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Greenwich Community Gardens will host its first-ever Mentor Workshops Day on Saturday May 16th, 9:45 -12:30 at the Bible Street Community Garden. RSVP ahead – space is limited. Continue Reading →
On Mother’s Day, Greenwich families turned out to celebrate mom with a pleasure as simple as a bike ride. The 13th annual Mother’s Day Bike Ride benefited from sunshine and warm temps. The event featured food trucks, flowers, bicycle vendors and Mike Steidley Mountain Bike Stunt Shows. Continue Reading →
Up at Parkway School, Harmony Trail helps reconnect children to the outdoors. Harmony Trail will be an ongoing project. Supporters will add educational signs to the trail and hope to extend it in the future. The project benefits from assistance of Audubon Greenwich and donations from Junior League of Greenwich and Sam Bridge Nursery. Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the 2015 Greenwich Eagle Scout Class: Robert Anderson, Eugene Constandaki, Peter Forsberg, Matthew Fox, William Freder, Benjamin Langley, John Martin, Conor Patterson, Nicholas Sages and Sivan Sud. If you would like to purchase tickets for this event or are an Eagle Scout interested in re-uniting with local Eagles, visit www.GreenwichScouting.org or contact Jessica Reid at [email protected] or call 203-869-8424 x112. Continue Reading →
This year Greenwich held its Hazardous Waste Disposal Day in the Island Beach parking lot, a change in venue from the GHS parking lot. On Saturday dozens of workers from Clean Harbors in protective gear unloaded hazardous materials from residents’ cars and prepared them for safe disposal. Continue Reading →
“We stock up on lunch items like tuna and peanut butter and jelly,” Coughlin said of the May “Stamp Out Hunger” project. “We do buy some food to supplement donations in the pantry, but this goes a long way toward keeping our food bills down.” Continue Reading →
Alice Sherwood, recently retired as Head of Children’s Services at Greenwich Library, was honored with the Faith Hektoen Award at the Meeting & Awards Ceremony of the 2015 Annual Connecticut Library Association (CLA) Conference on April 28, 2015. Continue Reading →
The kick-off of the Town of Greenwich’s 375th Neighborhood Tours will begin in Old Greenwich on May 16 at First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich. Pat Larrabee, the church’s historian, will present a slide lecture on historic homes and places of interest in Old Greenwich, followed by discussion and two optional tours: (1) the church’s stained glass windows that show the earliest history of Greenwich and (2) a short walk through the main cemetery next to the church to learn about historical people of note buried there. Continue Reading →
Members of the GHS theater department are finalizing their choreography and fitting their costumes in anticipation of next week’s run of Grease, which will be the last ever to be performed in the auditorium. The play is directed by Patty Cirigliano, with musical direction by David Johnson, technical direction by Scott Borowka and choreogrpahy by Davyd Suber Jr. Continue Reading →
The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Business & Culinary Showcase is set for Wednesday, May 13 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center. Participants can sample local restaurant fare, wine, beverages, and, of course, desserts. Bill Evans, Channel 7 – ABC television, will emcee the evening. Other highlights include raffle prizes, demonstrations, FREE valet parking, and event specials. Continue Reading →