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Greenwich Police Depa r t ment promoted Detectives James Ruszkowski and Craig Zottola to the ra n k of Sergea nt during a ceremony at police headquarters. For photos and more on this story, visit greenwichsentinel.com. S T he Br uce Museu m’s Campaign for the New Bruce has received a $5 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra C ohen Fou nd at ion. T he d on a t i on w i l l f u nd t h e Education Wing planned for the Museum’s transformative expansion and construction project. The Campaign for the New Bruce is now more than 80% of the way toward the construction goal of $45 million.
Hundreds gathered at the 9/11 Memorial in Cos Cob Park Wednesday to remember and in loving memory of Bryan Craig Bennett, Stephen Patrick Cherry, Kevin Francis Cleary, Kevin P. Connors, Brian Cummins, Christine Egan, Michael Egan, Ulf Ramm Ericson, Bennett L. Fisher, Thomas Edward Galvin, Steven Glick, Donald Freeman Greene, Pedro Grehan, James Douglas Halvorson, Erik Hans Isbrandtsen, Joseph Anthony Lenihan, Adam J. Lewis, Peter R. Kellerman, Teddy Maloney, Francis Noel McGuinn, Christopher D. Mello, Cheryl Monyak, Lindsay Stapleton Morehouse, Robert Walter Noonan, Mike A. Pelletier, Michael C. Rothberg, Jason E. Sabbag, Stacey Leigh Sanders, Frederick Varacchi, Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, Martin Phillips “Buff” Wohlforth, Charles Alan Zion. Please see page 3 for complete coverage and page 7 for our editorial.
Jill Oberlander and Fred Camillo at Forum
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was arrested by warra nt stemming from a June 2019 nea r-fata l overdose of a Greenwich resident. GPD traced the narcotics back to two suspects. On Sept. 9, Greenwich Police arrested a Sta mford resident a nd charged him with assault, sale of narcotics and conspiracy.
S Detectives Gregor y Parrillo and Jeremy Bussel of t he Greenw ich Police Depar tment received recognition for their investigative work.
By Richard Kaufman G re e nw ic h Poi nt s e r ve d as t he backd rop on Monday nig ht, as First Select ma n candidates Fred Camillo and Jill Oberlander took part in a "town hall" style forum on the environment. The event was sponsored by t he Greenw ich Point Conservancy, and hosted by Sue Baker, a member of the GPC. The candidates first outlined their respective backgrounds, and then took questions from a n aud ience of roug h ly 150 people.
Oberlander, a democrat and current chair of the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation, moved to Greenw ich f rom Manhattan when her children were little. She said on Monday that protecting the environment i s k e y, w h i l e p o i n t i n g o u t t he t h re e E 's c ent r a l to her campaign: Economy, Education, and the Environment. She outlined her previous jobs, which include work ing for the New York City Parks Department out of college, and later in the Mayor's Office in the Transportation Department as an environmental analyst.
She also worked for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. I n t h e M a y o r ’s o f f i c e , she worked on strategies to implement the Clean Air Act requirements. These st rateg ies included pollution reduction t hrough technology, encouraging mass transportation, advocating for bicycle access and increasing ferry transportation. After Oberlander attended law school, she worked at the M TA , w h e r e t h e g o a l w a s to prov ide safe, reliable and frequent mass transportation services to help reduce pollution
Heidi Brake Smith Celebrating the New Bruce By Anne W. Semmes Heidi Brake Smith is much invested in her communit y of Greenwich. She’s brought her personal interest in public spaces – “how they function, how people react in public spaces,” to the Bruce Museum. She had a vision for developing downtown Greenwich into a cultura l center in her work with the Greenwich Center for the Arts, thus was drawn to realizing “the transformative project” of the New Bruce. She Co-Chairs the Campaign for t he New Bruce Committee, along with fellow Trustee John Ippolito and Museum Council Co-Chair Susan Mahoney. “Museums have the ability to br i ng p e ople toge t her,” Smith says, “of a ll ages, a ll backgrounds, all interests into a public space that brings joy, or understanding of the science, or e x plor at ion, or a r t i s t ic endeavors under one roof. The New Bruce will make a very big difference to downtown Greenwich as a whole, and also the region.” “This new Museum ties to the existing Bruce Park and the downtown area coming off of
“This new Museum ties to the existing Bruce Park and the downtown area," says Heidi Brake Smith. Steamboat Road. People who are on lower Greenwich Avenue will realize that the Bruce is very close. It’s a visual link on what is a continuous street that has been bifurcated by the railroad and the highway that feels like two sections. The New Bruce has this ability of joining those areas.” Smith shows a downtown schematic of how the Bruce sits in the center of a circle of surrounding streets. What the New Bruce brings, she says, “is that it’s walkable. It’s reachable. The New Bruce building project re-orients the entrance toward Bruce Park and creates a much
more accessible Museum. “Visitors will enter straight i nt o t h e Mu s e u m’s pu b l ic spaces from this new, ‘park level.’ They can then either take the elevator or the stairs to the galleries, which will open up a lot of opportunities for people who struggle in the physical format of the Museum today. From a functionality point of view, this takes the Museum to where it should be as a public institution.” Wherever Smith travels, she v isits public spaces. “They are the front door to a community,” she says. “You b e g i n to u nd er s t a nd w h at people are interested in in those communities, what they value.” What amazed her on a recent museum visit in her travels was seeing “multi-generations on a Saturday morning getting excited about an exhibition. Most people play sports on a Saturday morning, and it was teemi ng w it h l it t le k ids i n strollers and parents. Those kids want to go every week. And when you see that kind of excitement, you're like - those are special places.” “A museu m f its lots of people at different points in
time,” says Smit h. Her t wo grown children, she shares, had much benefited from the Bruce. “There are times in your life that you're very active in your local community, and times when your kids are little and you go to Tod’s Point. Then they're older, and you’re at the sports field.” But as she viewed recently at the Bruce, “on a super-hot, or rainy day – guess what? They’re at the Bruce!” S m i t h b e l i e v e s , “A s a com mu nit y member it is i mp or t a nt t o s up p or t ou r greatest assets. We have seen this time and time again that Greenwich stands on its beach, Tod 's Poi nt , on t he By ra m Park and Pool, the Greenwich Ho s p i t a l . W h e n y o u h a v e those key institutions that are strong, that are resilient, that keep up w it h st ate-of-t heart technology, that are ready for the next 50 to 100 years in their programming, those institutions, those intangibles, benefit everybody. It's a sense of pride for someone to say, ‘I live in Greenwich,’ and, someone else says, ‘Oh, I hear you have a really beautiful Museum!’” For more information, visit NewBruce.org
and congestion from cars. A s c h a i r o f t h e B E T, Oberlander said she has supported a number of i nit iat ives t hat relate to t he env i ron ment , i nclud i ng t he f u nd i n g t o pre p a re for t he impact of climate change on Greenw ich. She a lso helped develop a plan to address required environmenta l remediation, improvements to town infrastructure. She also serves as the BET liaison to the Board of Parks and Recreation. "Preserving and protecting our natural resources, water f ront , coa st l i ne, a nd
the options that we have here in Greenwich, is so critically important. As First Selectman, I pledge to do that. I will work to enhance resiliency and address energ y conser vation and sustainability, and protection to our waterfront," Oberlander said. Camillo, a republican, was born and raised in Cos Cob, and is current ly in his si xt h term as a State Representative for the 151st District. Camillo launched Greenwich Recycling Co., several decades ago, which set the standard for recycling
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Excerpts from The Waterwheel
Mosaics & Seasons ILLUSTRATED BY WAJIH CHAUDHRY
la st week t hat t he St ate of Connecticut has licensed 82 hemp growers, t wo pr o c e s s or s , a nd 21 m a nu f a c t u r e r s u nd e r a new pilot program he signed into law this spring allowing for the cultivation, harvesting, processing, and ma nu fac t u r i ng of hemp plants and by-products in the state. In total, there are currently 294 acres of land being used to grow hemp in Connecticut.
BY JOHN FERRIS ROBBEN
S Gov. Lamont announced
By Jill S. Woolworth, LMFT Most people’s lives and careers are more like mosaics than straight lines. All those “wasted or wandering” periods we worry about are actually part of life’s beauty. Over the years, the stories we share from our most challenging seasons allow us to connect deeply with each other. There is no single path in our lives that we must “find.” However, healthy meandering is not passive. It requires actively paying attention to and accepting where we are in the moment in order to move forward with confidence. Rather than trying to engineer our perfect pathway and outcome, we can learn to expect twists and turns, surprises, and closed doors, as well as new opportunities as they arise. Alex thought everything had to be done in one season, especially during her 20’s and 30’s. Learning to trust that the pieces would cohere when she looked back on her life was hard for her. Now that she is 60, she is surprised by the variety of things she has done. At age 21, her circuitous path would have made no sense. It does in hindsight. Yours will, too. An excerpt from The Waterwheel by local author, Jill Woolworth, available through Amazon. Alternatively, we encourage you to shop locally where it is also available at Diane's Books or Christ Church Books & Gifts.
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