09/08/09The RawGreenwich News Feed

Greenwich resident Walter Noel has to cough up some cash .....

Fairfield Greenwich to Pay Fine, Repay Massachusetts Investors Bloomberg 8 (Bloomberg) -- Fairfield Greenwich Advisors LLC, whose feeder fund placed money with Ponzi-scheme operator Bernard Madoff, was fined and ordered to return ...

WSTC/WNLK Local News Greenwich School's Superintendent on Obama Speech WNLK Some Connecticut schools won't be showing President Barack Obama's back-to-school speech when it airs live across the country.... .....Greenwich schools decided to delay the showing of the speech, after hearing criticism that Obama would be pushing his political agenda. ... ....Greenwich School's Superintendent Dr. Sidney Freund says that it was not feasable for all students in every school to see the speech at the same time. Freund says that all students will have seen the speech by the end of the day Wednesday after having the opportunity to talk with teachers about it. Freund also says he's reviewed a transcript of the speech and feels that it is not politcally motivated. .....

MTA Derails Greenwich Man's Train App NBC Connecticut By LEANNE GENDREAU If you wanted to know if your MTA train was going to be late, Chris Schoenfeld, of Greenwich, had an app for that, but no more, ...

Auto thefts on the rise in Greenwich Journal Inquirer AP GREENWICH — While high-end car brands such as the Mercedes Benz, BMW, and Lexus seem to be popular choices for ...

Greenwich animal shelter project making progress Greenwich Time By Neil Vigdor Despite the lack of visual signs of progress, construction of the town's new animal shelter next to North Street School is running on ... See all stories on this topic

Greenwich's Virtual Chastity Belt - the onorous Proof of Residency ... By Lincoln Millstein I have two recurring nightmares. The first is missing a final exam while still in college. The second is losing all my town privileges because I failed to prove my residency in Greenwich. Is it my imagination, or are we compelled to prove our residency in more ways than required by any other municipality? It’s the virtual chastity belt around Greenwich that keeps the unwashed from Port Chester, Stamford and, God forbid, The Bronx from soiling our beaches, stealing from our schools and polluting our parks. When I applied to store my canoe at Greenwich Point, I had to prove my residency just to get on the waiting list. It didn’t seem to matter to the marine division that I already had a marine use permit, a mooring permit for my sailboat, and fees that I paid annually to store my boat, and to maintain a boat locker. So back to the house I went, in search of the CL&P bill from last month and various sundry other annoying evidence of an over-subscribed lifestyle, to sate the beast of Field Point Road. The latest was the requirement that all incoming kindergarten and ninth graders schlepp down to the Havermeyer Building to prove they are residents before they can partake in Greenwich’s prized educational system which is struggling to best inner city schools in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford for bragging rights as having better Connecticut Mastery Test scores..... Lincoln's Log - http://blog.ctnews.com/lincolnmillstein/

Chef Christian Petroni of Peniche Going to Barcelona in Greenwich ... By Liz Johnson Christian Petroni, the chef de cuisie at Peniche in White Plains, is going to be the chef and GM at Barcelona in Greenwich, one of the mini-empire of ... Small Bites - http://lizjohnson.lohudblogs.com/

Metro Transit Authority blocks Greenwich man's iPhone app ... By Staff Apple Inc. has removed a Greenwich Internet developer's iPhone application from its iTunes App Store after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority asked the company to stop distributing it. The MTA asked Apple in a letter Aug. ... The Hour Headlines - http://www.thehour.com/

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