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fter a July 16, 2003 workout, Easton resident Drew Pickering Jr. sought a rejuvenating drink only to end up covered in supplement powder. “The stuff was everywhere,” he said. “There had to be a better way.” That was Pickering’s Thomas Edison moment. That night he sketched out the basics in a notebook of what for him would become a 10-year sojourn to patent and bring to market his Scoop E-Z, now officially patent No. 7,441,676 — Device for Dispensing Media. For those with similar lightbulb moments, ads abound featuring companies that promise (sort of) to make your invention a success: You could invent the » Measured, page 6

Drew Pickering Jr. with his patented scoop in Easton.

Demand soars for Small Business Development Center BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

a QUarTEr inTO THE FiSCaL yEar and already the newly relaunched Connecticut Small Business Development Center has 400 clients. Officials had hoped to serve 550 clients for the entire year. University of Connecticut officials agreed in January 2013 to take over as the SBDC host institution and have since rebuilt the center to

serve as a one-stop shop for business owners seeking advice, resources and capital. Now with several new offices and a trained staff in place, the center is operating at full speed and is contending with a high demand in the state for small business advising resources. Requests for appointments have tripled since August with more than 10 new client requests a day, said Emily Carter, Connecticut’s SBDC director since August.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us,” Carter said. “We’re basically a startup that started from scratch. We’ve got a new team, marketing strategy, products in place and we’re getting the traction we need to become a premier SBDC.” An 18-year SBDC veteran, Carter moved from Illinois to assume her new position in Connecticut, bringing with her institutional knowledge. The state’s new program may be in its infancy, but Carter said she sees it » SBDC, page 6

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Vicki Volper

The divorce minus the acrimony By Frank Pagani

n 2003, Vicki Volper of Westport was a commercial real estate attorney with more than 21 years experience. Today she is a prominent mediation and collaborative divorce attorney. She is also founder of the Divorce Mediation Team of Connecticut, which has helped many divorcing couples successfully resolve their conflicts — saving them time, money and stress. The dramatic change in Volper’s practice began 11 years ago when she received a flyer in the mail. It was from the Dispute Settlement Center (DSC), the Connecticut nonprofit that offers skilled conflict resolution services. “I found the mediation concept intriguing and decided to serve as a volunteer attorney with the DSC,” she said. Soon after mediating some cases, she decided to become a family law attorney and completed 40 hours of required mediation training. As it turns out, that decision was fortuitous for Volper’s new practice because mediation was a fairly new but expanding alternative for couples seeking divorce. “Mediation divorce has grown exponentially since I entered the field a decade ago and it’s the wave of the future,” Volper explained. “The trend to divorcing amicably through mediation has gained in popularity, especially in recent years during hard economic times. It has proven to be far less expensive for couples to resolve conflicts rather than going through the court system, which is often a lengthy and expensive process as well as one that prolongs and exacerbates psychological and emotional stress on couples and their families.” Volper also said the art of mediation can make a big, positive difference in especially complex and difficult divorce scenarios. She cited a case of which she is proud that involved a couple who had been married for 20 years, had six children and were pillars in their church and community. The husband was a high-net-worth financial executive and the wife was a stay-at-home mom. “The family nearly imploded because the husband had an extramarital affair with another man. That raw emotional landscape, combined with the husband’s complex financial derivatives-based compensation, posed a number of challenges for us,” Volper said. Volper’s prior experience as a tax

attorney was pivotal in helping to understand the husband’s knotty finances and in determining an equitable financial compensation for the wife. Equally important, family marriage and family therapist Paula Levy, who teams up with Volper on all mediation cases, played a psychologically supportive role to help the couple navigate emotionally charged issues, including the sharing of parenting responsibilities. Levy, who is also a CPA, provided guidance to the wife about how to effectively manage the family’s finances after the divorce took effect. But, there was a bump in the road on the way to final resolution. “When we went to review counsel whereby the attorneys representing the husband and wife reviewed the plan to make sure their clients were making an intelligent decision, the wife’s counsel created a great deal of doubt in her mind about the financing arrangement we had carefully crafted. Fortunately, the wife followed our advice to engage another review attorney who was more respectful of the process. I take a great deal of satisfaction in this case because in spite of several pitfalls, the couple finally agreed that the settlement was fair and equitable and was in the best interests of their family.” Avoiding an ugly and expensive divorce is Volper’s specialty by offering couples the opportunity to split using either mediation or collaborative divorce. Both processes are nonadversarial and provide couples with the opportunity to maintain their dignity, preserve their assets and protect their children through the divorce process. In mediation, Volper acts as a neutral third party facilitating discussions between the two parties about each of the issues of their divorce, including division of assets, future parenting roles and child and spousal support. While she acts as a resource for the legal aspects of divorce, Volper does not provide legal representation to either party. Instead, she guides both through the legal pro-

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cess and helps each to make their own decisions based on the agreed-to goals and sense of fairness. With collaborative divorce, Volper acts as an attorney for one spouse while the second is represented by another attorney. Unlike the traditional attorney representation in divorce, collaborative attorneys focus their efforts on settling all of the issues of the divorce instead of fighting. When appropriate, Volper also helps to select other collaborative team members such as coaches, a child

specialist and a financial specialist to facilitate the process. No fighting, no costly court intervention. That’s the alternative of the new divorce landscape, one that gives Volper great satisfaction … case by case. Winners Circle is a regular feature that takes a look at successful women in business and at top attorneys, men and women, in the region. To nominate someone, contact Bill Fallon at bfallon@ westfairinc.com.

App helps personalize networking events BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

or some, the experience of a networking event can mean only speaking with people you already know or making random contact with others you have nothing in common with. Hoping to provide a more meaningful networking experience, Wilton resident Oji Udezue is developing a new smartphone app that allows users to see the LinkedIn profiles of event attendees. Rather than striking up a conversation with whoever is nearest, Intermingl allows users to seek out individuals by career field, company, position, education or interests. Then, instead of spending the first minutes of a conversation with introductions, attendees can dive into thoughtful questions or discussion, Udezue said. Through the app, users can instantly connect on LinkedIn with information about the event automatically added into the contact. It also includes the option of adding personal notes or photos.

“You’ll have less of a random experience,” Udezue said. “Instead of taking a business card home, putting it in a drawer and perhaps forgetting who the person is once you find it again, it’s very easy to go back and relive the context and space you met someone.” Udezue previously worked as a product manager at Microsoft Corp. and Bridgewater Associates in Westport. A part of a series of user experiments, members of the Business Council of Fairfield County’s Young Professionals Network (YPN) used the app during a January networking event at an AmeriCares facility in Stamford. Before listening to a presentation on how AmeriCares is able to deliver humanitarian aid across the globe, event attendees first used the app to seek out relevant contacts. Keith Reynolds, a YPN director, said he invited Udezue to the event as a way to help support the tech entrepreneurial community. An app like Udezue’s could give young professionals an equal footing at networking events where they

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might otherwise not know who to talk to. Though Intermingl is still in its early stages, Reynolds said he believed the app was a “simple and elegant” solution to building a network, especially for young professionals who are more suited to using technology in social situations. “Younger people are used to using smartphones,” Reynolds said. “They’re right at the formative stages of their careers and this just brings their professional networking into a behavior they already do. “Good technology enables behaviors people already do and doesn’t necessarily change how people work or behave,” he added. Unlike many other phone apps, however, there is a tangible revenue stream connected to Intermingl. While users may use and download the app for free, event planners must pay a fee to set up a platform for event attendees to use. The fee also includes access to data on how many connections were made and demographic information about the

Attendees at a networking event in Stamford try out Intermingl.

people who attended, like gender, age or career stage. “It tells you what you accomplished in an event,” Udezue said. “That’s a powerful pitch for future events if you can tell people what they will get out of it. Many are willing to pay for that kind of service.” Udezue said he is in the beginning stages of seeking seed capital, though most of the design process is already complete. He expects to launch the final version of the app by the middle of the year.

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Miles to go before we recover

hen the poet Robert Frost wanted to convey existential weariness, he famously repeated: “And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep.” Poetic or not, the December report from the UConn Business School’s Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis offers a similarly protracted ennui: “Slowly, slowly,” it begins, “jobs are returning to Connecticut’s economy. But the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate for Q3 2013 is misleading.” The reason is malaise — the weariness of seemingly endless unemployment — according to a study by authors Peter E. Gunther, senior research fellow; William E. Waite, manager research projects; Fred Carstensen, director; and Jill Coghlan, data librarian. “The improving unemployment rate is in large measure an artifact of declining participation in the workforce,” they wrote. “If participation were still at the level of the 2Q 2010, the unemployment rate would be 10.7 percent. And, if participation were at its historical high, the

unemployment rate would be dramatically higher still. Nearly 65,000 working-age adults simply stopped looking for employment during the last three years. In short, while Connecticut’s sluggish recovery has failed to restore the jobs lost since 2007, the state’s economic malaise has driven many adults out of the work force.” We may, in fact, be working ourselves out of jobs by doing things too well, too efficiently. “Continuing productivity gains often approaching (or even exceeding) 2 percent annually translate into no job creation unless the economy grows even faster. “Even at the national level, job creation remains modest for this reason. Ironically, Connecticut’s strength in manufacturing, which typically delivers the highest productivity growth, compounds the challenge of job creation. “Connecticut has not created and sustained net new jobs in 25 years; current employment remains below the level of 1989. The extraordinary per-

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sistence of weak job creation argues powerfully for profound structural weaknesses in the state’s economy, weaknesses that surely pre-date the devastating recession that hammered the state economy at the opening of the 1990s or the financial crisis in 20072008.” The answer as Connecticut Center of Economic Analysis sees it, at least short term, is public- and private-sector stimulus. “Previous Outlooks” — the center’s publications — “have evaluated how the state could drive significant short-term job creation by accelerating major capital projects whose funding has already been approved or unleashing the large trove of tax-credits companies have earned but not expended to support private sector capital projects. “Together these strategies could generate tens of thousands of new jobs in Connecticut within two to four years. “The analysis (in the Connecticut Economic Analysis for December 2013) clearly demonstrates the continuing importance of considering implementation of those strategies to drive short-term job creation even as they strengthen long-term competitiveness and, coincidentally, generate additional revenues to reduce if not eliminate threatened deficits.”

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Nonprofits discover each other Kindred spirits collaborate and expand BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

ike many mental health providers, FSW Inc. knew the future would require an electronic health records system. But as a Bridgeport nonprofit, the family service agency didn’t have the funding to research and develop a system, on top of managing its many other programs to promote economic selfsufficiency. “It would have been exceedingly challenging,” said Robert Muro, FSW COO. “The costs involved in purchasing and operating a system are huge.” But rather than ignoring the need or going in head first, the organization collaborated with two other family service agencies with similar needs and missions. Armed with a $580,000 state grant, the organizations pooled their resources together and purchased the software needed to develop an appropriate platform. With many Connecticut nonprofits strapped for cash, the number of mergers and partnerships formed between nonprofits is increasing. Given the financial challenges in serving individuals in a down economy, a collaboration between nonprofits can mean significant cost savings and in many cases, improved quality or scale of services. “We would have had to have gone to an electronic record at some point and the collaboration allowed us to proceed forward with implementing it, in what is otherwise a difficult financial time for most nonprofits,” Muro said. While a reported 28 nonprofits have closed their doors statewide since 2007, another 48 have either merged or established an alliance with another organization, according to the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy. In response to advocates’ demands for state support, General Assembly members approved a one-time grant program in 2009 to help facilitate additional collaborations as nonprofits restructure and find ways to streamline services. Between 2010 and 2013, five collaborations received a total $1.3 million in funding. And with an additional $3.7 million remaining, the state Office of Policy and Management is currently accepting applications until Feb. 14 for a new funding round.

The program doesn’t cover merger activities and is, instead, targeted toward more programmatic partnerships — like an after-school program partnering with an arts organization — or shared backoffice services between nonprofits such FSW’s record system. Since releasing a merger trend report last year, officials at the Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) have hosted various panels for additional nonprofits to learn about collaborations and mingle with other groups to find shared services. In FCCF’s report, 57 percent of survey respondents were involved in a programmatic partnership while 10 percent of respondents shared back-office services. In both instances about half of those in a collaboration reported cost savings and most reported an increase in services provided. Cost savings are not always a given, said Elaine Mintz, director of FCCF’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence, especially if a collaboration is the only way a program can be sustained. Yet if collaborating groups have similar cultures and missions, it can provide benefits beyond cost savings. “I think in the nonprofit sector you can say there’s never enough support,” Mintz said. “But this (state program) is providing some much needed support. “Whether it’s a physical space that needs to be expanded or IT systems that need to be intergraded, there’s all these costs associated with collaborations,” she added. “To have a funding stream available is wonderful. I think it shows the state is forward thinking and shows the state believes when nonprofits work together that they can be more efficient and effective.” Now that FSW is working with agencies in neighboring towns, Muro said the collaboration had extended past a software platform into a rich relationship for executives to brainstorm on separate topics and partner on training programs. “When you pull your resources together and you have good people coming to the table, there are a lot of synergies beyond sharing an electric health record platform,” Muro said. “It’s been a win-win-win, for all three agencies. As someone who is relatively newer to my position, it’s been wonderful to meet people across the other agencies and get to know them and what they’re doing.”

Citrin Cooperman Corner 2014: The Year of the Entrepreneur By William T. Conron, CPa CiTrin CooPerman With the start of a new year, entrepreneurs are eager to know what the market is like for starting a new business and the steps they need to take to help turn their vision into a reality. UPBEAT BUSINESS CLIMATE There is no question that the environment for starting a business is now the best it has been in recent years. We make this assessment based on the economic outlook of our clients and input Christian Morris from funding resources in the region. In addition to an improved financing picture, both the private and public sectors seem to have an increased appetite for funding early-stage businesses. That said, it is vitally important that aspiring entrepreneurs do their homework before launching their business enterprise. For that reason, we have put together the following recommended action plan. William T. Conron, CPA

HOW TO SUCCEED IN 2014 • Don’t be afraid of failure. Starting a business is difficult. Understand that you are going to face many hurdles. Successful entrepreneurs take risks and know that failure is an obstacle they will have to overcome to attain their goals. • Make sure your concept is sound and economically viable. Is there an existing market for your product? Who is your competition? How many competitors do you have? Who are your prospective customers? What is the annual revenue of the market? • Structure is important. Each business structure has advantages and disadvantages that should be considered at the time of formation. • Seek the proper type of funding. You will eventually require some form of outside investment. Which form of outside investment is right for you and your business? Each form affects you and the business differently. State grants generally require a matching equity contribution and a commitment to increase jobs within the business. Traditional bank financing may require preparation of financial statements. Angel & venture capital reduce the founder’s ownership of the business. • Seek funding when the time is right. “Timing is everything,” notes Christian Morris, entrepreneur and managing partner of SmartPath Labs. “Many successful entrepreneurs bootstrap their startup or begin their new venture as a part-time business. This gives them time refine the product, provide market validation, and make early mistakes on

their own dime. Many public and private programs will not consider a company’s application for grants or financing until it has been an active business for at least a year.” • Practice your pitch. Keep in mind that you will be among many vying for the attention of investors, which makes it imperative that your business plan and pitch clearly describe your value proposition and distinguish your product or service from the competition. • Leverage social media to reach your audience. Social media will play a significant role in growing your business. Determine which social media platforms—Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or a combination of these and others— will be best to attract and engage your desired audience. Video is also a critical medium. “There are 100 hours of new video content uploaded to YouTube every minute. One company, dollarshaveclub. com, used their entire marketing budget on this one medium, with great success,” adds Christian. • Have a cause. Supporting a local charitable organization is a great way to increase visibility and build goodwill in the community. Donating your time will not only make you feel good about yourself but will often lead to recommendations and business referrals. The cause should mean something to you personally to keep you engaged. Christian, whose father himself was an entrepreneur and passed away three years ago from cancer, is a board member of Sound Affects Life, a non-profit that provides grants to earlystage bio entrepreneurs in oncology. • Seek advice from a colleague or even a potential competitor. Many successful entrepreneurs collaborate with their competition to achieve mutually beneficial business goals. Being open-minded is a key to survival in an ever-changing business climate. While success is never guaranteed, 2014 could turn out to be a banner year for those passionate about starting a new business. William Conron, CPA, a partner in Citrin Cooperman’s Connecticut office, provides consulting and compliance services to individuals and emergingto-mid-sized businesses in a wide range of industries, including financial services, real estate and technology. He can be reached at 203-847-4068 or wconron@citrincooperman.com. Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and business-consulting firm with offices in White Plains, NY; Norwalk, CT; New York City; Livingston, NJ; and Philadelphia, PA. Christian Morris is the Managing Partner of SmartPath Labs; a Westport, CT-based software development, marketing, and business advisory firm that services the healthcare, financial and hitech industries. He can be reached at (203) 216-0464 or cmorris@smartpathlabs.com.

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next paper clip. The reality for Pickering and his company, Kenz Inc. in Easton, was riddled with potholes, production dead ends (caveat emptor, especially in China) and the absolute requirement that the idea possess “uniqueness,” as Pickering explained on a recent sunsplashed day in his home-office in a renovated horse barn. Additionally, you have to be aware of obviousness. “They don’t allow you to patent the obvious, such as changing a color to achieve a patent or putting square edges on something with round edges. “I always thought inventing was the hard part,” he said, offering something of a tinkerer’s lament. “With this process, you hear ‘no’ a lot.” Pickering possessed a single large advantage over the person who thinks up a great idea, but who has little ability to manufacture and see it through to fruition. He and his father, Drew Pickering Sr., ran for 25 years Kingswood Technology in Stratford, a tap-and-die shop. “That’s where I learned how to make a product,” Pickering Jr., 41, said. The shop made medical devices and car parts, including the levers for tilt steering wheels. Pickering Jr. worked on the manufacturing bench for seven years, four of them as an apprentice, before Pickering Sr. would let him talk to a customer. Pickering’s scoops possess windowed and curved handles to allow excess powder to fall back into its container. The scoops also have fluted necks, which make it easy to pour powders into, for example, a quart bottle of water. Taken as a single product, the scoops’ patent journey cost about $40,000 and included provisional, utility and patent treaty cooperation phases. Like many manufacturers, Pickering sought to manufacture in China. The low startup cost was the musk that first attracted him. Six months later came the comeuppance. “The tooling is cheaper there,” he said. “After that you get much better manufacturing quality control in the U.S. This is one reason U.S.-manufactured stuff is coming back. “I have much better quality control in the U.S.,” he said, praising his current manufacturer, Minnesota-based National Measures. “Overseas, you don’t know what you’re going to get until six months later. You open the door and this is not what you wanted or half are bad. I had huge lag times — months later I still would not know what I had.” After a year manufacturing in

emerging on the national level. The program runs in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The center’s counselors help own-

“It’s very frustrating from the client’s perspective to try to call 10 places to get pieces of what they need … We pride ourselves in having the knowledge to direct clients where they need to go.” — Emily Carter, Connecticut SBDC director

Drew Pickering Jr. with his original scoop sketches.

China, Pickering brought his product to National Measures, which, he acknowledged, takes its share in a deal he termed “equitable.” He said he had just contracted to produce 2.5 million scoops for a company whose name he declined to mention. Companies already on board include GNC, which operates 7,500 nutrition-themed stores, Vitamin World and Amazon. Besides his three sizes of Scoop E-Z — a teaspoon (15 c.c.), a tablespoon (30 c.c.) and a 20-c.c. model — Pickering is a principal in Molto Bene, an Italian restaurant/caterer in Ansonia that features a 100-seat restaurant, 250-seat patio and 300-seat banquet hall.

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Pickering offered the John Donne poetical sentiment “No man is an island” in citing those who had helped him: his sister Nicole Fitzgerald, principal in Oxford-based I-Design, designed all the packaging. Yale engineering lecturer Henry Bolanos helped with product development and, in turn, Pickering is helping two of his students, pro bono, launch their products. His father Drew Pickering Sr., he said, ensured, “I knew exactly how to make each part I was looking at.” He also credited associates Dana Cotes, who helped with product design, and Joe Keenan — “He could sell ice to the Eskimos” — on the sales side. The website is scoop-ez.com.

ers review business plans, prepare for a lending request, access market research and market their businesses. In Fairfield County, advisors now share offices with the Bridgeport and Danbury chambers of commerce, the Business Council of Fairfield County in Stamford and at the UConn Stamford campus. Each counselor is trained in SBA programs, all state programs and various banks’ lending requirements. “It’s very frustrating from the client’s perspective to try to call 10 places to get pieces of what they need,” Carter said. “We pride ourselves in having the knowledge to direct clients where they need to go … They don’t have to navigate that maze of acronyms and at the end of the day they know what they need to do next.” “Our goal is that they don’t feel they’re getting the run around of one government agency to another,” she added. “We’re trying to reduce that legwork.” Carter said SBDC counselors still spend half a day per week receiving more training such as how to better forecast financials or improve listening skills. By the end of the fiscal year in September 2014, the center aims to have helped 90 startup businesses, provided access to $14.7 million in capital and served 400 long-term clients. In the first quarter of the year it served 198 new clients. “I’m very committed that we have consistency in quality at all of our locations,” Carter said. “I want a very highly educated, trained, competent staff who can answer questions in a variety of areas, understand the different facets to running a business and articulate that knowledge.”

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to be closer. and to be free.

On October 17, 2013, dozens of cancer survivors from Smilow Cancer Hospital, along with family, friends and caregivers, gathered on Water Street in New Haven to share in the spirit of community. The project they participated in was the painting of a mural. They battled some of the most difficult forms of cancer. Yet thanks to the amazing advancements we have made in research and treatment, and through their own remarkable determination, they came together to beautify a neighborhood. And they delivered a powerful message: That cancer can be beaten. And that through science, compassion and the sheer belief in what is possible, the world is closer to free.

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The Healthy Workplace Employer Recognition Program

A PROGRAM OF THE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY

Congratulations to this year’s honorees: PLATINUM Contractors Register Daymon Worldwide, Inc. Neopost USA Nestlé Waters North America Inc. People’s United Bank Pitney Bowes Inc. Quinnipiac University R.C. Bigelow, Inc. Really Good Stuff, Inc. Sacred Heart University Sikorsky, A United Technologies Company Stew Leonard’s Tauck, Inc. University of Hartford

GOLD Ability Beyond CBRE, Inc. Eastern Connecticut Health Network Hospital for Special Care LAZ Parking Partner Reinsurance Company of the U.S. Pierson & Smith, a Division of First Niagara Risk Management Inc. PwC LLP Stepping Stones Museum for Children SILVER The Ashforth Company CBP Masonicare Tangoe

(from l to r) FRBNY Vice President and Senior Economist Rae Rosen with Stephen Gallucci, Managing Partner Fairfield County Practice, Deloitte and event host

We would also like to thank The Business Council’s Wellness Roundtable Members for their participation in this year’s health and wellness programs. COMMITTEE MEMBERS Anthony Aguanno, UnitedHealthcare of CT, Inc. Tanya Court, The Business Council of Fairfield County Matthew G. Fair, Pierson & Smith, a Division of First Niagara Risk Management Inc. Donna Gaudioso-Zeale, Stamford Hospital Robert Janes, Anthem Blue Cross

Blue Shield Carol Kagdis, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Dana Loch, Nestlé Waters North America Liz Malett, Tauck, Inc. Andrea Pinabell, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Erica Scheitinger, Chelsea Piers Connecticut Tara Yeager, Foresight Wellness

Bioscience in Connecticut, with Edison Liu, President & CEO, The Jackson Laboratory

On February 11, Edison Liu, President & CEO, The Jackson Laboratory, will provide an in-depth look at The Jackson Lab, its impact on our state economy, and the future of bioscience in Connecticut. Prior to joining The Jackson Lab, Dr. Liu was executive director of the Genome Institute of Singapore and has been the president of the Human Genome Organization. The Jackson Lab (JAX) is an independent nonprofit biomedical research organization focused on discovering precise genomic solutions for disease. With the development of its new facility in Farmington, JAX promises to bring Connecticut to the forefront of a burgeoning field with a focus on personalized medicine that will create high paying jobs and new business and investment opportunities. The state has invested $291 million in the Jackson

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February 14

Healthy Workplace Employer Recognition Program Registration: 7:45am; Breakfast Program: 8:00-9:30am Location: Sheraton Stamford Hotel Cost: $25 www.businessfairfield.com

February 11

Get the latest on Fairfield County’s economy from the Fed Rae Rosen, Vice President and Senior Economist with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York presented on the outlook for the Fairfield County economy in January. Hosted by Deloitte, “growth” was the key word fort the morning, and while Connecticut can be cautiously optimistic in 2014, data shows job growth will be necessary for true economic recovery. Missed it? You can read and view the presentation online at www.businessfairfield.com.

Now in its sixth year, The Healthy Workplace Employer Recognition Program highlights employers’ efforts to encourage healthy behaviors, enhance productivity, and ensure healthy work environments. Join us as we celebrate, and learn from, the accomplishments of employers from throughout the region.

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Bioscience in Connecticut Registration: 11:30 am; Luncheon program: 12:00 - 2:00 pm Location: Sheraton Stamford Hotel Cost: $40.00 member; $50 nonmember www.businessfairfield.com Laboratory’s new Farmington-based research facility for Genomic Medicine. In addition to the JAX initiative, since 2011Connecticut has invested in becoming a national leader in the bioscience industry through Bioscience Connecticut, a program aimed at creating long term economic growth based on research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization. Over the past two years, the state has invested $864 million in Bioscience Connecticut. Join us for what will be an engaging dialogue not only on the breakthroughs in the field but within the state’s economic evolution.

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hris Jordan is president and CEO of Lexco Wealth Management Inc., the wealth advisory firm he began in 1999 that now features a Tarrytown, N.Y., headquarters and 11 branch offices. Those include one in Greenwich, where the firm recently moved from Soundview Avenue to Holly Hill Road, and one in Farmington. Lexco employs a total 28. Jordan, who is 47, sees Lexco’s professional mission as heavily invested in teaching. “Our whole thing is education,” he said recently, citing three subsets within the teaching arena: consultation, sounding board and collaboration. Clients include BASF Corp., among the largest chemical companies in the world, which Lexco has visited at its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey for presentations three times in each of the last two years. Jordan in June hosted a mud-soaked obstacle event at the Thunder Ridge skiing facility in Putnam County, N.Y., that raised $36,000 for the U.S. Association of Blind Athletes, on whose board he serves. The charity puts forth a bold metric for the business community: The unemployment rate for the blind is 80 percent, but it’s cut in half via participation in sports. Jordan answered several questions germane to his firm’s adviser role for the Business Journal. a yEar agO yOU CaME OUT STrOngLy in FaVOr OF OWning STOCkS. THE MarkET BaCkED yOUr FEELingS. WHaT DiD yOU SEE THEn? Jordan: “Going into last year there was still a lot of uncertainty on big issues like the ‘fiscal cliff’ and tax rates. The stock market was pricing in a worst-case scenario. However, corporate balance sheets looked solid and bonds were facing higher rates and tough times ahead. While we were watchful for developing problems,

2013 turned out to be the best years for stocks since 1997.” WHaT DO yOU SEE nOW? Jordan: “I see a lot of investors feeling good for a change and that makes a big difference. I feel stocks have room to run here, but tell clients to expect a repeat would be a mistake. That said, this is not a weak recovery. The bond outlook isn’t too positive as interest rates have risen and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the 10-year rates at 3.75 percent by year end. We’re telling fixed-income investors to review their portfolios and evaluate the options. Staying disciplined and diversified couldn’t be more important this year.” WHaT iS yOUr TargET MarkET? HOW DOES Managing riSk FaCTOr in aS agE inCrEaSES? Jordan: “Our clients are very successful corporate executives, professionals and business owners. We focus on the highest impact years, as we call them, which is the six years prior to retirement and six years post-retirement. That’s where we can bring the most value by educating people to the real risks of retirement. There’s a lot of general information out there but that doesn’t translate well to what each person should do for themselves. Managing risk means understanding your real risks as you get older and no two people are the same. Just avoiding the big mistakes can mean the difference.” WHaT arE THE kEy riSkS FOr rEgiOnaL rETirEES gOing FOrWarD? Jordan: “It’s not the short-term ups and downs of the market; for most, it’s a lack of a real-world plan that puts it all together. People are living longer and while it’s hard to image being without a paycheck for 30-plus years, it’s a reality. Retirees need to have an answer to the ‘Will I have enough and where will it come from?’ question. Understanding how inflation, taxes and portfolio returns impact a retiree’s chance of running out of money is the first step toward managing the key risks. We kid our clients when

we first meet and tell them hope is not a strategy.” yOU aLSO EDUCaTE COrPOraTE aUDiEnCES. WHaT MESSagE DO yOU Bring anD HOW iS iT rECEiVED? “Our clientele are very busy, smart people that are juggling tremendous responsibilities. They are looking for a proven process that cuts through the noise and gives them better control over their finances. Deep down they know watching ‘Squawk Box’ or reading a few Internet articles on retirement won’t cut it. So, our message is one of educating people in great detail so

they can feel confident making important decisions based on their unique needs. We do workshops on general planning and more focused breakouts on maximizing your 401(k), pension elections, estate planning, college funding and income planning to name a few. One thing that makes us different is our commitment to education and the process we use. As a team we have a lot of experienced professionals that take the time to really explain complicated issues in plain English. In the end, we really like what we do and that’s why we are asked back again.”

DEPTH IN HEALTH CARE Lauren Hopwood, practicing Immigration Law in the Health Care Sector Lauren counseled a large area hospital network on the immigration consequences of its acquisition of another health care facility. Lauren advised the hospital on successor-ininterest considerations, I-9 Compliance, and the effect of the acquisition on work visas and green card applications. Her advice ensured the smooth transition of foreign national workers and helped to avoid potential liabilities. THINKING FORWARD. FORWARD THINKING.

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ith the SEC now casting a much wider examination net, the odds of a fund facing examination have gone up considerably. By taking certain basic steps, funds can be better positioned to respond to exams. Be prepared in advance. If your fund is chosen for examination, you will have only a few days to respond to the initial document request and will likely have examiners on site within a week. If you are not prepared to present the information examiners require quickly and accurately, the examiners have the authority to start rummaging through your records to find it. This leads to an assumption that your firm’s compliance activities maybe undisciplined, which will only heighten their focus and result in additional testing and reviews. The following are questions COOs should consider in order to be prepared for an examination: Do you know where and how to gather all key documents that an examiner might request? Identify those documents now, determine how they can be generated and complied quickly and be prepared to deliver them in a timely fashion. The faster and more thorough your response to the document request, the better. are you ready to explain your fund to examiners? Every fund is unique. If you can offer the examiners a clear, cogent overview of your fund’s strategies, investments, relationships with affiliated parties and other key information, not only will it make their exam easier, it will reinforce a positive impression of your operations. Have you checked for holes in your compliance efforts? If there’s a problem with your compliance program, it’s better to find it before the examiners do. Consider working with outside counsel or a consultant to conduct a mock examination. That way you can identify gaps in your compliance program and address them in advance. are your people ready? One person, probably your COO, should spearhead the exam effort, from responding to the document request to sitting in on

all meetings with the examiners on site. That way you can ensure a coordinated response and also can identify and respond to possible issues as they emerge. Also, prepare your other officers for interviews with examiners. They are likely more used to focusing on investment returns and customer relationships, not on compliance issues. By helping them understand the specific risk issues on which examiners are likely to focus and the compliance programs your firms has in place to deal with them, you can help keep the exam on track. When the SEC staff is onsite, they will have follow-up questions daily. Make it a point to document their questions and requests when asked. Then, ensure you respond within 24 hours of their request or sooner. If the request will take longer, prep the SEC staff for that and explain why. Heightened SEC attention is a fact of life for all funds. By understanding the new risk-based nature of the SEC’s exam and enforcement approach, by vetting your current compliance effort to identify and address weaknesses before an exam and by being ready to respond to an exam quickly and efficiently, you can significantly reduce your fund’s risks. The SEC has no problems releasing news of compliance failures to the public. Further, the SEC has the power to find individuals culpable for compliance failures, not just the firm as a whole. In addition to reducing the reputational or individual risk of a failed examination, fund managers should also think of best practices and heightened institutional investor due diligence as they design, implement and monitor an effective and efficient compliance program. John Hague is a partner and financial services industry leader for Chicago-based McGladrey, which maintains an office in Stamford and which provides tax, assurance and consulting services. Lindsey Simon, founder, Simon Compliance L.L.C. in Chicago, contributed to the column. Part 1 of this story ran in the Jan. 27 FCBJ.

Malloy pitches 13-week job readiness program

ov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed plans Jan. 27 to develop a $3.6 million statewide job readiness program he said would help unemployed workers find jobs. Adopting the Platform to Employment model from The Workplace in Bridgeport, Malloy is proposing the legislature adopt plans to create an intensive readiness program involving a five-week course on interpersonal and computer-based skills, followed by an eight-week subsidized work experience. In its first year, 500 people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits would be accepted into the program. The Workplace, which pioneered the program, has reported a 80 percent success rate for participants. “We are making steady progress at growing our economy in a way that will create good paying jobs with good benefits for middle class families,” Malloy said in a press release. “While a decrease in the unemployment rate and the addition of thousands of private sector jobs over the last three years is clearly a step in the right direction, we still have more work to do.” In addition to the readiness program, Malloy also proposed a $10 million funding increase for the state’s Step Up job program, which subsidizes employers’ training costs after hiring workers who were either unemployed or recent graduates. To date the $16 million program has helped 2,067 unemployed workers find jobs. Malloy also proposed creating legislation prohibiting employers from screening applicants based on their employment status. “Often, the longer someone is unemployed, the harder it gets to find employment, even when that person may have qualified skills to fill a certain position,” Malloy said. “Connecticut has some of the most talented and skilled workers in the nation. These initiatives help match our talented workforce with employers, grows jobs, and removes barriers to employment.” — Jennifer Bissell

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Making sure jobs are profitable looking back — if we had more accurately charged time to jobs, i think we might find jobs that weren’t profitable. some people wait until the end of the week to put their time in. i know they can’t be accurate when they’re trying to recall what they did three to five days earlier. our staff members know they have to account for their time, but i don’t think they understand how small mistakes, allocating time to specific jobs, can add up to big mistakes over time. THOUgHTS OF THE Day: The finance department is responsible for analyzing profits. People are more likely to support accuracy-in-reporting initiatives if they understand why it’s so important. Building a solid understanding of how profitable a specific type of work is or how valuable a specific client is, can have a real payoff for both sales and operations. In service companies the single largest cost to deliver is labor. Labor costs must be accounted for by individual, by

project, by category of work. Garbage in = garbage out when it comes to reporting hours and creating a picture of what’s going on in the company. Accurate reporting is essential to managing and improving profits. Greater profit benefits everyone in the company. It’s a self-reinforcing loop that must be built. Finance can lead the way through education. Show people how projects can go from profitable to unprofitable if hours are left out and vice versa, if projects are is incorrectly charged with hours that don’t belong. Discuss the difficulty of managing project budgets real-time if hours are missing. Ask people to dig into individual reports of hours worked to see if they match reality. Here is an example of a serious mistake tied to inaccurate reporting. A manager sees everyone working hard and thinks it’s time to hire the next project worker. Then reports come back showing a lot of unproductive overhead hours that need to be assigned to tasks. Unfortunately the reports are wrong because people are not allocating their time to jobs. The manager decides there’s no need to hire and everyone gets stressed out, the best people quit, overtime goes up to fill the

work gap and profits go down the tubes. Make sure your employees have a solid understanding of what drives profits. Ask the finance department to hold training classes. Give people case studies to pick apart and analyze, so they can learn how profitability works. Ask employees to dissect specific projects and figure out what more could have been done to increase accurate reporting and raise profits. Teach employees that accurate reporting keeps the company healthy. Try this example: Suppose it’s time to invest in sprucing up the office with a paint job and some new chairs. The assumption is that the company can afford it because jobs have been highly profitable and volume is picking up leading to more profits coming. Oops! Missing hours meant that the jobs weren’t making as much as it seemed. More work means smaller net income, not bigger. Now who’s going to pay for the painting and outfitting the office? Here’s another example where accurate reporting makes or breaks a good decision. A project comes in under budget, the client looks highly profitable. On the next bid sales drops their price to make sure they get the work — believing

they can afford to do it given the client’s historical profitability. Then someone does research and finds out that hours that should have been billed to the client weren’t. The next bid is highly unprofitable and the company loses money. Or, the opposite may happen — too many hours charged to the wrong client. When it comes time to bid on the next job or do the client a favor, the sales and operations managers walk away because it looks like that client is a dog. They later discover the client was a jewel, unfairly burdened with hours that should have hit another client’s profit and loss. Get everyone in the habit of reporting on hours every day before going home. Review records daily to see who complies and who struggles. Assign coaches to work with people to build daily habits. Don’t quit until the correct habits are in place. It’s well worth the effort. Andi Gray is president of Strategy Leaders Inc., strategyleaders.com, a business-consulting firm that specializes in helping entrepreneurial firms grow. She can be reached by phone at (877) 238-3535. Do you have a question for Andi? Please send it via email to AskAndi@ strategyleaders. Visit AskAndi.com for an entire library of Ask Andi articles.

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f you suspect your website could work harder to help your business grow, you’re probably right. Most sites I’ve looked at during nearly 20 years as a website developer need a bit of work. Here are my recommendations to help your site reach its full potential as a powerful marketing tool. Profile your market. You need to understand your customers or clients so you can focus your website on what interests them. List their age range, gender, educational and income level and anything else that defines them. If you sell to different market segments, define each and decide whether one message will work for all. If your market segments are significantly different, you may need to create different messages for each. If you serve multiple segments, prioritize them in terms of the growth potential for your business. Then you can concentrate on the one(s) that will give you the best return. Write for your audience. Your website shouldn’t be about you. It should focus on your prospects — what they need to know to be persuaded to do business with you. This is critical for the statement on your homepage, where you’ll either hold or lose prospects. Studies show that most visitors won’t spend much time at your site if they can’t get the information they want easily. A few clicks and they are gone, with it your sale, maybe forever. Make your opening statement all about how your products and/or services meet your prospects wants and needs better than anyone else. Be brief. Long, rambling homepages turn prospects off. Most often the fewer the words, the stronger the message. Organize your website into clearly labeled sections so visitors can easily find the information they want. Throughout the site keep your text to a minimum. Write it, put it aside for at least a day, edit it then edit it again for spelling, punctuation, grammar — but especially brevity. “Big” words and complex sentences don’t communicate well. Keep it simple. keep graphics simple. People go to your website for information not entertainment. So think twice about swirling logos, animation and flashing photos. They can take time to load, frustrating visitors, but worse distracting them from text you want them to focus on. However, for certain types of companies, it may be helpful or even essential to show some visual creativity. Select colors that are appropriate to your type of business. Don’t use white

Winning clients on the web type “dropped out” of a solid color for any sizable amount of text. It is difficult to read. Also running text over photos and artwork makes it hard to read. Use typefaces that are easy to read on computer and mobile screens, especially if your market is over 35. For the most part, you get your message across in the text and you don’t want to do anything that gets in the way of readability. Make it easy for people to reach you. List your email address, phone number, fax number and social media contact information on every page. increase traffic with keywords and links. Using the right words on your site helps search engine spiders or robots to decide what your site is about and help rank higher in search listings. The “right” key-

words are ones searchers would use to find you. Ask at least a dozen of your vendors and customers what words they would use if they were searching for your type of products and/or services. Work these words into the text on your site. Links also help drive website traffic. Search engines will increase the ranking of your site when reputable sites link to yours. So ask your suppliers, customers and industry associations to add you as a hyperlink on their sites. Publicity also helps. The more press visibility your company gets, the more attention your site will receive from search engines. Emphasize mobile access. Towards the end of 2013 website searches on mobile devices surpassed those on desktops

and traffic is increasing at 3.5 percent a month, according to Vocus, an Internet marketing blog. Forty percent of mobile device users say they leave sites that are not mobile friendly and 46 percent say they are unlikely to return. Google reports that website owners — even large organizations — have been slow to adapt to mobile. Optimizing your site for mobile users right now can give you a leg up on your competition. When thoughtfully constructed and optimized for mobile access, your website can be a powerful growth tool for your business. Bill Welch is president of Welch Inc., a marketing communications firm he founded in 1977. He is a regular contributor to the FCBJ and can be reached at WelchInc1@mac.com.

The Innovators Series A Gathering of Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs

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Manufacturing in Connecticut: Alive, Striving and Thriving Learn how entrepreneurs are bringing manufacturing back to Connecticut Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 5:30pm - 7:30pm 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm — Wine and Cheese 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm — Program and Q&A 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm — Networking

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THE LIST

FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEXT LIST: FEBRUARY 10 COLLEGES UNIVERSITIES

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

LISTED ALPHABETICALLY.

Construction Companies Listed alphabetically. Name, address, telephone number Area code: 203 (unless otherwise noted) Website

A. Pappajohn Co. 66 Fort Point St., Norwalk 06855 523-0303 • apappajohn.com

A. P. Construction Co. 707 Summer St., Stamford 06901 359-4704 • apconst.com

Building and Land Technology Corp. 100 Washington Blvd., Suite 200, Stamford 06902 846-1900 • bltoffice.com

Claris Construction Inc. 153 S. Main St, Newtown 06470 364-9460 • clarisconstruction.com

Construction Solutions Group^ 30 Huckleberry Hollow, Stamford 06903 595-9882 • theconstructionsolutionsgroup.com

Coppola & Sons Construction Co.^ 41 Orchard St., Stamford 06902 359-1625 • coppolaandsons.com

Davenport Contracting Inc. 78 Harvard Ave., Suite 230, Stamford 06902 324-6308 • dvnport.com

Domack Restoration L.L.C.^ 185 Charles St., Stratford 06615 502-2004 • domackrestoration.com

ESRT Construction Metro Center, 1 Station Place, Stamford 06902 353-5220 • esrtconstruction.com

Falciglia Construction 4 Alpine Road, New Fairfield 948-7897 • falcigliaconstruction.com

JCS Construction Group Inc. 44 Homestead Ave., Stamford 06902 485-9612 • jcsconstructiongroup.com

The Ny-Conn Corp. 5 Shelter Rock Road, Suite 8, Danbury 06810 744-9206 • nyconncorp.com

Pecora Brothers Inc. 1166 E. Putnam Ave., Riverside 06878 863-9555 • pecorabrothers.com

Phoenix Industries* 37 E. Market St., Long Beach, NY 11561

(516) 705-4438 • phoenixconstructioncorp.com

RMS Companies 75 Camp Ave., Stamford 06907 968-2313 • rms-companies.com

Saugatuck Construction Group^ 54 Research Drive, Stamford 06906 323-6500 • saugatuck-cg.com

Schimenti Construction Co.^ 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield 06877 (914) 244-9100 • schimenti.com

Signature Construction Group Inc.^ 745 E. Main St., Stamford 06902 325-0628 • signatureconstruction.com

Sterling Associates L.L.C.^ P.O. Box 766, Newtown 06470 426-0021 • sterlingassociatesllc.com

Viking Construction Inc. 1387 Seaview Ave., Bridgeport 06607 353-0260 • vikingconstruction.net

Worth Construction Company Inc. 24 Taylor Ave., Bethel 06801 797-8788 • worthconstruction.com

York Construction & Development 210 Sound Beach Ave., Old Greenwich 06870 698-3460 • yorkdev.com

Top local executive(s) Contact person (bold) Email address Year company established

Billing range as of 12/31/13 ($)

Number of contracts awarded in 2013

Location of two (2) local projects completed since 2012

Services offered

Gus Pappajohn Gus Pappajohn info@apappajohn.com 1992

More than $20 million

Merritt 7, Norwalk Maplewood Darien senior living facility

Construction management, general contracting

Nick Everett Nick Everett info@apconst.com 1981

More than $20 million

Chelsea Piers, Stamford GEAM, 1600 Summer St., Stamford

General contracting, construction management

Carl R. Kuehner Carl R. Kuehner info@bltoffice.com 1982

More than $20 million

Multiple contracts

Stamford and Norwalk

Full-service real estate development

Philip Clark AIA Doug Kenyon doug@clarisconstruction.com 1991

More than $20 million

The Shops at Marcus Dairy, Danbury BMW of Ridgefield

Design/build, commercial and industrial construction, sustainable design, tilt-up concrete construction

Sylvan D. Pomerantz Sylvan D. Pomerantz sylvan@csgroupct.com 2003

Design/build, architectural services, construction management, commercial construction, renovations and expansions

Emilio Coppola Emilio Coppola 1973

Commercial, residential and industrial

Brian MacDonald and Richard Koch Brian MacDonald bmacdonald@dvnport.com 1986

$5 million to $20 million

Jason Domack Jason Domack jasond@domackroofing.com 1974

Riverside, Redding and Greenwich Bedford, N.Y.

Tim Yahn Tim Yahn tyahn@esrtconstruction.com 1987

More than $20 million

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Tom Falciglia Tom Falciglia tom@falcigliaconstruction.com 2012

$1 million to $5 million

Justin Shaw Mara Frankel info@jcsconstructiongroup.com 2005

High-end residential construction management, general contracting, property management

Air and vapor barriers, exterior siding and trim, gutters and leaders, roofing, waterproofing

Fairfield Woods Middle School, Fairfield United Rentals, Stamford

Construction management, general contracting

Lower Fairfield County

General contracting, commercial and residential, construction and project management, interior construction design

More than $20 million

409 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 100 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich

Full-service construction management firm and general contractor for high-end residences and commercial spaces, including corporate offices, retail and restaurants

WND Ross Rizzo rrizzo@nyconncorp.com 1989

$5 million to $20 million

FDR Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. Costco, Brookfield

Electrical contractor specializing in commercial, industrial, residential complexes, traffic signals, site lighting, fire alarm systems, CCTV system, high-voltage cabling, voice and data cabling, highway illumination

Joseph and Sylvester Pecora Joseph Pecora jpecora@pecorabrothers.com 2003

$5 million to $20 million

Greenwich Country Club, 19 Doubling Road, Greenwich 18 Charles St., Greenwich

Residential and commercial construction, new construction and renovations, owner's representative, pre-construction consulting

Anthony P. Guillaro Caitlin Dorn 1990

$1 million to $5 million

Ridgefield Pleasantville, N.Y.

General contracting services

Randall Salvatore Randall Salvatore maria@rms-companies.com 1995

$1 million to $5 million

27 High Ridge Road, Stamford 7 Tierney Lane, Westport

General contracting

Kevin M. Coughlin Kevin M. Coughlin info@saugatuck-cg.com 2003

Construction management, general contracting, pre-construction services

Matthew Schimenti Matthew Schimenti jrotondo@schimenti.com 1994

Construction management, general contracting

Jason Henry Jason Henry jhenry@signatureconstruction.com 1990

Construction management, general contracting

Eric Salvesen Eric Salvesen sterlingassociates@earthlink.net 1996

Complete home renovations

Anthony Gaglio Sr. Anthony Gaglio Jr. 1991

More than $20 million

Optimus parking garage Albion Street mixed use

Pre-construction, construction management, general contracting, design/build, self-preformed work (site, concrete, finish carpentry)

Michael Pontoriero Ed Harsche worth@worthconstruction.com 1978

More than $20 million

Park Avenue School, Danbury Westchester Community College Student Center, Valhalla, NY

General contracting

Nick Barile Nick Barile nick@yorkdev.com 2001

$5 million to $20 million

Greenwich

Real estate development, general contracting

Questions or comments, call (914) 694-3600, ext. 3005. ^ Contact and services data from 2013 listing. * Although located outside the area, the company serves Fairfield County. NA Not available. WND Would not disclose.

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SPECIAL REPORT

HEALTH CARE

When doctors crash

burnouT is a real problem amonG m.d.s BY BILL FALLON Bfallon@westfairinc.com

ardiologist Robert Stark, 65 and a Greenwich resident, recently addressed a symposium at Temple University in Philadelphia. His topic — doctor burnout — proved popular; 200 M.D.s attended. He called the problem “underaddressed or just beginning to be addressed.” His eye-opening metrics include the female M.D. suicide rate, which is 5.7 times higher than for other women, and a survey indicating 37 percent of all physicians were experiencing “severe” stress and/or burnout. Stark treads, he said, on delicate ground. “I don’t want people to put off going to their doctor fearing he or she might have stress,” he said. “But the problem should not be ignored.” At Temple, the feedback bore out his thesis that the problem is widespread. “A doctor came up to me afterward to address the suggestion that talking more with colleagues is part of the cure,” he said, seated recently in his Greenwich office. “This doctor said, ‘My colleagues are more burned out than I am. It drags me more down to talk to them, so I stay away.’” Stark’s appraisal of the conversation: “This is terrible.” Stark diagnoses and treats valvular heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease via medication and lifestyle alteration. He is medical director of the cardiac prevention program at Greenwich Hospital/ Yale New Haven Health and a consulting doctor for Minneapolis-based Physician Wellness Services, which conducted the physician health survey on suicides (1 in 16 doctors has contemplated it) and burning out. The survey also revealed 62 percent of doctors see stresses heading in the wrong direction: up. Stark and Physician Wellness Services promote the need to engage in “mindfulness,” which is no more complex (nor easily achievable) than forgetting all else and living in the moment. Its practitioners down through the ages have included

mystics of many faiths and even Yoda on the big screen. With mindfulness, a doctor’s head is in the room and not on yesterday’s procedure or tomorrow’s results, despite the fact life and death could be at stake. “I’ve tried it and it does work,” Stark said. He noted Physician Wellness Services has embraced it as a way to improve doctor performance. “They preach being in the moment, appreciating the moment. Try not to live in the past or be apprehensive about the future. It should be a part of medical school training; it prepares a doctor with resiliency.” Mindfulness arrives as medical school is more collegial than when Stark attended in the 1960s. Infamously long intern hours are now less, as well. But the tendency of doctors not to seek help for stress and burnout remains virtually unchanged. Stark, who asks his colleagues to seek each other out — even skirting the mental health system if they so desire — and who considers himself “an accessible, approachable man,” has been approached by exactly two peers across a lifetime in medicine. “Most peers grin and bear it and they push on,” he said. “They maintain the status quo, but it’s not right for the physician’s health and well-being. Stress and burnout can affect their interest and their presence in their job.” The burnout problem, while widespread, also comes with the turf. The profession requires great determination and no small amount of smarts, attracting a cohort not used to defeat. In Stark’s words: “They tend to be compulsive, driven, goal-oriented, with an exaggerated sense of responsibility.” The upshot, as Stark said, “When things go wrong, and things will go wrong through no one person’s fault — there may have been a whole team involved — the feeling is one of guilt for not assimilating every last thing. This is partly a feature of those who go into medicine.” Stark, the son of a chemist, personally did well in organic chemistry as an undergraduate majoring in cellular biology at the University of Michigan. The difficult course remains a convenient bellwether

Dr. Robert Stark in his Greenwich office.

for medical school admission coast to coast. “It’s always described as a bear,” he said. “Perhaps a B in organic should not be a disqualifier for admission to medical school. Organic weeds people out and it shouldn’t. It’s a test to memorize facts; there’s more to medicine than memorizing facts.” An improvement would see greater linkage of undergraduate chemistry and physics with clinical correlations, he said. Stark witnessed different hours as a medical student at Harvard Medical School than he had seen as an undergraduate and, he said, he saw burnout immediately. “This first year was tough,” he said, expounding upon the stress levels. “The first thing I noticed was how tremendously hard all the people were working. They were really working hard.” And the pressure increased. “By the third year, doing rotations on the wards proved a real eye-opener,” he said. “Interns and resident worked insane hours.” After overnight shifts, details of the previous night were reviewed. “These were not benign inquiries. The doctor came in; he was fully rested. The grilling was intense, not just on a patient but on any related topic. It was designed to stress.” Stark, who never had to pull an all-nighter to pass organic chem, discovered a different environment at Mass General, Harvard’s primary teaching hospital. “It would be 2 or 3 a.m.; I’d be tired but I had all this work to do for the a.m. rounds. It was my first exposure to allnighters.” As undergraduate days would come

to appear simple, so Harvard Medical School would become an also-ran in the stress arena. “It was at University of Pennsylvania Hospital” — where he would complete training in internal medicine and cardiology — “where I really learned about burnout, working 80, 90, 100 hours per week.” His assessment: “An iron-man philosophy is promulgated that nothing harms us and we can accomplish anything.” A mid-1980s lawsuit involving an exhausted medical intern has led to limits on training hours for those who would be doctors. The majority — more than 86 percent — of U.S. physicians are moderately to severely stressed or burned out on an average day, according to Physician Wellness Services. That is the sort of arresting number that prompted a question from Stark’s Temple University audience: “How do we know all this burnout is inherent in physicians and is not the result of the medical system?” It is, Stark acknowledged, a changing health landscape. He also said change is a constant and that, regardless, if it is producing too much stress it must be addressed. “Most stressed-out doctors feel they are totally alone,” Stark said. “My advice is to reach out to someone close who you trust — it need not be a mental health specialist — and be open to advice, whether practical or referral. The message is that doctors should take care of each other more than they are.”

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St. Vincent’s rethinks care

house calls and Telemedicine are on The radar BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

ith a new CEO at the helm, St. Vincent’s Health Services is on a mission to make its system more patient friendly by finding new ways to get closer to patients, both physically and digitally. Rather than continuing to build a health care system around one big hospital, CEO Stuart G. Marcus said the focus is now on building an IT infrastructure to support a system of interconnected clinics and services, spread throughout the region. “The goal is to increase access for patients in their community,” Marcus said. “That means going where the patients are, based on their convenience, not ours.” Officials were expected to break ground on the latest urgent care center in Stratford last week. But beyond physical structures, St. Vincent’s is also considering new ways to deliver care outside the typical brick-and-mortar facility. Via patient-centric services such as

house calls, video chatting platforms and mobile clinics, Marcus said one of the keys to reducing health care costs is to make preventive care more accessible and convenient for patients. Since many people will wait until an aliment needs immediate attention to seek care, Marcus said the cost of care would reduce dramatically if more people used primary care physicians rather than emergency rooms. “The question is, how do you check on a diabetic patient to prevent gangrene?” he said. “We don’t want patients to be so sick that they need an acute care hospital.” Before assuming the role of president and CEO Jan. 1, Marcus served as the president of St. Vincent’s Medical Center and in several other roles within St. Vincent’s oncology department. By increasing home-care services for the chronically ill, health care providers could more effectively remove hazards in patients’ homes, educate them on proper nutrition and minimize medication side effects, he said. The hospital plans to launch a new

electronic medical records system in May, which is the first step in implementing more innovative technologies, Marcus said, like those that would allow patients to stay home. That could mean filling out a survey before scheduling an appointment or using a video-chat platform when it’s not necessary to be sitting in the same room as a provider, like for some behavioral health appointments. The problem is providers don’t get reimbursed for preventive care. “They get reimbursed when they fall and show up with a sprained ankle,” he said. “So the incentives aren’t necessarily aligned.” Like most health care systems, St. Vincent’s is paid on a fee-for-service basis. Some insurance companies are beginning to see the long-term savings of preventive care, he said, but it will take a greater public demand for real change to take hold. “There’s a lot of progress we can make to putting resource in place to keep people healthy,” Marcus said. “The goal is to make health care more convenient for the patient and the community.

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St. Vincent’s Health Services named Stuart G. Marcus CEO Jan. 1.

Not to increase the site in Bridgeport, but to bring services in to the community and go to patients homes.” (Neither, he said, should the hospital be ignored.) “The pace of change is increasing,” he added. “But this is a multiyear change that we’re going to be going through.”

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Y O U R H E A LT H – Y O U R P L A N .

CT senior living company eyes NY market BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com

Fairfield County-based company that owns and operates six assisted living and memory care facilities for the elderly in Connecticut and one in Ohio plans to expand into the Westchester County, N.Y., market starting with a $26 million project proposal in Mount Kisco. Maplewood Senior Living L.L.C. proposes building at least 90 senior assisted living units and a memory care space on a 5.7-acre parcel owned by Radio City Ventures L.L.C. The property has been vacant for 29 years. Maplewood currently runs Connecticut facilities in Darien, Danbury, Bethel, East Norwalk, Newtown and Orange. The developer recently submitted its application to the Mount Kisco Village Board and first discussed its project proposal at a Jan. 22 meeting. If the application is approved, Maplewood could be the first providers of assisted senior living care in Mount Kisco. “For the last couple of years, we’ve been trying to get into the Westchester County market,” said Maplewood CEO Gregory Smith. “Westchester is adjacent to Fairfield, where a lot of our existing projects are. From a growth perspective, this has been a normal transition and we were even looking in Mount Kisco at another site earlier. We went through the majority of the exercise of figuring out if the Mount Kisco market was viable. It proved to be so, but the real estate portion didn’t come to fruition.” Smith added that the village of Mount Kisco was adamant about finding a new location for the project. He even invited village board members to tour the assisted senior living facilities in Connecticut to help them get a sense of the environment the elderly would live in and the type of support and space needed to provide memory care services. “We provide three programs on different levels of care needed: early dementia, full Alzheimer’s and traditional assisted living,” Smith said. “We have all three in every one of our locations. This gives the elderly the ability to age in place by providing a continuum of care in our facility.” Tom Gaston, executive vice president of Acquisitions and Development for Maplewood Senior Living and his attorney Charles Martabano attended the last village board meeting and answered

a range of questions the village board raised about the project. “There was discussion about parking requirements — whether it would have surface parking or garage parking, which requires creating an elevated structure,” said James Palmer, Mount Kisco village manager. “They also discussed the need to fix the existing site, which is a designated brownfield. An application was submitted to work with the Department

of Environmental Conservation and have the site contamination remediated.” Although the village board didn’t take action at the last meeting, Palmer said the board will vote on whether to refer Maplewood’s application to the planning board at the next meeting, Palmer said. From there, a joint work session between the planning and village boards reviews the application, studying the impacts and benefits and identifies what changes to

apply in the zoning, which is currently a research and development district. He added that market research shows the demand for assisted senior living care is especially unmet in southern and central Westchester, where Smith said Maplewood plans to develop about six to eight projects in the next three to five years. Maplewood is currently pursuing two or three more senior assisted living projects in Manhattan.

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Business Supports the Arts

americans for the arts’ business committee on the arts completed a “survey of business support for the arts” in 2013. it is the only known study of business philanthropy toward the arts that includes small and midsized business giving. The report states, “This is important because smaller businesses continue to be highly focused on philanthropy in their local markets. as such, arts organizations have a natural opportunity to build partnerships with these companies by providing innovative programs that serve broad community audiences. but this year it is the largest businesses that have led the arts giving resurgence with a median gift size that surpasses even the pre-economy downturn year of 2006.” businesses give through not only charitable contributions and sponsorships, but through employee matches, in-kind services, the development of corporate art collections and workplace giving campaigns. The top reason businesses give are, no. 1, it contributes to the economy and the quality of life in the community. sixtytwo percent felt this was the case – good news because arts organizations commonly use this reasoning when approaching businesses for support. Forty-four percent of the leaders surveyed said they believe participating in arts in the community can stimulate creative thinking and problem solving. The next highest reasons to support the arts were because arts events provided valuable networking experiences and encouraged acceptance of diversity. recently, the cultural alliance invited chris bruhl, president and ceo of the business council of Fairfield county, to speak to our executive director’s network. chris used this report to reinforce his strong believe in the value of arts and business partnerships and offered his suggestions on how to build them. The presentation kicked off what will be the cultural alliances year-long series for arts and cultural organizations on “building bridges to business.” To view the full report and to learn more about business and arts partnerships, visit partnershipmovement.org, provided by americans for the arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in america. The business committee for the arts was founded by david rockefeller in 1967 to ensure that arts flourish in america by encouraging, inspiring and stimulating business support for the arts in the workplace in education and in the community.

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“ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE” AT THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE

What baby boomer does not recall exactly where she (or he) was when the Fab Four ﬁrst appeared on “The ed sullivan show” 50 years ago Feb. 7, taking the u.s. by storm and forever changing the musical beat in america? at The ridgeﬁeld playhouse Friday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. – the exact date the beatles landed at what is now JFK airport – more than 20 world-famous beatles tribute musicians will

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perform the beatles “love” album to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The beatles in america. The “all you need is love” tribute show will be a magical experience for beatles fans and anyone who appreciates the enduring impact of the beatles on popular culture. The tribute musicians will play the love album live, note for note, on all 26 tracks, which include: “helter skelter;” “help!;” “blackbird;” “strawberry Fields Forever;” “octopus’s Garden;” “lady madonna;” “here comes The sun;” “come Together;” “back in The ussr;” “While my Guitar Gently Weeps;” “a day in The life;” “hey Jude;” “all you need is love” and more. an “all shows vip party pass” is available that includes a pre-show cocktail party 6:30-7:15 p.m., with an open bar, hors-d’oeuvre and priority parking. For all tickets, including the vip party pass, call the box office at The ridgefield playhouse, (203) 438-5795 or visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The ridgefield playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center at 80 east ridge in ridgefield.

WOMEN’S LIVES IN AFGHANISTAN AT THE WESTPORT ARTS CENTER THROUGH FEB. 23

Ryan Odinak executive director cultural alliance of Fairﬁeld county

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Arts & Culture of Fairfield County

lynsey addario uses her camera to speak for the people she photographs. she documents the issues and events on the periphery of war, capturing the emotions as a way to draw in the viewer. addario, who is a Westport native and pulitzer prize-winning photographer, has traveled to war-torn countries such as afghanistan, sudan and libya, to focus her lens on the eﬀects of war. her stunning photographs are featured in “on The Wire: veiled rebellion” this winter at the Westport arts center.

Throughout her numerous visits, addario has trained a close eye through her lens on women’s lives in all areas of afghan society: culture, politics, education, employment and domestic life. “veiled rebellion” was originally published in national Geographic in december 2010. This exquisite exhibition showcases 34 color photographs by addario, depicting the plight of women in Talibancontrolled afghanistan. addario photographs for The new york Times, national Geographic and Time magazine. she was awarded the macarthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant,” in 2009 and, along with a team from The new york Times, won the pulitzer prize for international reporting for her photographs in “Talibanistan,” in 2008. “i graduated from staples high school in 1991, and since then, my travels and work as a photojournalist have taken me to over 60 countries,” says addario. “it is inﬁnitely gratifying to be able to show this body of work on women in afghanistan at the Westport arts center, after having originally exhibited it at The nobel peace center in oslo.” For more information, visit westportartcenter.org.

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BUSINESS JOURNAL ATTACHMENTSFILED Haberman, Linda and Alan Haberman, Sherman. $850,000 in favor of TD Bank N.A. Property: 11 Mill Pond Road, Unit 13, Sherman. Filed Jan. 7.

BUILDING PERMITS

commerciaL BLT Reserve L.L.C., Stamford, contractor for BLT Management L.L.C. Construct residential five-plus family dwelling at Woodland Hills Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $16.6 million. Filed Jan. 16. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct residential five-plus family dwelling at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $910,200. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $49,062. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $50,616. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $136,752. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $145,780. Filed Jan. 13.

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Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $145,780. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $145,780. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $136,752. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $49,062. Filed Jan. 13. Botehlo, Robert D., New Haven, contractor for Victorian Associates L.L.C. Construct a single residential home with one bedroom and one bathroom at 126 Osborne St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $50,616. Filed Jan. 13. CCMCR Harbor Square L.L.C., Stamford, contractor for self. Perform interior work expanding mechanical room at 700 Canal St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $43,000. Filed Jan. 14. Daley Construction Compnay Inc., Westport, contractor for Bridgeport Neighbor Trust. Pour foundation only for a new two-family structure at 141 151 Holly St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Jan. 13. Detulio, Mark A., contractor for Sandler Realty Inc. Install a Subway channel letter sign to an existing commercial space at 417 Shippan Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $3,700. Filed Jan. 13. DiPaolo, Danile, Greenwich, contractor for 251 Mills Street L.L.C. Replace entry door to apartments and retail space B. Repair portion of exterior brick façade at 251 Mills St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $5,000.

Family & Children’s Aid, Inc., Danbury, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing commercial building at 12 Harmony St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Jan. 13.

AMEC Carting L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for Mario D. Marcangeli. Demolition of an existing single-family residence at 17 Davenport Ave. Greenwich. Estimated cost: $15,000.

First Stamford Place SPE L.L.C., et al., Stamford, contractor for self. Reduce second floor to core at 151 Greenwich Ave., Unit 100, Stamford. Estimated cost: $19,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Anna, Perry, Bridgeport, contractor for self. Perform interior remodeling in an existing single-family residence, adding second bathroom at 264-266 Trumbull St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Gera Danbury L.L.C., Danbury, contractor for self. Construct a security booth in an existing commercial space at 100 Reserve Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $27,000. Filed Jan. 13. Hinton, Pamela, Bridgeport, contractor for self. Perform interior remodeling in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 789 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: Not available. Filed Jan. 14. James Balaz Construction Inc., contractor for CCMCR HS 850 Canal L.L.C. Reduce interior to core at 850 Canal St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed Jan. 14. Kesselman Associates, Greenwich, contractor for self. Perform partial remodel of an existing commercial space at 1171 E. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $55,000. Lane Valente Industries Inc., contractor for Rich Taubam Associates. Perform interior remodeling in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 100 Greyrock Place, Stamford. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Jan. 17. New England Yankee Construction L.L.C., contractor for the city of Stamford. Complete demolition of a commercial space at 402 Elm St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $69,000. Filed Jan. 17. Signature Construction Group of CT Inc., Stamford, contractor for 177 Broad Street Owner L.C. Perform interior alterations of tenant suite at 127 Greyrock Place, Unit 127, Stamford. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Jan. 15.

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Domyan, Stephen, Norwalk, contractor for Hawie Manufacturing Co. Construct an indoor commercial farm at 73 River St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Ackerman Plumbing, contractor for Stephanie Warren. Perform interior alterations to the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 107 Route 39 North, Sherman. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Jan. 7.

Egghart, Casey, contractor for UB Stamford L.P. Perform tenant fit-up, adding 300 square feet to existing business taking space from neighboring tenant at 0 Sixth Street, Stamford. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Jan. 13.

AMEC Carting L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for GTO Capital Management. Demolition of an existing single-family residence at 12 Long View Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $20,000.

ESRT Construction TRS L.L.C., Stamford, contractor for Fifth Street Management. Install a roof-top generator on an existing commercial space at 777 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $125,000.

AMEC Carting L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for 129 Havemeyer Place Owner. Demolition of an existing single-family residence at 129 Havemeyer Place, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $17,000.

Bodner, James, contractor for Brian Nusbacher and Susan M. Nusbacher. Perform interior alterations to kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 61 Jefferson Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $12,600. Filed Jan. 16.

Covenant of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of a utility structure at 1177 King St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $12,000. Covenant of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of a maintenance facility at 1177 King St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $20,000. Covenant of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of a utility building at 1177 King St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $25,000. Covenant of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of a residence at 1177 King St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $27,000.

Bradford Estates, contractor for Michael DeSanctis. Lift home and add alterations to an existing single-family residence at 9 Plymouth Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $650,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Covenant of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of a utility structure at 1177 King St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $15,000.

Bringhindi, Steve, contractor for Elizabeth Casey. Remodel kitchen and bath in an existing single-family residence at 131 Spruce St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $7,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Des Santos, Gino, Sherman, contractor for self. Perform interior alterations in an existing single-family residence at 37 Big Trail Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Caetano Construction L.L.C., Danbury, contractor for Shailesh Nagasheth. Perform interior alterations to kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 2 Robinhood Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Design Tech, contractor for Gerald Foley. Perform interior alterations in an existing single-family residence at 96 Route 37 South, Sherman. Estimated cost: $110,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Carlson Builders, contractor for Juliet Eurich. Perform interior alterations in an existing single-family residence at 5 Hubble Mountain Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 21.

Desouza, Geraldo, Sherman, contractor for self. Perform additions to the bathroom and bedroom in an existing single-family residence at 30 Anderson Road East, Sherman. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Carlucci, Peter A., contractor for Angelo Bivona, et al. Demolition of an existing single-family residence at 55 Taff Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $16,750. Filed Jan. 17.

E & I Construction Services L.L.C., contractor for RLG Landscaping L.L.C. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 70 Grand St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $6,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Chapman, Ruth, Greenwich, contractor for self. Close off den to create bedroom. Raise roof to create enough height to convert closet to new bathroom and closet at 2 Carriage Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $12,000.

Elite Remodeling & Development, contractor for Lomba Fabiano. Open wall between kitchen and dining area to remove issue date at 81C Coalpit Hill Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Chazur, Jaison, Stratford, contractor for self. Replace windows in an existing single-family residence at 26-28 Clover St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $3,500. Filed Jan. 14.

Elwart Construction L.L.C., Ridgefield, contractor for Michael A. Futterman. Remodel kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 80 Clapboard Ridge Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $75,000.

City Carting, Stamford, contractor for Sean M. White and Laura White. Demolition of a detached garage at 7 W. End Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $1,200. Claris Construction, Newtown, contractor for Barret Outdoor. Construct a new 8,800-square-foot building at 1943 Commer Drive, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $565,800. Filed Jan. 14. Costa, Cindy and Pinto Ricardo J., Danbury, contractor for self. Perform interior alterations to the basement in an existing single-family residence at 3 Aiken Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Encon Construction, contractor for Robert Wahl. Perform mechanical alterations to boiler in an existing singlefamily residence at 6 Lake Shore Woods, Sherman. Estimated cost: $26,000. Filed Jan. 7. FJC Designs & Construction L.L.C., Greenwich, contractor for Joseph J. Fuscaldo. Refurbish kitchen, basement and bathrooms and perform electrical work and plumbing in an existing single-family residence at 18 Spezzano Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $55,000.

Freyre, Eneas, Stamford, contractor for self. Refurbish kitchen at an existing single-family residence at 15 Shore Road, Unit 1, Stamford. Estimated cost: $37,500. Filed Jan. 13. Front Row Kitchens Inc., Norwalk, contractor for Beth W. Fisher and Marc Cutler. Remodel kitchen and replace windows in an existing single-family residence at 58 Mayfair Lane, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $90,000. Fusco, contractor for COB. Pour foundation only for a new school at 680 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $410,000. Filed Jan. 14. G & S Renovations L.L.C., contractor for William A. Epp, et al. Remodel hall bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 71 Stanton Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 16. Gidley, Stephen C. Inc., contractor for Jim Cloud. Strip and replace roof shingles on an existing single-family residence at 35 Blueberry St., Darien. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Jan. 13. Grady, James, contractor for Victor Bonardi. Repair damages to house made from a car in an existing single-family residence at 665 N. Trail, Stratford. Estimated cost: $900. Filed Jan. 17. Home Depot, contractor for Mario Echeverria. Refurbish kitchen and bathrooms in an existing single-family residence at 73 Coach Lamp Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $41,000. Filed Jan. 14. Hudson Valley Home Crafters, New Windsor, contracted for Amy Ziffer. Remodel kitchen in an existing singlefamily residence at 128 Green Pond Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $44,000. Filed Jan. 10. Hudson Valley Home Crafters, New Windsor, contracted for Megan Casey. Perform interior alterations to the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 108 Route 39 North, Sherman. Estimated cost: $70,000. Filed Jan. 10. Innovative Cleaning, Stratford, contractor for St. Vincent’s. Perform interior remodeling in an existing single-family residence at 236-238 Harborview, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Jan. 13. Irish, Stephen, Darien, contractor for self. Re-do bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 24 Raymond St., Darien. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 17. Karolsky Construction, contractor for Alain McIntyre. Finish basement in an existing single-family residence at 42 Holly Lane, Darien. Estimated cost: $80,000. Filed Jan. 14. Kaye, Jeremy E., Greenwich, contractor for self. Demolition of an existing singlefamily residence at 49 Dingletown Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $20,000.

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NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events TWO Sign On WiTH rEynOLDS & rOWELLa

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‘i DO’ gOES HigH TECH County-based BETTErTHanriCE.COM founders MariBEL and MaTT WrigHT have embraced a creative approach to the wedding registry, combining the ideas of crowd-funding, buying local and social media. The website allows couples to choose from creative gifts provided by local boutiques and vendors in the Gift Shop or use the Mine Button to add gifts from anywhere on the Web. Couples can also plan and fund their honeymoon, create funds for personalized experiences or destinations or create funds for causes close to their heart … all from their registry.

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Two new tax associates have joined rEynOLDS & rOWELLa L.L.P., a consulting, audit and tax accounting firm with offices in Ridgefield and New Canaan. JESSiCa SCaTTOLini joins as a tax associate. She has four years’ accounting experience after graduating from Western Connecticut State University’s Ancell School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in financial accounting. Jina WiLLiE comes to the firm with three years’ experience as a staff accountant and is currently completing a master’s degree in taxation at the University of New Haven. Reynolds & Rowella now employs 41 people.

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In this ﬁ rst-day photo at 40 Richards Ave. in Norwalk, site of the new regional headquarters for Buﬀalo, N.Y.based FirST niagara Bank, from left, are BrUCE rOgErS, regional director of insurance for PiErSOn anD SMiTH, the Norwalk-based insurance subsidiary of First Niagara Bank; Norwalk MayOr Harry riLLing; CaTHiE SCHaFFEr, First Niagara’s tri-state regional president; and DaViD ring, First Niagara’s New England regional president and managing director of enterprise banking.

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Scarsdale, N.Y.-based TWin OakS COnSTrUCTiOn appointed riCHarD S. BOBrOW, a Westport resident, as chief operating officer. Bobrow, 56, has 30 years experience in development, acquisition, finance, construction and management. Most recently, he was president of RHB Development Corp., a Fairfield County-based developer of luxury single-family homes as well as residential and commercial construction in the New York Metro area and Fairfield County. “The demographics of Fairfield County and the demographics of the Scarsdale area are certainly similar,” Bobrow says. “It’s a good match.

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LaUriE HaM, a certified fi nancial planner with Danburybased rEBy aDViSOrS, recently obtained her MBA from Concordia University in Minnesota. She participated in an accelerated 22- month program. Founded in 1985, Reby is a fi nancial planning, wealth management fi rm that provides focused lifestyle management services to individuals, institutions and nonprofits.

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THE grEaTEr DanBUry CHaMBEr OF COMMErCE hosts a “Make a Pitch” roundtable, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 8-9:30 a.m., 39 West St., Danbury. The ﬁrst ﬁve to register will make their pitches. All others will act as sounding boards. For more information or to register your pitch, call (203) 743-5565 or email Joan@danburychamber.com.

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STiLL UnSUrE HOW COLLEgE rECrUiTing WOrkS FOr aTHLETES? Ask the experts: a panel of top coaches, athletes and recruiters, Feb. 6, 6:30-8 p.m., Equinox Darien, 72 Heights Road. A panel discussion will address how athletes can leverage competitive edge with academic achievement to have more options. There will be a Q-A and complimentary refreshments. For more information email DarienEvents@ Equinox.com.

LODgE BringS ‘SECOnDariES’ FOCUS TO COMMOnFUnD Wilton-based COMMOnFUnD, a manager for institutional investors, announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Commonfund Capital, has promoted Cari LODgE of Darien to the position of managing director. “Lodge has been an important contributor to the organization’s secondaries investment business and will help lead continued growth within this important investment practice,” the company said in a statement. “Secondary investments serve an increasingly important component of Commonfund Capital’s core private equity, venture capital and natural resources investment programs.” Previous to Commonfund, Lodge was a director in Tulane University’s investment management office and, prior to that, was a director at Credit Suisse Strategic Partners in its secondary program.

When PrESiDEnT OBaMa delivered his State of the Union Address Jan. 28, Norwalk Community College graduate LUCaS CODOgnOLLa was there, the guest of Democrat U.S. rEP JiM HiMES. Himes selected Codognolla, a Stamford resident, to raise awareness of COnnECTiCUT STUDEnTS FOr a DrEaM, an immigration reform and educational equity movement for which Codognolla is a lead coordinator. Codognolla is an advocate for the educational rights of undocumented students. For the past year, he also has worked as a paralegal for an immigration attorney in Stamford.

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on the record Sears Home Improvement, Rocky Hill, contractor for Janet Parker. Perform interior remodeling in an existing singlefamily residence, redoing kitchen at 1034 Connectcut Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $19,077. Filed Jan. 13.

Wakeman, Sally S. and Frederic Wakeman, Greenwich, contractor for self. Build new, detached garage at an existing single-family residence at 138 Pecksland Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $400,000.

Milan’s Construction L.L.C., contractor for Albert M. Pietruska Jr., et al. Strip and replace roof shingles on an existing single-family residence at 833 Hope St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $11,950. Filed Jan. 17.

Skolds, Dan, Darien, contractor for self. Add alterations to an existing singlefamily residence at 10 Tanglewood Trail, Darien. Estimated cost: $715,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Weissler, Vo and Mark L. Weissler, Greenwich, contractor for self. Elevate house to comply with FEMA flood map. Replace stone terrace with a deck at 39 Widowmere Circle, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $430,000.

Nixon, Ken, contractor for Chip Winter. Perform interior remodeling in an existing single-family residence at 53 Reitter St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $19,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Smeaton, Hamilton, Darien, contractor for self. Add alterations to an existing single-family residence at 124 Leroy Ave., Darien. Estimated cost: $252,000. Filed Jan. 21.

Novicky’s Fireside, contractor for Thomas O’Halloran. Add fireplace to an existing single-family residence at 27 Long River Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Solar City, Elmsford, N.Y., contractor for Hans Joachim Rieke. Install solar panels on an existing single-family residence at 9 N. Ridge Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $18,424.

O’Neill, Patricia, Danbury, contractor for self. Replace front door in an existing single-family residence at 81 B11 Park Ave., Unit 1106, Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,327. Filed Jan. 13.

STL Construction, contractor for Samuel Edelman, Repair roof of an existing single-family residence at 12 Briggs Hill Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $14,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Ortega, Marta, Bridgeport, contractor for self. Perform exterior renovations on in an existing single-family residence, constructing upper and lower back porches at 398-400 Kentwood Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Stanley Construction L.L.C., contractor for city housing authority. Legalize first-floor bedroom and bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 9 Triangle Terrace, Danbury. Estimated cost: $38,900. Filed Jan. 13.

KRZ Remodeling, contractor for Diane Saunders. Perform interior remodeling in an existing single-family residence at 135 Laurel St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Perkins Eastman Architects P.C., contractor for VTR Stamford L.L.C. Replace two ground signs in an existing single-family residence at 77 Third Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $1,500. Filed Jan. 17. Perry, Brian C., Danbury, contractor for Peter Kalman. Remove wall of an existing single-family residence at 26 Tiffany Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Studioso, Suzanne, contractor for self. Finish garage, part of first floor, third floor and legalize garage in an existing single-family residence at 1561 Capital Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 13. Timberline Carpentry L.L.C., contractor for Vincent Guarino, et al. Perform renovations on basement, baths, kitchen and living room at 96 Burwood Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Rex Roofing of Stamford Inc., Stamford, contractor for Judina Lalnine. Strip and replace roof shingles on an existing single-family residence at 6677 Nelson St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $7,347. Filed Jan. 15.

Truhowsky, Mark, Greenwich, contractor for Alfonso R. Criscuolo. Renovate second floor. Modernize first floor by renovating kitchen and bathroom at 1014 North St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $325,000.

Robert, Keith, contractor for Janet Caroll. Perform sheetrock work, install new windows and redo roof on an existing single-family residence at 35 Emerald Place, Stratford. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed Jan. 13.

US Team Inc., Staten Island, N.Y., contractor for Hoffman Nathan. Perform interior remodeling in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 612 Pequonnock St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Rocksolid Construction L.L.C., contractor for Afolabi Olomola, et al. Build garage and add a second-floor addition to an existing single-family residence at 46 Shadow Ridge Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $188,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Vasques, Mario, Danbury, contractor for self. Replace plywood for roof rafters in an existing single-family residence at 27 Montgomery St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Rocky, Drew, Sherman, contractor for self. Perform interior alterations to the basement in an existing single-family residence at 61 Church Road, Sherman. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Jan. 7.

W & W Construction Inc., Greenwich, contractor for Robert Moore and Lucy Moore. Perform interior alterations to the basement in an existing singlefamily residence at 37 Will-Merry Lane, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $20,000.

Sayed, Abu, Danbury, contractor for self. Repair water damage in an existing single-family residence at 99 Westville Ave., Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Wahl, Robert, Sherman, contractor for self. Perform interior plumbing alterations in an existing single-family residence at 6 Lake Shore Woods, Sherman. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed Jan. 7.

Wendel, Santos M., Danbury, contractor for self. Add three dormers, one on the front and two on the back to an existing single-family residence at 4 Elizabeth St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Jan. 15. Wheeler, Richard, Waterbury, contractor for Roderick Johnson and Jacqueline Johnson. Replace front door in an existing single-family residence at 7 Danfred St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $1,813. Filed Jan. 16. White Beach Builders L.L.C., Greenwich, contractor for Joan K. Lensing and Jenny E. Lensing. Demolish full bathroom to studs. Add new insulation, wall covering, tile and fixtures at 37 Coachlamp Lane, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $15,000. White, Marcia, contractor for Terry Vogerichian. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 642 Nichols Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $13,000. Filed Jan. 13.

COURT CASES

Bridgeport District Court Main Port Fish and Chips Inc., Bridgeport. Filed by Daniel Francois, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Delucia & Levine L.L.C., Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that he sustained injuries while slipping on a wet floor due to the negligence of the defendant and its employees. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs. Filed Dec. 23. Case No. 13cv6040115. Bridgeport Housing Authority, Bridgeport. Filed by Laura J. Borger, Milford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ganim & Ganim P.C., Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that her mother sustained personal injuries while falling from an unlocked exterior door due to the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs. Filed Jan. 2. Case No. 14cv6040273.

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C3 Racing Inc., Stratford. Filed by David Fowler, Houston, Texas. Plaintiff’s attorney: Brown & Welsh P.C., Merien. Action: The plaintiff has brought this fraud suit against the defendant, alleging that the plaintiff sold the defendant a defective car and lied about the car’s attributes and condition. The defendant knew the car would not pass inspection and failed to deliver a title to the car to the plaintiff. Plaintiff claims compensatory damages, punitive damages, prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest, attorneys’ fees, costs and such other further relief that the court deems just and equitable. Filed Jan. 6. Case No. 14cv6040322. Cook Blackiston L.L.C., Westport. Filed by Ahmed Syed, Irving, Texas. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office of Refai Arefin L.L.C., Plainsville. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $38,809 in commissions for services rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Defendant made immediate termination of agreement between plaintiff and defendant to reduce its liability for the payment of commissions. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, treble damages, punitive damages, costs and expenses, reasonable attorney’s fees and fair, equitable and just relief as the court may deem necessary and appropriate. Filed Dec. 23. Case No. 13cv6040116. Dunkin Donuts, Bridgeport. Filed by Mingolello & Associates Architects L.L.C., Shelton. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knott, Knott and Dunn, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $17,850 in exchange for services rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Defendant breached the party’s written agreement when it improperly discharged the plaintiff from his job. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and such other relief as the court may deem necessary and appropriate. Filed Jan. 6. Case No. 14cv6040300. Ingersoll Rand Company, et al., Piscataway, N.J. Filed by Donald Hogue, Marietta, Ga. Plaintiff’s attorney: Embry and Neusner, Groton. Action: The plaintiff has brought this product-liability suit against the defendants, alleging that he was forced to be exposed to asbestos fibers and materials manufactured by the defendants during the course of his work. The defendants failed to advise the plaintiff of the dangerous characteristics of asbestos and failed to provide a safe working environment for the plaintiff. The plaintiff seeks monetary damages in excess of $15,000, punitive and exemplary charges and such other relief as this court may deem proper. Filed Dec. 24. Case No. 13cv6040144. Meland Properties L.L.C.,et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Luz Al Noffa, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Paul J. Ganim, Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant alleging that she sustained personal injuries while slipping on an icy surface due to the negligence of the of the defendant and the defendant’s employees. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs. Filed Dec. 27. Case No. 13cv6040162.

Peerless Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Jose Carvalho, Shelton. Plaintiff’s attorney: Costello and McCormack P.C., Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant’s undersigned driver collided with the plaintiff causing serious injury. The plaintiff has exhausted the defendant’s insurance policy payout and is unable to agree on the amount of damages the plaintiff is entitled to. The plaintiff claims economic and noneconomic damages, lost wages, compensation for pain and suffering and all other just relief at the court deems appropriate and proper. Filed Dec. 30. Case No. 14cv6040195. Rite Aid Of Connecticut Inc., Hartford. Filed by Marianne Chechoski, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Bruce L. Elstein, Goldman, Gruder & Woods, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant’s employee deliberately threw a scanning machine at the plaintiff with intent to cause harm. This caused the plaintiff to sustain injuries, pain, monetary expenses for treatment and diminished earning capacity. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, punitive damages, attorney’s fees, costs and such other and further relief at the court deems appropriate. Filed Dec. 27. Case No. 13cv6040163. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Cedric L. Burden, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Owens, Schine & Nicola P.C., Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this insurance policy suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant’s undersigned driver collided with the plaintiff causing serious injury. The plaintiff has exhausted the defendant’s insurance policy payout and is unable to agree on the amount of damages the plaintiff is entitled to. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 and all other just relief at the court deems appropriate and proper. Filed Jan. 6. Case No. 14cv6040316. Uberti’s Fish Market Inc., Stratford. Filed by Connecticut Shellfish Co., Branford. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Law Office of Melissa L. Simonik L.L.C., Farmington. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $10,756 in exchange for goods rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Defendant defaulted on credit agreement. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $2,500, reasonable and adequate damages, late fees, interests, attorney’s fees, costs and such other relief as the court may deem necessary and appropriate. Filed Jan. 8. Case No. 14cv6040366. US Bank Of America N.A., Cincinnati, Ohio. Filed by the Water Pollution and Control Authority for the city of Bridgeport, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Juda J. Epstein, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this foreclosure suit against the defendant, alleging that there were liens against the defendant’s property. Demand has been made upon the defendant for the amount due and owing but the defendant has refused or neglected to make payments. The plaintiff claims strict foreclosure of the lien, immediate possession of the encumbered premises, a deficiency judgment, attorney’s fees and costs, receivership of rents and such other relief as may be required. Filed Dec. 30. Case No. 14cv6040211.

Danbury District Court Dappreio Construction & Development L.L.C., Stamford. Filed by Enterprise Electrical Contractors Inc., Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Michelson, Kane, Royster & Barger P.C., Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $237,397 in exchange for services rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, interests, reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and such other relief as the court may deem necessary and appropriate. Filed Jan. 7. Case No. 14cv6014420. General Casualty Company of Wisconsin, Hartford. Filed by Edycarla Figueiredo, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Ventura, Ribeiro & Smith, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant’s undersigned driver collided with the plaintiff causing serious injury. The defendant has not paid compensation to the plaintiff for her injuries and losses. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs. Filed Jan. 2. Case No. 14cv6014379. MIB Enterprises, Danbury. Filed by Armando Salazar, Waterbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gerace & Associates, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant alleging that he sustained personal injuries due to negligence of the defendant’s employees. The plaintiff was hit by a motor vehicle driven by an employee of the defendant. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs, double and treble damages. Filed Jan. 14. Case No. 14cv6014449. Superior Cleaners & Tailors Inc., Danbury. Filed by Keelan Wilson Valverde, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Romanello Law Firm, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant alleging that he sustained personal injuries while slipping on a wet floor due to the negligence of the defendant and its employees. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 or more exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief at the court may deem reasonable. Filed Jan. 3. Case No. 14cv6014383. The Hatch and Bailey Co., Norwalk. Filed by Stock Building Supply Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Law Offices of Zulio & Jacks L.L.C., East Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $418,898 in exchange for services rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, interests, reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and such other relief as the court may deem necessary and appropriate. Filed Jan. 9. Case No. 14cv6014431.

on the record Stamford District Court Edward D. Jones & Co. L.P., Saint Louis, Mo. Filed By Anne I Treimanis, New Canaan. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Law Firm of Jijon-Caamano and Young L.L.C., Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant breached a material term of the agreement by wrongfully releasing the entirety of the funds held in the plaintiff’s retirement account to a third party. The plaintiff claims compensatory damages equal to the amount held in the retirement account before liquidation, post and pre judgment interest and punitive damages. Filed Jan. 2. Case No. 14cv6020861. LCP Homes Inc., Westport. Filed by George Justin Phillips, et al., Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Daniel W. Moger Jr., Greenwich. Action: The plaintiffs had brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant gave them a warranty for a property. The defendant has failed to pay the warranty to cover the defective property. The plaintiffs claim damages, costs and other appropriate relief. Filed Jan. 7. Case No. 14cv6020890. Maestroni Design Inc., Greenwich. Filed by American Express Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah. Plaintiff’s attorney: Zwicker and Associates P.C., Enfield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant defaulted on the terms of the credit card agreement. Plaintiff has made requests for payment and defendant has refused to pay the plaintiff the amount due. The plaintiff seeks $25,095 exclusive of interests and costs. Filed Dec. 30. Case No. 14cv6020826. Sodexo Inc., et al., Cheshire. Filed by Charles Jackson, Toms River, N.J. Plaintiff’s attorney: Quellett, Deganis and Gallagher L.L.C., Cheshire. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant alleging that he sustained personal injuries due to negligence of the defendant’s employees. The plaintiff slipped and fell due to the defendant’s negligence, causing injuries to the plaintiff. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 and such other relief as law and equity may appertain. Filed Jan. 2. Case No. 14cv6020862. Stamford Town Center Investors L.L.C., Hartford. Filed by Marie Ulloa, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office of Andrew P. Dwyer II L.L.C., Wallingford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant alleging that she sustained personal injuries due to negligence of the defendant’s employees. The plaintiff slipped and fell on an escalator due to the defendant’s negligence, causing injuries to the plaintiff. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000 and such other relief as law and equity may appertain. Filed Jan. 6. Case No. 14cv6020879.

The Bear Family Partnership LTD, et al., Westport. Filed by Titan Capital, Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Greene Law P.C. Farmington. Action: The plaintiff has brought this property-foreclosure suit against the defendant. The defendant allegedly failed to pay taxes to the town of Weston. The tax lien was assigned to Titan Capital. The plaintiff claims a foreclosure of the lien, immediate possession of the premises, attorney’s fees, interests, costs and such other relief in law or equity as may appertain. Filed Dec. 31. Case No. 14cv6020845. Universal Pizza of Stamford Inc., Stamford. Filed by Santa Buckley Energy Group LTD, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of Becker & Zowine L.L.C. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant, alleging that the defendant still owes the plaintiff an unpaid balance of $8,719 in exchange for services rendered by the defendant for the plaintiff. Plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, interests, reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and post judgment interest. Filed Dec. 31. Case No. 14cv6020836.

SUPERIOR COURT Brightaupt et al. Filed Matthew Grillo, Suffield. Action: The plaintiff has brought a Prisoner Civil Rights suit. Filed Jan. 17. Case no. 14cv00064. DGG Properties Inc. d/b/a Water’s Edge Resort & Spa. Filed by David Zarrella. Plaintiff’s attorneys: Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelley, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought a Civil Right: American with Disabilities - Employment suit against the defendant related to medical issues. Filed Jan. 13. Case no. 14cv00042. Joan Hilliard, COLLECT training coordinator for the CT State Police. Filed by Veronica Green. Plaintiff’s attorney: Willinger, Willinger & Bucci, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought a Civil Rights suit against the defendant alleging the defendant terminated employment based on certification requirements without acknowledging related documents. Filed Jan. 13. Case no. 14cv00041. NRA L.L.C., d.b.a. National Recovery Agency. Filed by Rosa Aceveda. Plaintiff’s attorney: Joanne Faulkner, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought a consumer credit fair debt collection suit against the defendant related to an identity theft account dispute. Filed Jan. 13. Case no. 14cv00040. Ocwen Home Loan Servicing et al. Filed by Luis Gonzalez, et al, East Windsor. The plaintiff has brought a fraud or truth-in-lending suit against the defendant. Filed Jan. 16. Case no. 14cv00053. Old Glory L.L.C. et al. Filed by Skip and Whistle L.L.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Carmody Torrance Sendak & Hennessey L.L.P., New Haven. The plaintiff has brought a copyright infringement suit against the defendant alleging the defendant created direct replicas of plaintiff’s designs and used plaintiff’s photographs in its advertisements on Amazon and eBay while undercutting plaintiff’s prices. Filed Jan. 17. Case no. 14CV00058.

Onofrio et al. Filed by Robert Marzullo. Plaintiff’s attorney: Polan & Simmons, New Haven. The plaintiff has brought a civil rights suit against the defendant. The plaintiff suffered an epileptic seizure while driving, causing a collision. He alleges the defendants, police officers from the town of Hamden, inappropriately used a taser gun to extricate the plaintiff from the car. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 14cv00046.

Aestival Associates L.L.C., Stamford. Seller: Faughart Properties, Greenwich. Property: 9 Bender Drive, Parcel A2, Greenwich. Amount: $562,500. Filed Jan. 15.

Permasteelisa North America Corporation. Filed by Jerry Keith. Plaintiff’s attorney: William S. Palmeieri L.L.C., New Haven. The plaintiff has brought a civil rights job suit against the defendant alleging employment discrimination as retaliation for complaining about discriminatory treatment. Filed Jan. 13. Case no. 14cv00043.

CubeSmart L.P., Seller: YSI VI L.L.C., Property: 99 Hamilton Ave., Stamford. Amount: undisclosed. Filed Jan. 17.

Panasonic Corporation of North America. Filed by Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. representing Thompson Gardens, West Condo Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gordon, Muir, & Foley, Hartford. The plaintiff has brought a property damage, product liability suit against the defendant related to a fire occurring at the insured’s business at 140 Thompson St., East Haven, and seeking $230,000 in damages. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 14vc00045.

Hede Property Group L.L.C., Southport. Seller: Charles Nedder, Darien. Property: Unit 5P in Bedford Towers Condominium, Stamford. Amount: $180,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Scribinski et al. Filed by David Abrams (Abrahams), Cheshire. The plaintiff has brought a prisoner civil rights suit against the defendant and seeks $15,000 in damages. Filed Jan. 16. Case no. 14cv00056.

Jasper Home L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Indian Spring Limited Partnership, Greenwich. Property: 23 Stillman Lane, Lot 39, Greenwich. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Jan. 13.

USA. Defendant’s attorneys: Eric J. Glover, New Haven. Filed by William K. Oehme, Tucson, Ariz. Plaintiff has brought a prisoner-vacate-sentence suit against the defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel during initial court proceedings. Filed Jan. 14. Case no. 14cv00044.

DEEDS

COMMERCIAL 2 Fathers Peter’s Lane L.L.C., New Canaan. Seller: Amist L.L.C., New Canaan. Property: 2 Fathers Peter’s Lane, New Canaan. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Jan. 13. 21 Diamond Avenue L.L.C., Redding, Seller: Design Results L.L.C., Danbury. Property: 21 Diamond Ave., Bethel. Amount: $581,000. Filed Jan. 16 337 Wayne St. L.L.C., Monroe. Seller: Jiovanno Castano and Maria Ofelia Munoz, Norwalk. Property: Lots 60 and 61, Jackson Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $130,000. Filed Jan. 15. 3739 Tremont St. L.L.C., Hartford. Seller: Colette Hill, Stratford. Property: 126 Larkin Court, Stratford. Amount: $58,100. Filed Jan. 17. 394 Stanwich Road L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: David Martin Dickson Jr. and Amelia Del Rio Dickson, Greenwich. Property: 394 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. Amount: $3.7 million. Filed Jan. 16. 5 Conyers Farm Drive L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: 5CFD L.L.C., Greenwich. Property: 5 Conyers Farm Drive, Greenwich. Amount: 11.5 million. Filed Jan. 16.

AppleJack CT L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Eleanor F. Sullivan, Greenwich. Property: 45 John St., Greenwich. Amount: $11.9 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Danbury Hospitality L.L.C., Danbury. Seller: HI Danbury Lodging L.L.C., Danbury. Property: 86-92 Newtown Road, Danbury. Amount: $5.5 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Infinity Enterprises L.L.C., Danbury. Seller: Town Hill Investments L.L.C., Danbury. Property: 84-88 Town Hill Ave., Danbury. Amount: $490,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Kazbel Home Improvement L.L.C., Stratford. Seller: Hilton Payne and Gloria Payne, Bridgeport. Property: 1257 Old Town Road, Bridgeport. Amount: $105,000. Filed Jan. 13. Lewis Rothman Design L.L.C., Greenwich. Sellers: Janice M. Richichi, Carolyn A. Walker, Michael J. Romano, Patricia M. Romano, Robert A. Romano and Vito L. Romano, Stamford. Property: Lot 1, Map No. 8300, Stamford. Amount: $385,000. Filed Jan. 15. Lupia L.L.C., Shelton. Seller: John L. Lupia, Stratford. Property: 181 Stonybrook Road, Stratford. Amount: $1. Filed Jan. 15. Murer 166 Mason L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: 166 Mason L.L.C., Greenwich. Property: 166 Mason St., Greenwich. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 17. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Okla. Seller: Connecticut Housing Financial Authority, Rocky Hill. Property: 15 Hilldale Road, New Fairfield. Amount: $1. Filed Jan. 10. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Okla. Seller: PNC Bank N.A., Miamisburg, Ohio. Property: 1046 State St., Bridgeport. Amount: $10. Filed Jan. 13. Sell Fast Home Buyers L.L.C., North Haven. Seller: Linda Golias French, North Port, Fla. Property: 95 Red Bird Drive, Stratford. Amount: $37,500. Filed Jan. 15. YY L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Stuart Baldwin, Elmira, N.Y. Property: 56-58 Beachview Ave, Bridgeport. Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 15.

RESIDENTIAL Agha, Hassan, Stratford. Seller: Pan Andy, Shelton. Property: 149 Ryan Ave., Stratford. Amount: $65,100. Filed Jan. 17.

Canoro, Alfred and Michael Canoro, New York, N.Y. Seller: Kenneth C. Ambrecht and Susan B. Ambrecht, Gulf Stream, Fla. Property: 183 West Road, New Canaan. Amount: $2.7 million. Filed Jan. 16.

Ahumada, Mercedes and Francisco Seitun, New York, N.Y. Seller: Tom R. Raglan III, Greenwich. Property: 2 Spring St., Greenwich. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Charron, Anika Verena and Bradley R. Charron, Darien. Seller: Shay Homes L.L.C., Darien. Property: Lot 2A, Map No. 2, Darien. Amount: $3 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Alatortsev, Natallia, Stamford. Seller: John F. Kayser Sr. and Barbara M. Kayser, Tampa, Fla. Property: Den Road, Stamford. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Chintalapudi, Prasad, Norwalk. Seller: Kaori Mims, Bridgeport. Property: 56 Sidney St., Bridgeport. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Amador, Maria D., Bridgeport. Seller: Thomas Tillson Jr. and Marie Tillson, Bridgeport. Property: 226 Cleveland Ave, Bridgeport. Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Clark, Jeanne Weber and Timothy Clark, Carmel, N.Y. Seller: Leslie L. Durschinger, San Francisco, Ca. Property: 22 Briggs Hill Road, Sherman. Amount: $292,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Avalos, Jane F. and William J. Avalos Jr., Vero Beach, Fla. Seller: Scott Avalos, Stamford. Property: 18 Borglum St., Stamford. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Conklin, Joanna M. and Eric J. Conklin, New Milford. Seller: William James Lee and Kelly Lee, Newtown. Property: 4 Diamond Drive, Newtown. Amount: $328,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Ayoub, Ali and Rasha Ayoub, Stamford. Seller: Jordanopoulos 2001 Limited Partnership. Property: 259 Hope St., Stamford. Amount: $630,000. Filed Jan. 17. Baker, Vanda McGlade, Darien. Seller: Peter J. Blank and Susan K. Blank, Darien. Property: Park Trail, Darien. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 13. Becker, Kaitlin and Justin Bisceglie, Norwalk. Seller: Nancy Previs Bluett, Dublin, West Ireland. Property: 165 Highview Drive, Stratford. Amount: $249,000. Filed Jan. 16 Bennett, Amie, Danbury. Seller: Toll CT II Limited Partnership, Danbury. Property: 152 Warrington Round, Danbury. Amount: $395,368. Filed Jan. 15. Bennett, Nathan, Danbury. Seller: Chin H. Yen and Ayih Eiang, Bayside, N.Y. Property: 9 Sky Edge Drive, Bethel. Amount: $260,000. Filed Jan. 13. Benson, Jeremy C., Newtown. Seller: Krist R. Hicks Benson, Newtown. Property: Lot 1-3, Map No. 2072, Newtown. Amount: $1. Filed Jan. 15. Bertola-Emerson, Adriana I, Fairfield. Seller: Rene Roman, Danbury. Property: 126 Triangle St., Danbury. Amount: $59,000. Filed Jan. 13. Blanton, D. Gwyn, Redding. Seller: Herminia H. Mayer, Redding. Property: 6 Church St., Redding. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 13. Burke, Nichole D. and James P. Burke, Danbury. Seller: Carl A. Wagner, Bethel. Property: 13 McNeil Road, Bethel. Amount: $240,000. Filed Jan. 13. Campins, Irene J., Danbury. Seller: Sam Bass L.L.C. Danbury. Property: 35-37 Osborne St., Danbury. Amount: $315,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Corcoran, Nicole R. and Brian R. Corcoran, Weston. Seller: Vincent S. Giovinco and Patricia E. Giovinco, Stamford. Property: 1 Millbank Ave., Unit 3B, Greenwich. Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 15. Corinne, Dreyer and Jeffrey Corinne, Stratford. Seller: Anthony T. Martire and Joan Martire, Stamford. Property: 154 Cedar Knoll Drive, Stratford. Amount: $255,000. Filed Jan. 13. D’Agostino, Victoria M. and Gregory G. D’Agostino, Darien. Seller: Victoria M. D’Agostino and Gregory G. D’Agostino, Darien. Property: Lot 3, Map No. 1089, Darien. Amount: $1. Filed Jan. 16. D’Albert, Nancy D. and Kevin T. D’Albert, New York, N.Y. Seller: Maureen R. Kosbob, Stamford. Property: Parcel S, Map No. 12458, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 13. Darlington, Dorothy and Marek Bester, Stamford. Seller: Jaime Fernandez, Carmel, N.Y. Property: Map No. 347 on Fire Hill Road, Redding. Amount: $230,000. Filed Jan. 13. Debartolomeo, Kimberly A. and Paul J. Debartolomeo, Brewster, N.Y. Seller: David G. Eatock, New Fairfield. Property: Lot 28, Map No. 1017, New Fairfield. Amount: $327,000. Filed Jan. 14. DiGiocanni, Andrea M. and Thomas M. DiGiovanni, Stony Point, N.Y. Seller: Alfred H. Lindroth III and Carolyn Lindroth, Brookfield. Property: Lot 39, Dogwood Acres, Brookfield. Amount: $335,000. Filed Jan. 16. Doceti, Joseph, Flushings, N.Y. Seller: Thomas G. Mack and Joyce C. Mack, New Fairfield. Property: Oak Ridge Estate, Lot 1, New Fairfield. Amount: $260,000. Filed Jan. 13. Doris, Karen M. and Martin F. Doris, White Plains, N.Y. Seller: Evelyn M. Carlson, Brookfield. Property: 8 Black Swan Court, Brookfield. Amount: $527,000. Filed Jan. 15.

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on the record Dukes, John, Shelton. Seller: Debra Eccles, Stratford. Property: 398 Sequoia Lane, Unit B, Stratford. Amount: $324,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Herbert, John E. Jr., Darien. Seller: John E. Herbert Jr., Darien. Property: Lot A, Map No. 3933, Darien. Amount: $1. Filed Jan. 14.

Fawcett, Kathy A. and Dennis G. Fawcett, Stamford. Seller: Harriet Bonnell, New York, N.Y. Property: Lot 26, Map No. 11065, Stamford. Amount: $860,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Hopper, David, Greenwich. Seller: Dennis G. Fawcett and Kathleen Anne Fawcett, Greenwich. Property: 108 Birch Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 16.

Fedorko, William Nicholas, Fairfield. Seller: Judyann Wolf, Brookfield. Property: 4 Galloping Hill, Brookfield. Amount: $465,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Howarth, Pernille Toftdale and Simon Robert Howarth, Greenwich. Seller: Leland L. Forest and Zarin WaiLing Forest, Greenwich. Property: 21 Hendrie Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Feijoo, Hilda F., Nutley, N.J. Seller: The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Hartford. Property: 105 Cottage St., Bridgeport. Amount: $38,000. Filed Jan. 15. Ferrell, Amy E. and Stephen T. Ferrell, Brookfield. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., McLean, Va. Property: 2 Squantz View Drive, New Fairfield. Amount: $390,000. Filed Jan. 6. Finan, Abigail Anne and Kevin Scott Finan, Stamford. Seller: Ryan H. Kiernan and Ellen D. Sarosy, Stamford. Property: 33 Pine Hill Ave., Unit 2, Stamford. Amount: $330,000. Filed Jan. 15. Fitzgerald, Shawn and Steven Wilburn, Sherman. Seller: Vance W. Weaver and Elizabeth Weaver, New York, N.Y. Property: Locust Lane, Sawmill Road and Cedar Lane, Sherman. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 7. Fortunato, Robert P., Westport. Seller: David B. Heady, Bridgeport. Property: 2625 Park Ave., Unit 4D, Bridgeport. Amount: $78,000. Filed Jan. 15. Galloza, Angel, Bridgeport. Seller: Herbert F. Walker, Trumbull. Property: 16-18 Hadley St., Bridgeport. Amount: $115,000. Filed Jan. 15. Garvey, Elizabeth B. and Bradford D. Garvey, New York, N.Y. Seller: Marie T. Ball, Weddington, N.C. Property: 15 Indian Spring Trail, Darien. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 13. George, Kristin W., Norwalk. Seller: Robert Stelben and Jillian Stelben, Darien. Property: Lot 20, Map No. 36, Darien. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 14. Gonzalez, Edgar A. and Mirna Gonzalez, Stamford. Seller: Guiseppe Altamura, Michelina Altamura, Raffaele Altamura and Phyllis Altamura, Stamford. Property: 750 Cove Road, Unit 7, Stamford. Amount: $90,000. Filed Jan. 16. Gray, Stephen and Lorraine Gray, Salt Lake City, Utah. Seller: Mark Lajoie, Stamford. Property: 123 Dogwood Lane, Stamford. Amount: $705,000. Filed Jan. 15. Handal, Victor H., Danbury. Seller: Cirmin Development L.L.C., Bayville, N.Y. Property: 7 Old Oak Drive, Brookfield. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 17. Hayashida, Toshiro, Greenwich. Seller: Judith Baker, Greenwich. Property: 197 Sheephill Road, Unit D, Greenwich. Amount: $779,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Huges, Jean K., Brookfield. Seller: Riverview at Brookfield L.L.C., Brookfield. Property: 35 Riverview Court, Brookfield. Amount: $235,395. Filed Jan. 13. Hupy, Jeanene A. and Jerry L. Hupy, New Fairfield. Seller: Adrian Schultes and Amita Schultes, New Fairfield. Property: Candlewood Isle Subdivision Section One, New Fairfield. Amount: $510,000. Filed Jan. 14. Iyer, Jayashree, Danbury. Seller: Leonidas Vlamis, The Villages, Fla. Property: 7 Padaram Road, Unit 147, Danbury. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 14. Jenkins, Lizbeth C. and Thomas W. Jenkins, Beaufort, S.C. Seller: Cheryl A. Wargo, Stamford. Property: 41 Hirsch Road, Stamford. Amount: $367,500. Filed Jan. 16. Kelly, Jennifer L. and Patrick M. Kelley, Newtown. Seller: Sally A. Parker, Newtown. Property: Lot 21, Map No. 5654, Newtown. Amount: $564,000. Filed Jan. 16. Ketchum, Sara M., Bedford, N.Y. Seller: Newbury Village L.L.C., Brookfield. Property: 212 Still Water Circle, Brookfield. Amount: $363,643. Filed Jan. 16. Koerner, Regula Maria and Thomas Herman Koerner, Schoenenberg, Switzerland. Seller: Oak Sun Hahm and Tae Yong Hahm, New Fairfield. Property: 4 Twin Ponds Court, New Fairfield. Amount: $680,000. Filed Jan. 6. Lee, Kelly A. and William James Lee, Newtown. Seller: Karen Gardner, Newtown. Property: 6 Cannon Drive, Newtown. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 15. Levion, Jenny Murnan, New Canaan. Seller: Michael E. Hasket, Maimi, Fla. Property: 538 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. Amount: $4.8 million. Filed Jan. 14. Li, Cheng, Stratford. Seller: Eugene R. Campofiore and Raymond Campofiore, Stratford. Property: 40 California St., Unit 4C 22, Stratford. Amount: $65,000. Filed Jan. 17. Lin, Bo Hui and Yong Lin, Stamford. Seller: 3739 Tremont St. L.L.C., Hartford. Property: 127 Larkin Court, Stratford. Amount: $58,100. Filed Jan. 17. Litrivis, Evgenia, Greenwich. Seller: John Wilson and Michelle L. Wilson, Stamford. Property: 8 Mid River Run, Stamford. Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 14.

Lopez, Diane C. De and Alvaro Lopez, Weston, Fla. Seller: Bruce Jones and Patricia Jones, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Property: 15 Dan Beard Lane, Redding. Amount: $635,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Ohlson, Lorianna Boa and Daniel Scott Olson, Nashua, N.H. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 3 Lands End Road, Newtown. Amount: $410,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Sarcia, Anthony J., Trumbull. Seller: John Maglione, Bridgeport. Property: Unit 38 of Foxledge Condominium, Bridgeport. Amount: $90,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Martire, Joan and Anthony T. Martire, Stratford. Seller: Michael R. Opitz and Martin H. Opitz, Stratford. Property: Lot 17 in Indian Hill Terrace Stratford. Amount: $250,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Olivares, Manuel, Bridgeport. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 3370 Madison Ave., Unit 6B, Bridgeport. Amount: $61,900. Filed Jan. 13.

Semenuk, Andrea H. and Christopher F. Semenuk, Greenwich. Seller: Margaret Ann George, Greenwich. Property: Pilot Rock Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $5 million. Filed Jan. 16.

Matthews, Heather Eddleton and Brayden S. Matthews, Darien. Seller: Brayden S. Matthews, Darien. Property: Parcel No. 2, Map No. 3356, Darien. Amount: $0. Filed Jan. 13. Mauger, Pascale and Pierre Mauger, Greenwich. Seller: Robert Futterman, Greenwich. Property: 111 Dingletown Road, Greenwich. Amount: $2.8 million. Filed Jan. 17. Mcleod, Sandra D., Bridgeport. Seller: William P. Haynes, Bridgeport. Property: 60 Daniels Drive, Bridgeport. Amount: $130,000. Filed Jan. 13. Mehos, Rita Z., Darien. Seller: Charles G. Hannigan and Meghan C. Hannigan, Darien. Property: 9 Cross Road, Darien. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed Jan. 14. Meng, Kak, Danbury. Seller: Newbury Renaissance L.L.C., Danbury. Property: 23 Scuppo Road, Danbury. Amount: $140,000. Filed Jan. 16. Ming Lo, Zen and Zen Fei Lo, Bayside, N.Y. Seller: Stephen J. Miller II, Stamford. Property: 102 Summer St., Unit 3A, Stamford. Amount: $235,000. Filed Jan. 15. Mirjavadi, Zia, Stamford. Seller: Erna Kauffman, Irvington, N.Y. Property: Marina Unit L-6 of Palmer Landing, Stamford. Amount: $34,000. Filed Jan. 16. Mitchels, Elizabeth M. and Mark R. Mitchels, Darien. Seller: Randall S. Meadows and Sharon M. Meadows, New Canaan. Property: 356 West Road, New Canaan. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Jan. 13. Monahan, Marla G., Stamford. Seller: Thomas Hadden and Nancy Hadden, Stamford. Property: Lot 28, Map No. 6349, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 16. Mosley, Daniel L., Greenwich. Seller: Fabiola R. Arredono, Greenwich. Property: 30 Field Point Circle, Greenwich. Amount: $0. Filed Jan. 14. Neumann, Kyle, Ridgefield. Seller: Bertha L. Stuckley, Danbury. Property: 19 Ken Oaks Drive, Danbury. Amount: $196,000. Filed Jan. 14. Nicholas, David J., New Milford. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., McLean, Va. Property: 2 Moody Lane, Danbury. Amount: $119,000. Filed Jan. 13. O’Hara, Jill R. and Steven C. O’Hara, Bronx, N.Y. Seller: John W. Goetz and Kathleen A. McGroddy Goetz, New Fairfield. Property: Lot 37, Map No. 2526 and 2821, New Fairfield. Amount: $575,000. Filed Jan. 13.

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Orlander, Sabina and Harlan Stone, New Canaan. Seller: Robertson Holdings L.L.C., New Canaan. Property: Parcel A, Map No. 2249, New Canaan. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 14. Ortiz, Richele V. and Javier Ortiz, Stratford. Seller: Daniel J. Roberts and Nikki Lyn Roberts, Stratford. Property: 365 High View Drive, Stratford. Amount: $410,000. Filed Jan. 17. Pan, Andy, Shelton. Seller: The Bank Of New York Mellon FKA, Simi Valley, Calif. Property: 147 Ryan Ave., Stratford. Amount: $67,100. Filed Jan. 17. Patel, Kantiben and Hasmukhal Patel, Danbury. Seller: William Ficker and Linda Ford, Tallahassee, Fla. Property: 2 Sierra Way, Danbury. Amount: $430,000. Filed Jan. 16. Pellicci, Michael M. and Anthony F.X. Stamford. Seller: Carlos Parra and Arelis Moran, Stamford. Property: 100 Hope St., Unit 46, Stamford. Amount: $370,000. Filed Jan. 17. Piazza, Rosanna and Joseph J. Piazza, Shelton. Seller: Rosanna Pizza and Joseph J. Piazza, Shelton. Property: 36 MacArthur Lane, Stamford. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 15. Polcyn, Beata and Angelica Wierzbinski, Middle Village, N.Y. Seller: Charles L. Mullen, Norwalk. Property: 1142-1146 E. Main St., Bridgeport. Amount: $260,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Smith, Courtney M., Mohegan Lake, N.Y. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 390 Charles St., Unit 208, Bridgeport. Amount: $60,000. Filed Jan. 13. Southport, Bridget and Joseph Naura, Milford. Seller: Matthew D. Alpert, Monroe. Property: 24 Mount Pleasant Ave., Stratford. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 15. Sullivan, Susan J. and Richard Sullivan, Wilton. Seller: Toll CT II Limited Partnership, Newtown. Property: 18 Briar Ridge Road, Bethel. Amount: $445,000. Filed Jan. 13. The Jone B. Edwards Trust, Houston, Texas. Seller: Thomas P. Ferris and Karen L. Ferris, Stamford. Property: 77 Havmeyer Lane, Unit 8, Stamford. Amount: $865,000. Filed Jan. 13. Theofanidis, Elizabeth and Stylianos Theofanidis, Greenwich. Seller: QIC L.L.C., Greenwich. Property: 226 Riverside Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 14.

Whittington, Priscilla J., Greenwich. Seller: Ivana Diane Sain, Makawao, Hawaii. Property: 28 Wessels Place, Greenwich. Amount: $570,000. Filed Jan. 13. Wilner, Paige and Jeffrey Wilner, Greenwich. Seller: Gusbert C. Vuursteen and Martine Vuursteen-Schipper, Greenwich. Property: Keofferam Road, Greenwich. Amount: $4.4 million. Filed Jan. 13. Wilson, Theresa and Algernon T. Coney, Stamford. Seller: Angelica Wierzbinski, Middle Village, N.Y. Property: 121 Norland Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $208,000. Filed Jan. 15. Wojnarowski, Jason, Stratford. Seller: Roslyn Miller, Stratford. Property: 751 Pontiac Lane, Unit 26, Stratford. Amount: $162,000. Filed Jan. 17 Xiao, Kuwen, Kearny, N.J. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 40 Cottage St., Bridgeport. Amount: $46,000. Filed Jan. 16. Young, Cassia A. and Rolando F. Young. Seller: Wade Stier and Christina Stier. Property: 14 First St., Unit 14H aka Unit TB-2, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 17. Zhu, Dizhuo and Jingyan Wang, Greenwich. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 95 Liberty St., Unit D8, Stamford. Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 13.

FORECLOSURES

Thrane, Patricia, Greenwich. Seller: Lynda L. Solsvig, Greenwich. Property: 33 Wildwood Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Almonte, Ramon, et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 32-34 Jane St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 14.

Thrasher, Rex C., Ridgefield. Seller: James M. McNamara and Kristine M. McNarma, Redding. Property: Lot 49, Map No. 1062, Redding. Amount: $420,000. Filed Jan. 14.

Asaoulo, Segun, et al. Creditor: Bank of America N.A. Property: 1268 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 13.

Tippet, Majorie, Ridgefield. Seller: Toll CT II Limited Partnership, Danbury. Property: 71 Warrington Round, Danbury. Amount: $458,846. Filed Jan. 15.

Benavides, Jason, et al. Creditor: The Bank Of New York Mellon Trust Co. N.A. Property: 2625 Park Ave., Apt. 15H, Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 16.

Vadham, Neel, Stamford. Seller: Eastside Development Associates L.L.C., Norwalk. Property: 850 Main St., Stamford. Amount: $579,600. Filed Jan. 16.

Cherry, Rena D., et al. Creditor: RMS Residential Properties L.L.C. Property: 25 Padanaram Road, Unit 62, Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 15.

Reid, Lauren C. and David M. Anderson, Sherman. Seller: Christopher J. Byrne, Jacksonville, Fla. Property: Timber Trails, Section One, New Fairfield. Amount: $230,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Vairo, Katherine E. and Pasquale V. Vairo, Greenwich. Seller: Christopher C. Davidson and Dawn N. Davidson, London, UK. Property: 48 Highview Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Davis, Karen, et al. Creditor: Bank of America N.A. Property: 198 Berkshire Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 15.

Renjilian, Lucille Ann, New Fairfield. Seller: Claire Chianese, Monroe. Property: Lot 16 of Knollcrest, New Fairfield. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Walsh, Kathleen M., Wilton. Seller: Thomas W. Moore and Susan M. Moore, Darien. Property: 8 Ward Lane, Darien. Amount: $425,000. Filed Jan. 15.

Rios, Luz Elena, Michelle Franco and Daniel A. Franco, Bronxville, N.Y. Seller: Patrick D. Clark and Zila Clark, East Haven. Property: 325 Carol Road, Stratford. Amount: $185,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Webb, Christopher J., Greenwich. Seller: Matthew S. Raben and Lillian Rice Raben, Darien. Property: 236 Bedford Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 15.

Sanchez, Maria Nimia and Marisol Castano, Bayside, N.Y. Seller: Dawn B. Keenan, Danbury. Property: 12 Taagan Point Road, Danbury. Amount: $320,000. Filed Jan. 13.

Weissman, Majorie R., Stamford. Seller: Charles W. Grinnell and Patricia A. Grinnell, Stamford. Property: No. 336 Stamford Ave., Stamford. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 16.

Reddy, Haripriya, New Jersey, N.J. Seller: Carlos Obando, Stamford. Property: 60 Strawberry Hill Ave., Unit 505, Stamford. Amount: $117,000. Filed Jan. 13. Reedy, Meredith Majesty and Timothy S. Reedy, Greenwich. Seller: Andrew F. Brenner and Kathleen S. Brenner, Bedford Hills, N.Y. Property: 65 Buckfield Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $2.7 million. Filed Jan. 14.

Ferris, Edmond, et al. Creditor: Citimortgage Inc. Property: 390 Charles Ave., Unit 212F, Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 13. Finnerty, Felicity, et al. Creditor: The Bank Of New York Mellon Trust Co. N.A. Property: 564-566 Midland St., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 15. Guevara, Teodora, et al. Creditor: OneWest Bank N.A. Property: 171 Jones Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 13. Malhotra, Vipin, et al. Creditor: Union Savings Bank. Property: 226 Main St., Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 14.

on the record Nieves, Carol, et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 335 Glendale Ave., Unit G-16, Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 14.

Forbes, Neil R. Jr., Stratford. $3,944, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by Tobin and Melien. Property: 57 Derby Place, Stratford, Filed Jan. 17.

Rohan, Kelly, et al. Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 425 Saunders Ave., Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 16.

Handrahan, Suzanne B., Danbury. $10,024, in favor of Cavalry SPV I L.L.C. by Solomon and Solomon P.C. Property: 23 Harrison St., Danbury, Filed Jan. 13.

Stevenson, David, et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 21 Deer Road, Unit 57, Bethel. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 16.

Hansel, Dawen Stratford. $2,910, in favor of Credit Acceptance Corporation, South Field, Mich., by Nair & Levin P.C. Property: 308 Garibaldi Drive, Stratford, Filed Jan. 17.

Welcome, Wanda V., Stamford. $3,557, in favor of Cavalry SPV I L.L.C., Valhalla, N.Y., by Tobin and Melien. Property: 616 Hope St., Stamford, Filed Jan. 13.

Holloway, Tyrone R., Stratford. $10,670, in favor of Unifund Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio, by Tobin and Melien. Property: 108 Linton St., Stratford, Filed Jan. 17.

Wood, Deborah, Greenwich. $750,000, in favor of Curtis Wood, Greenwich, by Pullman & Comley L.L.C. Property: 8 Grove Lane, Greenwich, Filed Jan. 16.

Hudson, Paul, Bridgeport. $22,025, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by Tobin & Melien. Property: 80 Beauvue Terrace, Bridgeport, Filed Jan. 14.

LEASES

Tate, Theresa L., et al Creditor: Newtown Savings Bank. Property: 1 Derby Court, Unit 7A, Brookfield. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 15. Vargas-Reyes, Luzwilda, et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank. Property: 8 Marledon Road, Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 14. Waterhouse, Roger L., et al. Creditor: Union Savings Bank. Property: 18 Beech St., Danbury. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 13.

JUDGMENTS

Istvan, Joseph, et al., New Fairfield. $31,165, in favor of Connecticut Light and Power Co., Hartford, by Alexander G. Snyder, Waterbury. Property: 1 Pine Hill Road, New Fairfield, Filed Jan. 13.

Acevedo, Marta, Bridgeport. $1,578, in favor of Sikorsky Financial Credit Union Inc., Stratford, by Tobin & Melien. Property: 201 Wheeler Ave., Bridgeport, Filed Jan. 14.

Johnson-Roofe, Doris, Stratford. $2,776, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff P.C. Property: 90 Shanley St., Stratford, Filed Jan. 16.

Banks, Claudia and Dennis Banks, Sherman. Amount undisclosed, in favor of Goran Dahl and Karin Dahl, Sherman, by Robin J. Smith. Property: Lots 103 and 104, Map No. 731, Sherman, Filed Jan. 14

Lara, Abel, Stratford. $0, in favor of Cavalry SPV I L.L.C., Valhalla, N.Y., by Tobin and Melien. Property: 830 Surf Ave., Stratford, Filed Jan. 13.

Velez, Linda E. and Hector L. Perez, Bronx, N.Y. $30,319, in favor of Ponce De Leon, Danbury, by Howard Evan Ignal, Bridgeport. Property: 5 Pondside Way, Danbury, Filed Jan. 13. Voidaros, Vasiliki, Stamford. $3,500, in favor of Connecticut Light and Power, Windsor, by Nair & Levin P.C. Property: 12 Elm Tree Place, Stamford, Filed Jan. 17.

Benhassen, Lassaad, by Lassaad Benhassen. Landlord: 500 Park Avenue Corp. Property: 500 Park Ave., Unit 6, Bridgeport. Term: 10 years, commencing September 2013. Filed Jan. 15. Hirsch & Levy L.L.C., by Sharon B. Levy. Landlord: Forstone 350 L.L.C. Property: 360 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Term: 3 years, commencing Jan. 1, 2014. Filed Jan. 13. Jovil Universal, L.L.C., by Cramer & Anderson LLP. Landlord: Belmi Management Partnership. Property: 10 Precision Road, Danbury. Term: 10 years, commencing Dec. 30, 2013. Filed Jan. 13. New Shreve, Crump and Low L.L.C., by David G. Walker. Landlord: Jenn Realty L.L.C. Property: 125 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich. Term: 10 years, commencing Jan. 1, 2014. Filed Jan. 16.

Castrillo, Ruth E., Bridgeport. $6,872, in favor of Cavalry SPV I, Valhalla, N.Y., by Tobin & Melien. Property: 574 Thorne St., Bridgeport, Filed Jan. 14.

Lucsky, Nancy A., New Fairfield. $727, in favor of New Milford Hospital, New Milford, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 13 Brush Drive, New Fairfield, Filed Jan. 8.

Catlett, Adriana and George Catlett, Stamford. $1,559, in favor of New England Oil Company Inc, Greenwich, by Dina Urso. Property: 80 Highland Trail, Stamford, Filed Jan. 13.

Martini, Jessica, New Fairfield. $265, in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, Danbury, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 105 Pine Hill Road, New Fairfield, Filed Jan. 8.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSFILED

Chargares, Spiros, Darien. $15,733, in favor of Yankee Gas Services Company, Hartford, by Nair & Levin P.C., Bloomfield. Property: 372 West Ave., Darien, Filed Jan. 16.

Martini, Robert, New Fairfield. $1,444, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 105 Pine Hill Road, New Fairfield, Filed Jan. 8.

Accurate Heating & Cooling Systems, PO Box 4019, Stamford. $29,502, tax debt on corporate income and payroll taxes. Filed Jan. 14.

Medaglia, Susan, New Fairfield. $2,726, in favor of Leahy’s Fuels Inc., Danbury, by Eva M. DeFranco, Danbury. Property: 169 Ball Pond Road, New Fairfield, Filed Jan. 14.

Accurate Heating & Cooling Systems, P.O. Box 4019, Stamford. $612, tax debt on corporate income and payroll taxes. Filed Jan. 14.

Conley, Kathleen M., et al., Stratford. $4,914, in favor of Lincoln Automotive Financial Service, Livonia, Mich., by Nair & Levin P.C. Property: 150 Coe Ave., Stratford, Filed Jan. 14. Cron, Ursula, Redding. $27,976, in favor of Gary Weinand, New Milford, by Cramer & Anderson LLP. Property: 22 Woods Way, Unit 13-C, Redding, Filed Jan. 14. Debowski, Mariusz, Newtown. $50,000, in favor of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, N.Y., by Ruby J. Krajick. Property: 25 Pine Tree Hill, Newton, Filed Jan. 16. Fabius, Janus, Stamford. $2,149, in favor of Advanced Radiology Consultants L.L.C., Trumbull, by Nathanson, Cianriano & Gambardella P.C. Property: 19 Greenwood Hill St., Stamford, Filed Jan. 13.

Reid, Utlyn, Bridgeport. $11,504, in favor of Cach L.L.C., Denver, Colo., by Tobin & Melien. Property: 835 Clark St., Bridgeport, Filed Jan. 14. Rosler, Brian, Danbury. $840, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 89 Boulevard Drive, Danbury, Filed Jan. 16. Scott, Tracy, Bridgeport. $1,733, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by Tobin & Melien. Property: 1992 Madison Ave., Bridgeport, Filed Jan. 14.

LIENS

Birkman, Joanne and Wayne Keeley, 25 Middleton Drive, New Fairfield. $27,578, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 14. Chester, Edwin H., 46 Hoyt St., Stamford. $19,556, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 14. Fawcett, Roscoe K., 566 Hunting Ridge Road, Stamford. $31,946, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 15. Fortunatos Villa Pasta L.L.C., 249 Route 39, New Fairfield. $11,227, payroll taxes. Filed Jan. 7.

Goldstein, Robert, 34 Comly Ave., Greenwich. $95,159, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16. International Education Exchange Inc. The Forefront Group, 20 Shore Acre Drive, Greenwich. $11,972, payroll taxes. Filed Jan. 16. Lincer, Robert M., 65 Saddle Hill Road, Stamford. $25,891, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 15. Machado, Heloisa and Wanderlei L. Machado, 3 Ridgeside Road, Danbury. $7,279, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16. Machado, Wanderlei L., 3 Ridgeside Road, Danbury. $15,099, failure to pay tax. Filed Jan. 16. Robalino, Mariana E., 12 Old Mill Lane, Stamford. $16,613, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 15. Smith, Edward F. III, 23 Davenport Ave., Greenwich. $79,644, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16. Wuest, Patricia A., 39 Harold Ave., Greenwich. $18,851, tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSRELEASED Kish, Joshua, PO Box 524, Stratford. $28,976, failure to collect and pay for tax. Filed Jan. 13. Nicholas Roberts LTD, 1053 Boston Road, Darien. $50,048, payroll taxes. Filed Jan. 13.

MECHANIC’S LIENSFILED Mayhew, Kimberly and Steven Mayhew, New Fairfield. Filed by Haynes Materials Company, Seymore. Property: 31 Deer Run Road, New Fairfield. Amount: $5,896. Filed Jan. 14.

MECHANIC’S LIENSRELEASED Schneider, Victoria, Sherman. Released by Builder Services Group Inc., Sherman, by Cohen and Wolf P.C. Property address and amount undisclosed. Filed Jan. 9.

LIS PENDENS 108 Bennington Place, et al., New Canaan. Filed by Halloran & Sage LLP, Hartford, for Theodore Dumbauld and Mary Dumbauld, New Canaan. Property: 108 Bennington Place, New Canaan. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $175,000, dated January 2012. Filed Jan. 16.

Amaro, Deborah P., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, New York City. Property: 161 Helen St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $185,250, dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 13.

Green, Dave A., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Citibank N.A., Sioux Falls S.D. Property: 119 Kennedy Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $201,864, dated August 2007. Filed Jan. 13.

Armstrong, Gordon L., et al. Stamford. Filed by Leopold & Associates PLLC, Stamford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 193 Sun Dance Road, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $782,000, dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 17.

Hamilton, Leslie, et al., Danbury. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Green Tree Servicing L.L.C., Rapid City, S.D. Property: 8 Crestwood Drive, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $395,000, dated September 2007. Filed Jan. 15.

Aztec Restaurant and Bar L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Robinson & Cole LLP, Stamford, for Citi Small Business Lending Corp. Property: 1330-1334 and 1336-1338 Main St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $215,000, dated April 1999. Filed Jan. 16. Bennett, Norman E., et al. Stamford. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 52 Lincoln Ave., Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $323,277, dated April 2006. Filed Jan. 17. Berkery, Bernadette, et al., New Fairfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 26 Columbus Drive, New Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount, dated April 2007. Filed Jan. 6. Bourgolly, Sandra and Michelle L. Guevara, et al., Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Second Fairlawn Condominium Association Inc., Stamford. Property: Unit A2 in Second Fairlawn Condominium, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien in the original principal amount. Filed Jan. 16. Buzzeo, Michael A., et al., Stamford. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 193 Sylvan Knoll Road, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $149,500, dated November 2005. Filed Jan. 14. Cahill, Elena L. and Luis Delio Gonzalez, Bridgeport. Filed by Owens, Schine & Nicola P.C., Trumbull, for Jean Martino, Bridgeport. Property: 227 Wheeler Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount. Filed Jan. 13. Clarke, Delroy A., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association. Property: 682-684 Norman St., Bridegeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $304,000, dated May 2007. Filed Jan. 14. Faragasso, Perry, et al., Greenwich. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 155 E. Elm St., Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $1 million, dated January 2007. Filed Jan. 13.

Jackson, Mary Lou, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Central Mortgage Company. Property: 45 Albemarle St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $236,000, dated March 2004. Filed Jan. 13. Magana, Luis A., et al., Danbury. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Green Tree Servicing L.L.C., Rapid City, S.D. Property: 18 Byron St., Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $336,000, dated August 2005. Filed Jan. 16. Mahoney, Karen, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 91 Seltsam Road, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $251,100, dated May 2011. Filed Jan. 13. Mallon, Patrick, Bridgeport. Filed by Hastings, Cohan & Walsh LLP, Ridgefield, for Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: 2033 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $30,000, dated March 2010. Filed Jan. 13. Marano, Joann T., et al., Brookfield. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 46 Homestead Lane, Unit 22, Brookfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $96,500, dated February 2004. Filed Jan. 17. Marin, Isabel C. and Luis A. Marin, Stamford. Filed by Glass and Braus, Fairfield, for HSBC Bank USA N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 20 North St., Unit 5-1, Stamford. Action: To foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $200,800, dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 13. Markhraz, Mariette, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 41 Cotter Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $293,000, dated January 2006. Filed Jan. 14. Marsico, Anthony, Danbury. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 28 Kingswood Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $314,533, dated July 2012. Filed Jan. 13.

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on the record Meyer, Maria Sophia, New Fairfield. Filed by Randall J. Carreira, New Preston, for U.S. Insulation Corp, New Preston. Property: 11 Pickett Road, New Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mechanic’s lien in the original principal amount of $4,500, dated November 2013. Filed Jan. 16.

Vitti, Michael Peter, et al, Darien. Filed by Bendett and McHugh P.C., Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 118 Old Kings Highway South, Darien. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $400,000, dated November 2004. Filed Jan. 16.

Mrdalj, Maja, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett & McHugh P.C., Farmington, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 645 W. Taft Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $237,000, dated January 2007. Filed Jan. 14.

Washington, Derek, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 25-27 Nelson Terrace, Bridegeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $271,700, dated November 2007. Filed Jan. 13.

Norris, John J., et al., Brookfield. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 3 South Obtuse Road, Brookfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $365,000, dated October 2006. Filed Jan. 13.

Williams, Jacqueline, et al., Stamford. Filed by Beatriz Moran-Torres, Stamford, for Vincent J. Freccia III, Trustee. Property: 33 Ann St., Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $275,000, dated April 2008. Filed Jan. 14.

Ortiz, Jacob H., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Cohen and Wolf P.C., Orange, for Habitat for Humanity, Fairfield. Property: 591595 Newfield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $83,839, dated September 2003. Filed Jan. 16. Probuild East L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 9193 McKinley Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $356,250 Filed Jan. 15. Rojas, Monica Aurora, et al., Stamford. Filed by Ackerly & Ward, Stamford, for Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority, Stamford. Property: 47 Leeds St., Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a sewer use lien in the original principal amount. Filed Jan. 15. Tharrington, James M. III, et al., Brookfield. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 26 Mist Hill Drive, Brookfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $280,000, dated December 2006. Filed Jan. 15. Underhill, Thomas E. Jr., et al., Danbury. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Onewest Bank. Property: 93 Padanaram Road, Danbury. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $469,342, dated November 2005. Filed Jan. 13. Ventricelli, Deborah M. and Joseph C. Ventricelli, Redding. Filed by The Witherspoon Law Offices, Farmington, for Provident Funding Associates L.P. Property: 22 Winding Brook Lane, Redding. Action: To foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount. Dated December 2003. Filed Jan. 13. Vines, Essie L., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Hunt, Leibert & Jacobsen P.C., Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 180 Clover Hill Ave., Bridegeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $141,000, dated May 2007. Filed Jan. 13.

Wilson, Pamela G., Stamford. Filed by Benanti & Associates, Stamford, for People’s United Bank, Bridgeport. Property: 256 Glenbrook Road, Unit 41B, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $40,000, dated September 2008. Filed Jan. 16.

MORTGAGES

Commercial 1 Laforge L.L.C., Darien, by Thomas G. Carruthers. Lender: Citybank N.A., Long Island City, N.Y. Property: 1 Lafarge Road, Darien. Amount: $315,000. Filed Jan. 15. 21 Diamond Avenue L.L.C., Redding, by Ronald Uzwiak. Lender: Design Results L.L.C., Danbury. Property: 21 Diamond Ave., Bethel. Amount: $485,000. Filed Jan. 16. 394 Stanwich Road L.L.C., Greenwich, by Martin Seidel. Lender: Citybank N.A., Long Island City, N.Y. Property: 394 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. Amount: $3 million. Filed Jan. 16. 394 Stanwich Road L.L.C., Greenwich, by Martin Seidel. Lender: Citybank N.A., Long Island City, N.Y. Property: 394 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. Amount: $307,500. Filed Jan. 16. 5 Conyers Farm Drive L.L.C., Greenwich, by Lorraine Slavin. Lender: Citybank N.A., Long Island City, N.Y. Property: 5 Conyers Farm Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $4.5 million. Filed Jan. 16. 67 Sound Beach Avenue L.L.C., Greenwich, by Sobno P. Marcal. Lender: The First Bank Of Greenwich, Greenwich. Property: 67 Sound Beach Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $806,250. Filed Jan. 13. AppleJack CT L.L.C., Greenwich, by Lorraine Slavin. Lender: Bank of America N.A., Houston, Texas. Property: 45 John St., Greenwich. Amount: $9.5 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Blue Seven L.L.C., Danbury, by Antonio Neves. Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury, Danbury. Property: 70 Payne Road, Danbury. Amount: $146,572. Filed Jan. 13. Bunson Granudo, L.L.C., Brookfield, by Matthew R. Melilo. Lender: Jeffery Dunkerton and Amber Dunkerton, Brookfield. Property: 9 Stage Road, Brookfield. Amount: $18,500. Filed Jan. 16. Connecticut Coining Inc., Bethel, by Gregory Marciano. Lender: Savings Bank of Danbury Danbury. Property: File 23, Map 35, Lot 214 at Throwbridge Drive, Bethel. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 13. Danbury Hospitality L.L.C., Danbury, by Chetan Patel. Lender: Greater Hudson Bank N.A., Middletown, N.Y. Property: 8692 Newtown Road, Danbury. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 15. Danbury Hospitality L.L.C., Danbury, by Chetan Patel. Lender: Greater Hudson Bank N.A., Middletown, N.Y. Property: 8692 Newtown Road, Danbury. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Jan. 15. Hede Property Group L.L.C., Southport, by Andrew Hede. Lender: First Republic Bank, San Francisco, Calif. Property: 444 Bedford St., Unit 5P, Stamford. Amount: $126,000. Filed Jan. 16. IFS Properties L.L.C., Hauppauge, N.Y., by Matthew Muthlurri. Lender: Alphahema Capital L.L.C., Great Neck, N.Y. Property: Lot 134, Map No. 7630, Stamford. Amount: $200,000. Filed Jan. 13. Infinity Enterprises L.L.C., Danbury, by Jorge Sousa. Lender: Webster Bank N.A., Waterbury. Property: 50-58 Payne Road, Danbury. Amount: $367,500. Filed Jan. 14. M. Madison L.L.C., Brooklyn, N.Y., by David Leitner. Lender: The First Bank Of Greenwich, Greenwich. Property: 292298 Madison Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $243,500. Filed Jan. 13. Murer 166 Mason L.L.C., Greenwich, by Roland Murer. Lender: The First Bank Of Greenwich, Greenwich. Property: 166 Mason St., Greenwich. Amount: $875,000. Filed Jan. 17. Sell Fast Home Buyers L.L.C., North Haven, by Joseph Barletta, III. Lender: WBD Funding L.L.C, West Valley City, Utah. Property: 95 Red Bird Drive, Stratford. Amount: $90,000. Filed Jan. 15. Spain Brothers L.L.C., Danbury, by Brendan Spain. Lender: Webster Bank N.A., Cheshier. Property: 14 State St., Danbury. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 16. The Cape Verdean Association of Bridgeport Inc., Bridgeport, by Antonio Cruz. Lender: People’s United Bank, N.A., Bridgeport. Property: 235 Linen Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $185,000. Filed Jan. 13.

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YY L.L.C., Greenwich, by Patrick Sciarratta. Lender: Equity Trust Company, Westlake, Ohio. Property: 58 Beachview Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $93,000. Filed Jan. 15. YY L.L.C., Greenwich, by Patrick Sciarratta. Lender: Equity Trust Company, Westlake, Ohio. Property: 58 Beachview Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $75,000. Filed Jan. 15.

NEW BUSINESSES Antique-Technology.com, 3 Dunham Drive, New Fairfield 06812, c/o Kurt Christopher Stoffel. Filed Jan. 13. Beach Bum Bikes, 235 Willoar Drive, Stratford 06614, c/o Edward Meyers. Filed Jan. 15. Connecticut Modular Homes, 81 Pine Hill Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Kai M. Young. Filed Jan. 17.

Latin America Sport League, 58 William St., Stamford 06902, c/o Moises E. Torres. Filed Jan. 13. Long Quality Care L.L.C, 264 Sedgewick Ave., Stratford 06615, c/o Sherrie S. Williamson. Filed Jan. 14. Mommy’s Bowtique, 26 Forest Lawn Ave., Stamford 06905, c/o Guiseppina Szczepanski. Filed Jan. 14. Multiexpress, 934 E. Main St., Suite 1, Stamford, c/o Milton A. Cano. Filed Jan. 16. PAG Greenwich B1 L.L.C., 355 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Kerin Patti. Filed Jan. 16. Palacios Pool Services L.L.C., 53 Hilandale Ave., Stamford 06902, c/o Victor H. Palacios. Filed Jan. 13. Roxbury Photography, 27 Crows Nest, Unit. 8I, Danbury 06810, c/o Emily M. Lee. Filed Jan. 15.

Connecticut Modular Homes, 370 Hope St., Suite No. 2302, Stamford 06906, c/o New England Modulars L.L.C. Filed Jan. 17.

San Souci Custom Carpentry, 4 Hillside St., Apt. B, Danbury 06810, c/o Jason San Souci. Filed Jan. 16.

Darien Costal Connectors, 1 Bonnybrook Road, Norwalk 06850, c/o Stuart Goldberg. Filed Jan. 15.

Ten Thousand Villages, 96 Main St., New Canaan, c/o Pamela A. Raffensberger. Filed Jan. 14.

Diamond Valet, 83 Liberty St., Apt 1, Stamford 06902, c/o Mark Garcia. Filed Jan. 16.

The Center for Oral and Implant Surgery of Greenwich L.L.C., 49 Lake Ave., Suite 204, Greenwich 06830, c/o Michele Bergen. Filed Jan. 10.

Eagles of Stamford Soccer Academy, 57 William St., Stamford 06902, c/o Moises E. Torres. Filed Jan. 13. Fine Homes and Estates, 87 Jelliff Mill Road, New Canaan 06840, c/o Carolyn Reynolds. Filed Jan. 17. Gomez Painting Service L.L.C., 116 Scofield Ave., Stamford 06906, c/o Luis Gomez. Filed Jan. 13.

The Premium Crown Construction, 410 Emerald Place, Stratford 06614, c/o Carlos Ochoa. Filed Jan. 16. The Ultimate Vape Store, 87 Russet Road, Stamford 06903, c/o Donald Califano and Cristen Califano. Filed Jan. 17. TLI Books, 130 One Fawcett Place, Greenwich 06830, c/o Frank P. Trotta Jr. Filed Jan. 15.

Good Dog! Obedience & Behavior Modification, 38 Clearview Drive, Brookfield 06804, c/o Jill Meyer. Filed Jan. 16.

Total Technique Soccer, 150 Southfield Ave., Apt. 2131, Stamford, c/o Alistair Lonsdale, et al. Filed Jan. 15.

Ion Express, 54 Hope St., Unit H, Stamford 06906, c/o Ion Cebataru. Filed Jan. 13.

Urban Initiatives 400 Main St., Stamford 06901, c/o Urban Development Initiatives. Filed Jan. 15.

Joan’s Catering Service, 14 Cowing Court, Stamford 06906, c/o Joan H. Black. Filed Jan. 15.

Vanna and Company L.L.C., 304 E. Main St., Stratford 06615, c/o Christopher Canal. Filed Jan. 13.

John Santagata Tile and Marble Contra, 51 Kenilworth Drive East, Stamford 06902, c/o John Santagata. Filed Jan. 13.

Viking Consultants, 75 Knickerbocker Ave., Stamford 06907, c/o Robert Johansen. Filed Jan. 14.

Julie Scosta Interiors, 54 Lafayette Place, Suite 1, Greenwich 06830, c/o Julie Scosta. Filed Jan. 14.

VMV Carpentry, 1273 Hope St., First floor, Stamford 06907, c/o Vadym Moskaliuk. Filed Jan. 15.

LaCavas Mobile Veterinary Service L.L.C., 3 Hickory Hill Road, Brookfield 06804, c/o Dr. Cassandra Lacava. Filed Jan. 17.

Winroc - SPI, 160 Avon St., Stratford 06615, c/o Scott M. Evans. Filed Jan. 17.

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BUSINESS CONNECTIONS ECONOMY

HEALTHCARE

Halfway Back: Four Years of Slow Job Growth

Reducing Health Disparities within Small Businesses

our years have passed since the recession technically ended, each year reminding us how challenging this economic recovery is compared to previous cycles.

he Connecticut Business & Industry Association released an interactive toolkit in January designed to help small businesses jumpstart employee awareness of basic health and wellness issues.

Connecticut has recovered 49% of the 121,200 jobs lost when the economy submerged in 2008-2010, with 11,500 of those added in 2013.

The program, “Creating a Healthy Relationship with Yourself,” is being conducted in partnership with the Campaign for a Stronger Connecticut.

While this past year had its moments, it didn’t finish with a bang, with the state Department of Labor reporting that we shed 3,900 positions in December after gaining 3,800 the previous month. That’s better than 2012, with its gain of 8,600 jobs and 2010, with 9,900, but well back of 2011 and the postrecession mark of 14,300 new positions. “It continues this trend of good months followed by bad months followed by good months, as evidenced by the fact that Connecticut has been slow to recover jobs lost in the recession,” CBIA’s Joe Brennan said. Interestingly, the state’s unemployment rate also fell in December, dropping two-tenths of a point to 7.4%, While December was the fourth consecutive monthly decline in the unemployment rate and the lowest mark since February 2009, it’s still well above the national rate of 6.7%. “It’s unclear at this time how much of that is attributed to the fact that more people are getting out of the workforce,” Brennan said. Just two industry sectors added jobs in December, with other services gaining 900 positions and financial activities adding 300. Leisure and hospitality was unchanged for the month. Professional and business services led all declining sectors, shedding 2,600 jobs, followed by trade, transportation, and utilities (-1,300); construction and mining (-300); manufacturing (-300); education and health services (-300); information (-200); and government (-200).

Education and health services led all sectors for the year, adding 7,900 jobs. Construction and mining gained 5,800 positions in 2013 followed by transportation, trade, and utilities (4,200); professional and business services (1,400); and leisure and hospitality (800). Manufacturing suffered the greatest losses in 2013, dropping 4,000 jobs, followed by other services (-1,400); financial activities (-1,300); government (-1,300); and information (-600). The government sector includes casino employment numbers. Four of the state’s six labor markets posted job losses in December, led by New Haven, which dropped 2,100 positions. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk declined by 1,700 jobs, Hartford lost 700, and Norwich-New London lost 300. Waterbury added a modest 200 positions and Danbury remaining unchanged for the month. Hartford added 7,200 jobs in 2013, leading all markets. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk gained 6,200 positions, followed by New Haven (1,700) and Danbury (900). Norwich-New London lost 900 jobs in 2013 and Waterbury lost 300 jobs.  Read more at gov.cbia.com

Schramm writes the Workplace Visions series and the Future Focus column for HR Magazine and is responsible for SHRM’s biennial Workplace Forecast. You’ll learn how businesses are handling employee healthcare needs and costs, as she breaks down the top 10 HR trends for this year.

Also on the agenda: managing changing workforce demographics, electronic recruiting, benefits strategies for 2015, coaching the difficult employee, HRIS system review/upgrade, leadership development, wage and hour issues, compensation workshop, legislative update. Join us on March 20 for this great opportunity to hear from local and national experts and network with your peers. HRCI credit is pending for this program.

“It adds fun and humor to important issues such as exercise and doctor appointments while drawing the connections to their importance to a company’s bottom line.” “It’s a fact that small businesses employ some of the state’s most diverse residents,” says Patricia Baker, president & CEO of the Connecticut Health Foundation. The goal of the program is to encourage employers to adopt basic wellness practices in the workplace and give employees the opportunity to participate, which will ultimately reduce health disparities and create a healthier bottom line.

Presented in partnership with SHRM CT HR Council

CBIA’s Annual Human Resources Conference hat are the top HR trends for 2014? Join keynote Jennifer Schramm, manager of national SHRM’s Workplace Trends and Forecasting program, at CBIA’s Annual Human Resources Conference and discover strategies for managing your human resources needs.

“This campaign is unique because it is designed specifically for Connecticut’s small employers and takes a fresh look at basic health and wellness in the workplace,” says Jennifer Herz, CBIA assistant counsel and the campaign’s business coordinator.

 Learn more at cbia.com

EVENTS

CBIA, the state’s largest business organization, developed a six-month plan that gives employers ready-to-go materials, including innovative communication tools. Each month will follow a new theme, including “Do It (Sneeze) in Your Sleeve” and “Make a Date with Your Doctor.”

Date Thursday, March 20, 2014 Time 8:30 am–3:30 pm Place Crowne Plaza 100 Berlin Rd., Cromwell Cost CBIA members, $225 nonmembers, $275

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 Register at cbia.com/events

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