08/14/09 The Greenwich Briefing By Robo Blogger (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Greenwich, CT.

• Retail sales fall unexpectedly, new jobless claims rise
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... path next year. The consumer is not going to lead the recovery," said Stephen Stanley, an economist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Federal Reserve, in leaving short-term interest rates near zero on Wednesday, said economic activity was ...
• U.S. consumer morale sags, industrial output rises
  posted on August 15, 2009 03:25:19 am
  ... and they probably won't until the labor market begins to firm," said Michelle Girard, an economist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut. Separately, industrial output rose 0.5 percent, beating market expectations for 0.3 percent advance, after a 0.4 ...
• Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise
  posted on August 15, 2009 01:55:11 am
  ... path next year. The consumer is not going to lead the recovery," said Stephen Stanley, an economist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Federal Reserve, in leaving short-term interest rates near zero on Wednesday, said economic activity was ...
• Cross-dressing bank robber gets 12 years in prison
  posted on August 13, 2009 10:37:00 pm
  ... two bank robberies - the robbery of a Commerce Bank in Bergenfield on April 20, 2008 and of a Wachovia branch in Greenwich, Conn., on Jan. 11, 2008. But he admitted to the seven others, crimes that were taken into consideration at his sentencing ...
• Conn. town approves sex offender restrictions
  posted on August 14, 2009 11:10:12 pm
  Officials in the wealthy Connecticut town of Greenwich have voted to ban sex offenders from schools, parks, playgrounds and public beaches, despite the threat of a lawsuit by civil liberties advocates.
• Brookfield's new principals introduced
  posted on August 14, 2009 10:58:16 pm
  Educators left posts in New Fairfield, Stamford and Greenwich to join the ranks of school leaders in Brookfield this month.
• Town approves sex offender restrictions
  posted on August 14, 2009 10:34:43 pm
  Officials in the wealthy Connecticut town of Greenwich have voted to ban sex offenders from schools, parks, playgrounds and public beaches, despite the threat of a lawsuit by civil liberties advocates.
• Starwood Property Trust Shares Dip In Debut
  posted on August 14, 2009 10:18:38 pm
  ... strong demand. That makes it the largest IPO in 2009, according to Renaissance Capital. Starwood Property Trust of Greenwich, Conn., focuses on managing and investing in commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate-related debt ...
• Genesee Wyoming July traffic falls 1.2 percent
  posted on August 14, 2009 09:32:44 pm
  ... than $140?'' Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo asked the gathering. ``All of us in the Caribbean have triumphed.'' GREENWICH, Conn. -- Regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Friday that traffic on its tracks fell 1.2 percent ...
• City dips toes in IPOs
  posted on August 14, 2009 09:31:29 pm
  ... You've given us two IPOs. Someone must be working there," says Kathy Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital of Greenwich, Conn., an independent research and investment management firm that monitors IPO filings and newly public companies. But ...
• NPB Notebook D'Antona hits stride for surging Swallows
  posted on August 14, 2009 07:30:39 pm
  ... for Yakult since being acquired in the offseason, but will miss the next three weeks with a hamstring injury. The Greenwich, Conn., native is batting .298 with 19 home runs and 69 RBIs through Wednesday. "Every year you always want to hit .300," the ...
• $40m loss drives Presstek to slash 10% of work force
  posted on August 14, 2009 06:27:09 pm
  ... in Hudson. Presstek also has U.S. facilities in South Hadley, Mass., Des Plaines, Ill., and a corporate office in Greenwich, Conn. According to LaBaugh, nearly 20 of the job cuts have already occurred, some through freezing open positions. The ...
• Millstein speaks out on his Nuke film
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:59:21 pm
  ... It took me a year from the time Steve Myers came and talked with us." Millstein called Myers, the president of the Greenwich Forum on War and Peace, which provided funding for the film, the "forefather" of the project. "He got me thinking about ...
• Film challenges high schoolers to address threat of nuclear weapons
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:57:56 pm
  A unique film by 2008 Greenwich High School graduate Ben Millstein was shown to the general public for the first time on Sunday as part of a program commemorating the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Stepping lightly onto Block Island
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:57:15 pm
  ... off wearing my straw hat to make my way along the coastal road on the eastern side of the island to say hello to a Greenwich couple I knew, Roy and Helen Rowan. Don't let those passenger ferries fool you. Block Island is awash with four wheelers. ...
• Charlton Heston
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:16:29 pm
  'Bowling for Columbine' Heston's last major film appearance was in Michael Moore 's 2002 documentary, "Bowling for Columbine," which examines gun violence in America.
• Greenwich Library Oral History Project captures people's stories
  posted on August 14, 2009 01:37:52 pm
  ... Spain on the first money she earned as a child during the early part of the 20th Century when she grew up in Greenwich. It appears in A Doctor's Daughter, a book published on Ms. Spain's life in Greenwich from 1903 to 1977. It is part of the ...
• Elderly man again ruled competent to stand trial
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... hot Alison McKnight-Lombardi to death last year in an apparent property dispute with her. ------ Information from: Greenwich Time, http://www.greenwichtime.com AP-ES-08-13-09 0940EDT
• A native of Japan looks at the legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  posted on August 06, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki, bringing death to some 200,000 people. Sakamaki moved to Greenwich in 1991 from his native Japan. He is a business management and computer consultant and the president of the Japan Society of ...
• Westport medical building sells for $6.49 million
  posted on August 14, 2009 12:45:42 pm
  ... investor, has purchased 162 Kings Highway North in Westport for $6.49 million from 162 Kings Highway North, a Greenwich-based private investor, whose principal and managing member is Peter Dapuzzo of Greenwich. Dapuzzo did not respond to a request ...