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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

07/28/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Evening Edition

Greenwich Lyme disease advocates have hopes for hearing
Greenwich Time
Diane Blanchard, co-president and co-founder of Time for Lyme, a Greenwich-based nonprofit that advocates for better research into and treatment of the ...
WORLD FOREX: Dollar Recovers Vs Euro From Near 1-Year Low
Wall Street Journal
... showing that the positive risk trade is suffering from a degree of fatigue," said Alan Ruskin, head of international strategy at RBS in Greenwich, Conn. ...
Fairfield Greenwich Exec/Son-in-Law Sailing Through The Pain
DealBreaker.Com
Every so often we like to check in and see how the victims of the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time are coping in the aftermath. ...
Greenwich ZBA to review water company plans
Greenwich Time
By Frank MacEachern A water company's bid to expand its Greenwich water treatment plant is going back to the town six months after the Planning and Zoning ...
Greenwich ski shop to close this month
Connecticut Post
By Richard Lee Skiing has always been considered a discretionary activity, subject to the whims of the economy, and now two Greenwich ski shops have felt ...
New Greenwich police building moving right along
Greenwich Time
By Debra Friedman The furniture is in, the construction is finished and the new public safety complex is just about a month away from opening, ...
TREASURIES-Shorter-dated Treasuries ease on demand questions
Reuters
... head of US Treasury strategy at RBS Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut, adding however that the two-year note auction "was a much uglier mess than we ...

07/28/09 The Greenwich Briefing By Robo Blogger


Comprehensive News Feed for Greenwich, CT.
  • Greenwich ski shop to close this month
    posted on July 28, 2009 07:56:08 pm
    Skiing has always been considered a discretionary activity, subject to the whims of the economy, and now two Greenwich ski shops have felt the cold chill with the closing this month of Sportif on East Putnam Avenue and Gordon's Gateway to Sports at Mill Pond shopping center, also on East Putnam Avenue.
  • Equity Fund is Battered
    posted on July 28, 2009 07:54:02 pm
    ... comment. Officials from Lance did not return calls seeking comment. The collapsed talks mark another setback for Greenwich, Conn.-based Brynwood in its year-long battle with members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers ...
  • Meetings
    posted on July 28, 2009 04:54:15 pm
    Old Greenwich, Conn: Westchester/Fairfield Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
  • Town Statue Draws Ire From 'Art Police'
    posted on July 28, 2009 01:31:22 pm
    ... to prevent that. There's a copy of the Little Mermaid on the grave of Danish-American entertainer Victor Borge in Greenwich, Conn., as well one in Piatra Neamt, Romania. Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted to put one on its waterfront in the 1970s, ...
  • Greenwich Lyme disease advocates have hopes for hearing
    posted on July 28, 2009 12:03:06 pm
    ... treatment guidelines had conflicts of interest. Diane Blanchard, co-president and co-founder of Time for Lyme, a Greenwich-based nonprofit that advocates for better research into and treatment of the disease, will be sitting in on the ...
  • The Cutting Edge
    posted on July 28, 2009 10:40:49 am
    Greenwich has long been recognized as a home to financial wizards, bankers and hedge fund heads, innovators in the world of high finance.
  • Golfer Juliana Staab
    posted on July 28, 2009 10:40:29 am
    ... Women's Town Golf Tournament at the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course. After her third title, Staab spoke with the Greenwich Citizen about her miraculous win and what it means to be a three-time champ. She also talked about her accomplishments at the ...
  • Wicket cool
    posted on July 28, 2009 10:40:20 am
    If you were to happen by Christiano Park in Greenwich on an ordinary summer Saturday and gaze out onto the vast field you would likely be greeted by the site of a most unusual game.
  • George Weissman, Leader at Philip Morris and in the Arts in New York, Dies at 90
    posted on July 28, 2009 02:38:17 pm
    George Weissman, long an executive at Philip Morris, became chairman of Lincoln Center in 1986, serving until 1994.
  • Business People
    posted on July 28, 2009 10:09:54 am
    ... Unit. She also was a student caretaker at The Mead School in Stamford and a counselor at Kids in Crisis in Greenwich. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and a master's degree from Fairfield University. Drew, also a ...
  • United Rentals Acquires Industrial Rental Company in Ohio
    posted on July 28, 2009 09:24:08 am
    ... d Rentals is a member of the Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index and the Russell 2000 Index and is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn. Additional information about United Rentals is available at unitedrentals.com .
  • Area Stocks
    posted on July 28, 2009 09:17:55 am
    ... gained, 28 fell and six were unchanged. Partner Re, an international reinsurer with its U.S. headquarters in Greenwich, gained 75 cents to close at $67.32. Partner Re, which reported its second-quarter and half-year earnings Monday, posted net ...
  • Sahn, Schindel win Journal News Tournament of Champions
    posted on July 27, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    GREENWICH, Conn. - Bronxville resident Trevor Sahn can now call this a breakout summer.
  • Driven: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, Part I
    posted on July 28, 2009 04:11:35 am
    ... year's Pebble Beach Concours, and that's the car they graciously provided to us in the tony New York suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, for a three-hour tour. Their media tour's a preview, in a way, for a new concept being shown at the Bugatti ...
  • Live from Greenwich: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport
    posted on July 27, 2009 11:43:33 pm
    ... come at the Pebble Beach Concours. Bugatti's U.S. sales arm provided us with a silver example for three hours in Greenwich, Connecticut, along with their U.S. marketing manager John Hill and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to teleport past Honda ...
  • My Libraries [Aardvarchaeology]
    posted on July 27, 2009 11:20:05 pm
    ... in them. Learning to read at age four or five, I may have been taken about that time to some forgotten library in Greenwich, Conn. But the first one I remember and one of the two most important ones in my life so far is Saltsjobaden public library, ...
  • Truman Capote
    posted on July 28, 2009 12:36:21 am
    ... for his work at school. Some of his teachers noted his promise as a writer. In 1939, the Capotes moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where Truman enrolled at Greenwich High School. He stood out among his classmates with his ebullient personality. Over ...
  • Poor Rich Taxpayers
    posted on July 27, 2009 11:50:15 pm
    ... percent of all the income tax the state collects, the Hartford Courant reports a ' and 14 percent of it comes from Greenwich alone. We have 169 towns in total. In Greenwich, residents paid an average of nearly $29,000 in state income tax per return, ...
  • Panalpina Faces Investor Claim
    posted on July 27, 2009 10:42:01 pm
    ... shareholder resulting from the company's withdrawal from troubled business in Nigeria. Deccan Value Advisors, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private investment firm, filed the complaint in court in Laredo, Texas. The company owns 5 percent of ...
  • Sticky day on tap as heat, humidity ramp up
    posted on July 27, 2009 09:38:56 pm
    ... will increase toward evening. High tide in Bridgeport Harbor will be at 4:22 p.m., and in Stamford and Greenwich harbors, high tide will be at 4:26 p.m. The sun will set at about 8:14 p.m., and sunrise tomorrow will be at 5:45 a.m. There will be 14 ...

07/28/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Overnight Edition

Greenwich Lyme disease advocates have hopes for hearing
Greenwich Time
Diane Blanchard, co-president and co-founder of Time for Lyme, a Greenwich-based nonprofit that advocates better research into and treatment of the disease, ...
Mixed results early on for Greenwich Water Polo in Junior Olympics
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Water Polo's 14-and-under team started its march through the Gold Division of the Junior Olympics in style. Receiving balanced scoring, Greenwich ...