08/28/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Thursday (Updated After School Let Out)

Someone Get Some Traffic Cops Over Here

Glenville Gridlock: Bus drivers, can't legally pull into the parking lot because it's private property, so they're forced to stop at the corner for several minutes at a time, causing traffic snarls behind them.

TOP STORY

HEADLIMES:

The Glenville Nightmare As Officially Began, But Don't Worry Frank Mazza Is In Charde Of The Renovation

Failed School Administrators Enjoy Heafty Pay Increases As Glenville Families Are Forced To Suffer

Some Glenville parents waiting over an hour for their children who are forced to take a 45 minute plus bus ride.

Glenville PTA LEADERS Sound Like A Broken Record As They Keep Saying They Are Trying To ONLY See The Bright Side Of The Situation Created By Their Failed Aministrative Pals

QUOTE:

What if it's raining, and we're stuck out here?" Glenville mother Terry Hoff asked yesterday afternoon while waiting for her child to arrive. "I've been out here so long, I'm worried about getting fired for taking so much time,"

"We are turning our lemons into lemonade !!!!!!!," said the Glenville PTA Leaders, as they let their Board Of Education friends and failed school leaders off the hook,"Our small children are tough enough to handle being dispersed all over town. RAH, RAH, RAH, Goooo Gators, Goooo Gators !!!!!!"

THE STORY:

At Glenville, more frustration

By Colin Gustafson

Staff Writer
Article Launched: 08/28/2008 07:52:12 AM

Glenville School parents voiced frustration and resignation yesterday as they sent their kids off by bus to one of four different schools on the first day of the new school year.

Much of that sentiment arose from where they'd been forced to stage the send-off - the parking lot of the neighborhood's Stop & Shop supermarket.
Under a modified route, school buses are now stopping outside the store's parking lot, near Glenville Road, to deliver students to Parkway, Julian Curtiss, Cos Cob and Western Middle schools.

Already there have been a few complications with the new route, which will likely remain in effect until renovations are complete at Glenville's aging school building just a few blocks away from the stop....

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9,000 of Greenwich's finest return to school

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After a summer of fun, most North Mianus School students were hard-pressed to remember any of the lyrics to their school-sprit anthem during a sing-a-long at opening convocation yesterday.

But when their music teacher (and sing-a-long conductor) Robin Chenot got to the closing lines of the song - typically punctuated by a fist-pumping "Yeah!" - hundreds of arms shot into the air and even more voices chimed in.

"Well, at least we got that part right," Chenot mused.
With that, the 2008-09 school year got off to a rousing start at the Riverside elementary school's gymnasium ...

....This year, Western's roughly 530 students will share their school with hundreds of Hamilton Avenue elementary students, who are occupying the middle school's modular classrooms, as well as with fourth- and fifth-graders of Glenville School, who will be sharing classroom space. Both Glenville and Hamilton Avenue schools are currently undergoing renovations.

That influx comes in addition to the dozens of fresh faces entering Western's sixth grade this year....

You Wont Read This

Signifigant Fact In The,
Board Of Education's Boy,
Colin Gustafson's Article

There Will Be A Board of Education Meeting

Tonight At 7 pm In The Parkway School.

If Glenville parents want to fix the mess that failed school administrators have made, then they had better show up and demand action.

Glenville Parents Are

Wondering Why,

The Board Of Education's Boy,

Colin Gustafson Did Not Give Them

A Heads Up About

The Board Of Ed Meeting?????

Will Greenwich Police Officers Be Sent Out Tommorow Morning To Ease The Glenville Gridlock Problem?

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Witherell gets $50G following review of grants

First Selectman Peter Tesei awarded a grant to the Nathaniel Witherell nursing home after a controversy arose last month over funding distribution among nonprofits....

Bruce looks to fell century-old trees

The Bruce Museum, which sits on public parkland, is requesting the town's approval to cut down several trees as part of an expansion plan.

Police blotter

Natalie Miller, 27, of 219 Valley Road, Cos Cob, was arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with driving under the influence during a motor vehicle stop on East Putnam Avenue, according to a police report.....

....A Fairfield man was arrested by warrant for third-degree larceny after an early morning scuffle outside the Bulldog Cafe on River Road Extension, according to a police report.

Frank Porretti, 36, of 24 Chestnut St., Fairfield, and Zachary A. Casey, 25, of 30 Nicholas Ave., were arrested early Monday morning and charged with breach of peace in connection with the alleged fight, according to a police report.

A computer check revealed a Monroe warrant on the larceny charge for Porretti, according to the report.

Porretti's girlfriend told police Porretti and Casey fought after Casey heckled her boyfriend as he was arguing with her outside the restaurant, according to the report....

Red Cross still wants blood donations

Thanks to donors, the blood shortage in Connecticut is no longer at the critical level it reached last month.

Local control of school calendars

Wow, that was quick. No doubt that's what many parents - and even more kids - are saying this week as they say goodbye to summer and, alas, hello to another school year.

No to Lieberman

To the editor:

No, no and no!

For Sen. John McCain to even consider Connecticut's Joe Lieberman, an independent, to run on the Republican ticket for vice president is ludicrous.
Sen. Lieberman, who has a clear, irrefutable record as being pro-choice, belives also in big government to solve ballooning American domestic problems. This pompous politician is not a Republican!

And to select Sen. Lieberman to speak at the Republican convention is an affront to conservative Republicans. The specter, the irony, of Lieberman even showing up at the convention in prime time is a disservice to enrolled Repbulicans who cherish family values as the cornerstone of their beliefs.

Lieberman is no "bipartisanship" grand bargain. His DNA has showboating written all over it!

William J. Kaina
Riverside

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