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This Winter We’re Thinking Sunshine! Celebrate The Fresh Air Fund’s 140th Summer

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Join volunteer host families in and around the Southwest Coast for our 140th summer, and open your heart and home to a Fresh Air child! Each summer, thousands of New York City children visit suburban, rural and small town communities along the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine and Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Towns Program. Continue Reading →

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Top 5 Stories of 2015: Ada’s, Tod’s Pt Crowds, Scarpelli’s Sausage, Anniversary of Mianus Bridge Collapse, GHS ’75 Reunion

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Some of our top clickers of 2015 share a common theme. Readers loved our stories that dipped into the collective memory of our Town. We’ve chronicled the restoration of Ada’s Variety, where countless residents grew up buying penny candy or picking up a newspaper on the way to catch the train to the city. We interviewed Rona and Pat Scarpelli in the family Sausage Shop on Bible Street, where Carl “Scarp” used to stand sentry with his apron and cleaver, scaring off neighborhood bullies who picked on kids in the park. From the 1:30am collapse of a 100 ft span of the Mianus Bridge on I95 that took place in an era before cell phones or texting, to the GHS class of ’75 reunion committee who shared memories of a simpler time when 18-year-olds could order a beer at countless dive bars in town. KC O’Brien put it succinctly. “We were free range. Kids today are caged. It’s very stressful.” Continue Reading →

Filed under: Around Town, Food Drink Restaurants, Lifestyle

PHOTOS, VIDEO: New Year’s Day Plunge at Tod’s Pt Goes a Long Way to Help Kids in Crisis

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UPDATE: Angela Swift reports that over $3,500 was raised for Kids in Crisis on New Year’s Day! New Year’s Day was gray but mild, and hundreds turned out for a local tradition of plunging into Long Island Sound to mark the new year. For the third year in a row, local mom, athlete and realtor Angela Swift, worked with Chillybear to organize t-shirts to commemorate the frosty plunge, with donations going to Kids in Crisis. 

And not a minute too soon, as the local non-profit recently lost its state funding and the cut puts the future of the organization in jeopardy. In November, the agency announced that the state had cut $750,000 in funding, and that the cut would go into effect in just 10 days. On New Year’s Day, right at noon, State Rep Fred Camillo led a countdown to the plunge. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Around Town, Giving, Holiday, Volunteering

Old Greenwich New Year’s Day Tradition Takes on New Meaning: Take the Plunge, Buy a T-Shirt, Help Kids in Crisis

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The National Weather Service forecast is for sunshine and a high near 41° on New Year’s Day. This is great for everyone who participates in the longtime local tradition of jumping into Long Island Sound on Jan 1. If you’re planning to take a plunge into the chilly water on Friday, consider doing it at noon, and getting a t-shirt in exchange for a donation to Kids in Crisis. The local non-profit has lost its state funding and the cut puts the future of the organization in question. Continue Reading →

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At Bruce Museum, Story Quilting Exhibit Contributes to Racial Reconciliation in America.

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Story quilting is an art form that goes beyond the simple quilting patterns familiar to many people. It expands on traditional textile-arts techniques to record, in fabric, events of personal or historical significance. Through the accessibility of their colors, patterns and symbols, the quilts of “And Still We Rise” relate narratives that enable conversations about sensitive topics from our national history, furthering the discussion of racial reconciliation in America — January 16 through April 24, 2016. Continue Reading →

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