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Greenwich Police Taking Applications For Spring Citizens' Academy
GREENWICH, Conn. -- Greenwich residents with a yen to see what it’s like to patrol, write tickets, and solve crimes can now sign up to ride along with their local police officers.
Greenwich police are taking applications for the spring session of its six-week-long Citizens’ Police Academy.
Among the many areas citizen cadets will get to explore are: patrol operations, 911 awareness, use of force, motor vehicle stops, domestic violence, DUI and accident investigations, fraud, narcotics and the K-9 unit, crime scene forensics, and crime prevention.
The academy offers a two-hour ride-along wi…
Newtown Recycling Authority Announces Contest Theme: 'Bags To Riches'
BROOKFIELD, Conn. -- The Brookfield-based Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority has announced the theme of its next recycling billboard contest for students – “Bags to Riches.”
The regional waste management authority serves 11 communities — including Newtown, Sherman, New Fairfield, Brookfield, Danbury, Bethel, Ridgefield and Redding — in western Connecticut. The contest is open to all students in those towns.
The regional grand prize winner will get $250, the authority said. Other winners will receive prizes of $25, $50, or $75. The grand prize winner's school district or organization wi…
It's Not Too Late For Holiday Cookies, Say The Folks At CIA
HYDE PARK, N.Y. – The holidays may be officially over, but it’s not too late to whip up a batch of cookies for your friends and family ... or even yourself, says The Culinary Institute of America, a Hyde Park destination for foodies.
The CIA has published its list of the Top 10 goodies. To see them, and to download printed versions of the recipes, click here. They include: pecan diamonds, peppermint bark, mudslide, anise biscotti, coconut macaroons, and gingerbread with royal icing.
Easton's Congregational Church Dressed Up In Sunday Best
EASTON, CONN. – The Congregation Church of Easton is looking mighty spiffy lately, according to a report in the Easton Courier.
The church, built in 1835, had been a little bedraggled and folks were beginning to talk, the Courier reported.
After a new roof, shutter and a paint job, the church is once again getting compliments from the congregation and community, the Courier story said.
For the full Courier report, click here.
For more information about the church, click here. To visit its Facebook page, click here.
'Good Day Hudson Valley' Discusses Mahopac Fire Embezzlement Scandal
MAHOPAC, N.Y. -- David McKay Wilson, a Tax Watch columnist for The Journal News, was recently interviewed on "Good Day Hudson Valley" about the growing Mahopac Fire Department embezzlement scandal.
Wilson told the interviewer, Daily Voice correspondent Lisa Kaslyn, that the flap over the missing $5 million heated up this week with the entrance of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, as the overseer of the inquiry.
Other developments, McKay told Kaslyn included Carmel’s cutting of the fire department’s budget by $550,000, and a new contract which …
