Thursday, May 17, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
BROOKFIELD: "I absolutely, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Academy of Dance Arts!" T Hyde wrote this in response to this week's Readers' Choice poll asking readers to pick their favorite dance studio. DARIEN: "They have a long way to go to outnumber the cougars!" Doze E. Dare wrote this in response to news that the Greenwich Conservation Commission has issued an alert on the Town of Greenwich website that "there have been a couple bear sightings in town this week." NEW CANAAN: "This is a terrible tragedy for all, lets make the right decision by advocating right law, not by punishing our youth by making them stand as an adult." Adrienne Rosello-Kero wrote this in response to news that a 16-year-old New Canaan girl accused of striking and killing a …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
MONROE: "We are all Mom enough no matter what direction we choose, and any time you see a happy, thriving kid, he or she is living proof of that." Susan wrote this in response to "Patch Back" columnist Lisa Bigelow's view of Time magazine's controversial cover featuring Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her three-year-old son. NEW CANAAN: "Choosing how to raise children is feminism and another woman judging proponents of La Leche or attachment parenting is just like men trying to appeal abortion rights, trying to control women's bodies and their ultimate freedom: reproductive rights which morphs into parenting." kim wrote her response to the same article NEW CANAAN: "He is rude, unpleasant, and ineffective." Joey wrote this in his review …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
BROOKFIELD: "Never before in my life have I been in a studio as respectful, determined, and family friendly than Dance Dimensions." Ryan Bulson wrote this in response to this week's Readers' Choice poll for best dance studio in Brookfield. DARIEN: "After all this talk of the cover in the media, I still don't know what the story in Time is even about." Lisa Wilson Grant wrote this in response to this week's "Patch In" column about Time magazine's controversial cover featuring Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her three-year-old son. NEW CANAAN: "My last word on breastfeeding. Bottle for baby. Breast for daddy. Next." stella bella also responded this week's "Patch In." WILTON: "...Asking the media to stop suckling at the teat of advertising…
Monday, May 14, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
BETHEL: "Wow. So Murphy shot hoops. Hm. Just like his President. Will he be playing golf, next?" Donald Borsch Jr wrote this in response to news that Rep. Chris Murphy recently spent an hour at a Simsbury school shooting hoops and playing volleyball with approximately 400 students. RIDGEFIELD: "Heh, heh. So how's that fancy new library looking folks? 5 mil could have gone a long way to keep a school open..." Eileen wrote this in response to news that Ridgefield Schools will be holding a public hearing tonight to discuss the possibility of closing an elementary school within the next few years. STAMFORD: "Without question the best sushi in town." BARRY DEYULIO wrote this in his review of Kotobuki, which is in this week's Readers' Choice …
"A significant majority of PTA Council ... continues to be in favor of MISA, a long-overdue necessary repair to our Town's one and only public high school."
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Monday, May 14
To the Moderator, Moderator Pro Tempore, and Members of the Representative Town Meeting (RTM), On behalf of Greenwich PTA Council, the umbrella organization for the fifteen Parent Teacher Associations of the Greenwich Public Schools, I am writing to you in support of the Education Budget, as presented within the Town Budget, both Operating and Capital. We encourage you to vote for the Budget, including the appropriation for the Greenwich High School (GHS) Music Instructional Space and Auditorium renovation (MISA). A significant majority of PTA Council, many voicing the opinion of their PTAs' leadership, continues to be in favor of MISA, a long-overdue necessary repair to our Town's one and only public high school. The PTA supports …
Friday, May 11, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
DANBURY: "I know it is hard to believe Filo, but yes kids actually play tag, and catch, and ride bikes, and walk their dogs... just like the 'old days' and then we call them to dinner and wash behind their ears and send them to bed..." On the Border wrote this in response to comments made on an article about how Turner Road residents feel about a Belimo Air Controls manufacturing plant possibly coming to their neighborhood. FAIRFIELD: "Go ahead and raid the transportation fund, it's just those Rich Fairfield Country commuters, these suckers can always keep paying more and more for less and less." Newtotown wrote this in response to news that Metro-North riders will face a 4 percent fare hike in January. SHELTON: "Dennis and his crew were…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
DANBURY: "Maybe it's time to invest in educating our kids in reading, writing, and mathematics, and not how to get steroids to play football and die at 25." g wrote this in response to an article about the Board of Education's approval of next year's budget. MONROE: "Love how our politicians mainly focus on legislation that affects the smallest minority of the population." QWERTY wrote this in response to Thursday's "Eye on the Beltway" column, which keeps readers up-to-date on the actions of Sen. Blumenthal, Sen. Lieberman, Rep. Himes, Rep. DeLauro and Rep. Murphy. NEW CANAAN: "Let them have the same opportunity to be as miserable as the rest of us." Dunn Glenbar wrote this in response to a poll asking readers whether they agreed with …
GHS PTA wants to use letter to RTM for community awareness.
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Thursday, May 10
The Greenwich High School (“GHS”) PTA believes there needs to be appropriate facilities to meet current educational specifications and physical needs of our students. Facilities should be comparable with other school districts and should meet state guidelines. The Board of Education’s capital budget for 2012/13 includes the phase 2 funding for the MISA project and the long term capital plan addresses other needed maintenance projects as well as the improvement of athletic facilities. Completed in 1970, GHS is 42 years old. We support the BOE’s capital plan which provides for upkeep and investment in the building and grounds to address the needs of the 2,700 students attending GHS and the nearly 300 faculty and staff who work there. …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The day's best comments from Patch account-holders in our Fairfield County towns.
FAIRFIELD: "On a separate note, this article is so slanted left, I had to tilt my monitor in order to read it." Stanley Simpleton wrote this in response to an article about the Fairfield Representative Town Meeting passing the Fiscal Year 2013 budget on Tuesday. NEW CANAAN: "I write this review because I just purchased the last bed I'll ever sleep in!" John Heimer wrote this about Sleep Etc. on Main Avenue in Norwalk. TRUMBULL: "ah heck, Democrats are supposed to know this, but I'll say it anyway, money isn't everything." louis wrote this in response to news that the Connecticut House of Representatives unanimously approved the education reform bill Tuesday night. WILTON: "Being voyeurs doesn’t do anyone any good – come down from the …
Greenwich Patch reader shares his thoughts on town policy regarding workers at Grass Island as he seeks answers to why there are changes.
To: Greenwich First Selectman, Peter Tesei, David Theis, Drew Marzullo As a longtime Greenwich resident and user of the Grass Island town boating facilities, I am writing on a subject about which I, (along with almost everyone involved—users and vendors) strenuously object. A year ago the town instituted a huge change in previous policy relating to who can help me do this kind of work. I am not allowed to hire a collage student or an unemployed person to wax the hull or to wash down the boat. Last Spring, a friend who had worked for me for many years winterizing, cleaning, painting, and waxing my boats, without any forewarning, was ordered off the property by the dock-master at Grass Island. He was not on the list of approved contractors…
Bernard Schneider
10:41 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Statisticians will tell you that the most vauable information comes not from the mass of similar information, but from the "outliers",those data points that do not conform to the norm. For example, if there appears to be a relationship between a town's edcuation budget and the performance of its students, what can we learn from a school system in a low-income community that performs at a … more ›