04/04/08 - 19 Year Old Greenwich Drunk Driver Closes Down A Rye Brook Street For 13 Hours

The Rumor is that this wild and crazy guy came to take advantage of the Rye Brook drunk driver - A 19 Year Old Greenwich Party Girl Named Amanda L. Mogrovejo.

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The Journal News Police Blotter

RYE BROOK

North Ridge Street: A 19-year-old Greenwich woman was incoherent, police said, after her car struck and snapped a utility pole and continued northbound Striking a mailbox and a stone wall in front of 148 N. Ridge St. at 1:12 a.m. Saturday. Amanda L. Mogrovejo was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. The 22 Cowdray Park Drive resident did not have any visible injuries. North Ridge Street was closed from Betsy Brown Road to Argyle Road for more than 13 hours, police said.

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03/07/08 - Greenwich News Reports From The Greenwich Time

Indra Nooyi, a Greenwich resident and the first female CEO of PepsiCo, arrives at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich to be honored at the biennial Peterson Business Award Dinner last night.


PepsiCo chief executive is first woman to receive Peterson award

GREENWICH - When Indra Nooyi looks for inspiration, she doesn't limit herself to just the business world. She casts her net much wider.

"Lots of people have lessons to teach you," said Nooyi, the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc., who was the featured guest at a cocktail hour the Greenwich Library hosted last night for its major donors at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich.

Her inspiration has come from family members, professors or strangers - "Whoever has a lesson to teach you," Nooyi said.....

Condo owners seek more power
Lawmakers are trying to provide a way for the state to investigate complaints lodged by condominium owners about their boards and associations.

Multi-truck crash causes lane closures
Traffic was backed up for more than two hours at the Greenwich-New York border yesterday after a chain-reaction collision involving four tractor-trailers just south of the weigh station on Interstate 95 shut down two lanes of the highway.

Safe Routes plan hits impasse
Parents lobbying for sidewalks and other pedestrian safety measures have been dealt another blow by officials who decided speed humps proposed to slow down traffic on three Riverside streets will never come to pass.

Committee votes to fund study of safety of artificial fields
State lawmakers may commission a study on artificial turf fields because of mounting concerns about possible health risks.

Recruits sought for citizens academy
Police are seeking new recruits for its Citizens Police Academy starting later this month.

02/02/08 - Greenwich News Wire

Featured News Articles About Greenwich

Crusaders Stunned Greenwich hands Trinity first league loss
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT
By Jesse Quinlan

GREENWICH - Clay Graham made only two shots last night - but one of them just happened to be the biggest in the history of Greenwich High ...

Greenwich wrestlers takedown Brunswick
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

As always, the annual regular season meet involving the Cardinals and Bruins featured a championship atmosphere, so when Gonzales of Greenwich tangled with ...

Woman hit by truck worked on the Avenue
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

She routinely stopped at Starbucks Coffee, at the corner of Havemeyer Place and Greenwich Avenue, for a bagel, he said. Watson had worked at many of the old ...

Town Briefs
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 8:30 am to 1 pm today at the First Congregational Church, 108 Sound Beach Ave. ...

'Grave Indifference' Contributed to Death of Greenwich Surgeon
Greenwich Citizen - Greenwich,CT
By Anne W. Semmes

STAMFORD - Prominent Greenwich plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Rubins, who died of an apparent drug overdose on Jan. 23, was left in a comatose ...

Greenwich's Helmsley palace hits the market at a record price
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
A cool $125 million listed by David Ogilvy, whose Greenwich agency carries his name and is the exclusive Greenwich affiliate of Christie's Great Estates. ...
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Woman Killed By Garbage Truck
Hartford Courant - United States
By MAGDALENE PEREZ | The Hartford Courant 12:44 PM EST, February 1, 2008 GREENWICH - A 64-year-old woman was taking her morning walk Thursday when a garbage ...
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Blog Posts And News Articles That Are About Or Mention Greenwich

1. A.M.BRIEFING

   Centre Daily Times

   ... then lost control of his Buick, slid off the road and overturned. State police at Lamar said Tom Clendenin, of Greenwich, Conn., was given two citations after he and a passenger left the scene of a wreck. According to police, Clendenin was trying to ...

2. At Temple Israel, a changing of the guard for rabbis

   Palm Beach Post

   ... Chapin to the congregation, which confirmed his appointment with a standing ovation. Chapin, 58, comes from Greenwich Reform Synagogue, a 250-family congregation in Greenwich, Conn., one of the wealthiest towns in America. It is the one-time haunt ...

3. Microsoft and Yahoo (Microhoo?) Makes Time-Warner/AOL Merger Look Good

   Rebuilding Media

   ... Communications, and meanwhile is managing partner of the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Check out: The AppGap , a new group blog on the future of work and the workplace February 2, 2008 Microsoft and ...

   
   

4. Stanwich offers deal to neighbors

   Norwalk Advocate

   ... Planning and Zoning Commission approval for a new 750-student campus at 257 Stanwich Road, has met opposition from Greenwich Residents for Appropriate Land Use. The GRALU has hired a lawyer to argue that Stanwich School should scale down its plans. ...

5. Sex offender arrested for violation of conditions

   Norwalk Advocate

   A former Greenwich man convicted of possession of child pornography and videotaping young boys faces a felony charge for violating the conditions of the Connecticut State Sex Offender Registry by living in a ...
   

6. Town Briefs

   Norwalk Advocate

   Red Cross to hold blood drive at church The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the First Congregational Church, 108 Sound Beach Ave.

7. Schools check students' residence

   Norwalk Advocate

   Reality or not, concerned taxpayers and parents believe there are many nonresidents attending Greenwich Public Schools taking up tax dollars and classroom seats.

8. Lesnar's Orginial WWE Gimmick, Vince Doesn't Get HD, More

   ProWrestling.com RSS Feed

   ... the USA Network or Sci-Fi channel in HD. Humorously enough, Cablevision, the cable provider that services the Greenwich, CT area including Vince McMahon's family mansion does not offer either network in High Definition. No doubt that Vince could get ...

9. Howard to man the phones for Clinton

   Norwalk Advocate

   ... His wife, actress Cheryl Howard, will be out canvassing the community for the Clinton campaign. The famous Greenwich couple is helping kick off Clinton's 'Ready for Change, Ready to Knock' canvass kickoff in Stamford days before the Super Tuesday ...

10. Job shadowing shifts from boardrooms to bakeries

    Norwalk Advocate

    GREENWICH - Cara Schneider and Marlene Keller had filled a metal tray with purple and pink flowers made from cake icing when their teacher-for-a-day issued a new task.

11. Local high school squads prepare for county event

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... competitions and work out the kinks before county events and the state championships in March. Stamford and Greenwich high schools participated in the Wolcott High School Competition last weekend. Stamford finished first and Greenwich eighth. ...

    
    

12. Expansion of Stanwich would add to road dangers

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... how many more accidents will occur? The proposal to build there a high school/grammar school larger than the Greenwich Town Hall is wrong. Cat Rock Road passes through a part of town described by the Planning and Zoning Commission as a ...

13. Sailfish denies 'blowup' rumors

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... may throw up a 'gate,' preventing investors from leaving. Similar restrictions were enforced recently by Greenwich-based Mercury Partners LLC, when they stopped withdrawals from two of their hedge funds stricken by the credit crisis, according to ...

14. GHS boys basketball scores historic upset over Trinity Catholic

    Norwalk Advocate

    The 6-foot-6 sophomore scored on a tap-in with seven seconds remaining as Greenwich, backed by its frenzied home crowd, pulled out a 56-55 victory over Trinity Catholic in what could only be described as a ...

15. Cardinals swim past Westhill

    Norwalk Advocate

    The Greenwich High School boys team ruled the pool against another FCIAC foe yesterday.

16. As primary looms, candidates plan visits to state

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... Fairfield at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, visited Stamford and Greenwich earlier this week. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have announced that they will both be in the state on Monday. Few ...

17. Woman hit by truck worked on the Avenue

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... Avenue, as she did everyday. She routinely stopped at Starbucks Coffee, at the corner of Havemeyer Place and Greenwich Avenue, for a bagel, he said. Watson had worked at many of the old line Greenwich Avenue stores that have since disappeared, ...

18. Introducing

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... and Christopher Aversano of Norwalk, a boy, Joseph Aniello Aversano, Jan. 8 To Sandra and Richard McMurray of Greenwich, a boy, Richard Jay McMurray, Jan. 8 To Heather and Rhett Drugge of Stamford, a girl, Katherine Martyn Drugge, Jan. 9 To ...

19. Girls Basketball Trinity beats Cardinals; Stamford, Westhill win

    Norwalk Advocate

    Trinity Catholic 74, Greenwich 30 - Da'Shena Stevens scored 26 points, grabbed 20 rebounds and dished out six assists to lead the Crusaders to the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference victory.

    
    

20. Greenwich wrestlers takedown Brunswick

    Norwalk Advocate

    ... cheering them on while they battled in the 275-pound match of yesterday's anticipated showdown between rivals Greenwich High School and Brunswick School. As always, the annual regular season meet involving the Cardinals and Bruins featured a ...

    
    

21. $125M for Leona's Lair

    New York Post

    Leona Helmsley's sprawling Greenwich, Conn., mansion is about to hit the market for $125 million - legendary curse included free of charge.

01/31/08 - Garbage Truck Hits Woman Near Greenwich Avenue

Pedestrian killed in morning accident

Greenwich Time

A town woman was struck and killed by a garbage truck on Havemeyer Place early this morning as she walked across a driveway heading towards Greenwich Avenue, police said.

09/23/07 - Crash Kills Fairfield University Student On Merritt Parkway In Greenwich.

HEADLINE:

Crash kills Fairfield U student, 19

STORY:

Fairfield University on Saturday mourned the death of a 19-year-old nursing student who died in a single-car accident on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich.

Kristen M. Duhamel, a sophomore in the School of Nursing, died at Stamford Hospital. She was a passenger in a 1986 Ford Bronco that crashed on the parkway's northbound side near exit 31 about 1 a.m., according to State Police and Fairfield University.....

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Source: MSNBC & The Connecticut Post

Publication Date: September 23, 2007

Reporter: edit@ctpost.com (ANDREW BROPHY Staff writer)

Source URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20930093/

12/01/06 - Archive - News Reports

Read the most recent Art.view column

Source: Economist

... Art was given two magnificent views of the "Huis ten Bosch" in 1964, and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences in Greenwich, Connecticut, has a tiny, jewel-like show of his work until January 10th. Catch it if you can. Jan van der Heyden's ...


Decline in Manufacturing Is First Since April 2003

Source: New York Times

... housing and auto industries while other sectors appear to be fine, said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Conn. "We are simply not convinced," he said, "that the economy is weak enough in a broad sense for the ...


Just be happy Club hopes to spread good cheer through good deeds

Source: Greenwich Time

... says Glass, who developed the teen club with Stone after their mothers read a Sept. 6 article in The Advocate and Greenwich Time about the Happiness Club for adults in Fairfield. That organization, founded by Fairfield resident Lionel Ketchian, has ...


Engle Wins 10th AGA Rider of the Year Award

Source: Equisearch.com

... Year award in a tie breaker for top honors in the AGA's Grand Prix Series of Show Jumping with Kent Farrington of Greenwich, Conn. Both riders finished the season with a total of 120 points. Engle's 13 clear rounds beat out Farrington's 11 to clinch ...


Mechanic Crashes $500K Porsche

Source: wcbstv.com

This is one big "Uh-Ohh." A mechanic who finished doing minor bodywork on a 500-thousand dollar sports car crashed the Porsche Carrera G-T into a telephone pole, while he was driving it back to Greenwich...


Nvidia Gets Subpoena in Federal Antitrust Probe of Graphic-Chip Industry

Source: Bloomberg Business News

...``When looking on the outside, it does seem suspect that the prices are similar,'' Freedman said. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based analyst rates the shares of Nvidia and Advanced Micro ``buy'' and doesn't own them. ATI is the second-largest ...


Teen Charged With Vehicular Assualt

Source: Greenwich Time

Teen charged in car crash that injured passenger - An 18-year-old Greenwich man has been charged with vehicular assault in an alcohol- and-speed related rollover last August on Riversville Road in which a ...


Zohn of Survivor Visits GHS for AIDS Awareness Talk

Source: Greenwich Citizen

the disease and the best ways to prevent contracting or spreading it. Enter the Greenwich High School AIDS Awareness Club, whose goal is to inform GHS students and the surrounding community about the growing threat of ...


Global Gold Reports Positive Test Results From Both Tukhmanuk and Hankavan Properties in Armenia

Source: MacReport.net

... company with mining properties in Chile and Armenia. Global Gold Corporation is located at 45 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830. The main phone number is 203-422-2300. More information can be found at http://www.globalgoldcorp.com/ ...

Sept. 30, 2001 - Doctor Epstein Severly Injured

Dr. Fred Epstein, 67, a Greenwich resident and the founding director of the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, suffered severe internal head injuries, paralysis and other permanent injuries.