03/24/08 - Press Release - Antares Toots It's Own Horn - Office Building 100% Leased

Antares Investment Partners today announced it has completely leased its signature development project at One Hundred West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, CT.

Under the ownership of Antares, the 154,000 square-foot landmark property, formerly known as the US Tobacco Building, reached "lease-up" status a year ahead of company projections. Joseph Beninati, Antares Managing Partner said, "One Hundred West Putnam, acquired just 12 months ago at well below replacement cost, will produce the highest cash flows per foot of any commercial office building in the United States."

To take advantage of substantial cash flow, Antares has put in place long- term debt on the building with very low and stable interest rates. The nearly $16 million of property cash flow will produce approximately two times the annual interest cost at 100 West Putnam.

Specific credit tenants could not be named under the terms of their leases.

Situated majestically in the heart of the Greenwich business district on three acres of landscaped property, One Hundred West Putnam rises four stories with soaring views of the Long Island Sound.

John Wheeler, President of the Antares services and investment division said, "The irreplaceable property is being completely redeveloped with a majestic four-story glass atrium and lobby by award-winning architects Perkins Eastman. The new construction, also proceeding ahead of schedule, establishes One Hundred West Putnam Avenue as the commercial office focal point of the Greenwich landscape."

"I grew up working at this property during summer jobs, and to see its rebirth as the most architecturally distinctive and sought after office building in town is really a testament to how attractive Greenwich has become as a place to both live and work," said long time Greenwich resident and Antares Co-Founder James Cabrera.

"We greatly appreciate all the hard work of the Town of Greenwich to keep this project on schedule so that the town can continue to attract the world leading financial institutions that produce solid and high paying jobs for the local economy," said Frank Janos, president of the Antares construction division that is leading the development.

"One Hundred West Putnam is another major victory in an already distinguished Antares track record for creating massive real estate value in their projects," said Bruce Mosler, Chairman and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield. "C&W is excited to be working with Antares to bring more global leading companies into their groundbreaking office development at Harbor Point on the Stamford waterfront as C&W knows we can count on Antares to provide Class A + buildings on schedule and on budget."

Antares Investment Partners is a vertically integrated real estate development and private equity firm based in Connecticut. Antares was founded in 1996, employs approximately 100 professionals and has more than $6 billion of assets and projects under management, totaling nearly 10 million square feet. The firm maintains long-standing capital relationships with leading global financial institutions.

To learn more about One Hundred West Putnam, please visit http://www.100WestPutnam.com. For more information about Antares Investment Partners, please visit http://www.antaresrealestate.com.

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03/24/08 Yale Daily News: Greenwich Resident Ned Lamont Says Working with colleges a 'privilege'

Raymond Carlson, Yale Daily News

Ned Lamont SOM ’80 was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate for the state of Connecticut in 2006. He is a senior faculty fellow at the School of Management and the founder of Lamont Digital Systems, now Campus TeleVideo, the country’s top telecommunications company serving colleges and universities. He spoke with the News about his post at SOM, his business, his support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and his own future political career.

Q: As a former SOM student and current faculty member, what do you think of SOM’s new curriculum and its expansion?

A: I think that the School of Management is important for Yale and important for Connecticut and has a strategy that balances public and private in a way that’s important for the country. I taught a course there this fall with Mike Critelli, the chairman of Pitney Bowes, and we put together a strategic plan for the state of Connecticut. This is just what makes the Yale School of Management so unique. There’s no major business in America that can operate without a multiyear strategic plan. And a state like Connecticut has never had a strategic plan.

Q: Has SOM changed a lot since you were a student?

A: There’s still a certain idealism and public purpose that helped distinguish the school back in 1980 when I graduated. I suppose it’s got a little more of a business orientation than it did back in 1980 — you can now get an MBA [Masters of Business Administration] as opposed to an MPPM [Masters of Public and Private Management], but I think the heart of the school is still the same.

Q: How does catering to colleges and universities make your business unique?

A: First of all, working with colleges and universities is a great privilege because in my world, telecommunications, the university is a very entrepreneurial client. They want to use the technology in unique ways that push the envelope, and that’s fun for me as a businessperson because we have to address these special needs.

Q: When you ran for office in 2006, you gained a lot of support among younger voters. What are your thoughts on the current student loan crisis?

A: Especially in math, the sciences and engineering, we have a real shortfall in talent in our country. If you want people to specialize for certain skills because you think it’s good for our country, then rather than saddling them with $50,000 in debt when they graduate, you should give them incentives. A friend of mine’s son just resigned as a Navy Seal; he got a $100,000 signing bonus. Compare that to someone graduating with a Ph.D. in mathematics who will end up $100,000 in the hole. People respond to incentives. I think we’ve got to be more aggressive in our student-loan program to allow more people to specialize in places where we need them.

Q: You are an active supporter of Barack Obama and have campaigned for him. Do you think he is well suited to address our nation’s economic woes?

A: I think Obama is going to be just what this country needs when it comes to restarting our economy. India has 9.5 percent annual economic growth, which adds 25 million people to the middle class every year riding that growth. Compare that to a state like Connecticut, which really hasn’t added a good-paying job in a generation. And young people are leaving the state. Business consultants say about Connecticut: “We’re too old, and we’re too cold.” So I think it’s about being strategic in terms of where we put our resources in Connecticut. When it comes to what Obama would do for the country, I think it would be a new generation of environmental technologies that create new jobs and also free us from this billion-dollar-a-day addiction we have to foreign oil.

Q: Would you consider taking a position within Obama’s administration, were he to be elected president?

A: I’d certainly consider that. I think the first two years of an administration are an incredibly important time. If you have a chance to pull an oar and make a difference and somebody calls you, you certainly consider it.

Q: Would you consider running for office again in the future?

A: A year and a half ago I said “no way,” but it’s a year and a half later, and I say, it’s something I would look at.

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03/24/08 - Connecticut News Roundup

Connecticut News Roundup

• Newington man charged in connection with teen's death

• Arizona man pleads guilty to selling steroids

• Newington man charged in connection with teen's death

• Committee passes bill to make noose-hanging a crime

• Man charged with stealing gutter during Easter services

• Driver pleads not guilty in Greenwich developer's slaying

• Rowland, in Easter speech, talks of values

• Lawmakers impose new exception to public's access to information

• Firefighter charged in confrontation with wife's lawyer

• Norwalk police investigating several theories in officer's death

• Rell: Residents won't lose benefits because of stimulus checks

• Guilford Arabic students get to practice language in Morocco

• State biologists work to keep track of bear population

• Historians, architecture buffs push to preserve modernist homes

• Greenwich police say 2 men under arrest in Andrew Kissel homicide

• Bridgeport, family reach settlement in girl's 2001 disappearance

• Autopsy results delayed in Norwalk police officer's death
  

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Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

(American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

03/24/08 - I don’t want to get this guys rep, as some guy who gets all uppity about the local government cause, you know, this is supposed to be a ...

"Last week I got on the GPD’s and Greenwich Time’s case about this drug bust, where 3 teenagers got charged with misdemeanor possession and it hit the papers like it was some kind of epic win on the war on drugs."

Yearlong Greenwich Police Sting Yields Mom, Son, with 2 Ounces Of ...

By Chris

There’s this blogger, I won’t link to him, but he ‘Rounds Up’ Greenwich news everyday in his blog, which is a little more than frenetic, featuring multicolored, centered text of various sizes.

His blog got some attention in The FC because he waged a public battle against the Greenwich Police Chief with it. Now he basically just reposts a lot of headlines and what-not.

The reason I mention this is that I don’t want to get this guys rep, as some guy who gets all uppity about the local government cause, you know, this is supposed to be a commuter blog, and that stuff is boring (Says Chris The Administrator Of The Peppy Crisp And Clean - No Caffeine Blog Called StationStopzzzzzzzzzzzz ..... zzzzz...... zzzz .... zzzz .... zzzz .... ).

But I got to get in this last jab…

Last week I got on the GPD’s and Greenwich Time’s case about this drug bust, where 3 teenagers got charged with misdemeanor possession and it hit the papers like it was some kind of epic win on the war on drugs.

Well, today we had a similar story from the Greenwich Time, where a mother and son were busted as part of a year-long investigation - with less than 2 ounces of pot, a pot pipe, and 2 valium tablets.

I guess I am jaded from watching The Wire and other TV shows, but it seems like in the real world of narcotics, a bust like this is considered routine, with year-long investigations targeting the big boys who are *supplying* the little guys who are driving around public housing with baggies.

Especially in Fairfield County, where we all know there are many backcountry mansions housing enough cocaine to get one through the longest hedge fund recession - I think the Greenwich Narcotics Department could bring in bigger fish if they set their sights a little higher.

OK, So I get it, this mom’s been dealing dimebags for a while and its pissed of the locals - sure, go arrest her - but lets spend out ‘yearlong’ investigation time on something more worthwhile, eh?

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-- Albert Einstein

03/24/08 - But, Why Isn't There A "Year Long Investgation" In The John J. Bria Drug Death?

Mother-son duo arrested in drug bust

Hoa Nguyen

Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

A mother-son pair were arrested Thursday following a year-long narcotics investigation, according to police reports released yesterday.

Acting on a warrant, police arrested Christopher M. Montague, 20, of 51 Sheephill Road, and his mother, Kimberly A. Montague, 40, of the same address, as the two were driving in a tan Toyota Corolla near Armstrong Court, according to a police report.

During the search, police found three plastic bags containing 7 grams of marijuana in Christopher Montague's sweatshirt and a "bud" of marijuana folded in a one-dollar bill in his pant pocket, according to the report.

In the car, police found two small plastic bags of marijuana, one weighing 15 grams and the other 5 grams, according to the report....

....Beneath the passenger's seat was a burnt roach-type cigarette, according to the report. In the center console were 30 plastic bags commonly associated with the packaging and distribution of narcotics, according to the report.

In Kimberly Montague's purse police said they found a pipe used for smoking marijuana and an unmarked pill vial containing four pills, two of which appeared to be Valium. She did not have a prescription for the controlled substance, according to the report.

Could John J. Bria have been saved?

John J. Bria grew up in the Byram section of Greenwich.

Byram is not a high-income area -- unlike other parts of Greenwich that house the wealthy movers and shakers in business, entertainment and politics.

Some of Bria's friends were from Byram and others were from that larger and extravagant sections of Greenwich where parents run big chunks of the country, from Wall Street to Hollywood.

Many in the close knit community of Byram think that the police were intimidated in the Bria case, because of the fact that Miss Megan Caron's father, Glenn Caron, creator of the TV series Moonlighting, is a Hollywood big shot?

It wouldn't be the first time Greenwich cops backed off from a celebrity.

Grave Indifference Contributed

To The Drug Death of John J. Bria

• 01/04/08 - Greenwich Police Officers Sit On The Post Road Looking For Burned Out Tailights In Hopes Of Making A Drug Arrest
• 02/03/08 - The Stamford Police Know How To Properly Investigate A Drug Death
• 02/04/08 - Savannah Lamotte, would tell police about John J. Bria's Death: "Maria and Jason picked me up around 9 p.m. …
• 02/06/08 - Dr. Ian Rubin's Family Has Complained About The Press, But At Least The Family Got Justice.
• 02/13/07 Finally: Greenwich Cops Reopen Bria Drug Death Case

03/24/08 - "I think all our checkbooks are closed," said Sam Romeo, one of the organizers of the lawsuit.

Should I Send A Check Our Wait?

Town tells owners to pay up

By Neil Vigdor
Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

To pay or not to pay. That is the question being debated by a group of North Mianus property owners who sued the town over their sewer bills and collection officials.

A number of those who received sewer hookups as part of a $23.5 million project in the neighborhood are arguing that they should not have to pay for their share until the lawsuit they recently filed is settled.

Filed earlier this month in state Superior Court in Stamford, the seven-page lawsuit alleges that the bill for the sewers was inflated because of the town's mismanagement of the project and inclusion of unauthorized work....

... "They have to pay," said Louis Caravella, the town's tax collector. "If you don't you're going to start getting charged one-and-a-half percent interest a month. It'll add up quickly."

Recipients of the sewer hookups can either pay for their share of the project in a lump sum, which works out to an average of $30,379 per household, or over 20 years with interest at about 4.2 percent per year.

Caravellla said he has received payments from about 50 property owners, some of whom paid the lump sum.

Romeo contested whether he and his fellow plaintiffs must pay, however, citing Section 259 of the Town Charter.

"Such appeal, during the pendency thereof, shall stay further proceedings for the collection of the particular assessment upon which the appeal is predicated, but shall not stay any other proceedings in relation to such project," according to the charter....

... The group also wants $2.5 million of interest that accrued during the nearly 31/2 years since the project's completion, time that the homeowners said the town spent tabulating the final bill.

Town officials have pointed out that $600,000 was removed from the final bill after an internal audit, to offset unauthorized paving and the cost of rebidding the project when the original contractor walked off the job because of a dispute over safety protocols.

The homeowners contend the town never audited the full project, and that the property owners who agreed to the reductions did not represent the entire neighborhood.

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

03/24/08 - "They did a fantastic job," said teacher Andrew Bramante, who runs a research class at GHS

GHS students nab top science honors

Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

These projects, along with those of nine other Greenwich High School students, recently captured top honors at the Connecticut Science Fair. ....

...Eliana Carmona, 16, of Greenwich, drew her inspiration from watching a sister with diabetes get regular insulin shots. Seeing the pain her sister goes through and having herself an aversion to needles, Eliana decided there must be a better way to give insulin...

... Eliza McNitt, 16, of Greenwich, came upon her idea after being warned against eating an apple without washing it because the skin might carry the residue of pesticides used in the orchard....

... Harris Davidson, 18, of Old Greenwich, decided wine would be the subject of his project, testing to see what type of bottle top would best keep the wine unchanged months from its initial uncorking....

... Other projects included one by a senior, Courtney Fogwell, and ninth-grader Likhitha Aidunuthula, who together discovered in lab tests that when exposed to water and high temperatures, rubber pellets used to create the artificial turf fields at Greenwich High School leached traces of a toxin....

... Michael Tom, 15, of Greenwich, experimented with a more efficient way of extracting energy from human biowaste, which may in the future help provide an alternative to using fossil fuel.

Sophie Voss, 16, of Riverside, discovered that the amount of a hormone, cortisol, found in tears shed while crying varies depending on the stress a person is under. Her project looked at how the chemical make-up of tears could help predict a person's vulnerability to stress-related diseases.

Michael Miller, 17, of Old Greenwich, experimented with instant messaging and ways to flag possible identify theft or unauthorized use of a person's instant messaging account.

Other science fair winners from the class include Jessica Blanton, Ryan Chou, George Hansel and William Newberry.

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley

03/24/08 - Today's News Reports From The Greenwich Post - School Board Meeting

Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg's Failed Administrators Get Ready For The Up Comming Board Of Education Meeting.

Channel 79 to broadcast Board of Education meeting live

Greenwich Community Television Channel 79 will broadcast live converage of the Board of Education meeting on March 27.

Cyclists say it's almost time to 'ride for Greenwich'

The 2008 ‘Ride for Greenwich’ bike ride offers families a fun and active way to celebrate Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11.


Greenwich Center for the Arts to sponsor community forum

The Greenwich Center for the Arts Board will hold a public forum Monday, March 31 in the Town Hall meeting room to announce plans for and answer questions about the proposed community multi-art center in the historic Havemeyer Building.

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Connors

03/24/08 - Detectives never seemed to have enough for an arrest, said his Greenwich lawyer Lindy Urso.

ATTORNEY LINDY URSO SAYS GREENWICH POLICE DEPARTMENT MAY HAVE GOTTEN CARLOS TRUJILLO'S 21 YEAR OLD COUSIN TO TESTIFY FALSELY.

Lawyer questions Kissel evidence

By Hoa Nguyen
Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

As two cousins sat jailed in two different municipalities awaiting their first hearing in court today on charges of murder, a lawyer representing one of them said he wants to know what evidence has led police to make the arrests now, nearly two years after the murder took place.

Days after Andrew Kissel was stabbed to death in the basement of his Dairy Road mansion, detectives had already identified one of the men as a suspect. Police had interviewed Carlos Trujillo, 47, who was Kissel's long-time chauffeur and assistant, several times, but detectives never seemed to have enough for an arrest, said his Greenwich lawyer Lindy Urso....

"It may well be that in Leonard they finally found someone who could be compromised, who had enough of his own problems that he was willing to testify falsely against Carlos. We'll have to wait and see."

...Urso was reacting to comments Leonard Trujillo's wife made to the New York Post, telling the tabloid that her husband said Carlos Trujillo had been "trying to use him to give him some money to do something." Brenda Trujillo could not be reached for comment yesterday....

More News Reports From The Greenwich Time....

Easter draws believers to beach

On a frigid morning, church music rang from the Greenwich Point Park beach as the last of the Easter worshipers arrived, toting their beach chairs and blankets yesterday.

Avenue proposals a tough fit
The expansion proposals for the new senior center could be a tough fit in the present facility on Greenwich Avenue, according to Sam Deibler, director of the town Commission on Aging.

YMCA gets state grant for child-care program
Another child-care facility will soon open in downtown Greenwich.

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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

03/24/08 - Greenwich News Wire For Monday

The Latest Greenwich News Reports:

Arrests in murder of Greenwich millionaire
WTNH - New Haven,CT
Stamford (WTNH/AP) _ Nearly two years after his murder police have arrested two men in the death of Greenwich millionaire Andrew Kissel. ...

Raising a stink: Greenwich seeks steeper penalties for illegal dumping
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT
By Neil Vigdor

GREENWICH - Tired of Greenwich being used as a dumping ground for trash from neighboring municipalities, the town is expected to crack down ...

Mother, son arrested in Greenwich on multiple drug charges
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT
By Hoa Nguyen

GREENWICH - A mother-son pair were arrested Thursday after a yearlong narcotics investigation, according to police reports released yesterday. ...

Etienne, Delva lead Hartford to American East crown
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT
Erin Morrison (Greenwich) was a member of the first place 400 freestyle relay with had a record time of 3:23.65 and also swam with the third place 200 ...

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
- Anonymous

03/24/08 - Greenwich Blog Wire - Greenwich Library Database Instruction Available

Greenwich Blog Post:

Databases @ your library
Our Greenwich Library staff will provide a weekly half hour hands on introduction and practice on one database per session. The Greenwich Publications Index is a guide to newspaper and magazine articles of local interest for the ...
Greenwich Library | Today's Events - http://www.greenwichlibrary.org

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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-- (Louis) Hector Berlioz

03/24/08 - The Animal Activists Are Blogging About The Beheaded Chickens Found In Greenwich

Greenwich Blog Post:

Dead Chickens In Greenwich

Six chickens found beheaded: Greenwich, CT (US) - Mar 20, 2008

Greenwich Animal Control officers are investigating six beheaded chickens found behind a Mason Street bank Thursday afternoon, considering whether the birds were killed as part ...
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
-- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]

03/23/08 - "I think I would do a good job of it," said Roberson, who grew up in Greenwich and is a member of the Representative Town Meeting.

Roberson expected to be new DTC chair

By Neil Vigdor
Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

Reinvigorated the past few years by the candidacies Ned Lamont, Edward Krumeich Jr. and Frank Farricker, Greenwich Democrats are poised to select party workhorse David Roberson as their next chairman.

Roberson's name is at the top of a slate of proposed officers that will be voted on next Thursday night by the Democratic Town Committee.

A key volunteer on Farricker's 2006 campaign for state Senate and 2007 campaign for first selectman, both of which were unsuccessful, Roberson would take over for congressional hopeful Jim Himes as DTC chairman....

.... Roberson played an integral role in Farricker's Senate campaign, as well as bid for first selectman last year against Peter Tesei.

"He did an amazing amount of work for both of my campaigns," said Farricker, who is the District 2/Harbor leader for the DTC. "He's very dedicated. He's very smart. He's going to do a superb job."

After graduating from Greenwich High School in 1985, Roberson received a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as a contractor for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he received a master's in space science from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

The DTC has 75 members and about a dozen associate members. The vote on the slate of proposed officers will be 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Town Hall Meeting Room.

Just last month, a record 63 percent of registered party members voted in the Super Tuesday presidential primary, choosing Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton, the same result as the state.

"I think we made a lot of progress in terms of organization, getting people excited and channeling the very real desire for change through the DTC," Himes said.

MORE NEWS REPORTS FROM
THE GREENWICH TIME

Workshop attracts budding film wannabes

A slew of multimillion-dollar feature films have been made in Connecticut in recent months, but only a few state residents have the union credentials required to work on such productions.

Sculptor finishes massive project

Weston resident Stanley Bleifeld thought he had it all figured out: He would continue to paint and draw while teaching in Connecticut schools. Then he picked up a piece of wax, changing his life at the age of 35.

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About
Public Prayer & Displays of Faith:

And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret…
[Matthew 6:6 & 7]

Quotes About Jesus

"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

C.S. Lewis,
British author (1898-1963)

"Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa (1910-97)

03/23/08 - What No Heartfelt Thank - You For Betty "You Can Trust Me Sternberg?

WHY HAVE DAWN AND ROSE
STOP SPEAKING OUT THE
ABOUT THE FAILED
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
THAT KNOWINGLY LET
THEIR CHILDREN STAY IN CONTAMINATED CLASSROOMS
FOR OVER ONE YEAR.

Letters from readers

Via The Greenwich Time

To the editor:

On behalf of the Hamilton Avenue PTA, we thank the many individuals and organizations that helped with our relocation to schools throughout town this month. Although it was and continues to be a difficult and stressful transition and there remain many unresolved issues, we witnessed a remarkable outpouring of support from the community, for which we are eternally grateful.

Our parents and children were greeted with enthusiasm and warmth by the teachers, principals, support staff and PTAs of our host schools: Cos Cob, Glenville, North Street, Old Greenwich, Parkway elementary schools, and Western Middle School. We thank them all for re-arranging furniture and schedules to accommodate our students and teachers.

A heartfelt thank-you goes to parents from sister schools Julian Curtis, the International School at Dundee and North Mianus elementary schools who came to our aid by contributing much-needed school supplies. Thank you to the Greenwich PTA Council, especially Julie Faryniarz, for their compassion in helping us succeed as a PTA with the support of all the Greenwich public schools. Thank you to the Boys & Girls Club's Bob D'Angelo, Family Centers' Robert Arnold and especially Robert Short, and Children's Day School's Mary Ann O'Rourke, each of whom worked diligently to reconfigure their programs to accommodate our students who needed day care during the week our school was closed.

A special thank-you goes to the Greenwich Organization Supervisors and Administrators, for the $5,000 contribution to assist our teachers through this transition phase.

We commend the Board of Education and the administration for working around the clock in making sure our concerns are addressed. This is not an easy situation for anyone of us, but communication is key, and we as a team will strive to make sure our school will be back in full-functioning mode once again.

We thank our Principal Damaris Rau, Assistant Principal Deborah Cline, administrative staffers Susan Marino and Anita Gianchetta, and the many wonderful and caring teachers of Hamilton Avenue School for all that they have done and will do to ensure the safety and continuing education of our children.

Finally, special heartfelt gratitude goes to our executive board: you are all amazing and continually impress us with all of your talents and accomplishments.

Rose Furano

Dawn Giorgi-Nethercott

Greenwich

The writers are Hamilton Avenue School PTA co-presidents.

Maybe Rose And Dawn Should Collect Money From The Hamilton Avenue Parents, So That They Can Give Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg An Award For Allowing The Hamilton Avenue School To Fail No Child Left Behind.


Please read how schools like Hamilton Avenue are being designated "Blue Ribbon Schools" by the Department Of Education, because they are exceeding No Child Left Behind Standards........

03/22/08 - Now Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg wants to blame President And Laura Bush for her failures in one of the richest towns in America.

03/19/08 - May God Bless The Children Of Hamilton Avenue School Who Never Get To Compete On A Level Playing Field.

Rose And Dawn Really Did Not Have To Give A Heart Felt Thank You To Failed Administrators Involved In Hamilton Avenue Fiasco, Because Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg Is Giving Them Each A Bonus For All They Did During The Hamilton Avenue Fiasco.


Please read this article to learn about the bonus.....

03/20/08 - Why Won't Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg Let Hamilton Avenue Parents Independently Test The Contaminated Modular Classrooms?

If Mrs. Nancy Weissler's Board Of Board Of Education approved a mold policy and the ...

03/13/08 Schools didn't follow mold policy (Greenwich Time)

You Would Think that Nancy Weissler would be looking to fire Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg instead of saying things about the parents whose children were KNOWINGLY allowed to sit in contaminated classroom for over one year.

The Hamilton Avenue School parents did nothing wrong. Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg was the one who failed to see that the Board Of Education's mold policy was followed.

Now Nancy Weissler and the Board Of Education are the ones failing to hold Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg accountable to the single family home owners and taxpayers of Greenwich.

Will The Real Dawn Nethercott Please Stand Up

Did Some One In The School Administration Or On The Board Of Education Get To Dawn. Do you remember when she said....

"I'm not happy about the CMT (delay). The kids were all very well prepared," said Dawn Nethercott, co-president of the school PTA. "It's an unfortunate situation."

Please see....

03/10/08 - Hamilton Avenue School Students Will Excell On The CMT's If The Biology Questions Are About How Mold Effects Children In A Small Classroom.

Or Do You Remember when Dawn Said.....

... Hamilton Avenue parents are upset that their lives and their children's lives are in disarray, said Dawn Nethercott, school PTA co-president.

"We definitely want accountability. I want to know where the system failed," Nethercott said.

Please see....

03/05/08 - The Joke Of The Day - "I'll hold the staff accountable," Superintendent of Schools Betty Sternberg promised. - Yeah Right.

Or Do You Remember this statement....

Current PTA co-chair Dawn Nethercott says, "I'm appalled!"

Please See This Article....

03/02/08 - Another Administrative Screw Up - "They let it happen again. Shame on them. They should be fired," said Laura Dibella past PTA president.

Maybe Dawn Read This Link And Decided To Praise The Failed Administrators That KNOWINGLY left her children in a contaminated Classroom modular for over one year.....

"Kissing Ass, A Woman's Guide"

Explanations of the necessities of being able to kiss ass through true examples and stories; tips on how to kiss ass.

www.gurujeff.com/kissass.html

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How To Be the Ultimate Kiss Ass | eHow.com

How to Be the Ultimate Kiss Ass. Being the ultimate kiss ass is a skill that some people are simply born with. It's a delicate balance between being a total ...
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03/12/08 - Why Was It Ok To Remove Dumpsters Of Contaminated Plywood, But Not OK To Remove School Desks And Chairs?

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About
Equality & Social Programs

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just. [Luke 14:13 &14.]

Quotes About Jesus

"Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him."

Sholem Asch,
Jewish author (1880-1957)

"He might be described as an underprivileged, working-class victim of political and religious persecution."

Prince Phillip (born 1921)

03/23/08 - Greenwich News Wire

Grenwich News Reports

Church leaders ready to spread messages of hope
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

For many Christians Easter is an opportunity for spiritual renewal, Greenwich clergy said last week. This year, international and personal worries, ...

Large grants boost the General Fund
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT

By Neil Vigdor

Even in Greenwich, when the town gets a check for six figures, it's cause for celebration. Town officials had not one but two reasons to ...

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About
Paying Taxes & Separation of Church & State:

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. [Matthew 22:21]

Quotes About Jesus

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

Albert Einstein,

physicist and atheist (1879-1955)

"I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus."

Pinchas Lapide,
Orthodox Jewish scholar,
Germany (born 1922)

03/23/08 - News Reports From The Greenwich Time

Cops arrest ex-driver, relative in Kissel slay

Almost two years after disgraced real estate developer and fraudster Andrew M. Kissel was found murdered in his backcountry mansion, police have charged his former driver and one of his relatives in the killing.

Please see...

03/22/08 - Greenwich News Wire - Murder Arrest - Police Say It Was The Driver And Another Person (Multiple Articles)

03/23/08 - More On The High Profile Greenwich Murder Mystery - Many Questions Unanswered

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About
Corporate Greed and the Religion of Wealth:

In the temple courts [Jesus] found men selling cattle, sheep and doves and other
sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle;
he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. [John 2:14 & 15.] Watch out! Be on your guard against
all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. [Luke 12.15.] Truly, I say unto you, it will
be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 19:23] You cannot serve both God and Money. [Matthew 6:24.]

Quotes About Jesus:

"From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother."

Martin Buber,
Jewish philosopher (1878-1965)

"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

Lenny Bruce, American satirist (1925-66)

03/23/08 - Greenwich Feature Story - Travel

Greenwich News Report for: Stanton House Inn

Connecticut inn preserves its heirloom history
Boston Globe - United States

(Ron Driscoll/Globe Staff) GREENWICH, Conn. - The antique clock sat on the fireplace mantel in the north common room of the Stanton House Inn, just outside ...

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About Justice:

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. [Matthew 5:6] Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy [Matthew 5:7] But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your
trespasses. [Matthew 6:15]

Quotes About Jesus:

"I cannot say that Jesus was uniquely divine. He was as much God as Krishna, or Rama, or Mohammed, or Zoroaster."

Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political leader (1869-1948)

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political leader (1869-1948)

"Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness."

Martin Luther King Jr.,
American civil rights leader (1929-68)

03/23/08 - More On The High Profile Greenwich Murder Mystery - Many Questions Unanswered

Greenwich News Reports:

Kissel Murder Mystery And Other News

Media Frenzy - But Is The Media Asking All The Questions?

What's The Motive?

Where Is The Murder Weapon?

Can The Greenwich Police Department Follow The Money?

Greenwich police say 2 men under arrest in Andrew Kissel homicide
Boston Globe - United States

GREENWICH, Conn.—Greenwich police say the driver of slain real estate developer Andrew Kissel and another man have been charged in his 2006 murder.

Police say 21-year-old Leonard Trujillo of Worcester, Mass., is charged with murder and conspiracy and that his cousin, 47-year-old Carlos Trujillo of Bridgeport, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Carlos Trujillo was a driver for Kissel, who was found stabbed to death in his Greenwich mansion in April 2006. His death occurred just days before he was to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud...

OTHER NEWS.....

Banner year ahead High hopes surround Greenwich Crew teams
Greenwich Post - Greenwich

The Greenwich boys and girls crew teams have plenty to be excited about this season. Heading into the spring season, coaches for the Greenwich crew teams ...

GHS boys hockey competes with the best
Greenwich Post - Greenwich

A couple of years ago, just getting to the postseason was an accomplishment for the Greenwich High School boys ice hockey team. But when the dust settled ...

Boys swimming and diving team finishes fourth at State Opens
Greenwich Post - Greenwich

The Greenwich High boys swim program is not accustomed to coming up short at the State Open Championships. After all, of the previous 36 State Open meets, ...

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03/23/08 - Happy Easter - Today The Quotes At The End Of Articles Will Be About Jesus

Jesus Speaks About
Peacemaking, not War Making:

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. [Matthew 5:9] Resistnot evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. [Matthew 5:39] I say unto you, Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despite-fully use you, and persecute
you; [Matthew 5:44]

Quotes About Jesus:

"I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history."

H.G. Wells, British author (1866-1946)

"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931)