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Chancy D’Elia: A Greenwich Businesswoman Who Persevered

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Written by Olivia Luntz. Chancy D’Elia ran the Chancy D’Elia clothing store on Greenwich Avenue from 1932 until 2005. The operation started with a few pieces sold at the front of her uncle’s Snappy Cleaners. In 1932, she went to New York with her sister with $270 in the bank. They bought a few skirts, dresses, and sweaters, which were all snatched up immediately by one customer. In January 1945 she bought the building at 244 Greenwich Avenue, where her business operated until 2005. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Around Town, Business, Greenwich History, Chancy D'Elia, Greenwich Library, Olivia Luntz, The Oral History Project

Education for All Club at GHS Eager for Community Partnerships

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At Greenwich High School, the girls of the Education for All Club are moving mountains to get school supplies, especially science supplies like microscopes and beakers to schools in Africa. The school supply drive runs June 12-16 and there are collection locations at GHS, Eastern Middle School and Cos Cob School. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Giving, Schools, Volunteering, Education for All Club, Greenwich High School

Beach Woes: Cars Speeding at Tod’s Point, Parking on Peripheral Roads

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At the May Parks & Rec meeting, Patrick Slyne, who chairs a beach subcommittee that made recommendations about traffic and safety that resulted in police presence last summer, said the group continues to look for improvements and changes. Slyne said the group hopes to maximize Greenwich Police resources again this summer. In January 2016, First Selectman Peter Tesei announced that a uniformed Greenwich Police officer would be assigned to Greenwich Point on peak days, which include weekends and holidays beginning Memorial Day and running through Labor Day. Mr. Tesei said the dollar amount for the police presence was somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000. “In the context of the police department budget it is an eyelash,” Tesei said. Continue Reading →

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