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...

Last year the sky was falling. We were told the Greenwich public schools are underfunded - even though Greenwich spends the most per pupil ($28,000) of any school in the state. It was a year ago, that Superintendent Toni Jones requested another large +5.4% increase ($12 million) to the school budget, well above the finance board's (BET) non-binding guideline of 2.96%. To achieve a compromised 3.5% increase ($8 million), the schools responded with painful cuts, including a last-minute...

CT Senators Murphy (D) and Blumenthal (D) voted against the deal reached on Sunday to reopen the federal government. The deal promised a vote on health care subsidies within weeks of the opening. Murphy accused Donald Trump of "hurting people in order to enrich himself, destroy our democracy, and stay in power forever." Blumenthal claimed, "I am unwilling to accept a vague promise for a vote at an indefinite time on an indeterminate bill." The government shut down, the longest in history,...