Wildlife rescuer Meredith Sampson takes on hundreds of cases a year

Written by Chris Davis
Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:29

A turkey crashes through an office window. A tree crew takes down an old elm and inadvertently strands three baby squirrels without a mother or home. A small turtle is wounded by the side of the road. A swan gets frozen in the ice at Tod’s Point.

This kind of stuff happens all the time. People find baby birds with no feathers, a litter of three-month-old possum orphaned by a car, a crippled owl.

Teacher of Year to serve as commencement speaker

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:28

Anthony Mullen, the 2009 National Teacher of the Year, 2009 Connecticut State Teacher of the Year, and Greenwich’s own 2008 Distinguished Teacher, will be the commencement speaker for the Greenwich High School graduating class of 2010. The ceremony will be held in June, with the specific date to be announced next month.

Restaurants, businesses join ‘Night’ to benefit PTA

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:25

Greenwich High School PTA partners with Richards of Greenwich and local restaurants for “A Night on the Avenue,” a benefit to support PTA initiatives. The event will take place on Friday, March 26, from 6 to 8:30 at Richards of Greenwich, 359 Greenwich Ave.

Greenwich au pairs donate to Kids in Crisis

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:20

AuPairCare, an au pair placement agency, has teamed up with Build-A-Bear Workshop stores for their second annual Share-A-Bear campaign, which invites au pairs to give back to their local communities by making a bear to be donated to a local children’s charity.

Hurray for Purim

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 17:06

Costumed children celebrated celebrated Purim on Sunday, Feb. 28th. at the Hyatt in Greenwich.

Books benefit church repair

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:19

Members of the Albertson Memorial Church of Spiritualism will be selling cookbooks to raise funds for church repairs and updates to the parsonage.

Grauer honored at Peterson gala

Written by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:59

More than 300 prominent business and community leaders attended the Greenwich Library’s recent Peterson Business Award Dinner, which is held every other year and is the library’s only major fund-raiser. The event netted more than $550,000 to sustain the current level of services and programs.

Judges rule Lombardi guilty of manslaughter, not murder, in Pemberwick killing

Written by Ken Borsuk
Friday, 19 March 2010 14:36

Updated Friday, 5:15 p.m.: Gerardo Lombardi was convicted Friday of first degree manslaughter with a firearm in the death of his former daughter-in-law, Alison McKnight, a lesser crime than prosecutors had been seeking.

Mr. Lombardi, 77, had been charged with murder in the Sept. 4, 2008 death of Ms. McKnight. Police testified in the trial that they found Mr. Lombardi in the backyard of property Ms. McKnight owned holding a gun and a knife. Ms. Lombardi, who had been married to Mr. Lombardi’s son Joseph for 30 years before their 2008 divorce, suffered three gunshot wounds and up to 49 cuts and stabs on her body in the attack.

Police promote four following six-year hiring freeze

Written by Maggie Caldwell
Friday, 19 March 2010 17:01

Greenwich Police have announced the promotion of four officers today, the first such advancements in rank following a six year freeze related to a lawsuit filed against the town and the department.

First Selectman Peter Tesei announced that Tim Berry, Jim Heavey, Mark Kordick and Mark Marino all received promotions.Their official titles have not yet been made public.

School is set to open Monday

Written by Greenwich Post Staff
Friday, 19 March 2010 15:48

School officials announce that school will open again on Monday and buses will run a regular schedule.

The Greenwich Police Department has advised that some debris may remain on walks to school or to bus stops. School officials advise parents to walk with their children this weekend on a ‘dry run’ of the path that they take to school or to the bus stop to ensure that they have safe passage - to avoid any debris that may still exist - or - to plan an alternate route if necessary. Parents are asked to advise  children not to play in or around piles ofdebris and to continue to avoid any downed wires.