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Delaying renovations at Glenville School could result in fines and reimbursement fees being paid by taxpayers
By 2010, those costs to the school system could top $160,000.
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Greenwich Board Of Education Says:
"As the start date is further delayed, it will become increasingly difficult to place individuals already committed to this project. This could result in the loss of key contractors and personnel if there is not enough work."
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Town weighs Ham Ave. optionsBy Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
What combination of Hamilton Avenue and Glenville schools and modular classrooms will be in use for the next school year is on the agenda tonight as the Board of Education meets at Greenwich High School.
The board will discuss a list of contingency options released yesterday in the event that the school reconstruction project isn't completed by the start of the school year on August 27.
The choices include:
* Shifting Hamilton Avenue students into the deteriorating Glenville School building, which has a history of leaks and maintenance problems.
* Housing Glenville students in the modulars from which Hamilton Avenue students were removed last school year after mold was discovered in the walls and ceiling panels. Those modulars are to be fully restored for this school year, officials said.
* Return Hamilton Avenue students to the modulars, while Glenville students either stay in their current building or are dispersed to other nearby schools.
However, Hamilton Avenue administrators have strongly opposed dispersing their students again this year, after being forced to temporarily assign pupils to six different schools last spring after discovery of the mold....
Also From The Greenwich Time:
Man arrested in boy's deathPolice charged the president of a Stamford pool company with manslaughter Monday in the drowning death of Zachary Archer Cohn, a Greenwich boy killed last July when his arm was ensnared by the powerful suction of a drain in his backyard pool.
No trespassing signs go up at Wiffle fieldThe town demolished it, but they still came. Next time they'll be trespasssers. Despite being shut down on Friday, the unauthorized Wiffle ball field in Riverside drew a number of teens over the weekend for pickup games that led to neighbors calling the police. Martha P. Franco, 44, and Stephanie F. Franco, 25, both of 28 Cos Cob Ave., were arrested early Sunday afternoon and charged with disorderly conduct stemming from an alleged domestic dispute, according to a police report.
Martha P. Franco, 44, and Stephanie F. Franco, 25, both of 28 Cos Cob Ave., were arrested early Sunday afternoon and charged with disorderly conduct stemming from an alleged domestic dispute, according to a police report.
The two women, mother and daughter, allegedly scuffled during a family argument at their residence, the report said.
Both were released on promises to appear Monday in state Superior Court in Stamford, according to the report.
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Ashmore Johnson, 41, of 720 Newhall St., Hamden, was arrested by warrant the morning of July 15 and charged with two counts of second-degree forgery, third-degree identity theft, fifth-degree larceny, third-degree conspiracy to commit identity theft and fifth-degree conspiracy to commit larceny, according to a police report.
Johnson was arrested at state Superior Court, where he turned himself in on a habeus corpus warrant stemming from allegations he used bank account information of a Greenwich victim to purchase items, according to the report.
Additional details were not available yesterday.
Johnson was turned over to the state Judicial Marshals Office for arraignment that day, according to the report.
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Jose Luis Estrada, 43, was arrested Saturday night outside of a New Street residence and charged with threatening and disorderly conduct, according to a police report.
Police arrived at the residence on a report of an unwanted male there and found Estrada, who had apparently been bothering
the residents of an apartment, according to the report.
Estrada had been instructed by police previously to stay away, but had threatened one of the occupants of the apartment, the report said.
He is being held on $2,000 bond, and was scheduled to appear yesterday in state Superior Court in Stamford, according to the report.
For those who immediately pooh-pooh the idea of reviving tolls on Connecticut highways, I have two words: Fung Wah.
Recognizing the value of NCC"Norwalk Community College is so clearly a success in so many respects ..." That's what we said in this space almost five years ago about an educational institution that has continued to grow in stature since.
Expansion of domestic energy supplies is vitalTo the editor:
The July 16 issue of Greenwich Time carried a letter, written by the chairman of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee, regarding increased drilling for domestic oil and natural gas - which he opposes.
The letter is predictably snide and nasty in its tone. More important, however, is that it unintentionally illustrates the danger to the country from political policies and politicians driven by ideology rather than common sense. Try as it might, the left wing of the Democratic Party can not repeal the law of supply and demand; it is thus willing to repeat the failed energy policies of the Clinton administration.
The left wing (i.e., the Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Himes wing) of the Democratic Party is apparently so beholden to radical environmentalists that it will not or cannot adapt to changing economic circumstances.
Most Americans, however, want a common-sense solution to the nation's current energy problems. That solution will be found in a combination of policies: greater conservation right now and, we assume, the development of economically and environmentally viable alternative energy sources in the longer term. At the same time, it is absolutely essential, for both national security and economic reasons, that we take immediate action to increase our domestic energy resources. To pretend otherwise is to continue to live in an ideological fantasy land.
Voters should note which political party is likely to be willing and able going forward to support rational policies in the vital and rapidly changing energy sector.
John R. Raben Jr.
Riverside
The writer is chairman of the Greenwich Republican Town Committee.
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