Category: GDTC Newsletters

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 4 Weekly Newsletter Deliver We may be in a moment of polarizing cultural conflict, but you don’t have to warn Sophie Koven about what she’s getting into by running for the Greenwich Board of Education. She’s a professional mediator. “I’m used to working with people who can’t agree,” she says,…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 3 Weekly Newsletter Deliver Perhaps it was Lucy von Brachel’s first job in middle school, shelving books at the Greenwich Library, that set her on a path toward the town clerk’s office. But it was art, specifically fine art photography, which gave her the skills that make her a natural…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 2 Weekly Newsletter Deliver A promise to “find solutions and fix the problems” of a fractured Town Hall Greenwich’s Democratic Town Committee (DTC) closed ranks last Thursday night around a slate of candidates for local elections in November who pledged to change the tone at Town Hall by listening to…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 1 Weekly Newsletter Deliver Deep in the bowels of Town Hall there are a couple of elected positions you would be forgiven for not knowing about. Rushing through your day, maybe trundling kids to school, flipping the lights on where you work, or walking the dog while balancing a cup…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 52 Weekly Newsletter Deliver If there ever was a time that Donnie Romeo regretted being a constable in Greenwich, he’s not saying. Not even when a woman sicced her wild pig on him after he served her papers. “It chased me all the way back to my car,” Romeo chuckled.…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 51 Weekly Newsletter Deliver By Stephen Selbst. Stephen is a Democratic member of the Board of Estimate and Taxation. He also serves on the Old Greenwich School Building Committee. Reprinted from Greenwich Free Press. Republicans on the Board of Estimate and Taxation claim they support the public schools. But their…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 50 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Many Greenwich residents were deeply disappointed with the FY ‘24 budget that passed the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) this year on a party line vote. For too long, the Republican-led BET has allowed short-term, politically motivated decision-making to dominate the process and neglect proper…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 49 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Connecticut lawmakers passed a bipartisan $51 billion budget last week which includes the largest ever middle-class tax cut, while boosting support for local school districts. The bill passed 139-12 and was signed into law by Governor Lamont on Tuesday. “This budget will deliver the largest personal…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 48 Weekly Newsletter Delivery For their annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner, the Greenwich Republican Party (RTC) has invited a long-shot presidential candidate who promises to go “farther than Trump” in carrying out the same dangerous, bull-in-a-china-shop agenda.  Vivek Ramaswamy has big ideas for remaking America –  the constitution and laws be…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 47 Weekly Newsletter Delivery It may be that local Republican leaders are running out of communities to attack, so they’re aiming for one group anyone with an ounce of common sense wouldn’t touch – Greenwich moms. To be fair, they’re lashing out at the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and the…