Early Friday morning, there was a storm-related blackout in and around “the Hub,” as the downtown Cos Cob neighborhood is known locally. “Back country Cos Cob” (as townies call the area adjacent to North Mianus on the west side of the river) was uncharacteristically unaffected. Typically, life in back country Cos Cob is regularly punctuated [...]
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A Mother’s Christmas Present
One of the parental passage-points, I guess, is spending your first big holiday (Christmas, Hanukah) apart from your child. I have yet to experience that minor trauma, but I am reminded of it by one mom in our Greenwich (a prominent Greenwich denizen, by the way) who doing something about spending this Christmas half-a-world away [...]
Temple Sholom honored for excellence
Temple Sholom was recognized for its leadership, innovative programs and use of technology recently at the Biennial Convention of the Metropolitan New York Region (METNY) of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), garnering three Awards for Excellence. Phyllis Lyons, Director of Temple Sholom’s Selma Maisel Nursery School received her award from METNY Executive Director [...]
Thanksgiving As Viewed from the State of Unemployment
Some of the people who used to suit up and head out of town by 7:30 in the morning, are now walking down my street at mid day in corduroys and windbreakers. They are out of work, just like me. I watch them from the window of my office – an empty bedroom on the [...]
4,000 Turkeys needed!
With Thanksgiving days away, the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County is in dire need of holiday turkeys. Last year, the food bank, whose mission is to feed the hungry in Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford and Wilton, provided 3,634 holiday turkeys to its member agencies, such as Neighbor To Neighbor, and the Domestic [...]
GHS Cheerleaders Fashion Show and Boutique this Sunday 11/16 from 1-4pm
The Western Greenwich Civic Center will be transformed into a winter wonderland this Sunday, November 16th between 1pm and 4pm when the Greenwich High School Cheerleaders hold their annual fundraiser. Events include a holiday boutique, a fashion show where clothing provided by Vineyard Vines will be modeled by GHS cheerleaders, and a silent auction featuring [...]
See John Ferris Robben’s Photo Journey to the Black Forest Bakery
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Uncivil Civics
Today we welcome our newest Our Greenwich columnist, Frank Trotta. Trotta, the father of three, has lived in Cos Cob since 1992, and has worked in Greenwich since 1985 — a relative “newcomer” to Town, but a “Townie” at heart. He has been involved on the local, state and national levels in Republican politics and [...]
Mary Ann Hoberman named Children’s Poet Laureate
Beloved Greenwich children’s book author Mary Ann Hoberman has been named by the Poetry Foundation as Children’s Poet Laureate. She inherits the two-year position, which comes with a $25,000 prize, from Jack Prelutsky. The purpose of the Poetry Foundation award is to raise awareness of poetry among children. “Generations of readers who first discovered poetry [...]