At The Greenwich School Board
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No Duh, At 6:30 PM On August 8th, School Board Member Steven Anderson Finally Realizes That Hamilton Avenue School Would Not Be Completed By The August 8th Deadline.
Plan B Put's Glenville Students Put On The Road To 5 - 30% Lower Test Scores
Failed School Administrators Will Not Be Fired For The Hamilton Avenue School Being MORE THAN SIX MILLION DOLLARS OVERBUDGET And Taking MORE THAN THREE YEARS TO BE INCOMPLETE, Despite Board Of Education Promises Of An 18-Month Timeline
It's Clear That Greenwich Public Officials Don't Value Education, Nor Do They Really Care About The Families Who Live In Western Greenwich.
Quotes:
"It's going to be hard to administer the school when it's spread out to four different locations, but what can you do?" said Glenville mother Abbe Large. "At this point, we've got to make the best of a bad situation I'm don't want to keep going around being !@#$%&%$#@! about this."
"I'm not going to make an absolute statement about anything," said school system's two faced spokeswoman Kim Eves, when asked about the possibility of waiting another week for approval. "I can't confirm or deny anything. All I can say is we're moving ahead with the contingency plan."
"For the $31 million dollars-plus that the town has spent, that building should be sparkling like Emerald City by now," said Mina Bibeault, whose two children attend the school. "For that kind of money, I'm not going to accept a subpar, incomplete building for my kids."
The Story:
Board decides to use Plan B for 2 schools
The Board of Education has pulled the trigger on a controversial plan to disperse Glenville School students to different schools this fall while placing most Hamilton Avenue School students into modular classrooms.
With prospects waning that the Hamilton Avenue School reconstruction project would be completed by the board's Aug. 8 deadline, board member Steven Anderson issued a statement at 6:30 p.m. announcing that the board would begin implementing the contingency plan approved at a July 29 meeting.
Under that plan, Hamilton Avenue students in kindergarten through fifth grade will start the school year on Aug. 27 in the same modular classrooms they occupied for much of last year while waiting for reconstruction on their school to wrap up. Because of the modulars' limited capacity and the growing student population, Hamilton Avenue preschoolers will be dispersed to other schools, which have yet to be announced.
Also under the plan enacted yesterday, Glenville School students, whose deteriorating building will undergo its own restoration beginning this year, will be dispersed to four different schools at the beginning of the school year, which starts Aug. 27. Glenville kindergartners will go to Parkway School; first graders will go to Julian Curtiss School; second- and third graders will go to Cos Cob School; and fourth- and fifth graders will go to Western Middle School....
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More Greenwich Time Headlines:
Greenwich Hospital joins Charter Oak health plan
The Nathaniel Witherell nursing home has finally chosen an architect for its renovation and expansion project.
Joe Marini, owner of Chicken Joes in Cos Cob, is biking to Lake George, N.Y., to raise money for several charities, including the ITP Foundation, an organization that helps children with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a rare bleeding disorder - a condition his daughter was diagnosed with three years ago.
Opulent accommodations: Members-only yacht has a few floating in the lap of luxury
On its maiden 1988 voyage, the Osprey was known as the Alexa, a relatively modest fishing boat commissioned for singer Billy Joel.
Hearst Corp. takes reins of Greenwich Time, other papers in Fairfield County
Hearst Corp. has taken over management of Greenwich Time and The Advocate and purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc.
Hearst Corp. has taken over management of Greenwich Time and The Advocate and purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc., the companies announced Friday.
"I think it's terrific. Hearst is an outstanding newspaper and media company," said John Dunster, publisher of Greenwich Time and The Advocate. "They still think the future of newspapers is bright and demonstrated it by buying the Connecticut Post. I think they (employees) are excited about the opportunity to work for the Hearst Corp."
Dunster said he did not anticipate immediate changes to daily operations of Greenwich Time and The Advocate or the appearances of the newspapers.
MNG Chief Executive Officer Dean Singleton said Friday the sale of the Connecticut properties, in which Hearst already owned a 40 percent stake, was to shore up MNG's balance sheet.
Dunster said Frank Bennack Jr., vice chairman and chief executive officer of Hearst, lives in New Canaan and is familiar with Greenwich Time and The Advocate....
....Brooks Community Newspapers' six weeklies, the Darien News-Review, Greenwich Citizen, Fairfield Citizen-News, New Canaan News-Review, Norwalk Citizen-News and Westport News, are part of the deal.
Bennack returned to the helm of Hearst after a brief retirement. He has led the privately held company for more than 23 years. He said the Post is joining a strong company that doesn't have much debt. He also said Hearst will continue to be a partner and investor in MNG.
George Irish, president of Hearst Newspapers, said the value of the deal to buy out MNG's interest in the Connecticut newspapers would not be disclosed.....
Comment:
A person with direct knowledge of the deal, reported the purchase price was $155 million — less than the $205 million that MediaNews reportedly paid to buy the Connecticut Post in 2000.
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This might explain why the Greenwich Time Website might be stuck on stupid....
Since Wednesday uly 3oth, The Greenwich Time has featured the same letter bashing Lee Whitnum from Democratic State Committee member and local attorney David Singer on it's
Letters From Readers Page
Please see:To the editor: In her "rebuttal" to Sarah Darer Littman's column July 22, petitioning candidate Lee Whitnum claimed that she was somehow shut out of the nominating convention to select the Democratic Party's candidate for Connecticut's 4th Congressional District ("Column was an unfair attack on 4th District campaign," Greenwich Time Opinion page, July 25).....
This made one wonder if the Greenwich Time Editor's been republishing Ms. Singer's letter everyday, for the last eleven days because they are endorsing Jim Himes,?
Please see:
In most primary elections, it's really the concerned party's business as to who it picks to represent it......
Or are the Greenwich Time editors repeatedly running Mr. Singer's letter for eleven days in a vain attempt to kiss and make up with the local Democratic party for firing Sarah Littman.
Please see:
07/26/08 Bill Clarke Has The Inside Scoop About What's Going On At The "Yellowich Time"
- Local Rag Hits A New Low
- Just when you thought, dear reader, that it was impossible for the local rag, aka Yellowwich Time, to get any worse than it's been for lo! these many years, it has sunk to yet another new low. The Amazing Incredible Shrinking Dollar has nothing on the morons who bring you the daily swill, fresh from the overflowing sewers of the seamy side of Greenwich. Now they have fired probably the most talented writer in Greenwich, Sarah Littman, at the behest of.....
Now It Looks Like The Greenwich Time has been repeatedly running Mr. Singer's letter for eleven days, because Greenwich Time employees are way too busy sending out their resumes.
These and do not have any time or interest in publishing any whining letters to the editor.
Please see yesterday's
Greenwich Roundup Article:
08/08/08 The combined circulation of the Time, Advocate And Post Will Be 137,000 Daily And 151,000 Sunday
Say Goodbye To The Greenwich Time
And The Stamford Advocate
Hearst takes over management of Advocate/Greenwich Time
Comment: BTW, The Company also buys Connecticut Post
...Hearst bought The Advocate and Greenwich Time in November for $62.4 million. Since the buildings were not part of the deal, both newspapers, along with The Advocate's Norwalk office, relocated earlier this year....
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day:
Robert L. Laska, president and publisher of the Post, said the Hearst Corp. will add "an exciting new dimension to the Connecticut Post family of publications and media Web sites.
We Hate To Say We Told You So,
But We Told You So....
Please See:
05/13/08 - Heard it Through The Grapevine - Local Newspaper May Be Living On Borrowed Time
The Money Losing And Subscriber Losing Greenwich Time May Became A Local News Bureau Of A Bridgeport News Paper.
Hearst is already printing The Stamford Advocate, The Norwalk Advocate and the The Greenwich Time at the Connecticut Post plant in Bridgeport.
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