01/03/12 Hyper-Local Old Greenwich News Reports

From The Old Greenwich Roundup Newsroom...

• Invasion of the pink faces _{2013-01-02, 06:51 pm}
  ... stands by one of a number of pink smiley faces she has discovered around town. This one is in front of the Old Greenwich Tennis Academy on Sound Beach Avenue. Photo: Anne W. Semmes / CT This face sits looking out over West End Avenue, at the traffic ...
• Invasion of the pink faces _{2013-01-02, 06:51 pm}
  ... stands by one of a number of pink smiley faces she has discovered around town. This one is in front of the Old Greenwich Tennis Academy on Sound Beach Avenue. Photo: Anne W. Semmes / CT This face sits looking out over West End Avenue, at the traffic ...
• Poetry in motion: Local 10-year-old demonstrates the art of karate _{2013-01-02, 06:51 pm}
  Emanuel Lai performs a back fist strike from his Seiunchin kata, a choreographed series of movements from the isshin-ryu Okinawan style of karate, at the Old Greenwich dojo of his sensei Rick Zimmerman.
• More _{2013-01-02, 06:51 pm}
  Emanuel Lai performs a back fist strike from his Seiunchin kata, a choreographed series of movements from the isshin-ryu Okinawan style of karate, at the Old Greenwich dojo of his sensei Rick Zimmerman.
• Police reports _{2012-09-19, 03:00 am}
  An accomplice of the man charged with robbing an Old Greenwich gas station and shooting the attendant in the head testified Tuesday in state Superior Court about the November 2009 crime.
• Porricelli's market closes in Trumbull _{2012-12-30, 04:01 am}
  ... Porricelli family, opened in April 2002. The store in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich closed in 2009 and the Old Greenwich store was sold to Kings Food Markets in September 2012, Porricelli said.
• Jarombek named to Newbery Medal committee _{2012-12-29, 12:02 pm}
  ... actually has a personal family connection with the Newbery Medal. The first ever Newbery was awarded to Old Greenwich resident Hendrik Willem van Loon for his non-fiction book The Story of Mankind in 1922. And it was discovered that Mr. van Loon was ...
• Herbst and Trumbull's Econ Development Chair Respond to Porricelli's Closing _{2012-12-29, 07:31 am}
  ... commission Chair Scott Wich added, "Porricelli's has not had an easy year. First, with the closing of its Old Greenwich location in August and now with the closing of its Trumbull location." "It is truly unfortunate to see a well-regarded, ...
• Porricelli's To Close Its Trumbull Store Saturday _{2012-12-29, 06:50 am}
  It's the end of the Porricelli's era. The family-owned grocery chain, which sold its Old Greenwich location in September, is shuttering its last outpost in Trumbull today.
• Kids To Take Plunge At Greenwich Point New Year's Day _{2012-12-29, 04:19 am}
  ... annual event invites kids to run, jump or dunk their heads under the freezing water at Greenwich Point in Old Greenwich. The event is free, but proceeds raised from encouraged donations at the event will go to Kids in Crisis. The plunge will take ...
• Greenwich boys tops in robotics competition _{2012-12-28, 11:25 pm}
  The machine that rolls around Ajax and Artemis Shung's Old Greenwich home is a little bit like the boys and their friends -- it's small, and not very imposing, but just wait until you see what it can do.
• Trumbull Porricelli's Closing Down for Good Dec. 29 at 8 p.m. _{2012-12-28, 12:39 pm}
  ... family. The store located in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich closed in 2009 and the store located in Old Greenwich was sold to Kings Food Markets in October 2012, Porricelli said. Before it was Porricelli's it was the Grand Union grocery store. "We ...
• Porricelli's Market closes its doors Saturday _{2012-12-28, 11:51 am}
  ... in a small chain of stores that included two locations in Greenwich, one in the Cos Cob section and another in Old Greenwich. The Cos Cob store closed in 2009 and the Old Greenwich store was sold to Kings Food Markets earlier this year. "We are so ...
• Top Greenwich Stories Of 2012: Hurricane Sandy _{2012-12-27, 03:00 am}
  ... some of the worst damage in Fairfield County from the storm, including a dramatic fire on Binney Lane in Old Greenwich caught on video by the Greenwich Fire Department . The Greenwich Daily Voice spoke with a woman who lost her home on Binney Lane ...
• Greenwich girl captures Newtown's grief in poetry _{2012-12-28, 12:05 am}
  Old Greenwich resident Julia Evans, 12, says she is never one to raise her hand and offer to share her writing in front of her seventh-grade English class.
• Bring Back Tech Central Station _{2012-12-27, 01:17 am}
  That prompted a tall, extremely tanned blonde named Kay, from Old Greenwich, Connecticut, to ask Hassett, the co-A author of the 1999 book Dow 36,000 , "So what do we do with our money?" The contact list from the people who paid money for this cruise has to be among the most valuable set of leads in history.
• Israel Hedge Funds Defy Iran Threat Multiplying in Tech Center _{2012-12-25, 09:16 pm}
  ... to start a global health-care fund which now has about $235 million under management. WorldQuant LLC, based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, has a research and development team in Israel. Since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2005 Israel ...
• Actea blooms _{2012-12-25, 05:17 pm}
  The Garden Club of Old Greenwich members recently planted Narcissus Actea in the Adams Cemetery, a Revolutionary War cemetery in Old Greenwich.
• End of World Predictions is for Suckers Only _{2012-12-24, 04:19 pm}
  ... which would make 2008 look like a joyride. That prompted a tall, extremely tanned blonde named Kay, from Old Greenwich, Connecticut, to ask Hassett, the co- author of the 1999 book Dow 36,000, "So what do we do with our money?" Steaming past ...
• Right-Wing Grifters at Play: Joe Hagan's Dispatch From the National Review's Post-Election Cruise_{2012-12-23, 03:00 am}
  ... likely scenario being another Great Depression. That prompted a tall, extremely tanned blonde named Kay, from Old Greenwich, Connecticut, to ask Hassett, the co- author of the 1999 book Dow 36,000 , "So what do we do with our money?