Cops Scare The Daylights Out Of
Shaky Greenwich Time Photographer
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Don't be deceived by the sound of gunfire and presence of police SWAT team officers in camouflage fatigues downtown.
Greenwich is not under marshal law.
All this week, the town is hosting about two dozen law enforcement officers from several municipalities for intensive SWAT team training exercises, including hostage rescue drills.
Led by Chuck Habermehl, a former Marine and an expert in close quarters combat whose clients include the Navy SEALs, the drills emphasize repetition.
"We want this to be second nature," said Chris Girard, 37, a Greenwich police range technician who is a member of the department's Special Response Unit, the local equivalent to a SWAT team.
Girard said SWAT team officers are taught to block out distractions and determine whether the subject they are confronting poses a threat and whether they need to engage.
"It's like a fighter pilot," Girard said. "Flying the plane is secondary. It has to be committed to muscle memory."
On Tuesday, the officers used the vacant former Greenwich Time building at 20 E. Elm St. to practice close combat skills, storming into what used to be the newsroom in groups of three to four with guns drawn. ...
With questions still persisting over a proposed subdivision on King Street, a town agency has again delayed a decision to approve it.
Antares turns over projects
A Norwalk developer has taken sole control over two huge projects in Stamford's South End, the 80-acre Harbor Point redevelopment and Gateway, a proposed office complex on the former Manger Electric property.
SURPRISE !!!!
This isn't Florida. After hand counting ballots for less than an hour Tuesday as part of a audit ordered by the state, Greenwich election officials found no errors in the results from the Aug.12 Democratic congressional primary.
If there's any ritual in Greenwich with longer continuity than the Cos Cob Republican Club clambake, I can't think of it.
To the editor:
I am for any politician who will pay down the debt.
Get us out of Iraq. Stop the borrowing of money from China. Get us back to a Clinton economy.
Make college completely tax deductible. Give us the same health care as our members of Congress members have, and cut out the waste. Get us to be energy self-sufficient. Increase Social Security.
National day care? Why not? During World War II, national day care was put in place within less than a week.
Have government-sponsored public transportation like Europe. Lower taxes on the middle class. Overhaul our immigration policies, especially for countries that are not our friends, and make it easier for countries that are our allies. That should include, but not be limited to, erecting buildings near our borders that are staffed with immigration lawyers, medical doctors and priests. Pay civil servants - teachers, police and firefighters, just to name a few groups - more compensation.
And acknowledge God by a moment of silence during homeroom.
Mark Sanford
Greenwich
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