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Sunday, February 1, 2009

1/31/08 Greenwich Roundup Just Can't Stay Healthy This Year

First I Got Food Poisoned By Subway

Then I Was Distracted By Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter's Great Hearst Corporation Copyright Case Of 2008

Now I Have The Head And Chest Cold From Hell.

I Will Try To Get Up Newspaper And Blog Links About Greenwich Very Soon.

Plus There Is More News About Greenwich Resident Walter Noel.

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2/1/09 Ridberg has had to delegate responsibilities normally handled by deputy chiefs and captains to lieutenants in order to keep things running

THE HEADLINES:

SINGLE FAMILY HOMEOWNERS IN GREENWICH SAY: THIS IS AN UNNECESSARY BAND-AID APPROACH TO GREENWICH POLICING

Greenwich Police Chief Ridberg fells "shot" because of the stress of thee past 18 months.

Ridberg is struggling at the administrative level: Is this a direct threat to public safety?

THE QUOTE:

"Clearly we are looking for the Supreme Court to adjudicate the matter," said First Selectman Peter Tesei. "That would be the most welcomed news I could receive."

THE STORY:

First selectman concerned about strained police department

Although a new year is here, the police department is still living in the past due to a nearly five-year-old injunction that bars it from filling any of the four vacancies at the top of the chain of command.

Officials said the promotion freeze on all positions above captain has strained the department, overtaxing the chief of police and causing the lieutenants below him to take on new responsibilities in order to shoulder some of the burden.

THE REPORTER:

Debra Friedman

THE SOURCE:

http://www.greenwichtime.com/localnews/ci_11602245

COMMENTS:

While Greenwich Time Rookie Reporter Debra Friedman Mentions The Following.....

The injunction was effected during the course of a lawsuit filed by Lt. Gary Honulik, who sued the town in 2004 for failing to promote him to police captain even though he scored the highest on the promotional exam.

In 2007, the state Superior Court in Stamford ruled in Honulik's favor, promoting him to captain and demoting Captain Michael Pacewicz back to a lieutenant. Pacewicz had been promoted to the job in 2003 instead of Honulik.

However, the town was granted an expedited appeal of the case by the state Supreme Court, which deemed the matter an issue of public safety.

As a result of the appeal, a judge ruled the injunction would stay in effect until a state Supreme Court ruling. Honulik has remained a lieutenant during the litigation.

Rookie Reporter Friedman Fails To Mention One Key Fact ......

That Former First Selectman Jim Lash And Former Police Chief Walters Added An Extra Step In The Hiring Process When Lt. Gary Honulik Had A Higher Test Score Than The Well Connected Lt. Michael Pacewicz. This Was A violation Of Civil Service Rules.

Virtually everyone in town, except Rookie Reporter Friedman knows that....

Town Attorney John Wayne has wasted scarce taxpayer dollars losing this unnessary lawsuit in the state Superior Court in Stamford and has flushed even more tax dollars down the toilet appealing this case to state Supreme Court.

John Wayne Fox was clearly wrong to advice former First Selectman and Police Commissioner Jim Lash that he could change the rules in middle of the civil service hiring process.

Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg could relive all of his stress and hire his four Captains And Deputy Chiefs Tommorow If Town Attorney John Wayne Fox Would Admit That He Gave The Town Bad Advice And Drop This Stupid And Expensive Appeal.

Why Didn't Rookie Reporter Debra Friedman Mention That First Selectman Peter Tesei Used To Be Oppossed To Town Attorney John Wayne Fox's Appeal .....

PLEASE SEE:


HEADLINE:

STORY:

Republican and Democratic nominees for first selectman in this fall's election said challenging a court decision forcing the promotion of a policeman to captain will hurt public safety and cost more than legal fees.....

.....The ruling also directed that Capt. Michael Pacewicz, the man promoted instead of Honulik, be returned to his former rank, with Shay ruling that Pacewicz was promoted illegally.....

.....'I think the situation is a very sad saga for the individuals involved, the Greenwich Police Department, the town, and I don't think we should exhaust further resources appealing the decision,' said Tesei, chairman of the Board of Estimate and Taxation. 'We need to move forward.'

Farricker, a member of the Planning & Zoning Commission, said the appeal would be another in a line of ill-chosen battles, part of a wider pattern of the town aimlessly taking cases to trial when settlement would appear wiser, and alienating employees by disregarding town poliies.

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WHAT RECESSION ?
Did You Notice How Greenwich Slime Rookie Reporter Debra Friedman And Town Officials Failed To Talk About The Unearned Pension Benefits That They Want The Greenwich Retirement Board To Give Illegally Appointed Greenwich Police Captain Michael Pacewicz ?
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

1/31/08 STERNBERG IS FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL TO KEEP KIDS OUT OF HAM AVE: Since health and safety didn't fly - the new "fear" NCLB


Betty Sternberg Wants To Keep Disadvantaged Hamilton Avenue Children Will Have To Stay In Leaking Modular Classrooms That Are Breeding Grounds For Mold


The Contractors Warned Betty Sternberg And Principal Rau About The Leeks Last September And The Greenwich Board Of Education Has Not Been Able To Stop The Leaks For Six Months


If These Leaks Were In A Small Child's Bedroom A Parent Would Put And End To Them.


Yet The Failed Greenwich Board Of Education Turns A Blind Eye To Failed School Administrators Like Susan Wallerstien Who Takes Home A Big Fat Taxpayer Paycheck For Putting Small Children In Wet Modular Classrooms.


Why Doesn't Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson Have The Journalistic Balls To Freedom Of Information Request All Board Of Education Documents, Letters, Photos, Purchase Orders, Reports And Work orders Related The Water Leaks At Hamilton Avenue School.


Two To Three Years Ago Greenwich Board Of Education Employees Covered Up Dangerous Mold By Repeated Replacing Water Soaked Ceiling Tiles.


Now Once Again Greenwich Board Of Education Employees Are Changing Ceiling Tiles Like They Change Their Socks As Clean And Dry Classrooms Sit Empty


After Almost Four Years It Is Time To Open Hamilton Avenue School Even If It Means Susan Wallerstien Has To Get Off Her Rear End And Work Around The Clock With Board Of Education Staff.


BASTA !!!! SUSAN WALLERSTIEN BASTA !!!!!


ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!!!


Please Read The Following Letter


Ladies and Gentlemen

After reading today's Greenwich Time article it is apparent that the Superintendant and Principal of Hamilton Avenue School are tyring to instill a "new" fear in the parents and community. Since their health and safety reasons for not moving the students into the building until April were blown out of the water, the new tactic is pulling out the No Child Left Behind Act.

What wasn't said in the article is that there is a very definitive process for addressing schools that do not make Annual Yearly Progress.

I have included a link to the State of Connecticut's No Child Left Behind Act Accountability Workbook, Updated Version, Modified 6/23/06

http://www.csde.state.ct.us/public/cedar/nclb/faq/resources/state_accountability_workbook_september_06.pdf
On page 11 of this workbook you will find the following:

"STATE RESPONSE AND STATE ACTIVITIES FOR MEETING NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND REQUIREMENTS.

A school will be identified as in need of improvement if it does not make AYP for two

consecutive years in the same subject on achievement and or participation in reading or

mathematics and the additional academic indicator standard".

By the superintendant's own words in the Greenwich Time article Hamilton Avenue School was given an exemption by the State for last school year (2006-07). The school made appropriate AYP for the school year 2005-06.

Hamilton Avenue School is TWO YEARS away from being cited for failure to meet AYP with anything more severe than a demand for a plan to fix the failure.

So, what happens if Hamilton Avenue School is cited for failing to meet AYP this year? Since this is a Title I school, they will be made to come up with an improvement plan that must be accepted by the State with a clear outline of how they will bring each student's test scores up to proficient. Said improvement plan will be montored at the local and State BOE levels.

Again, please let me point out the true reason for bringing out the No Child Left Behind Act card. Using the superintendant's own words ".... and how school administrators' performances are evaluated".

This is just another attempt to defend an indefensible reason for keeping the Hamilton Avenue School children in the moldy, leaking modulars.

Since this fear has now been debunked, I eagerly await the next "fear" that is devised. Please share this email with others.


Respectfully,


Laura J. DiBella

IT LOOKS LIKE THE GREENWICH TIME DID NOT

FACT CHECK BETTY STERNBERG'S STATEMENTS

THIS WOULD NOT BE THE FIRST TIME THAT STERNBERG LIED

TO THE PARENTS AND SINGLE FAMILY HOMEOWNERS OF GREENWICH

ALL TOO OFTEN FAILED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

MISLEAD THE PRESS IN AN EFFORT TO

DIVIDE AND ISOLATE PARENTS

TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR SMALL CHILDREN

ASK YOURSELF, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE SCHOOL OFFICIALS LIED TO THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMEOWNERS IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE?


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1/31/09 EXCLUSIVE: You Wont Read This In The Greenwich Time - End Maybe Near For Madoff "Victim" Fairfield Greenwich (Updated)


Local Greenwich Sources Tell Greenwich Roundup ....

Hedge fund firm Fairfield Greenwich, which lost more than half of its assets to scummier Bernard Madoff, is in the process of or preparing to winding down operations and could shutter its doors by summer.

The fund, which is headed by Greenwich Resident Walter Noel has been rumored to have cut its staff by 30 - 50% Greenwich Roundup has learned and people familiar with the situation have said that some remaining Fairfield Greenwich employees have been told that they may be let go by late July. Generous severance packages are being offered to keep key staff members on board and quite.

Walter "Feeder Fund" Noel lost a who headed the Fairield Sentry Fund "invested" a whopping $7.5 Billion with his chum Bernard Madoff. Fairfield Greenwich Investors have been lead to believe that there was an additional $6,5 Billion left to pay investors back. This might not be entirely accurate.

While Walter "Feeder Fund" Noel has suspended seeking new investors and has said ,"it retains the staff necessary to seek and recover any available Madoff assets."

The formerly high flying Fairfield Greenwich Group had $7.5 Billion out of $14 Billion in assets invested with Walter Noel chum Bernie Madoff through the firms fund of hedge funds, known as Fairfield Sentry.

Walter Noel who long ago suspended investor redemption requests for non-family members and is now apparently working toward selling off the firms surviving assets held in offshore tax havens.

Also wounded by the Madoff scandal is hedge fund firm Tremont Group run by Mass Mutual . The Rye New York fund also lost more than half of its assets ($3.1 Billion) to Madoff. Press reports last week said that Tremont was in the process of shutting down operations.


PLEASE ALSO SEE:
SOME OF GREENWICH FAIRFIELD'S MONEY IS FOUND IN THE VAULTS OF JPMORGAN CHASE
Lawyers Representing Greenwich Fairfield May Be Taking Chase To Court
Fairfield Greenwich Investors Question The Timing Of JP Morgan's Withdrawal - They Say Part Of That JP Morgan Stash Belongs To Them
Walter "Feeder Fund" Noel's Investors WONDER IF JPMorgan Saw Trouble Brewing And Got Out Before The Storm.
JP Morgan Chase Says The Bank "Became Concerned About The Lack Of Transparency" As It Reviewed Its Investments Linked To Bernard Madoff
Why Wasn't Greenwich Resident Walter Noel Concerned About The "Lack Of Transparency" At Madoff's Firm?
Why Didn't Walter Noel Tell His Investors About Chases Withdrawal?


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1/31/09 The Raw Greenwich Blog And RSS Feed


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Friday, January 30, 2009

1/30/09 FAILED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR SUSAN WALLERSTIEN HAD BETT0ER WAKE UP: Parents Don't Like Her Plan To Keep Children Out Of New Ham Ave School


PARENTS ARE TIRED OF BOARD OF EDUCATION NIGHTMARE

THE TREATMENT OF HAM AVE CHILDREN IS SHAMEFUL

THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMEOWNERS OF GREENWICH HAVE HAD IT WITH THE BOE

THE LONG HAM AVE NIGHTMARE MUST COME TO AN END

NO MORE EXCUSES !!!!!




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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:18:03 -0500

From: bkmunnelly@optonline.net

Subject: RE: Plan to keep Ham Ave K-5 out of the new building until April

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It's a shame, we finally get what we waited forever for and we still have to fight!!! We (the parents) believed the TCO would be a time for celebration, little did we know……




I don't know ONE parent that believes the CMT is more important than our children, or that a move into a building, dangled in front of us like a carrot for soooo long needs a five week transition, or will effect the ability of our "RESILENTENT" children to successfully complete the CMTs. If the building was ready on the first day of school in Aug. like we were lead to believe, would we have stayed in the modulars for 5 extra weeks, for a ridiculous transition plan? This community has been lied to and ripped apart for too long. All we want is our children in the building that was promised to them years ago.

We will stand together, and let our voices be heard.

FLASHBACK:

Parents Upset at School Renovation Delays - NYTimes.com
Sep 7, 2008

AFTER 3 years of delays, the students of Hamilton Avenue Elementary will finally get to move into their newly renovated school this fall — but that may not happen until the end of October.


A planned $24 million renovation of the school has taken longer than anticipated — an Aug. 15 completion date came and went — and it is also about $6 million over budget.


Students began the school year on Aug. 27 along with others in Greenwich, but they reported to modular classrooms that have been set up at Western Middle School while their school is under construction. School officials had hoped that the Hamilton Avenue School would be granted a temporary certificate of occupancy last week that would have allowed them to move students and teachers into permanent quarters by Columbus Day weekend, but town inspectors turned them down.


Frank Mazza, a volunteer who heads the town Building Committee, which oversees renovations of school facilities under state law, said they didn’t receive the temporary certificate because they are still waiting on an air quality report. There are also a variety of other small unfinished items including, for example, Braille characters on important signs in the building. Mr. Mazza said the electrical inspector also found some electric outlets that were not working on Tuesday.


The many delays in the school’s renovation, which began after mold was discovered in the building in 2003 ...

.....In March, mold was also found in the modular classrooms the Hamilton Avenue students were using at Western Middle School. The students were sent home for an entire week, missing classes. Afterward, they were dispersed to other elementary schools in town where they finished the school year.


Parents were so upset they demonstrated at the Board of Education building in downtown Greenwich to voice their frustrations, and board members told them at an emergency meeting they were doing their best to minimize the disruption to their children.These latest delays have them even more upset. Mina Bibeault, a mother of two Hamilton Avenue students, said the Building Committee and the Board of Education have lost all their credibility with her and other parents ...... BLAH .... BLAH ...... BLAH ..... BLAH ...... BLAH ...... BLAH ..... BLAH ..... BLAH ...... BLAH ...... BLAH .....

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1/30/09 BRUCE HUNTER AND THE GREENWICH TIME SLEEPS AS HAM AVE PARENTS ORGANIZE: Plan to keep Ham Ave K-5 out of the new building until April

Laura J. DiBella
Subject: Plan to keep Ham Ave K-5 out of the new building until April
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:01:14 -0800



Ladies and Gentlemen

As you may be aware, the TCO for the Hamilton Avenue Re-construction project was received today, Friday, January 30th at around 2:30.

A few hours after receipt, the Superintendent, Betty Sternberg, issued a press release, a copy of which is on the Greenwich Public Schools website.

In addition, in today's Friday Folders, the means of communication to parents at Hamilton Avenue School, the principal, Dr. Damaris Rau sent out a letter with an attached Transition Plan for Move to the New Building.

First, I will address the Press Release.

Regarding the factors that must be considered - conditions outlined in the TCO. I have been informed by HAS Building Committee members that there are NO conditions attached to the TCO with respect to the students moving into the building as regards the Town Building Department, issuer of the TCO. When asked by a reporter from the Greenwich Time what conditions were attached to the TCO, Frank Mazza referred said reporter to Dr. Sternberg.

With regard to the BOE, Town Attorney and District Administration needing to review factors - the punch list was shared with the Building Committee and parents that attended the last building committee meeting. Other than the issues with the flue (which have now been corrected), none precluded the students from entering the building. If items on the punch list did, in fact, affect the occupation of the building, the Town Building Department would not have issued the TCO. As to training, the custodians have been attending training sessions for weeks, and per the HASBC, that training is complete.

Moving on, the next issues discussed in the press release are regarding the implentation of health and safety procedures, set up of offices and classrooms, orienting staff and students to the building and making sure that all services and technology work.

Let me address these issues thusly. The principal's Move Plan addresses, among other things, arrival and dismissal procedures, fire drill procedures , lunch procedures, etc. When the HAS students moved to the modulars a parade was organized with a welcome by Western Middle School students. The children did NOT enter the modulars at that time. The only other issue addressed was bus safety as this was the first time for many of these students to take a bus to school. There were no practice drills or procedures. When the HAS students were dispersed throughout the district, other than a parent night, our children did not receive practice drills or procedures. When school starts in August every year, there are no practice drills or procedures for incoming new students prior to the first day of school.

Setting up offices and instructional spaces is not an issue the children have to deal with. The furniture is already in place and has been for quite some time. If there were any issues with the furniture, the district should have already been aware of and remedied them. As to setting up offices, this falls under moving the packed items from the modulars to the new building. It also entails staff setting up their classrooms to make them welcoming for the students and educationally ready. If we can be dispersed to six different schools in one week and have offices and instructional spaces ready to go, if we can find out the day before school that we are moving from six different schools back to the modulars and have offices and instructional spaces ready to go, there is absolutely NO reason to believe that between now and the end of February break, these issues can't be done.

As to orienting students and staff to the new building as per the Press release, this issue will be done for the teachers while they are setting up their rooms prior to students returning to school. The children would then and should then receive the same type of orienting as at the start of school each August.

As to making certain that all building technology and services are fully operational, again, this should have already been done by the district. This building has been sitting for years with these things already in place. I know for fact that the food services equipment has already gone through a function test and, as stated previously, the maintenance people have already been trained.

Now that those particular issues have been outlined for you, please let me tell you the true story behind this devastating delay for moving our children into their new, long awaited building.

It all boils down to the following statement from the press release:

"Additionally, this schedule avoids disruption to the preparation for and administration of the March CMT testing schedule".

The principal and superintendant are attempting to play upon the fears of the parents for the safety of their children to make sure that we remain in the again-leaking modulars where children are exhibiting, again, nosebleeds, headaches and nausea. The CMT test scores do not come out until August. To keep our children in the modulars for a test is, for lack of a more descriptive word, atrocious. It is more important to this district to get good CMT scores than in putting our children in a healthy, safe, neighborhood environment. I ask you to think on this, isn't it safer to assume that being in their neighborhood in a clean, new building will boost the moral of these children so much so that they will be willing and eager to do their very best on these tests? Isn't it more realistic that being in their new, clean, safe building in their home neighborhood will let them know that they are deserving of great scores?

The children that are currently in our Pre-K program, scattered to North Street and Old Greenwich School will be moved into the new building in less than a week. If the building has "conditions" attached to the TCO that prevents our K-5 students from moving in, why don't those "conditions" apply to our littlest students?

One of the reasons given for moving the Pre-K students to the building earlier than the K-5 students is that the cost of busing 60 students to NS and OG school is too expensive. What hasn't been made public is that to move these small children into the new building without the K-5 group is that they must hire a full time on-site administrator, a full time on-site custodian, a full time o-site nurse and an additional cafeteria crew to cook and serve lunch to these children. All this hiring negates any savings that would possibly be realized by cancelling the buses for these children.

I ask you to think on this as well. Why was it that just ONE MONTH ago, the district was preparing, to the point of having the staff and students pack up their rooms, to move to the new building WITHOUT all these "conditions" and concerns for safety and health over an 8 school day, two weekend Christmas break and now they say that they CANNOT move over a 6 school day, two weekend February break? WHY IS THAT? WHAT HAS CHANGED SO VERY MUCH THAT A TWO DAY DIFFERENCE MEANS NOT MOVING UNTIL APRIL???

I ask each of you to make your own decision as to whether or not the superintendent and principal are proposing reasonable and sound issues to keep the children in those decrepit modulars. Are their reasons acceptable enough to basically leave a new building that is ready to receive the students almost completely EMPTY for months?

If you believe, as the parents do, that our children should be in the new building on February 17th, please, please stand with us and demand to be heard. We need your help. Our CHILDREN need your help. I ask you, on behalf of our children, to let the powers that be hear you demand that our children must be in their new school, ready to be taught, ready to learn on Tuesday, February17th.

Laura J. DiBella

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1/30/09 HAMILTON AVENUE PARENTS ARE MAD AS HELL AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE

Again, our children our sacrificed for the sake of a test. Now the school is ready and we have a very convenient 5 week plan until we can move. This ensures "no disruption of the CMT's.". Well, thank God for that! Our children can stay in the crowded, leaking, soon to be mold filled again modulars.

Tell me, district wide, do you bring the children in before school starts to show them the lunchroom, assign them their lunchtime seat, and do a test fire drill? Do we show them the art and music room? These are all things that can be done in a single morning. Didn't our teachers' union vote that they WANT to move as soon as possible, meaning Feb. break? If there are "conditions" to the TCO, why risk our littlest students? Bottom line , this is the only truth in the press release about why we are not moving ."Additionally, this schedule avoids disruption to the preparation for and administration of the March CMT testing schedule."
Funny, before any 5 week plan was developed , we were constantly told that a move in Feb was not possible because it would disrupt the CMT's and result in (dare I say it), lower test scores.

Enough! We keep hearing that our children are resilient , let them prove it now.
Move us over Feb. break. We have two full weeks now, we relocated to 6 locations in a week, this should be a piece of cake.

Philip and Kerry Dunn
Patricia Reilly
ONLY THE GREENWICH POST AND GREENWICH ROUNDUP HAVE REPORTED THIS BREAKING NEWS STORY. BOTH HEARST NEWSPAPERS ( THE GREENWICH TIME AND THE GREENWICH CITIZEN) ARE LOST IN SPACE

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1/29/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: News Tip - Is this really a surprise??? Bruce Hunter Ignores The Small Children In The Ham. Ave. Modulars




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1/30/09 Re: Greenwich School Children Once Again In Classrooms That Violate State Bu...

from: rtb1300@aol.com

date: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:36 PM

Dear Sir or Madam,

I ask that you remove my address form your mailing list. I view your blog on my own on a regular basis, and would appreciate NOT receiving any further independent messages from your site at this time. My thanks for honoring this request.

COMMENT:

Greenwich Roundup was seeking any thoughts or comments you might have about those poor little children trying to learn in classrooms that are leaking water.

we were especially interested in your thoughts, because of your involvement with the Greenwich School System, and were hoping to get your thoughts because there was a rumor that the Greenwich Building Department was going to issue a last minute Temporary certicate of occupancy at the close of bussiness on a Friday.

What do you think of the current conditions at the Hamilton Avenue School modulars?

Should the Hamilton Avenue children be forced to endure them for another two or three months?

Should failed Greenwich School Administrator Susan Wallerstien be fired?

Please let us know what you think?

Greenwich Roundup Wants To Get All Perspectives From Those Truely Concerned About Greenwich Public Schools

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1/30/09 Maybe The Greenwich Post Once Again Scooped The Greenwich Time, Because Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson's Fax Machine Is Jammed ?????

COLIN DON"T PANIC HEARST NEWSPAPER FAX MACHINES GET JAMMED ALL THE TIME

IT LOOKS LIKE THE GREENWICH CITIZEN"S FAX MACHINE GOT JAMMED TOO

THE GREENWICH CITIZEN ALSO GOT SCOOPED BY KEN BORSUK AT THE GREENWICH POST !!!!!!!

DON"T SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT BETTY STERNBERG HAS A PDF COPY OF THE PRESS RELEASE AT THE GREENWICH BOARD OF EDUCATION WEBSITE

YES COLIN, TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY ......... YOU CAN DOWN LOAD THE PDF FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, RUN IT THROUGH THE SPELL CHECKER AND THEN HIT THE PUBLISH BUTTON FOR THE GREENWICH TIME WEBSITE !!!!!!!

COLIN YOU CAN BETTY STERNBERG'S PRESS RELEASE HERE:


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1/30/09 BREAKING NEWS FROM LAURA DiBELLA: Ham Ave TCO Received. Where Is Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter And His Cub Reporter Colin ??????


Laura J. DiBella


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Subject: FW: Hamilton Avenue TCO Received

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:16:36 -0800

Dear Members of the Board, Mr. Tesei, Dr. Sternberg, and Dr. Rau

The attached News Release is completely unacceptable not only to me, but to many, many parents of students at Hamilton Avenue School.

This is a not-so-well veiled attempt to make sure we stay put in those again-leaking modulars so that the CMT's can be taken without imagined disruption to the process. Keeping these children in those decrepit modulars where they are experiencing, again, nosebleeds, headaches, and nausea is a travesty.

This building is ready. I do not for one moment believe that there are "conditions" to the TCO. This is an underhanded way to keep us where YOU want us, not where we want to be.

To claim that it is with the health and safety of the children in mind that this 5 week plan of Dr. Rau's is feasible is absurd. It is Dr. Rau's obvious intent to justify her ridiculously high salary by forcing us to stay in this building with the hopes that the CMT scores will go up. Since the scores don't come out until August, this doesn't wash.

Get us in there NOW!! Please be advised that I WILL be contacting the press regarding this disgusting show of disregard for our children.

Laura J. DiBella

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:57:51 -0500
Subject: FW: Hamilton Avenue TCO Received
From: {REDACTED}
To: lauradibella@msn.com

------ Forwarded Message
From: Kim Eves Kim_Eves@greenwich.k12.ct.us ;
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:52:03 -0500
To: Lproberg@news12.com, mailto:Erferris@news12.com, dharrison@bcnnew.com,
citydesk@scni.com news12ct@news12.com,
mailto:tony.savino@wgch.com,quinnman72@hotmail.com, andrew.shaw@scni.com ,
Anne Semmes; asemmes@gmail.com , editor@greenwich-post.com,
colin.gustafson@scni.com , WGCHNEWS@aol.com

Subject: Fwd: Hamilton Avenue TCO Received

The Hamilton Avenue School Building Committee has received a Temporary
Certificate of Occupancy (TCO) for both the new building and the parking
structure, both with conditions. See attached for more information.

Kim Eves
Director of Communications
Greenwich Board of Education
290 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830

http://www.greenwichschools.org/

Phone: 203-625-7415
e mail: kim_eves@greenwich.k12.ct.us
Fax: 203-869-8003

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THE GREENWICH POST WAS ABLE TO GET THIS BREAKING STORY UP ON THE WEB, BUT THIN SKINNED GREENWICH TIME EDITOR BRUCE HUNTER MISSED THE STORY, BECAUSE HE WAS TOO BUSY USING HEARST CORPORATE LAWYERS TO ATTACK A CRITIC:

PLEASE SEE:
GREENWICH POST

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE Posted 4:32 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009

Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter kborsuk@greenwich-post.com

Despite having a temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) in hand, Hamilton Avenue School students will likely not be in their new building until spring.
The Greenwich Public Schools released a statement Friday afternoon saying the move “is expected” to take place over the spring break scheduled for April 6 to 10. Several reasons were cited for the wait, including conditions placed on the TCO and that moving in April would insure “adequate time” to implement health and safety procedures, set up offices and classrooms, get students oriented to the new building and make sure that all the systems are fully operational.....
But The Real Unanswered Question In Ken Borsuk's Article Is Will Glenville Parents Put Thier Children In Classrooms With Water Leaks And Potential Mold Problems. Glenville Parents Had Better Sit In On The Next Hamilton Avenue PTA Meeting.....

.....The move is expected to be discussed Tuesday night at the Hamilton Avenue School PTA meeting, which is set for 7 p.m. in the modulars.
In her statement Ms. Sternberg also addressed the future for Glenville School students, who have been dispersed throughout the district while renovation is underway of their building. Those students are scheduled to enter the modulars once the Hamilton Avenue students leave them, but as had been expected, Ms. Sternberg said in the statement that the students would remain dispersed for the remainder of the school year.
PLEASE SEE:

GREENWICH TIME MANAGING EDITOR BRUCE HUNTER IS ONCE AGAIN CAUGHT SLEEPING SWITCH. WHY ISN'T HEARST NEWSPAPERS COVERING THIS IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS STORY?????
UPDATE:
4:40 AM THE NEXT DAY !!!!!
Bruce Hunter And Colin Gustafson Are
Finaly Able To Get It Up In The Morning
How Is Greenwich Time Publisher John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster Going To Explain To Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz How Both Hearst Corporation Newspapers Once Again Got Scooped By A Free Weekly Newspaper And Citizen Journalists?
Eleven Hours Later A Very Distracted Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Finally Gets Rookie Education Reporter Colin Gustafson To Cover The Breaking Hamilton Avenue News Story.

School officials decide to wait 'til spring for move

By Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer

Posted: 01/31/2009 03:01:47 AM EST
....."I understand that the administration is telling us they need time to take students through the fire drills, and show them the lunch room and the art room," she said. "But that's usually done in a day or sometimes a week at the beginning of the school year. ... Now they can't get things together when they have two weeks?"

"This is a veiled attempt to keep the kids from getting into the building for CMT scores," charged Hamilton Avenue School parent Laura DiBella......
Why Doesn't Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz Just Fire John Dunster And His Pitiful Greenwich Time News Crew And Replace Them With Local Citizen Journalists Like Bill Clark, Chris Fountain, Frank Trotta And Laura DiBella?

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1/30/09 GOD BLESS AMERICA: Because I Am An American Protected By A Bill Of Rights.....

Greenwich Time Debra "I Am A Big Fat Liar" Friedman Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Posting This .....

Greenwich Avenue traffic officers reduced

Those strolling down Greenwich Avenue Thursday were surprised to find an empty Lewis Street intersection normally occupied by a police officer directing traffic.


They were even more surprised to learn that as a result of a new budget proposal, that intersection will remain without an officer.......


Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This .....




Sitting in front of a makeshift memorial in the children's section of the Perrot Memorial Library on Thursday, 5-year-old Luke Rutkoske proudly displayed the colorful drawing he'd just completed.


"It's a happy face," the Old Greenwich boy said before sliding the construction-paper drawing into a basket set up next to the memorial with a sign reading, "Please leave your thoughts.".....


Associated Press Reporter John Christoffersen Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This .....




Walter Noel Jr. and his wife Monica had it all: Luxurious houses on Connecticut's wealthy coast, Palm Beach and the Hamptons, a Park Avenue pied-a-terre and, most of all, a hilltop retreat on an exclusive island in the Caribbean named after a goddess. They hobnobbed with Mick Jagger and Tommy Hilfiger, who sounded a bit jealous of their view.


The couple's five tall, attractive daughters mostly married foreign men in high social circles, adding to an extraordinary network of international connections that along with remarkably consistent returns helped Noel expand his New York-based money management firm with billions of investments from the elite around the world......


Neil "I Don't Have The Journalistic Balls To Publish The Counterfeit Greenwich Beach Passes. So I Hide Them In My Desk Drawer" Vigdor Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This .....




A day after the $819 billion stimulus package passed in the U.S. House, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., touted the economic incentives of the plan to corporate leaders in Greenwich Thursday.


Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Jim Zebora Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This Out Of Town News Item .....




Darien resident Paul Streitz wants to build excitement about the prospect of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin seeking the Republican Party's nomination for president in 2012.


Ex-Greenwich Time Editor David Warner Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This Sports Story.....


Greenwich boys swim team continues its undefeated season

Stamford boys swimming coach Rick Lewis told his team what he thought their chances of defeating defending FCIAC champion Greenwich were prior to Thursday's meet.


Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe "I Helped Martha Moxley's Killer For Then Years, Because I Refused To Publish An Investigative Report For A Decade" Pisani Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Posting This Out Of Town News Item .....




STAMFORD -- As he stood in line for a hot meal at the New Covenant House of Hospitality, a 27-year-old man named Carlos matter-of-factly explained he spent Wednesday night at a shelter.


Greenwich Time Publisher John "I Can't Pick A Winning Team" Dunster Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This......




A Cos Cob man charged with distributing pornographic images of children over the Internet pleaded guilty in federal court in Hartford on Thursday, officials said.


Daniel L. Ward, 58, of 259 Valley Road, was charged with one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography after he was investigated by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the assistance of state police, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Officials had no further information on the circumstances of Ward's arrest......


Thin Skinned Greenwich Time Manager Bruce Hunter Can't Stop Greenwich Roundup From Publishing This Out Of Town Business News......


Panels cut costs at Daymon

It didn't matter that the temperature was in the mid-20s on Thursday morning. The sun was shining, and the 2,000 photovoltaic panels covering much of the roof at Daymon


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1/30/09 Greenwich Roundup Couldn't Sleep So He Decided To Get Up A Little After 3AM And Check His Web Stats


BRUCE IS THE MAN


YES, THIN SKINED GREENWICH TIME MANAGING EDITOR BRUCE HUNTER HAS DONE IT AGAIN !!!!!!


YESTERDAY GREENWICH ROUNDUP HAD 2,749 UNIQUE VISITORS


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