08/17/09 The Greenwich Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for Greenwich, CT.

• Hot today, hot tomorrow
  posted on August 17, 2009 09:08:41 pm
  ... and both set in 1959, is 92 degrees. At Westchester County Airport, the closest official weather station to Greenwich and Stamford, the record high for August 17 is 93, set in 1997. Sunset today will be at 7:48 p.m. and we'll have about 13 hours and ...
• Mass. rejects settlement offer in Madoff scandal
  posted on August 17, 2009 11:45:13 am
  ... scheme. Galvin spokesman Brian McNiff said Sunday that his agency is not accepting New York-based Fairfield Greenwich Group's offer to fully refund nearly a dozen investors in the state because officials are still trying to identify all the affected ...
• Real Estate Transactions
  posted on August 17, 2009 07:17:10 am
  GREENWICH Countrywide Home Loans sold to Anna Donovan, property at 46 Bowman Drive for $860,000. Patrick J. Conlon sold to Patrick J. Conlon, property at 525 E. Putnam Ave.
• Bronx Stella D'Oro Cookie Factory Closing Down
  posted on August 16, 2009 06:41:58 pm
  ... the National Labor Relations Board had forced the company to take back the workers. But Stella D'Oro's owner, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity firm Brynwood Partners - run by Harvard MBA's Hendrik Hartong, Jr. and his son Hendrik ...
• Blumenthal pleased with D.C. Lyme hearing
  posted on August 17, 2009 03:45:57 am
  People with Lyme : Blumenthal pleased with D.C. Lyme hearing Blumenthal pleased with D.C. Lyme hearing Greenwich Times, Greenwich, CT USA By Lisa Chamoff, Greenwich Times Staff Writer Many insurance companies look to the IDSA's guidelines when deciding whether to fund a patient's treatment for Lyme disease Connecticut's attorney general said he ...
• US consumer morale declines
  posted on August 16, 2009 04:46:03 pm
  ... and they probably won t until the labor market begins to firm, said Michelle Girard, an economist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut. Industrial output rose 0.5 percent, beating market expectations for 0.3 percent advance, after a 0.4 percent ...
• Boys, 5 and 14 injured on scooter
  posted on August 16, 2009 12:44:00 pm
  ... Sheriff's Department says the boys' fathers, Gustavo Vasquez, 52, of Port Chester and 40-year old Arturo Juarez of Greenwich, Connecticut allowed them to go off on the moped, resulting in charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Juarez is also ...
• NCC Foundation to host 'Le Bal d'Ecole' Oct 3
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... Board of Directors. Steiner, a fellow board member, serves as chair of the Foundation's Scholarship Committee. Greenwich resident Beverly Orthwein is honorary chairman. GE Capital's President and CEO of Media, Communications and Entertainment ...
• City dips toes in IPOs
  posted on August 16, 2009 04:49:53 am
  ... 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 ...
• Greenwich Approves Sex Offender Restrictions
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  GREENWICH, Conn. - 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.
• Sea of love
  posted on August 15, 2009 03:05:41 pm
  ... do any illicit substances." Before her freshman year of college, Nantucket resident Barbara Dale, then living in Greenwich, Conn., was invited by some friends to join them for a weekend music event that included some of her favorite performers. "It ...
• Town Approves Sex Offender Restrictions
  posted on August 15, 2009 01:39:13 pm
  Officials in Greenwich have voted to ban sex offenders from schools, parks, playgrounds and public beaches, despite the threat of a lawsuit by civil liberties advocates.
• U.S. consumer morale sags, industrial output rises
  posted on August 15, 2009 12:42:55 pm
  ... 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 dip in July; jobless relief filings climb
  posted on August 15, 2009 11:55:42 am
  ... path next year. The consumer is not going to lead the recovery," said Stephen Stanley, an economist at RBS in Greenwich, Conn. The decline in July retail sales was affected by a 2.1 percent drop in sales at gasoline stations. Excluding gasoline, ...
• Retail sales fall, new jobless claims rise
  posted on August 14, 2009 07:00:00 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. economy still shaky
  posted on August 15, 2009 04:28:32 am
  ... without the U.S. consumer as last resort," said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve issued a more upbeat, if guarded, assessment of the U.S. economy. ...