About 70,000 fans at Giants stadium got a glimpse this past Sunday of what Greenwich residents can see every Sunday during the autumn. The half-time show at the New York Giants victory over the San Francisco 49ers was a series of scrimmage-plays between the Cos Cob Crushers and the Putnam Generals, two of the six [...]
Posts on ‘October 21st, 2008’
GPD has new weapons against speeders
Those speeding in Greenwich beware! “OurGreenwich.com” has learned that the Greenwich Police Department is equipping nearly all of its patrol cars with new, state-of-the-art radar, courtesy of a grant. And speeders need to be on the lookout not just for those marked and unmarked Crown Vics. GPD is now the proud owner of a couple [...]
Uncivil Civic
Driving to work, contemplating what I should write for my first blog, I noticed dueling signs on Valley Road. Travelling west, on the left (appropriately) was a house with an Obama sign and directly across the street a house with a McCain-Palin sign. I thought I could write about neighbors disagreeing without being disagreeable – [...]
NY Times stereotypes Greenwich (2005)
Below is a letter I submitted to the editor of the New York Times, but which they decided not to publish. Stacey Stowe’s article “A Name Change to Protect the Innocent” (New York Times, October 21, 2005) begins by referring to residents of a certain street in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut as [...]
Movie, “The Passion of the Christ” helps give focus to Christian faith (2004)
I’ve seen the passion scores of times — not the movie (I’ve only seen that twice), but the passion that my faith believes is relived whenever one person makes a completely selfless, significant sacrifice for another — especially for a person he does not “owe” or perhaps even know. For example, the World War II [...]
Thank God I Am Not a Cop, and Thank God For Those Who Are! (2003)
I was “killed” twice this fall – once by a “FATS” machine and once by a classmate. I am fortunate enough to live to discuss it because the “killings” occurred during my training as a member of the first graduating class of the Greenwich Citizens Police Academy. The brainchild of Chief James Walters, the 39 [...]
What it means to be a true “Greenwich Person.” (2002)
What it means to be a true “Greenwich Person.” The essay in Greenwich Time, (Sunday, February 10, 2002) “Becoming a Greenwich Person and Proud of It” should cause all Greenwich residents to reflect on what it means to be a “Greenwich Person.” The “typical” Greenwich person depicted in the essay is what I like to [...]