08/11/09 The Greenwich Briefing By Robo Blogger (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Greenwich, CT.

• Cashmere store knits up Madison Ave. shop
  posted on August 12, 2009 05:54:28 am
  ... he already boasts a seven-year-old SoHo store on Wooster Street, along with two stores in the Hamptons and a Greenwich, Conn., location. However, the Madison Avenue spot, set to open shortly after Labor Day, will be smaller than the typical ...
• Tillinghast Pond is a natural for fans of the outdoors
  posted on August 12, 2009 02:54:59 am
  ... Pond and the land around it are managed cooperatively by The Nature Conservancy (nature.org), the Town of West Greenwich (wgtownri.org) and the state Department of Environmental Management (DEM) (dem.ri.gov). They cooperated to buy the area in 2007. ...
• Trial set to decide Greenwich cruise line death settlement
  posted on August 12, 2009 01:38:41 am
  The parents of a Greenwich man lost overboard during his 2005 honeymoon cruise have opted for a trial in hopes of scuttling a nearly $1.1 million settlement their son's widow made with Royal Caribbean Cruises.
• Greenwich Haggling Over Names To Go On Memorial
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Nearly eight years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Greenwich residents are arguing over which Sept.
• Triple-H weather again today
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:37:20 pm
  ... set at Westchester County Airport in 1949. Westchester County Airport is the closest official weather station to Greenwich and Stamford. Sunset today will occur at 7:57, and sunrise Wednesday will be at 5:59. There will be about 13 hours and 58 ...
• vineyard vines Tongal Video Contest Winners Announced This Friday
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:31:45 pm
  ... at 1.800.892.4982, online at vineyardvines.com and at nine free-standing stores in Boston, MA; Edgartown, MA; Greenwich, CT; Mashpee, MA; Memphis, TN; Nantucket, MA; The Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, FL; Washington, DC; and Westport, CT About ...
• New deal for I-95, Merritt Parkway rest plazas is shaping up
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:06:30 pm
  ... company informs the state it will be severing approximately 268 employees at the 15 stations from Branford to Greenwich. Exxon's contract with the state expired last year, and it is operating the station's under an extension agreement. "The company ...
• Bailouts stakeholders; the OAS Cuba
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:05:01 am
  Unfair advantage I am not a member of the United Auto Workers, or a holder of GM stocks or bonds, or a hedge-fund manager in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• Mystery of the missing millionaire
  posted on September 06, 2008 06:51:23 am
  ... where your captain sometimes anchored your 200-plus foot yacht before you returned to your 35-room estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, with its garage full of exotic wheels. This giddy era, before the market's recent swan dive, was dubbed "the new ...
• MC Hammer's cousin charged in Calif with raping woman he met on Twitter, no plea in court
  posted on August 11, 2009 11:32:27 am
  A cousin of MC Hammer who appears on the rapper's cable TV reality show has been charged in California with raping a 40-year-old woman he met through an online social networking site.
• Connecticut Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud Investors
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , announced that MILANA MURCIA of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today in White Plains federal court to conspiring to ...