Category: GDTC Newsletters
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Optimism in the air at Dems HQ on West Putnam
Local elections take on added importance as federal program cuts loom This is the first in a two part series profiling the Democratic BET candidates Candidates visited the new Democratic headquarters early this week at 9 Valley Drive, as they worked to increase voter participation at the polls in the fall. Often local elections have a…
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“Sorry for the rude awakening!”
Signed, Your Rogue GOP Finance Board 🙂 Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 8 Weekly Newsletter Delivery We are just weeks away from the start of school, and this year promises a doozy! Public school parent and Democratic Board of Ed candidate Veronica Chiavaroliwarns of an extra-severe traffic snarl along Route 1, whether you’ve got kids or not. Why? Six…
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Two parents. One mission: Stronger public schools for all
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 7 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Bob Chaney and Veronica Chiavaroli are the Democratic Party’s endorsed candidates for the Board of Education Bob Chaney never meant to get into local government. He was just volunteering at a Julian Curtiss School book fair but he soon found himself running the event, and then the talent…
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She’s done finance on a global scale
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 6 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Now she wants to fix your tax bill A few years ago, after a car accident totaled her family’s vehicle, Hale Bayram, a longtime executive at Unilever and Mastercard VP, notified the Greenwich Tax Collector’s office that they no longer owned the car. But the bills kept…
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Asleep at the wheel
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 5 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Greenwich deserves better than traffic planning on autopilot Board of Selectmen candidates Anthony Moor and Rachel Khanna have been knocking on doors in Greenwich for a month now, and report that what frustrates many these days is traffic. “Whether it’s speeding in backcountry,” Khanna says, “the daily parking hunt…
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What’s a BAA?
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 4 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Joe Huley and Bill Grad can tell you 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…
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Humor and heart: Greenwich natives seek constable re-election
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 3 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Serving papers—and their neighbors—with compassion and courage. 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…
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Meghan McCreary sees the possibilities
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 2 Weekly Newsletter Delivery A software engineer aims to bring the Town Clerk’s office into the 21st century Meghan McCreary has spent her career giving people access to the information they need to make better decisions. A software engineer by trade, she’s now running for Town Clerk. “We all just want our local…
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Leadership and teamwork drive progress toward a new Hamill Rink
Newsletter Volume 4 • Number 1 Weekly Newsletter Delivery An open process kick-starts stalled ice rink After years of stalemate, the Hamill Rink task force is turning things around, bringing transparency, collaboration, and long-overdue momentum to the effort to rebuild Greenwich’s municipal skating rink. Opened in 1971, the Dorothy Hamill Rink has been plagued by structural deficiencies, outdated…
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A sweet start for the class of 2025
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 52 Weekly Newsletter Delivery At GHS graduation, wisdom, humor, and a scoop of inspiration It wasn’t exactly ice cream weather at Greenwich High School’s (GHS) graduation this year, but it didn’t rain, and the skies held long enough for roughly 675 students to cross the stage, throw their caps in the…