A public meeting of the finance board (BET) chaired by Harry Fisher and First Selectman Camillo was held last week to obtain input from residents on capital projects. Many comments were made about improving the process for tracking the estimated $1.6 billion backlog of capital projects including making multi-year projections, prioritizing projects, and tracking cost estimates. Here is the recording of the meeting. There were numerous school related requests, including a second egress road...

The commercial operations of The Foodshed Network at North Greenwich Congregational Church has been approved preliminarily by Greenwich P&Z with many limitations. The Foodshed Network was founded by local resident, Ali Ghiorse, and is affiliated with Third Sector New England (TSNE) located i n Boston. The goal is to bring locally grown produce from upstate Connecticut farms into Greenwich. The distribution site will be set up for 3 hours from 8am to 11am on Tuesdays with a temporary small...

The town of Greenwich was just awarded a grant of nearly $50,000 from CT-DEEP's Trees for Communities Grant Program to plant trees in the Byram neighborhood of Western Greenwich. The project, entitled Byram Branches, aims to plant trees on both town property and private property in the Byram to increase the urban tree canopy. The Greenwich Department of Environmental Affairs were responsible for obtaining this grant. The program will be administered by the Greenwich Parks & Recreation...

Two suspects were arrested for a carjacking on Saturday Nov 8 around 4 pm in the mid-country section of Greenwich. According to social media posts, it may have happened on Zaccheus Mead Lane. The victim was reported being physically forced out of their vehicle and then thrown to the ground, by an unknown suspect who then fled the scene in the stolen vehicle. The victim was not injured. The responding officers learned that the suspects were likely two Hispanic males, wearing hooded...

It's back. The Affordable Housing bill that Governor Lamont (D) rightfully vetoed a few months ago has been re-issued and is about to be voted on in a special session in Hartford. The politicians say it's a scaled back version of the hated HB5002, a compromise bill, and a bipartisan effort. Don't believe any of that. It incentivizes dense, as-of-right multifamily and middle housing in commercial zones and near transit (think Greenwich, Cos Cob, Riverside, Old Greenwich train stations). It...