0524/09 Sternberg Has Time To Give Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson An Interview, But She Doesn't Have Time To Update The Schools Website

Betty Sternbrg's Failure To Keep The Public School's Web Site Updated With Press Releases Is Causing Frustrated And Scared WMS Mothers To Panic

Mothers Wamt To Know If It Is Safe To Send Thier Children To Western Middle School On Tuesday

Fridat Over 150 Mothers Kept Thier Children Home From WMS.

The Headlines:

Greenwich Public School Superintendent Betty Sternberg Has All The Time In The World To Give Greenwich Time Cub Reporter Colin Gustafson An Exclusive interview, But She Doesn't Have Time To Update The Schools Website About The Swine Flu Epidemic

Betty Is More Worried About Her Image Than The Families At Western Middle School.

The Quotes:

"I just hope when they decided to cancel the trip, they had a plan for the aftermath of people getting their money back," said Lou Ambrogio, whose son LJ was planning to go on the Washington. "Right now, I can't afford to lose nearly $750."

"Why isn't there nothing about the sick staff members on the Greenwich Board Of Education website", say frustrated and fearful Western Middle School parents. "should I send my child Or Not?"

There was a rumour that if you pay a couple of bucks for the Sunday Greenwich Time. That the latest school information would be there. I bought the paper and found nothing", said one scared and confused Western Middle School mother. "NowI am told that Betty Sternberg is putting something in Monday's news paper.

The Story:


Western faces closure

10 new cases of swine flu at school

Colin Gustafson
Staff Writer
Posted: 05/24/2009 10:38:11 PM EDT


The district may be forced to close Western Middle School on Tuesday if too many teachers call in sick, the schools chief said Sunday, a day after health officials confirmed 10 new cases of swine flu.



School officials have so far resisted calls from some parents to close the middle school last week after a sixth-grader returning from a class trip was confirmed Thursday as the first known H1N1 infection of a public school student.


However, Superintendent of Schools Betty Sternberg said Sunday evening there may be no option but to temporarily close Western early this week if staff absentee rates are so high that the school can no longer function.

Two staff members tested positive for an unknown flu strain last week, though school officials said they did not know Sunday whether their test results had been confirmed as swine flu cases by the state.....

Hey, Betty Where Are The Press Releases And

Why Hasn't The School Website Been Updated About The

Western Middle School Swine Flu Epedimic?

....."Our first hope is that we can keep school open, and our medical advisers have advised us we can," she said. "Of course, if there are not enough teachers to man the classrooms, it's going to be very difficult to have school."

Dstrict officials will have a clearer sense late Monday whether they'll have to close Western, and will notify parents when a decision is made, Sternberg said......

Sternberg Is Causing Panic In Greenwich By Witholding Information From Parents So That She Can Trade It For Favorable Coverage In The Greenwich Time.

.....Meantime, school officials announced Saturday that they will cancel Western's eighth-grade class trip to Washington, D.C., this week to minimize the potential for additional infections.

The decision by Sternberg came after deputy schools chief Ellen Flanagan and Western Middle School Principal Stacey Gross led two public meetings with parents Friday afternoon to gather input on the matter.......

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05/24/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Afternoon Edition

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05/23/09 Scene: Susie "The Dish" CostaregniGets To Slg Down More Free Drinks At Valbella for providing another weekly plug

The Dish

.....Scene: Greenwich residents and WWE icons Vince and Linda McMahon were seen having dinner at Valbella in Old Greenwich recently......

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05/21/09 One Sided Hearst Newspaper Reporting Fails To Seek Out Vilified Parent And Doctor

Greenwich Time: The Faux News Wannabe's Of Fairfield County

We Only Report What The Great School Leaders Say !!!!!

Who Cares What The Doctor And Parents Say

Schools kept in dark about flu

Officials say parent, doctor didn't tell them of ill student

Connecticut Post Staff

Posted: 05/23/2009 07:40:35 PM EDT

A breakdown in communication with the parent and physician of a swine flu-infected student prevented school officials from learning about the health threat during a class trip last week when many fell ill, the officials said.

School officials maintain they did not have any idea that the child was sick, let alone had been infected with swine flu, until the state Department of Public Health confirmed Thursday that the student tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

The news came a day after 130 Western Middle School students were sent home from a field trip in northwest Connecticut when many became ill. Since then, another 14 students have tested positive for the flu and have been deemed "probable cases" of swine flu.

On May 15, a student had tested positive for an unknown strain of flu, prompting the child's physician to send the results to the state to test the sample for swine flu, according to the district. Three days later, the student was allowed to join his or her classmates on the sixth-grade field trip.

"We had no knowledge that this student was ill," said Superintendent of Schools Betty Sternberg. "In cases like this, we rely on the child's physician to institute the proper protocol for informing people, and the parent to follow that protocol.".....

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05/21/09 The Greenwich Board Of Education And The Local Lamestream Media Won't Tell You The Truth, But The Wwstern Middle School Mothers Will 

Dozens of children have had to go to the ER. 

The child with the Swine Flu was sick on monday and went to the nurse. 

He was pulled out of the activities most of that day. 

Greenwich Public Schools was notified.

Friday he was diagnoised with the Flu and given anti-viral drugs that school personell helped administer to the child, before he went on and durring school field trip.

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05/23/09 Did Chris Corna committed suicide or was he murdered?

Did Chris Corna committed suicide or was he murdered?

Posted in April 14th, 2009 

by Claudette Rothman in Connecticut, Greenwich, Suicide, crime

Update:5/23/09

For the last 17 years, 45-year-old Christopher "Chris" Corna called the small city of Steamboat Springs, Colorado home.

He owned the Slopeside Grill in the small ski resort town and everyone who knew him loved him.

On Monday May 18, when family and friends in Colorado received word that Corna had committed suicide while visiting his fiancée, Lisette Coen, in Greenwich, Connecticut, they all asked the same question, "Why, why would a successful businessman who was full of life and energy and was loved by everyone who knew him take his own life?"

A few days prior to his death, Corna had proposed to Coen, a woman he grew up with in Ohio, but lost touch with over the years.

According to close friends of Coran's in Colorado, he did not tell anyone he was planning to propose to the mother of four.

It is believed that on Sunday May 17, Coen found out the Corna had been seeing a 19-year-old woman from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and decided to break off their engagement.

According to sources close to Coen, after a fight on the night of Sunday May 17, Corna left Coen's house, and a few minutes later he sent her several text messages and allegedly, the two made up.

It is believed that before returning to Coen's house, Corna decided to make a quick stop at a grocery store in Portchester, New York, a small village next to Greenwich, to pick up some Krispy Kreme for Coen's children, a routine he had gotten used to since arriving in Greenwich in early May.

Around 4:30a.m on Monday Portchester police responding to a car accident found Corna's body, which had stab wounds to the throat and chest, in his rented Toyota car, along with the knife that was used to inflict the wounds.

In an interview with a Colorado newspaper on Tuesday, Coen said, "It's beyond words," he always told me he wanted to be my rock, and he was.  He was the type of person you want your son to be like."

On Thursday, the Westchester's medical examiner confirmed that Corna's death was a suicide, but family members and friends in the small ski town of about 9,815 people did not believe it.

On the day of the accident, Portchester police said that Corna suffered multiple stabbed wounds when they discovered the body, however, Westchester County Deputy Medical Examiner, Alexander Milovanovic, said that an autopsy revealed that Corna had one stabbed wound in his neck.

Greenwich Diva called the Portchester, New York Police Department for a comment for this story and we were told that there is still an "ongoing investigation" therefore they cannot discuss the subject.

On October 4, 2006, Lisette Coen filed for a divorce from her husband, John Coen, a powerful Hedge Fund manager, who, over the last several months allegedly turned to drinking for comfort.

In October 2008, he was arrested for "inappropriately touching" a female patronage at a Greenwich restaurant, and on April 14, he was arrested, again, at the Ginger Man restaurant also in Greenwich.

Friends of  Lisette's said ever since she told John she was leaving Greenwich and moving to Colorado to be with Chris, they fought every day.

Greenwich Diva has a few questions for the Portchester Police Department:

1-   If this was ruled as a suicide by the medical examiner, why is the case still open?

2-   Why did the initial report say that Corna had multiple stab wounds, yet the medical examiner said stab wound, is this based on sloppy police work or a cover-up?

3-   Initial reports said Corna was also stabbed in the chest, yet the medical examiner did not address this?

4-   Why would a very successful businessman, who did not drink, or do drugs, was not on medication and was not depressed, take his own life?

Was this really suicide, was it a hit, or was it a random act of violence?

05/23/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: Afternoon Edition

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05/23/09 Greenwich Resident Jerome Day Shoots Henry Gasiorowski Who Is Also From Greenwich

Conn. man injured in NY hunting mishap
WTEN
... from shotgun wounds sustained in a hunting mishap in southern New York. Authorities say Henry Gasiorowski, of Greenwich, Conn., was hit in the arm and back by shotgun pellets in the Friday morning accident at a hunting club in Forestburgh. The ...

Hunter in Forestburgh accidentally shot in arm, back with pellets
Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record
... at the Hartwood Hunting Club off Route 42 in the Town of Forestburgh. Around 7:50 a.m., Henry Gasiorowski, 60, of Greenwich, Conn., was seated behind a turkey decoy, making turkey calls, when another hunter, his friend, Jerome Day, 47, also of ...

UPDATE:

2 Hours Later

Greenwich Roundup Leads And The Greenwich Time Follows With An Associated Press Story Filed By Connecticut Post Employees.....

Connecticut Post Staff

Posted: 05/23/2009 03:15:11 PM EDT

FORESTBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- A Greenwich man is recovering from shotgun wounds sustained in a hunting mishap Friday in southern New York.

Henry Gasiorowski, 60, was seated behind a turkey decoy, making turkey calls, about 7:50 a.m. when his hunting companion, Jerome Day, 47, also of Greenwich, snuck up on the decoy and mistakenly opened fire on it, according to the Sullivan County (N.Y.) Sheriff's office. The shotgun pellets hit Gasiorowski in the arm and back......

Wire Service Update #2

7 Hours Later

Town man recovering from shotgun wounds after hunting mishap

Connecticut Post Staff

Posted: 05/23/2009 08:13:48 PM EDT

FORESTBURGH, N.Y. -- A Greenwich man is recovering from shotgun wounds sustained in a hunting mishap Friday in southern New York.

Henry Gasiorowski, 60, was seated behind a turkey decoy, making turkey calls, about 7:50 a.m. when his hunting companion, Jerome Day, 47, also of Greenwich, snuck up on the decoy and mistakenly opened fire on it, according to the Sullivan County (N.Y.) Sheriff's office. The shotgun pellets hit Gasiorowski in the arm and back.

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05/23/09 Online Readers Express Anger As The Greenwich Time Only Publishes Today's Swine Flu Story On The Front Page Of The Greenwich Time

Photo:Missing Online Greenwich Time Swine Flu Article Is Found On The Front Page Of The Greenwich Time

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TIME WATCH:

ONLINE READERS CHEATED AGAIN AT THE GREENWICH TIME

Greenwich Time Education Reporter Colin Gustafson Threatens The Green Kitty Litter's Online Credibility In Town.

Tempers Are Flaring Saturday Morning As Western Middle School Parents Woke Up And Went Online To Discover If Their Children Were Still Going To Be Allowed To Go On A School Trip To Washington DC.

Some Online Parents Received An Email About An Above The Fold Greenwich Time Front Page Story Entitled "Flu threatens 8th-grade class trip"

Greenwich Time Print Readers Wanted To Email A Copy Of The Hearst Newspaper Story To Other Western Middle School Parents, But Were Unable To Do So.

One angry Western Middle school parent told Greenwich roundup that she just can't trust the Greenwich Time, because the Hearst Corporation is so inconsistent online.

A search of the Greenwich Time web site for "Flu" had seven matches and yielded these results ......

Greenwich school has swine flu case05/21/2009 - GREENWICH -- Officials Thursday confirmed the first known case of swine flu in a student in Greenwich Public Schools, a day after 130 middle school students were sent home from a field trip in northwest Connecticut when many became ill. similar results By Lisa Chamoff Staff Writer

House committee passes sick day legislation05/11/2009 - HARTFORD -- Defending a bill requiring businesses to provide mandatory paid sick leave to employees, state Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia, cited recent headlines about H1N1 flu and in particular the similar results By Brian Lockhart Staff Writer

Beardsley Zoo has its own Octomom...and Septomom05/10/2009 - BRIDGEPORT -- Olivia and Jodie just gave birth to eight and seven babies, respectively. Their children are healthy, adorable and everyone loves them. But despite their impressive accomplishments, similar results By Amanda Cuda Staff writer

State confirms 11 new swine flu cases05/09/2009 - Darien and Greenwich were among eight Connecticut towns where the state confirmed 11 new cases of swine flu Saturday, according to a statement from Gov. M. Jodi Rell. similar results By Magdalene Perez Staff Writer

Live updates: Swine flu outbreak04/28/2009 - Swine Flu Outbreak: Live Updates similar results

Timeline of an outbreak: swine flu cases and the global response04/28/2009

Interactive map of swine flu cases04/28/2009 - View H1N1 Swine Flu Outbreak in a larger map

A search Of the Greenwich Time Website for "Western Middle School" had two matches and yielded these results.....

Greenwich school has swine flu case05/21/2009 - GREENWICH -- Officials Thursday confirmed the first known case of swine flu in a student in Greenwich Public Schools, a day after 130 middle school students were sent home from a field trip in similar results By Lisa Chamoff Staff Writer

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A search of the Greenwich Time website for "washington" had twenty seven matches, but nothing was about the Western Middle School trip to Washington DC possibly being canceled by the Greenwich Board Of Education.

As usual the Greenwich Time is treating it's online readers like red headed step children.

Greenwich residents thought that Hearst Editor David McCumber was going to put an end to the practice of treating Greenwich Time readers like second class citizens.

Why can't Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz get the Greenwich Time editors and reporter to understand that the Internet is the future of our town's local daily newspaper?

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05/22/09 SWINE FLU UPDATE: Inauguaral Ball dance at Western Middle School has been cancelled due to Swine Flu

There seems to be some confusion regarding today's meetings. The 2:45 pm and the 6:00pm meeting are intended for parents of 8th graders attending the Washington DC trip next week in order to discuss the fact that the District is considering cancelling/postponing the DC trip.

***In addition, tonight's Inauguaral Ball dance at Western Middle School has been cancelled.

05/22/08 BOE is seriously considering postponing and/or canceling the Western Middle School 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C

We have been informed by the Greenwich Department of Health that in the 6th grade at Western Middle School – to date – there have been 19 negative rapid flu tests and 15 rapid flu tests are positive for some type of flu. The flu virus rapid tests cannot determine whether it is the H1N1 virus. The positive rapid tests have been sent to the State Department of Health for further testing. As we will not have the results from the State until mid to late next week, and with guidance from medical experts, the District is seriously considering postponing and/or canceling the Western Middle School 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C. next week.....

05/20/09 In A story Reported First In Greenwich Roundup - Swine Flu Fears Hit Greenwich After 19 Middle-School Students Became Ill With Fevers

Look Out Jim Himes Here We Come......

Will The 8th Grade Western Middle School Trip to Washington DC Still Go Forward Before Test Results Are In.

UPDATED:

NINE HOURS LATER

When Greenwich Roundup Types Hearst Newspaper 

Editors And Reporters Listen At The Greenwich Time

Parents angry at school officials' proposal to call off D.C. trip

By Colin Gustafson
Staff writer

Posted: 05/23/2009 03:57:21 PM EDT

GREENWICH -- Tempers flared Friday night as

Western Middle School parents reacted to school officials' recommendation to call off an eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., next week amid fears of more swine flu infections among students.

During two emergency meetings with parents at the WMS auditorium Friday, school officials said they were seriously considering postponing or canceling the trip upon the urging of both town and state health officials and an independent medical consultant.

Those health professionals had expressed concern about the virus spreading among eighth-graders who may have been exposed to swine flu at school, where a sixth-grader was diagnosed with the virus on Thursday.

An infection or outbreak of the virus would be far more difficult to deal with if it occurred while students were more than a five-hour drive away in Washington, D.C., when it occurred, school officials said.

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Extra Extra Read All About It !!!!!

The "newsboy" already is an excinct species in Greenwich. How long will it be for the printed Greenwich Time he used to carry?

The Greenwich Time's practice of ignoring digital readers is like,"Cutting off the nose to spite the face"