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Ice cream and water fun surged at Nicole Heath’s annual Fresh Air Fund Party. For two decades, Heath has hosted and chaired for various chapters of the Fresh Air Fund, a nonprofit providing free summer vacations in the suburbs to an average of 400 inner-city youth per year. Continue Reading →
Off-Beat Players, Inc. (OBP), the Greenwich-based theater company devoted to teen and young adult performers with wide-ranging abilities and disabilities, will perform the smash hit “Bye Bye Birdie” at the Arch Street Teen Center. Continue Reading →
To commemorate the 375th Anniversary of the Founding of Greenwich on July 18, 1640, a ceremony, open to the public, will be held Saturday, July 18th, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the beautifully restored Town of Greenwich’s Innis Arden Cottage at Greenwich Point. Continue Reading →
The culmination of Daniel Gazaille’s Eagle Scout project was satisfying indeed. On Thursday, Dan and several environmental science students from Greenwich High School collected dozens of baby eel from the foot of the dam by the old bolt factory on Comly Ave before driving them up to Camp Seton. For the eel, the detour meant avoiding having to climb a series of dams, which are manmade obstacles to their their survival. The American Eel is a keystone species – both predator and prey – and their population is threatened. See video of the Eel Bot 2.0 trap, catch, relocation and release. Continue Reading →
According to the Light Up Greenwich team, who are working closely with Green & Clean, Greenwich will be dark and dismal again without lots of donations. A website LightUpGreenwich.org has been created and donations of $5 or $10 are much appreciated. These are everybody’s lights, all $32,000 worth! A total of 175 trees will be illuminated this holiday season from November 20 to Continue Reading →
Join the Alliance Française on Tuesday morning, July 14 at 8:00 am for the raising of the French and American Flags to celebrate the French national Holiday, “le 14 juillet.” Continue Reading →
Mark your calendars for the East Coast Open at the Greenwich Polo Club on three consecutive weekends starting August 23. The club will host the tournament which promises a day of fun and tradition, including “divot stomping” and opportunity to wear your fanciest hat. There are always surprises including pop up retail tents, car test drives, an array of food trucks including Caffé Bon, Lobstercraft and others. Continue Reading →
A Historical Society bus tour of history-rich Northwestern Greenwich made several stops. One stop was at a house made of stones from China’s Yangtze River. Another stop was at the 33-acre Field-Griffen House, one of the oldest estates in Greenwich, where for several generations Quakers farmed. The sold-out tour stopped at the Round Hill Store, the oldest general store in America, and also stopped at the site at which the Ku Klux Klan burned a 20-foot high cross to retaliate the opening of an ecumenical church in 1924. Continue Reading →
The $1 million will help offset construction costs of Project Renew to modernize the 112-Year-old facility on Parsonage Road in Greenwich. Continue Reading →
Greenwich’s annual sidewalk sales days run through Sunday. There are 120 participating businesses in the Greenwich Ave area and shoppers are advised to bring quarters to feed the meters and wear comfy walking shoes. Continue Reading →