreement that ...

If You Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Greenwich You Have Got To Read The Local Blogs.....

01/23/10 Big Fat Paychecks: 120 Town Employees Get Over $17 Million Of Your Hard Earned Tax Dollars

What Recession?
Greenwich Is Very Very Good To It's Police Officers
Over $3.5 million of the $17 million of Greenwich's single family home owner's tax dollars were paid to just 26 Greenwich Police officers.
The top two earners:
#1 Lt. Mark Kordick
#2 Ex Captian Michael Pacewicz
Pacewicz who retired early in 2009 and given a monstrous one-time payout just to go away.
And this doesn't include the additional One Million that Greenwich Homeowners shelled out in the Pacewicz related lawsuits.
Who says crime doesn't pay.

01/24/10 Ex-Greenwich Police Captain Michael Pacewicz Is Once Again In The News Michael Pacewicz Made Out Like A Bandit Greenwich Taxpayers Taken For A Ride As Pacewicz Laughs All The Way To The Bank...... READ IT FIRST HERE: Top Earners in Our Greenwich's Government ...By franktrotta ...and number two, Capt. Michael Pacewicz who retired in 2009 and whose figure includes ...Our Greenwich - http://ourgreenwich.com/

If You Want Old Censored News Read The Greenwich Time, But If You Really Want To Know What Is Going On In Greenwich You Have To Read The Local Blogs And Out Of Town Newspapers

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01/26/10 Greenwich Newsmaker Tom Foley

News Reports About Greenwich Resident Tom Foley

GOP's Nelson 'Oz' Griebel To Announce Bid For Governor Hartford Courant Griebel will be facing off against the two front-running Republican candidates - former US Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley of Greenwich and Lt. Gov. ...

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Daily Kos :: State of the Nation ... Peter Schiff, Susan Bysiewicz, Ned Lamont, Michael Fedele, Tom Foley, Mark Boughton, Dan Malloy, Jodi Rell, Chris Murphy, dkos poll · sardonyx ...

CT-Sen, CT-Gov: Blumenthal Leads Big, Dems Ahead in Gube Race ... Tom Foley (R): 35. Undecided: 14. Susan Bysiewicz (D): 52. Mark Boughton (R): 32 . Undecided: 16 ... Tom Foley (R): 37. Undecided: 17. Ned Lamont (D): 46 ...

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01/26/10 You Wont Read This In The Greenwich Time; Key Figure In School Mold Fiasco was escorted from his job at the Greenwich BOE

Greenwich Time Is Too Affraid To Tell The Single Family Home Owners About The Fraud Waste And Abuse At The Greenwich Public Schools, But Greenwich Roundup Is Never Afraid To Tell Taxpayers The Truth.

Taxpayers And Parents Just Can't Trust Superintendent of Schools Sidney Freund And The Greenwich Board Of Education Members To Be Upfront And Honest

Freund Just Wants To Hide And Cover Things Up When Greenwich Residents Hard Earned Tax Dollars Are Wasted And Small Children Are Put In Danger.

Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin "BOE Brown Nose" Gustafson Is Aware That Town Hall And The Board Of Education Board Of Education Building Is A Buzz With The Rumor That......

Greenwich Public Schools Facility Director Tony Burns was escorted from his job at the Board Of Education last week by security because he is under investigation for receiving kickbacks on the modular project and the Hamilton Avenue School building project.

So far the official BOE spin for his firing is that he falsified time sheets.

That's Why Western Middle School Parents Are Crazy, If They Trust The BOE With The Situation At Western Middle School.

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01/24/10 Can Parents Trust Stacy Gross And The Board Of Education To Tell Them The Truth About Mold And Asbestos At WMS ?

Who Knows Maybe Tony Byrne Was Taking Kick Backs From Charles Schwartz, who the Hamilton Avenue School parents proved was no longer licensed, nor is his company Environmental Assessments & Solutions, Inc. registered with any reputable Environmental Agency or Group.

Anything Is Possible At The Fraud Plauged Greenwich BOE.

Why Do BOE Administrators Keep On Insisting On Using Charles "I Didn't Need A Stinking License" Schwartz?

THE GREENWICH TIME REPRINTS BOE PRESS RELEASES
INSTEAD OF TELLING TAXPAYERS AND PARENTS
ABOUT THE WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE

Just Look At The Crap That Greenwich Time Cub Reporter

Colin "BOE Brown Nose" Gustafson Writes ....

Greenwich schools superintendent ties his success to teachers

By Colin "BOE BROWN NOSE" Gustafson

Superintendent of Schools Sidney Freund believes his success as the town's latest education leader depends heavily on the success of his teachers and how effectively his administration supports them.

That's why some of his first moves since taking over as the superintendent have included holding off on introducing new initiatives that might add to the burden on educators and expanding the use of so-called "data teams" to set priorities from the ground up, he said.....

The Public Schools Don't Need Any Freaking "DATA TEAMS". They Need Empowered Parental Investigative Teams Who Will Put And End To The Fraud Waste And Abuse That Is Bankrupting The Single Family Homeowners Of Greenwich.

Every BOE Cover Up Wastes Valuable Tax Dollars That Are Supposed To Go To Greenwich School Children.

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Top Story #1: Big Fat Paychecks: 120 Greenwich Town Employees Get Over $17 Million Of Your Hard Earned Tax Dollars
Greenwich Is Very Very Good To It's Police Officers
Over $3.5 million of the $17 million of Greenwich's single family paid to just 26 Greenwich Police officers
The top two earners:
1 Lt. Mark Kordick
2" Ex Captian Michael Pacewicz
Pacewicz who retired early in 2009 and given a monstrous one-time payout just to go away.
And this doesn't include the additional One Million that Greenwich Homeowners shelled out in the Pacewicz related lawsuits.
Who says crime doesn't pay
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Top Story #2: Can Parents Trust Stacy Gross And The Greenwich BOE To Tell The Truth About Mold And Asbestos At WMS
The Greenwich Time Editors do not have the journalistic balls to ask why the Greenwich Board Of Education and the school superintendent are still using Charles Schwartz, who the Hamilton Avenue School parents proved was no longer licensed, nor is his company Environmental Assessments & Solutions, Inc. registered with any reputable Environmental Agency or Group.
The Greenwich Time Editors do not have the journalistic balls to ask why a copy of the test results and the letter from the so-called environmental consultant Charles Schwartz is not posted on the Greenwich Public Schools website for all to see.
Why hasn't Steven B. Anderson, Board of Education Chairman or Dr. Sidney A. Freund, Superintendent of Schools issued a press release about the mold and the leaking steam pipe that some Western Middle School parents say is wraped in asbestos.
The Greenwich Board Of Education Has Downplayed And Lied To Parents About Mold In The Past.
Can Parents really Be Expected To Trust Thier Childrens Health To The Same Old Cast Of Characters Who Tried To Cover Up Serious Mold Infestations In The Hamilton Avenue School And The Modular Classrooms.
For Three Days This Is All That Western Middle School Parents Have Been Told .....
January 21, 2010
Dear WMS Parents,
I am writing to inform you about some facilities work that will occur at Western this weekend.
A steam pipe leak in the crawlspace below the art storage room was reported.
There was excessive humidity and condensation in the closet, presumably due to the steam leak.
An environmental investigation of the adjoining art rooms and storage closet was conducted by Charles Schwartz representing Environmental Assessments & Solutions, Inc......
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More Greenwich News Stories - January 26, 2010

Bridgeport man faces federal charges in Greenwich death (Connecticut Post)
A Bridgeport man facing state charges for allegedly killing a man and dumping his body in a Greenwich kidnapping has been indicted by federal authorities, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Comment

The Outright Desperation/Paterernal Love/Private School Envy of... (gawker)
All's fair in love, war, and the love-strewn war of getting your kid into private school around here... ... on the private school beat . In comes our tipster, with this gem: My child is interviewing at private schools in Greenwich. Guess who was there for pre-K interview day yesterday? Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour. Together. Don't they hate each ... Comment

Fortune report sparks AG's interest in Plainfield (newstimes)
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal plans to work with New York City prosecutors after reports that Greenwich-based hedge fund Plainfield Asset Management is under scrutiny over its distressed-debt lending. Comment

Police to crack down on motorists passing stopped school buses (ctpost)
Motorists who drive by a school bus when it's stopped with its red lights flashing may find themselves digging deep into their wallets to pay a ticket..... ... flashing lights. The fine for the first offense is $460. Thomas Bobkowski , director of safety and security with Greenwich Public Schools , welcomed the initiative. "This is something that came to us out of the traffic division which we thought was ... Comment

State Entices Nestle To Keep HQ In Connecticut (courant)
HARTFORD, Conn. - State economic development officials will help Nestle Waters North America Inc.... ... M. Jodi Rell says the company, which distributes bottled water, considered moving out of Connecticut, quitting its Greenwich site. It is relocating to nearby Stamford later this year. The Department of Economic and Community Development is providing ... Comment

High in the Lie (speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad)
"What did John Edwards get out of that pyramid of lying?" That's what we have been asking.... ... a compulsive liar. He doesn't need to do that. He has more wealth than most residents of the tony suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut. He enjoys his business of being a venture capitalist. He can belong to just about any professional group he wants. ... Comment

Dog attack sparks debate on banning breeds (norwalkcitizenonline)
Coco was mauled Monday afternoon after being attacked by a pit bull and St. Bernard mix while on a walk on the Millbrook Club golf course with owner Elizabeth Hutchins.... ... mix while on a walk on the Millbrook Club golf course with owner Elizabeth Hutchins. As their 6-month-old puppy sits on life support in an animal hospital after being attacked ... Comment

As Wall Street defers bonuses, others suffer (centraltexasnow)
Big bonuses are back on Wall Street, but that doesn't mean everybody's driving a new Ferrari.... ... hedge funds," says Janet Milligan, who sells homes starting at $3.5 million for Sotheby's International Realty in Greenwich, Conn." They are getting their bonuses in cash." But other businesses are feeling the pinch. At Smith&Wollensky, steaks top ... Comment

Ybor City Cigar Factory Series: Perfecto Garcia Brothers Factory (examiner)
Perfecto Garcia was established in 1905 by four Garcia Brothers. They used Cuban tobacco that was grown on their family owned farms and rolled the cigars in Ybor City.... ... Cigar Corp. Machines were brought in to roll the cigars at an average of 60,000 per day. United States Tobacco, a Formerly Greenwich, CT based company, bought Perfecto Garcia from Havano Cigar Corp in 1981 and renamed the company Central American Cigar Co. ... Comment

Weeden & Co., LP Hires Christopher P. Harvey As Investment Strategist (businesswire)
Weeden & Co. LP, a leading full service institutional broker, announced today the expansion of its research team with the hire of Christopher Harvey as its Investment Strategist.... ... income trading services and independent research to over 1,500 Institutions worldwide. Its headquarters are in Greenwich CT, with offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Summit, NJ ( www.weedenco.com ).... Comment

The smoldering hedge fund (money.cnn)
It was the sort of boom-era project that a developer had to love: 385 scenic acres in the Bahamas that would be transformed into a casino, hotels, luxury residences, a marina, and a golf course designed by Greg Norman For the developer, a Floridian named Roger Stein, and the main investors, a Greenwich, Conn., hedge fund called Plainfield Asset Management, it seemed like an exciting opportunity, with the added frisson of ... Comment

Greenwich Art Society offers lecture on fashion's evolution (acorn-online)
Gabriella Pannunzio will give a free lecture on "The Historical Evolution of Fashion" at the Greenwich Art Society on Wednesday, Jan.... Comment

Community briefs (dariennewsonline)
... NAMI discussion STAMFORD -- The Stamford/Greenwich affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Connecticut will host a panel discussion with police officers and ... Comment

Fairway Markets: Soon Wea ll be Tripping on a Em (westchestermagazine)
So, at the prodding of one of my readers, Caseycat , I followed up with the folks at Fairway, who once projected a 2009 opening of their Pelham Manor site that - you guessed it - didn't quite happen.... ... last year's economic swan-dive meant that there are a lot of stalled and abandoned projects - including Danny Meyer's Greenwich Blue Smoke Chop House planned for the still-ruined HoJo's off I-95. I mean, what if the Pelham Fairway turns out to be a ... Comment

01/25/10 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Afternoon Edition (greenwichroundup.blogspot)
The Latest Greenwich News Reports ... Fairfield County hospitals buck recession trend Danbury News Times St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, at negative 5.02 percent; Greenwich Hospital, at negative 3.54 percent; Danbury Hospital, at negative 1.78 ... Police to crack down on motorists passing stopped school buses Greenwich Time Comment

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