09/02/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Tuesday

Red Cross heads South

With the lessons of Hurricane Katrina ever-present, especially on this the third anniversary of the devastating storm, three volunteers from the Greenwich chapter of the American Red Cross are on the ground in the Gulf coast region helping evacuees from Hurricane Gustav....

Police blotter

Myles Scherr, 47, of 1078 Cove Road, Stamford, was arrested last Tuesday for assaulting a sanitation worker on St. Claire Avenue in Old Greenwich, according to a police report.

He was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, breach of peace and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended driver's license.
Scherr, apparently upset that the sanitation truck was parked on the side of the road, yelled and cursed at its driver, the report said.

He entered the truck, removed its keys and threw them onto the lawn of a nearby property, according to the report, which also said he drove his car at the driver and punched him in the face.

It was unclear whether the victim of the assault works for the town or a private carting company.

Scherr was released on $10,000 bond and is scheduled for arraignment today in state Superior Court in Stamford.

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A 17-year-old from Greenwich turned himself in to police Aug. 26 after learning of an outstanding warrant for his arrest for breach of peace and third-degree criminal mischief, stemming from a June 19 fight at Wilbur Peck Court, according to a police report.

Police withheld the 17-year-old's name because of his age.

Released on his own recognizance, he is scheduled to appear Wednesday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

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Daniel Wall, 28, of 36 Sheephill Road, Riverside, was arrested by warrant Thursday for his involvement in a June 1 domestic dispute in town,

according to a police report. was charged with threatening and is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

Wall was already being held at the state-run Willard-Cybulski Correction Institution in Enfield on unrelated charges and was taken into custody by judicial marshals.

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Ashleigh Singer, 23, of 51 Forest Ave., Old Greenwich, turned herself in to police Friday night after learning of a warrant for her arrest stemming from her use of a stolen credit card of a co-worker at a local restaurant, according to a police report.

She was charged with receiving stolen goods with a credit card, third-degree larceny, two counts of credit card theft, two counts of automatic teller machine fraud and illegal use of a credit card.

Singer stole the wallet of a co-worker at an Old Greenwich restaurant in May and used it to purchase goods, the police report said.

She was released on $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear Friday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

Raising the rent: Greenwich building to fetch $200M

A New York City real estate company is under contract to buy the RBS Greenwich Capital building at 600 Steamboat Road in Greenwich for about $200 million, or $1,000 per square foot, which would be the highest gross price ever paid for an office building in town....

More cause for trash-hauling reform

With guilty pleas in a federal trash-hauling probe nearing 100 percent of the 30-odd indicted, it's apparent that Connecticut lawmakers should be motivated to restart efforts to regulate the industry - and get the job done this time. State officials have been patently aware of problems at least since 2005, but have allowed proposals for tightening up oversight of the industry to languish, seemingly unconcerned about costs to individuals and businesses from criminal activities. ...

...The likelihood that Connecticut is paying a "crime tax" on trash hauling cannot be ignored. The guilty pleas of all those people collared by the feds speak for themselves. State lawmakers would do well to listen.

Long journey to the grandfather I never knew

My wife and I are among the many who are not going anywhere this summer because it costs too much to travel. (And, no, we are not taking a "staycation." We¹re just staying home.) Like many, the idea has been to spend time visiting with family....

Drivers must slow down to protect children

To the Greenwich Time editor:

The lack of signs indicating speed limit, of speed bumps and of sufficient stop signs in the Havemeyer Park neighborhood of Old Greenwich has forced its residents to step out into the streets and control traffic.

On Marshall Street and Halsey Drive, residents have purchased "Please Drive Slow" signs to display on lawns. These signs have had little effect on those routinely speeding up and down our streets.

As mothers, we often ask drivers to slow down with a show of hands as they barrel past our children, opening ourselves up to the ire of drivers. Drivers: We ask you to slow down to protect just not our children but your safety as well.

Some simple words of ad-vice for folks rushing through Havemeyer Park:
Please slow down when you see children on or near the street.

If a parent asks you to slow down, please do not yell, curse or gesture at him or her in front of children or - as in the case on a recent morning with a dark blue Hummer with vanity plates - follow, heckle and try to intimidate by honking your horn.

We call the police routinely on Marshall Street to report speeding, with car descriptions and plate numbers when visible, and the Greenwich police do respond.

If caught, your brush with the law will pale in comparison to the punishment you receive if you actually do hit a child. An overbearing mother will be the least of your problems.

At that point, the two minutes you saved won't matter.

All of our lives will be collectively ruined.

Sreemoee Mukherjee
Old Greenwich

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Dr. Seuss to spruce up sermons

By Debra Friedman
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/02/2008 08:07:18

Dr. Seuss characters will be popping into town this September to mark the Second Congregational Church's annual homecoming festivities, which mark the end of summer vacations and the beginning of full attendance at services. ...

...People are away a lot of the summer in Greenwich so it's a nice way to start the church school year," said Hanson.

Last year the church marked homecoming festivities with Walt Disney-inspired themes. Constantine, who once worked for Walt Disney, also wrote the music for that event.

To reserve a spot at the lunch, or to receive more information about the events, contact the church office manager at (203) 869-9311, ext. 120.

Town settles police lawsuit

By Martin B. Cassidy
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/02/2008 08:06:19 AM

The town has settled a lawsuit with a former police officer who lost his leg in the line of duty and three other officers to resolve what they claimed were unlawful cuts of benefits from their pension packages.

Town Attorney John Wayne Fox said that former Police Lt. James Pucci, now of Stamford, agreed to a settlement of $70,000 to compensate for increased premiums for prescription drug coverage he paid after the 2001 raised rates in 2001.

Three other officers who are parties to the suit, Frank M. Creamer, James M. Lunney Jr., and Lawrence Flynn, will receive $15,000 to cover the increased costs they paid after the town raised their premiums.

In return, the four officers will pay the increased premiums until they qualify for Medicare, Fox said.

The lawsuit, filed in 2003, challenged the town's 2001 decision to increase insurance premiums for drug coverage and other insurance, claiming the town had guaranteed the additional drug coverage to the former officers until they became eligible for Medicare at 65.

Pucci, who lost his left leg and nearly died in 1988 after he was struck by a driver who rammed into the back of his police cruiser as he was investigating an accident on Interstate 95, had a specific written retirement package with the town in 1991, Fox said.....

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09/02/09 What Kind Of Moron Would Pay A Thousand Bucks For A Pair Of Shoes???

Big Retailers Buzzing About Fall Boot Sales

Footwear News

By: NICOLE URBANOWICZ

NEW YORK — Will boots be a boon for department stores this fall?

A number of top retailers think so, citing freshness in the marketplace and cool weather forecasts — two key factors that are expected to drive consumer demand amid a challenging retail environment.“

The biggest opportunity for growth this season is in boots,” said Liz Rodbell, SVP and GMM of women’s footwear at Lord & Taylor. “Our early indications are very positive, and [we] are confident [footwear] will be strong this fall.” She added that Uggs, slouch boots and shoe booties are key looks for the chain.

Boots also are expected to fuel sales at luxury department stores....

...In the high-end men’s arena, Connecticut-based stores Mitchells of Westport and Richards of Greenwich are continuing to see sales for collections priced at $1,000 and up, as well as more trendy denim-inspired lines.

“Everyday loafers and cap toes aren’t selling,” said GMM Dan Farrington. “You have to have something [unique].”“[Overall], our shoe business is very healthy,” Farrington added. “[Footwear] will fare better than other parts of our business this season.”

Indeed, many retailers and analysts predict the category could be a bright spot in a weak retail environment, particularly when compared with apparel. “Footwear has the potential to do better [than apparel],” said Cohen. “Right now, apparel is kind of hanging in there.”

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09/01/08 Election 2008 Update

Republican candidates were on the town green before and during the early part of Sunday’s Concert on the Green to meet constituents and answer questions. Present were U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays (R-4th); Toni Boucher (R-143), candidate for the state Senate’s 26th District; Melanie O’Brien, challenger for the state’s 2nd District seat; and John Stripp (R-135), who is seeking re-election.

(Janis Gibson /Redding Pilot photo)

GOP candidates greet the public at the town green

Redding Pilot

by Janis Gibson

Three Republicans running for state office — Toni Boucher, Melanie O’Brien and John Stripp — were on the town green Sunday, Aug. 24, for a meet and greet in the hour before the season’s final Concert on the Green.

They were joined for part of the time by U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays of the 4th District.

As people gathered for the concert, Mr. Shays worked the crowd, talking especially to young people. “I like to talk to kids and to encourage them to become involved in their communities,” he said. “It makes them feel empowered, plus they can often influence their parents’ vote.”

Mr. Shays, who has served his district since 1987, is being challenged by Greenwich businessman Jim Himes. He recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan....

Republican Candidates Tap Local Issues as Convention Begins More ...

by Ricardo Valenzuela

...Of 19 House Republican incumbents in competitive races, at least six plan to skip the convention, including Chris Shays of Connecticut ...

...In Connecticut, incumbent Shays is running ads saying he offers the best of both worlds: the change offered by Obama and the experience of McCain.

``It's an absolutely genius strategy in this kind of a daunting political environment for Republicans,'' Wasserman said.

Volunteers hit the beach to register voters

Greenwich Time, CT

By Debra Friedman

As residents soaked up the Labor Day weekend sun at Greenwich Point, 30 committed volunteers roamed the beaches with one important mission in mind - registering voters.

Young or old, red or blue, these volunteers wanted every beachgoer to make sure they were eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential election. The voter registration drive was organized by Old Greenwich for Obama, but all volunteers stressed their commitment to keeping things bi-partisan.

"We try to keep our views to ourselves," said Margaret Robben, the main organizer of the event.

"It's not about which party you are for, or which candidate, it's about just getting people to vote," said fellow volunteer Pam Sloane.

An hour into the drive, Robben said they had already registered 25 new voters and hoped to keep the numbers coming as the day went on.

"I've averaged about 10 to 15 people a week at the various places I've been going," said Robben, who has organized 11 registration drives so far this month alone.

Will Drennen, of Greenwich, who was wearing a ninja mask for a youtube.com video spoof he was filming with some friends, stopped by to sign up. Drennen turns 18 in September and said the economy was the issue he felt the most strongly about.

"That's probably the issue I am the most educated on," Drennen said.

A member of the Greenwich beach crew, James Olser, said he did not register for the last presidential election, but planned to this time because he felt it was of .....

Voting audit hits town


Greenwich Time


By Neil Vigdor



The dreaded "A" word, as in audit, has reared its head once again at the Greenwich registrars of voters office. Four of the town's 12 voting districts have randomly been chosen by the state for a mandatory audit of the results of the Aug. 12 Democratic congressional primary won in a landslide by Jim Himes over Lee Whitnum.

Four poll workers will hand count the ballots during the audit, which will start at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Cone Room at Town Hall and is open to the public.

A less-than-enthusiastic Democratic Registrar Sharon Vecchiolla said the audit will cost the town more time and money, an amount that has not been determined.

"If it has to be done, it's got to be done," Vecchiolla said.

Under Connecticut law, election results from 10 percent of all voting precincts in the state must be audited after elections, a mandate that was put in place in 2007 when mechanical lever machines were replaced with electronic scanners. The fax-like machines read blackened ovals on paper ballots that resemble standardized test answer sheets.

State election officials are taking the mandate one step further, however.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz has ordered an audit of the election results from one-third or 82 statewide polling locations used in federal, state and local primaries on Aug. 12.

The University of Connecticut, which tabulates the audit results for the state, recommended a greater sampling of polling locations because fewer votes were ...

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09/01/08 Asch said that he will begin to address the number of unauthorized moorings clogging navigation channels in and out of town harbors

Comming Into Greenwich Harbor

HEADLINES:

Gov. M. Jodi Rell appointed Jonathan Asch, a Byram native, to a three-year term as harbormaster.

Greenwich Town officials hope Jonathan Asch will focus on addressing increased boating traffic and stalled dredging projects.

QUOTES:

"Greenwich is ready to step up its harbor management practices, which is an area that hasn't had a lot of attention in the past," lifelong resident and sailor Jonathan Asch said. "I'm going to be very proactive in getting a handle on our harbors and waterways."

"Jonathan is very knowledgable about our local waters and knows a lot of the area boaters," Mary Rappa, commodore of the Old Greenwich Yacht Club said. "He's a people person, and a handy guy, who knows how to get things done."

THE STORY:

Byram native lands harbormaster post

By Martin B. Cassidy
Greenwich Time Staff Writer

Illegal moorings, environmental issues and maintaining safe harbors for boaters will be top priorities for lifelong resident and sailor Jonathan Asch as he takes over the town's harbormaster post....

...Asch, a project manager for Mamaroneck, N.Y.-based Flintlock Construction, said he spent more than 20 years in marina management, running Nichols Yacht Yard in Westchester County, the World's Fair Marina in Flushing, N.Y., and the 79th Street Boat Basin in Manhattan during that time.

In the late 1980s he launched his own boat repair business in Connecticut and New York...

...The position provides a $750 stipend a year.

Ensuring boaters, kayakers, and rowers possess required state safety certifications is also important, given the growing number of people using the town's shoreline for boating and water sports, Asch said.

"I'm good with people and I work well with them," Asch said. "I'm a good listener, and dealing with people will be a big part of the job."

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09/01/08 Why Are Betty Sternberg, Susan Wallerstein And Anthony Byrne Still Collecting Board Of Education Pay Checks????

Hamilton Avenue School Parents Are Reporting That.....

Frank Mazza And His Band Of Idiots On The School Building Committee Are Trying To Deliver The "New" And "Improved" Hamilton Avenue School With Cracks All Over The Place.

Hamilton Avenue Parents are saying that Frank Mazza's 3o Million Dollar school building has cracks in a floor!

Hamilton Avenue School students haven't even been in the school yet and the Band Of Idiots On The School Building Committee are trying to give them a building with cracked floors.

Some Hamilton Avenue parents are saying the Town Building Department did not properly inspect the sub floor. Hamilton Avenue parents are saying the floor was put down with out proper inspections.

Will Frank Mazza hold the mob associated Worth Construction Company accountable for the cracks in the school and parking garage?

Apparently not?

The cracks in the Hamilton Avenue School floor, and the cracks in the new Hamilton Avenue School parking garage were brought up by parents and taxpayers at a school board meeting.

And Frank Mazza and the Band Of Idiots on the Hamilton Avenue School Building Committee said....

Don't Worry About The Cracks

They are surface cracks, not structural cracks!!!!!!

This is the same Band Of Idiots That Said.....

• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will be done at the end of the school year.


• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will be done August 1st.


• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will be done August 7th.


• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will be done August 15th


• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will be done at the end of August.


• Don't worry the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School will start letting children come through the front door in Mid October.

This is the same Band of Idiots that.....

....started the Hamilton Avenue School project in 2005 !!!!!

.....told parents and taxpayers that their building project would only take 18-months!!!!

......that told taxpayers that their school building project would only cost $24 million dollars !!!!!

Now that Frank "Please, Get Me An Accountant" Mazza's Hamilton Avenue School Building project price tag has ballooned to more than $30 million dollars.

Frank Mazza now tells the taxpayers that he now has less than $30,000 left and He needs another $500,000 to get the mob affiliated contractor to finish the cracked Hamilton Avenue School.

This just keeps getting better and better.

When Is Enough Is Enough?????

Failed School Administrators Like Betty Sternberg And Susan Wallerstein Have Screwed Up Time And Time Again......

• Old Greenwich has the front stairs fiasco and the interior facility issues.


• Eastern Middle School was plagued with building problems and mold.


• Julian Curtiss is a damp and dingy with long ignored and needed facility repairs.


• Riverside is horribly overcrowded and has many facility concerns.


• Parents are starting to complain about North Mianus facility problems


• Glenville school was Finally declared uninhabitable.


• The Hamilton Avenue Modulars was a administrative cover up that exposed children and teachers to health risks.


• Disbursing Hamilton Avenue and Glenville students all over town is a nightmare that will have a combined related expense cost of over 1 million dollars.

Yer Sternberg, Wallerstein and Byrne have received increases in their compensation year after year.

But who is supporting Sternberg, Wallerstein and Byrne as the single family home owners watch their hard earner tax dollars get flushed down the toilet?

Well, the Glenville PTA leaders say,"We are making lemonade out of lemons!!!!"

The Glenville PTA leaders full support good old boy, Frank "I Failed Again And Again And Again" Mazza and the Band Of Idiots On The Building Committee who have no clue about how to build a school.

This just keeps getting better and better.

When Is Enough Is Enough?????

With less than $30,000 dollars left in Hamilton Avenue's School budget, Frank "Big Spender" Mazza and his Band Of Idiots, commonly referred to as the Hamilton Avenue School Building Committee, are requesting that the single family home owners of Greenwich fork over an additional $500,000 in "interim" funding for the late and over budget Hamilton Avenue School.

The Representative Town Meeting and Board of Estimate and Taxation will take up at meetings in the first week of September.

The Board of Estimate and Taxation has already approved three prior requests for funding - one in June 2007, then in January 2008, and again in May 2008, totaling nearly $1.3 million - on the promise that the project would be finished by several deadlines that were repeatedly missed.

RTM and BET members who have repeatedly supported and voted for Frank Mazza and the Band Of Idiots on the Hamilton Avenue School Building Committee should immediately resign from the RTM and the BET.

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08/30/08 Is Michael Bodson Parading Colin Gustafson Around With A Nose Ring

08/28/08 Greenwich Time News Links For Thursday

• Glenville Gridlock: Bus drivers, can't legally pull into the parking lot because it's private property, so they're forced to stop at the corner for several minutes at a time, causing traffic snarls behind them.
  TOP STORY
  HEADLIMES:
  The Glenville Nightmare As Officially Began, But Don't Worry Frank Mazza Is In Charde Of The Renovation
  Failed School Administrators Enjoy Heafty Pay Increases As Glenville Families Are Forced To Suffer
  Some Glenville parents waiting over an hour for their children who are forced to take a 45 minute plus bus ride.
  Glenville PTA LEADERS Sound Like A Broken Record As They Keep Saying They Are Trying To ONLY See The Bright Side Of The Situation Created By Their Failed Aministrative Pals
  QUOTES:
  What if it's raining, and we're stuck out here?" Glenville mother Terry Hoff asked yesterday afternoon while waiting for her child to arrive. "I've been out here so long, I'm worried about getting fired for taking so much time,"
  "We are turning our lemons into lemonade !!!!!!!," said the Glenville PTA Leaders, as they let their Board Of Education friends and failed school leaders off the hook,"Our small children are tough enough to handle being dispersed all over town. RAH, RAH, RAH, Goooo Gators, Goooo Gators !!!!!!"
  THE STORY:
  At Glenville, more frustration
• More From The
  Board Of Education's Boy
  Colin Gustafson
  9,000 of Greenwich's finest return to school
• You Wont Read This
  Signifigant Fact In The,Board Of Education's Boy,Colin Gustafson's Article
  There Will Be A Board of Education Meeting
  Tonight At 7 pm In The Parkway School.
  If Glenville parents want to fix the mess that failed school administrators have made, then they had better show up and demand action.
  Glenville Parents Are
  Wondering Why,
  The Board Of Education's Boy,
  Colin Gustafson Did Not Give Them
  A Heads Up About
  The Board Of Ed Meeting?????
• Meanwhile, The Glenville PTA Leaders Are Making "Lemonade Out Of Lemons"
  
  
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09/01/08 Greenwich Time News Links - Reprters And Editors Get Lazy On Labor Day

LAZY ON LABOR DAY

BEEN THERE READ THAT TWO MONTHS AGO: "Soap Box Derby ready to race down the Avenue"

The excitement is building as 24 kids gear up to race down Greenwich Avenue during the VivaPop All-American Soap Box Derby.

Why Is The Greenwich Time So Often The Last To Report The Local News?

Greenwich Time Readers Are Just Now Reading About The Greenwich Avenue Soap Box Derby Race, But Greenwich Roundup Readers Have Read About The Race Multiple Times Over The Last Two Months. Greenwich Time News Story:

08/21/08 Greenwich Post News Links For Thursday - Note: The Greenwich Post Is Just Like The Greenwich Time. They Both Often Have Late And Incomplete Greenwich News Coverage. Only Greenwich Roundup Readers Are Fully Informed About What Is Going On In Town.

......Here Is The Better Late Than Never
Greenwich Post News Story #4

Avenue to make way for soapbox racers

Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter

Greenwich Avenue will be for soapbox racers only on Sept. 14. Town officials have given the go-ahead to close the lower portion of the town’s most famous street to make room for the race’s return.

Once an annual event in town, the VivaPop All-American Soapbox Derby is set for its comeback next month. Greenwich Avenue will be closed from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. from the Starbucks at Havemeyer Place to the road’s intersection with Railroad Avenue.

Businesses and residents have been notified of the temporary closure and Elizabeth Tarbell, president and chief executive officer of Greenwich-based VivaPop, which is putting the event together with Miller Motorcars, said plans for the race are proceeding well.

Please Also See This JULY SECOND
Greenwich Roundup Post:

07/02/08 Soap Box Derby To Return To Greenwich

Michael Parchment, General Manager of Miller Motorcars, and Elizabeth Tarbell, founder and CEO of VivaPop, look forward to bringing back the All-American Soap Box Derby to Greenwich, September 14. They are pictured here with an original derby car from the 1984 All-American Soap Box Derby in Greenwich.

VivaPop All-American Soap Box Derby comes to Greenwich
Norwalk Plus Magazine

By Press Release

The premier youth and family oriented racing program in the United States comes to Greenwich as the Soap Box Derby speeds into town on ........

About the All-American Soap Box Derby

It’s been called everything from the “Greatest Amateur Racing Event in the World,” to the “Gravity Grand Prix,” but to the more than one million kids who have been participating in the Soap Box Derby during the past 75 years, the event spells fun. Akron, Ohio-headquartered All-American Soap Box Derby, founded in 1933, is one of the most established grassroots youth and family organizations in the United States. An official youth initiative of NASCAR, the All-American Soap Box Derby sanctions races year round in 170 cites and communities in the U.S. and overseas. In the past 10 years, overall race participation (ages 8-17) has doubled, with approximately 45 percent being girls. The All-American Soap Box Derby actively promotes the core values of teamwork, the spirit of competition, perseverance and an emphasis on family.

MORE LAZY ON LABOR DAY

A BUNCH OF PRESS RELEASES JAMMED TOGETHER AND MADE TO LOOK LIKE A REAL IMPORTANT SOUNDING ARTICLE CALLED "Teachers help students get organized"

Middle school teachers are urging students to color-code their books and binders by subjects to stay organized for classes this school year.



At home, students should create a dedicated "homework area," stocked with paper, writing instruments, a dictionary and other items, teachers said.



In addition, parents should urge their child to use a computer in the family area of their home so they can monitor schoolwork in the evening.
For more back-to-school tips, as well as a detailed list of necessary school supplies, visit the homepages of any of the town's three middle schools at http://www.greenwichschools.org/.


The Greenwich Adult Learning program is holding registration sessions for English as a Second Language courses from Monday, Sept. 8, through Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m. at the Havemeyer building at 290 Greenwich Avenue.


Evening registration for English as a Second Language and G.E.D. Preparation classes will be held on Monday, Sept. 8, and Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 6 p.m. at Greenwich High School's Folsom House at 10 Hillside Road.
The Greenwich High School class of 1978 will hold its 30th reunion on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Burning Tree Country Club at 120 Perkins Road in Greenwich.


Admission costs $130 per person and includes dinner, entertainment and a "memory book" for each class member. To register, visit the Reunions by Design Web site at Reunionsbydesign.com, and click on Connecticut reunions to connect to the Greenwich '78 link.


For more information, call reunion committee members Chris Hunt at (203) 550-4059 or Jane Jansen Seymour at (203) 662-0003.


Eagle Hill School, in cooperation with the Junior United Way of Greenwich, will present "Russell the Hermit Crab," a family musical by the Magical Music for Life Foundation, on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. The school is located at 45 Glenville Road.


The Greenwich Public Schools has announced its policy for determining the eligibility of children who may receive free or reduced-price meals.
Under the new guidelines, which will be used across the state until June 30, 2009, children from two-person families whose gross annual income is at or below $25,900 are eligible. For each additional family member, applicants should add $6,660 to determine their eligibility.


To apply, parents must fill out an application and return it to their school. For more information, contact the ....

EVEN MORE LAZY ON LABOR DAY

GREENWICH TIME REPORTERS JUST NOTICED THAT: "Sporting shop flees the Avenue's rising rent"

Rising rent costs on Greenwich Avenue have caused yet another business to change locations. Sportif Ltd.

Sportif Ltd., a ski and tennis shop, which operated on the Avenue for nearly 24 years, has recently moved to 1374 E. Putnam Ave.

STILL MORE LAZY ON LABOR DAY

BEEN THERE READ THAT NINE MONTHS AGO: "Greenwich Hospital to get hyberbaric chamber"

..."The program is designed to help healing of what otherwise would be non-healing wounds," said Peggy Martino, the hospital's program director of cardiology and medicine.

The new Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Services will include two oxygen chambers in the Helmsley Medical Building where patients will inhale pure oxygen, officials said.

The increased pressure allows the oxygen to permeate tissue cells, spurring the regeneration of new blood vessels, particularly in diabetic patients whose circulatory problems hinder recovery from wounds through traditional therapies, according to David Polaski, manager of respiratory care services at the hospital.

"This could be limb-saving equipment," he said....

PLEASE SEE GREENWICH ROUNDUP POST FROM NINE MONTHS AGO:

11/26/07 Will babies die? Will people explode in flames. Greenwich Hospital doesn't think so

Anticipating that greater numbers of residents will suffer circulatory problems as the town's senior population grows, Greenwich Hospital is seeking the state's permission to establish a $1 million therapy service that eases blood flow by increasing oxygen levels.

So-called "hyperbaric oxygen therapy" could serve as an effective treatment for diabetes patients and others who are not responding to traditional antibiotics, said Quinton Friesen, the hospital's senior vice president and chief operating officer.

"The hyperbaric program is for patients who have deep ulcers or major wounds that are not healing under normal circumstances, and with this particular therapy, the data indicates that a patient can recover much more rapidly," Friesen said.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is defined by the Undersea and Medical Hyperbaric Society as the intermittent administration of 100 percent oxygen inhaled while in an enclosed system at a pressure greater than sea level. The increased pressure changes the normal cellular respiration process and ultimately increases tissue oxygenation, stimulating the growth of new blood vessels.....

STILL EVEN MORE LAZY ON LABOR DAY

BEEN THERE AND READ THIS PRESS RELEASE SEVEN DAYS AGO IN THE GREENWICH POST: "Safety tips from the Red Cross in Greenwich"

The Greenwich Chapter of the American Red Cross is offering safety tips for students walking, biking or riding a bus back to school.

* line up facing the bus, instead of alongside it;
* carry loose belongings in a bag or backpack;
* immediately move onto the sidewalk and out of traffic when disembarking;
* wait for a signal from the bus driver before crossing the street: and ...
* walk at least 10 steps away from the vehicle so the driver can see students after they unload.
Additionally, the organization advises that students should never:
* play in the street while waiting for the bus;
* cross the street or play behind the bus after disembarking; or
* reach under the bus to grab anything that has fallen or rolled beneath it.
Many other children will be biking or walking to school this year. To bike-riders, the chapter offers the following safety tips:
* always wear a helmet as well as clothing with reflective colors to be more visible to traffic;
* avoid ill-fitting clothing that could be caught in spokes and pedals or restricts movements;
* walk your bicycle across all intersections.



PLEASE SEE GREENWICH POST PRESS RELEASE FROM LAST TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008:

Red Cross urges safety as kids go to school

• Line up facing the bus, not along side it.
• Do not play in the street while waiting for the bus.
• Carry all loose belongings in a bag or backpack.
• Never reach under the school bus to get anything that has rolled or fallen beneath it. The bus driver may be sitting too high up to see you.
• After getting off the bus, move immediately onto the sidewalk and out of traffic. If there is no sidewalk, try to stay as far to the side of the road as possible.
• Wait for a signal from the bus driver before crossing the street. Walk at least 10 steps away from the front of the bus so the driver can see you.
• Never cross the street or play behind the school bus.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS:

STILL EVEN MORE LAZY ON LABOR DAY

SHOULDN'T THIS ARTICLE BEEN INCLUDED WITH ALL OF THE OTHER BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESS RELEASES LISTED ABOVE: "Education calendar"

September 1 Labor Day - schools closed.

September 2 - 5 Greenwich High School students take school taking portraits.

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The Greenwich Time forgot to run this press release though the check spell checker before publishing it.

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08/31/08 You Wont Read About This Former Greenwich Resident And Mystery Man In The Greenwich Time

Rockefeller Saga: Mystery man accused of plagiarism

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

By Nathan McIntire and Frank Girardot, Staff Writers
Article Launched: 08/30/2008 10:53:48 PM PDT

SAN MARINO - The Boston kidnapping suspect linked by authorities to the 1983 disappearance of a local couple appears to have cribbed an article from bestselling author Michael Crichton.

Clark Rockefeller contributed detailed articles on complex subjects to a local newsletter when he lived in New Hampshire in 2004.

At least one of the articles, however, does not appear to have been written by him. In fact, several passages from a 2003 Caltech speech by Crichton were used by Rockefeller without attribution in an article - titled "Smoke and Rearview Mirrors" - that ran in the April 2004 edition of the Cornish, N.H., newsletter Consider This.

Rockefeller's attorney, Stephen Hrones, who attended Harvard with Crichton, said it should come as no surprise that his client fabricated stories.

"There's no doubt he tells some stories," Hrones said. "But people know they are so far-fetched. You know a lot of people are great storytellers - what does that make him? There's no crime in spinning yarns."

• Special Section: San Marino Murder Mystery

Of course, Rockefeller is not really Rockefeller.

According to authorities, he is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, and he remains in custody in Boston, accused of parental abduction after he disappeared with his daughter, Reigh "Snooks" Boss, during a supervised custody visit in late July.

He has also been named as a person of interest in the missing persons and homicide cases of Linda and John Sohus, who disappeared in 1985 from their San Marino home.

Gerhartsreiter aka Rockefeller lived in the guest house of their Lorain Road property in the mid-1980s, vanishing a couple of months after they did.
Back then, he called himself Christopher Chichester.

The writer

In the early 2000s, as Rockefeller, he lived for a time in Cornish, N.H., with his wife, Sandra Boss.

Janice Orion, the editor of the town newsletter, said Rockefeller contributed several "idiosyncratic" articles to the newsletter.

"I think he rather fancied himself as a writer," Orion said.

Or not.

Several passages and phrases from Rockefeller's article are copied almost word-for-word, sometimes with a few slight alterations.

While commenting on the specialized subject of consensus-based scientific research and the obscure concept of nuclear winter, he wrote:

"At a conference on the subject in Washington, during the question period, someone reminded (Paul) Ehrlich that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists said nothing would grow there for 75 years, but in fact melons grew there the next year."

Crichton's speech included this paragraph:

"At the conference in Washington, during the question period, Ehrlich was reminded that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists were quoted as saying nothing would grow there for 75 years, but in fact melons grew there the next year."

The article also follows the same pattern and chronology as Crichton's speech, reaching the same conclusions.

"I can guarantee you he did not give permission," said Crichton's press agent, Joe Marich.

Orion said she was unaware that some of Rockefeller's work was plagiarized.

"Nobody here would have even considered that," she said. "It probably wouldn't even have crossed their mind that he copied someone else."
Overall, Orion said, she was not impressed with Rockefeller's work.

"I think he would have had to do a lot of study to become a writer," she said. "His style wasn't particularly good. His ideas were a bit odd, not very artistic."

The suspect

Hrones said that while his client knew the Sohuses, he had nothing to do with their disappearance.

In 1994, contractors discovered human bones buried in the backyard of the Lorain Road house where the Sohuses lived. Authorities believe they are the remains of John Sohus.

On Friday, detectives began a re-examination of the property. The search ended Saturday morning with officials tight-lipped on whether anything was recovered.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore described the search as "productive."

After he disappeared from San Marino, Rockefeller/Gerhartsreiter turned up in Greenwich, Conn. in the late 1980s using the name Christopher Crowe. He was found driving a truck that police later determined belonged to John Sohus.

Since his arrest, Rockefeller has refused to speak with Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators pursuing the Sohus case, but in other interviews, he and his attorney have said his memories of the past are spotty.

On "The Today Show" last week, he said he only remembered certain things from his childhood, like visiting Mount Rushmore and picking strawberries in Oregon.

Asked "What about your parents, what about your family?" Rockefeller responded, "Not much of a clear memory on that."

Hrones, who refers to his client as Rockefeller, said in the same interview that he "doesn't remember anything about that early life."

In an interview with this newspaper, Hrones said Rockefeller has "memories going back to 1984. And, bits and pieces going back further."
Some of the articles written by Rockefeller, however, refer to family members in ways that contradict his current claims of memory loss.

In an essay he submitted to the newsletter, where he attempts to link the prevalence of Attention Deficit Disorder in children to over-exposure to television, he writes:

"I have a cousin who at age twelve received a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder." Later he wrote that his family has never owned a television.
"Neither my parents nor I have ever owned one and I have never needed or wanted to own one," he writes.

In an April 2002 article in Consider This about an obscure antique book called the "Voynich Manuscript," Rockefeller said he remembered being harangued by a librarian more than 25 years ago.

"`Why do you always check out this one?' I remember a librarian asking me a quarter century ago," he wrote.

Reference materials relating to the "Voynich Manuscript" are held at the Huntington Library in San Marino.

Clues to the past

Rockefeller's Cornish writings may also provide other insights.
In the "Voynich Manuscript" article he attributes his interest in the mysterious book to a former professor.

In another article written in January 2004, about the use of ionic liquids for dry cleaning, he claims he discovered a "green" cleaning product.
"While working to devise a fuel for an ion drive for space vehicles, we accidentally invented some new fluids that worked extremely well for dry cleaning," he wrote.

In that article, he lifted at least one sentence from the Web page of the London-based Hunt Research Group, a company that specializes in ionic liquid applications, including the manufacture of biofuels and solvents.

A man he identified in the article as Arturo Garibaldi, a Brooklyn, N.Y., dry cleaner also appears to be fictitious. A search of public records revealed no Arturo Garibaldi in Brooklyn.

Rockefeller even shows a caustic side in a book review he submitted to the newsletter.

Orion said the piece is a review of an autobiography by the daughter of famed Cornish resident J.D. Salinger. Rockefeller calls the author's writing "like the ramblings of a psychiatric patient reclining on Freud's sofa."
He says the book "amounts to little more than a kid airing her grievances about her family, particularly her father." One section is attacked as "little more than trivia," another as "the height of academic pretentiousness."

He urges Cornish residents to disregard the opinions of the author.
"They came from the pen of a more-than-slightly unhinged Nobody," he writes.

Hrones said Rockefeller continues to write and is working on a book while in jail.

"He's doing a book on the Versailles Peace Conference," Hrones said.
The inmate is reading too. Books he has asked for include "Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World," a book described by Hrones as "something like the `New Rules of Baseball,"' as well as a "Star Wars" book.
"He's a renaissance man," Hrones said. "He's very knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects, including physics."

nathan.mcintire@sgvn.com

frank.girardot@sgvn.com

(626) 578-6300, Ext. 4475

(626) 962-8811, Ext. 2717

COMMENTS:

This Plagerising Article Written By Nathan McIntire and Frank Girardot Kind Of Reminds Me Of Some Actions Recently Taken By Blog Used By The Former Greenwich Time Editor And Employees:

Please see:

08/30/08 Greenwich Roundup Is Calling Off The Lawyers

MORE INFORMATION ON THE PLAGERISING FORMER GREENWICH RESIDENT THAT IS OFTEN REFERED TO AS "CROCKAFELLAH".

WAKE UP, Greenwich Time!

Hearst Media Executives And Greenwich Time Editors Should Follow This Link To See How A "Real Crime Reporter" Covers The Local Angle On A Nationwide Crime Story.....

http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2008/08/a-minute-with-clark-rockefelle.html

Please See:

08/17/08 How impostors like former Greenwich resident Clark Rockefeller capture our trust instantly - and why we are so eager to give it to them

08/16/08 Crockeffelah Lawyer Says Former Local Resident Is Not Guilty Of Kidnapping, Because Marriage Was Invalid

08/15/08 FBI confirms former Greenwich Resident's Identity

08/15/08 This Former Greenwich Resident Is Really Creepy

Here Is More Information:

08/14/08 WAKE UP GREENWICH TIME!!!
Where is the coverage?

Grenwich Time Reporters Are Out To Lunch

PLEASE ALSO SEE:

Clark "I Used To Live In Greenwich" Rockefeller
admits California ID

Clark Rockefeller driver says he was fooled by
former Greenwich Resident

California detectives plan to query the former
Greenwich resident known as,
Christian Gerhartsreiter, again

It's Not That The Greenwich Time Reporters Are Too Lazy To Go Out And Cover The Story

It's That They Just Don't Give A Damn

Remember how the Greenwich Time sat on the Martha Moxley Murder Mystery story and Los Angeles Detective Mark Furman had to come in a write a book called Murder In Greenwich

PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THESE GREENWICH ROUNDUP POSTS:

08/06/08 Did The Greenwich Police Department Question Clarke Rockeffeller Then Let Him Go Free

08/08/08 Is Frank Girardot Is Wondering Why The Lazy Greenwich Time Reporters Have Not Called Him Asking About The Fake Rockefeller

08/10/98 The Greenwich Time Won't Cover This Story On Their So-Called "News Website" So We Will Havee To Bring It To You.

Creepy con man Clark Rockefeller posed as the long-lost brother of serial killer David Berkowitz, Also Known As, The Son Of Sam Killer, and tried to use the Son of Sam's Social Security number to get his Wall Street broker's license.

The fake Rockefeller - born Christian Gerhartsreiter in Germany and jailed for allegedly kidnapping his daughter, "Snooks" - called the killer's lawyer around 1985 claiming to need information to confirm that Berkowitz, who was adopted, was the sibling he never knew, the lawyer said.

"He said that he'd been abandoned by his family, too," said lawyer Mark Jay Heller, who is convinced that the caller was Gerhartsreiter.

Heller refused the caller's request for a Social Security number, but the bizarre Bavarian appears to have gotten it anyway.

A former colleague said the faker got his first finance job in 1985, with venture capitalist Stanford Phelps in Greenwich, Conn., using the name Christopher Crowe.

Phelps fired him within a year after learning from the National Association of Securities Dealers that he had used the Social Security number of David Berkowitz, said the ex-colleague.

When Gerhartsreiter got a job at Nikko on Wall Street, Phelps called, and again "Crowe" was fired, the trader said.

Rockefeller's lawyer, Stephen Hrones, said his client doesn't have a memory of using Berkowitz's ID.

At his next job, at Kidder-Peabody, Gerhartsreiter "went into his manager's office saying his parents had been kidnapped in South America and he needed to go down there to pay a ransom," the trader said.

The next day, FBI agents showed up at Nikko, looking for "Crowe," Barnett and the trader said.

They wanted to question him about a truck he was driving in Connecticut that was owned by John Sohus, his ex-landlord, who'd vanished with his wife, Linda, from their San Marino, Calif., home four years earlier.

They never found "Crowe" or the truck, but in 1994 contractors digging a pool at the home unearthed three plastic bags containing a hacked-up male skeleton, according to the LA County Sheriff's Office.

HERE IS EVEN MORE INFORMATION:

The Suspect Known as Clark Rockefeller on Wall Street

Universal Hub

Dave Copeland, who knows something about criminals and New York,

makes some calls to learn about "Rockefeller's" less than illustrious career on Wall Street back in the Gordon Gekko days:

... But after two days at Lehman, Rockefeller told his supervisors that he needed to take time off to search for his parents, who he said had gone missing in Afghanistan. Sources said Rockefeller – who told co-workers at Nikko he was film director Christoher Crowe – was dismissed by Lehman.

Rockefeller even invited co-workers to the Greenwich, Conn. guest house he was renting for screenings of “his” movies. Rockefeller claimed he was living in the guest house because his own home was being renovated, a claim that co-workers assumed was one of his tall tales.

Within days of his dismissal from Lehman, Connecticut State Police detectives arrived at the offices of both Lehman and Nikko looking to question Rockefeller. ...

One guess what they might have wanted to question him about. Yep.

AND EVEN MORE INFORMATION:

08/01/08 The Fake Rockefeller Has A Greenwich Connection In Doctor Hedi Leistner

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08/31/08 Greenwich Real Estate News: Chuck Prince Says,"I Wished I Had Been Reading For What It's Worth"

Why Didn't Prudential Connecticut Realty Warn Chuck That The Price Of Single-Family Homes Were Headed For A Big Fall, Instead Of Joining The Rest Of The Real Estate Flock, AndeTelling Everyone That Greenwich Homes Were Immune From The Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis?

Can Anyone Recall A Prudential Commecticut Realty Publicly Going Against The Other Agencies Like Coldwell Banker, And Warning Greenwich Home Sellers That High End Homes Were Going To Be Discounted.

Chris Fountain Is Enjoying His Holiday, But We Are Sure This Story Will Be Featured On For What It's Worth When Chris Comes Back Tan Rested And Ready.

Perhaps Mr. Fountain Should Tag This Story As "Hey Greenwich Post Publisher, I Hate To Say I Told You So, But I Told You So"

Poor Chuck: First He Looses That Big Fat Citibank Job And Then Prudential Connecticut Realty Sells His House At 15% Discount.

Former Citigroup CEO sells his house at a discount

Houston Chronicle

bedroom Greenwich, Conn., home for $5.2 million, 15 percent less than his original asking price.

The property closed this month after a contract was signed in July, according to a sales listing document. It was on the market for 186 days. Prince first sought $6.15 million and later reduced the house to $5.85 million. The buyer wasn't disclosed.

The Tudor-style house includes 2.34 acres, a sauna, gym, six bathrooms and a heated swimming pool. It was built in 1987 and renovated in 1996, according to the listing. The house sits in one of the most sought-after New York City suburbs, a town of 61,000 that serves as headquarters to more than 100 hedge funds.

The median price of a single-family house there fell 2 percent in June to $1.95 million, according to Prudential Connecticut Realty.

"This house is in a great location and is in very good condition," said John W. Cooke, an agent with Prudential Connecticut Realty in Greenwich. "Overall, it is a very desirable home."

"Houses that are priced right will sell in any market, good ones or slow ones," Cooke said.

Prince stepped down as head of Citibank in November as the company prepared to announce the biggest loss in its 196-history. Surging defaults on home loans forced it to write down the value of subprime mortgages and related securities by $18 billion at the time.

His one-time mentor at Citigroup, former Chairman Sanford Weill, has a home in Greenwich less than a 10-minute drive from Prince's former house.

Comment:

15% Of 6.15 Million Is......

I Am Sorry I Can't Count That High

REAL ESTATE UPDATE: 09/01/08

I didn't say it, Barrons did

I didn't say it, Barrons did.Realogy, parent company of Coldwell Banker and Sotheby's, continues to scare the financial press.

In Barron's words, Look out Below!

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08/31/08 The Raw Weekend Greenwich News Feed

Alan Gunzburg and his guide dog, Fia, prepares to cross Palmer Hill Road in front of North Mianus School.

(Bob Luckey Jr./Greenwich Time photo)

Residents with disabilities to guide town on easing access

Greenwich Time

By Meredith Blake

Staff Writer

When lifelong Greenwich resident Carol Kana, 54, began to rely on a mobility scooter a few years ago, she realized that ensuring access for the handicapped to town sidewalks, roads and parking spaces had been overlooked

Looking around, Kana, who has post-polio syndrome and wears leg braces, was surprised at how few sidewalks were outfitted with curb cuts to ease wheelchair access, and how little handicapped parking was provided in Greenwich.

"Everything was so much of a hassle," she said.

So she met with First Selectman Peter Tesei to see what could be done.
"I've lived in Greenwich my whole life and we needed a change," she said, "We're really in the backyard on these issues."

Kana, Allan Gunzburg, who is visually impaired, and others from the Southwestern Connecticut Regional Disability Advocacy Council, met with Tesei to discuss the issues they face each day, like the lack of audible crosswalks, which provide a recorded message or beep to cue pedestrians, and lack of access for the disabled to businesses. The group decided to form the Greenwich Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities.

"The whole intent is to have a group be available to provide input on issues," said Tesei. "Everybody should feel like they have a voice." ...


Skakel Conviction - PR push for review heats up

Point of Law, NY

It's six years after the Michael Skakel conviction for the 1975 Greenwich, Connecticut murder of Martha Moxley. There have been a number of rejected appeals ...


Orphans get a funding boost for college



Hartford Courant



... vice president of his class. And now he is the recipient of the first full-time scholarship available through the Greenwich-based Stewardship Foundation, which provides college funding to orphans and young adults from foster care families. He will ...

Bruce enlists residents to track monarch butterflies




Greenwich Time


Traipsing through the butterfly garden at Greenwich Point, Pavel Bure, 12, armed with a net, was hot on the trail of a monarch butterfly.


Simmons Thriving In New Role



The Day

... says he's got a good relationship with the myriad government agencies that can help, not hinder, businesses from Greenwich to Gales Ferry. But finding out which programs can help, where the agencies are located and, quite simply, how to be properly ...

Greenwich Diva

Is Sarah Palin Trig’s mother or grandmother?

This story was sent to me and it’s all over the internet. I am not sure if there is any truth to it, but it’s a question that many Alaskans have been asking for sometime now. Claudette

Bristol Palin Pregnancy: Is Sarah Palin’s Baby Really Her Daughter’s? (Photos).......



Greenwich takes a back seat at convention

Greenwich Time

With no one named Bush on the ticket this year and three of the six delegates that represented the town at the last major party gathering serving abroad as....

Rob "WGCH" Adam's xit 55 Blog

Not Again!

Certain stories grip me, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was one of them. I sat riveted watching what was going on, partially because I had been to NOLA twice - first in 1975, then in 2003 (I've since been back - in early 2006), but also because my niece (who was eight months pregnant at the time) and her husband lived there.

As Hurricane Gustav gets ready to pound the Crescent City again, let us remember what happened in 2005 (and this is not the time to break it all down again), and think good thoughts about the good people there....

Nonprofit group helps students with science

Greenwich Time

By Meredith Blake
Staff writer

When Rebecca Schreff, 15, signed her name on the back of a piece of paper, little did she know she would be invited on an all-expenses paid science trip that would both inspire and amaze her.

RSC Equipment Rental weathers times

Arizona Republic

... publicly traded company has become the second-largest equipment renter in North America, after United Rentals, a Greenwich, Conn., company with about 700 stores. Olsson says his company is the leader when it comes to growth and profitability. The ...

Homeowners struggle to find best way to pay for heating oil

Stamford Advocate

Some Stamford residents in the 06905 ZIP code formed a buying group that has agreed to purchase their oil from New England Oil Co. in Greenwich. ...

Greenwich Forum

CBS to air key evidence in Skakel appeal - Greenwich Time

Comment, last updated on Sunday Aug 31 by Trollinginconnecticut

Too late for charges in N.Y. oil br.....

Observer

... with a lower court that the deadline to reinstate most of the dismissed charges against Frederic Bourke Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., had passed. The ruling did not immediately effect related charges pending against investment promoter Viktor Kozeny, an ...

Former Brooklyn Dodger Mike Sandlock still strong on the golf course at age 92

Greenwich Time

It's hard to find anyone more inspiring than Mike Sandlock.

Sandlock has quite the zest for life, he has had quite a long and quality of life, and he has that honest attitude that every day is a bonus day to be lived to its fullest.

Sandlock, 92, who happens to be one of the oldest surviving baseball players from the Major Leagues, still plays golf twice a week and amazes everyone with the continued quality of his game.

"He's amazing," Walt Hackett said. "That guy can still hit it a ton."

Hackett, Fred Whelan and Jim Murphy often play golf with Sandlock.

"He can still play," Whelan said. "He can chip and putt very well and he can still hit it 200 yards. He's got artificial knees, he's had a hip replacement. He's one of these guys that when you play against him he's got to par the hole. From his baseball days he's a competitor. He reaches into his bag for whatever he needs."

Sandlock usually plays nine holes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Innis Arden Golf Club in Old Greenwich. ....

Poverty figures remain troubling

Greenwich Time

Connecticut can take comfort in knowing that its efforts have made it one of only five states in which the number of citizens without health insurance significantly decreased in the past two years.....

....That's certainly true of Greenwich, for which the Census Bureau did not compile statistics. For all of its incredible wealth, hundreds upon hundreds of kids in Greenwich schools qualify for free or subsidized meals and snacks under government programs. It must not be easy to be a Greenwich High School student whose family struggles to barely make ends meet and who sits in class next to a kid who drove a shiny new car to school. ...

...The state hasn't been as successful in fulfilling its 2004 avowed goal of reducing child poverty by 50 percent by 2014, even if it is considered to have one of the lowest child poverty levels among U.S. states.

The Census Bureau data show that the number of people living below the federal poverty level ($21,027 for a two-parent household with two children) in Connecticut dropped a negligible 0.4 percent to 7.9 percent from 2006 to 2007.

However, social service advocates make a strong point in arguing that in Connecticut, with its high cost of living atop today's escalating prices, families need to be earning double the poverty level just to break even.

In our communities, even more. ......

Local coach has imparted love, respect for sports

To the Greenwich Time editor:

Scott Kindberg's column on Aug, 22 about Babe Ruth manager Joe Rogers captured the true spirit of a man completely dedicated to teaching a love of sports and sportsmanship to our children.

My son, Michael, will begin his freshman year in college this week. I sit here reminiscing about the many years Mr. Rogers coached him.

Under Joe's tutelage, Michael played on several town baseball teams and called him "Coach" many times over his 10-year career in the Greenwich Blues hockey program. As parents, we were incredibly lucky to have a coach so enthusiastic, positive and knowledgeable at the helm. He's a fantastic athlete and imparts his passion to every sport he coaches.

Coaching youth sports is a priority for Joe, yet he still has time available to coach a women's ice hockey team (the Stamford Stampede) on which I, along with 16 other women, play. He's been on the ice with us since we laced up our skates 10 years ago. He has taught us so much; always with support, encouragement and laughter. We've come a long way thanks to JoeRogers.

I could not have asked for a better teacher and friend for myself or my son.

Rita Karp
Riverside


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