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“We have presented a range of ideas to the town. Those ideas have been brushed off in our opinion, without any counter-suggestions or collaborative process or meaningful contributions to specifically adjust the ideas.” – Brendon DeSimone, Round Hill Association president Continue Reading →
At the OGA annual meeting Candace Garthwaite was honored. Recently she worked to have Old Greenwich proclaimed as a Village District to help preserve the character of its downtown business district. Also, Martin Waters from Old Greenwich Real Estate LLC, who purchased “the Nolan Estate,” comprised of 17 shops, 17 offices, 10 apartments and 5 warehouses, had no plans whatsoever to change the façades of the buildings on Sound Beach Ave or Arcadia. Continue Reading →
“Your job is to set it up so parents have a safe option.We have denied some of these in the past….That said, we recognize that these type of uses, besides being great for the young people, are also the way of the future. Goods and commodities are not going to drive people to the retail areas.” Continue Reading →
The Eastern Middle School 2024-2025 Drama Club will perform Disney’s The Little Mermaid in the school’s Lee Book Auditorium on January 30 (at 4:30 pm), 31 (at 7:00 pm), and February 1 (at 1:00 and 6:30 pm). Continue Reading →
“This is like a weather report. You don’t want to wake up in the morning and find out it snowed all night. You want that information if there’s going to be a snow storm two days earlier. Give me some advance warning.” – Bill Galvin Continue Reading →
“The RTM has spoken.” – Janet Stone McGuigan Continue Reading →
After about 40 speakers addressed the 230-member body, the motion failed in a vote: 52 Yes, 136 No and 6 Abstentions. Continue Reading →
At approximately 4:30am Greenwich Police responded to Putnam Hill on a report of four hooded subjects looking into cars. Investigation determined that the Volvo the suspect was driving had just been reported as stolen and the suspect was then placed under arrest. Continue Reading →
“Less well-known, even to Connecticut residents, is the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s two summers picking tobacco in Simsbury. In 1944 and 1947, the 15-year old, Morehouse College-bound student cultivated and picked tobacco on the Cullman Brothers’ “Meadowood” Tobacco farm with a coterie of his fellow Morehouse students. The time that King spent in Simsbury not only helped him decide to become a Minister, like his father, but also transformed his previous mindset – that African-Americans and white Americans could not interact peacefully.'” – François Steichen Continue Reading →
