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BUSINESS JOURNAL November 25, 2013 | VOL. 49, No. 47 Bill Fallon

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BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

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fter running her gardening company for roughly six years, Anna Haines says she’s gotten to a point where she picks and chooses her clients.

Taking a break from assembling a fall planter outside a client’s home in Ridgefield, Haines said she’s not really interested in picking up more business. She’s content manag-

ing the 20-some customers she has now, making sure each of Avant Gardens’ designs are unique and bring new life to clients’ homes.

“I have been holding back the reigns,” Haines said, her cheeks red after the first snowfall of the year. “I feel like expanding a company is such a delicate process. I want to be careful about how I do it. I don’t want to jeopardize my clients’ service in anyway.”

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Anna Haines outside a client’s home in Ridgefield.

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Gym owner named America’s Strongest Woman Talking bacon and strength with Punch Kettlebell’s Stefanie Tropea

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tefanie Tropea, America’s Strongest Woman, doesn’t eat egg whites, oatmeal, protein bars or anything marked “low fat.” She said she is suspicious of any diet with a name and questions most meals considered “healthy.”

Tropea, the owner of Norwalk’s Punch Kettlebell Gym, doesn’t mind a salad depending on the dressing and so long as it’s served with fish, chicken or beef on top. Sometimes, when she’s working out — lifting Atlas stones or flipping tires — she wears bright red socks, each with the word “bacon” on it.

“I love bacon and it gets a bad rap,” she said. “Saturated fat and meat has this bad reputation that if you eat it you’re going to die or you’re going to have a heart attack.”

Organic, grass-fed red meat is a staple of her diet and she said she eats two or three strips of bacon almost every day.

She isn’t part of the juice craze and avoids processed food, refined carbohydrates and hates mayonnaise. The no-mayonnaise stance isn’t only a health consideration.

“I love eggs, I love oil, I love vinegar,” she said. “When you put those things together why does it make such a disgusting thing?”

Tropea, 34, has established herself as a pioneer in the growing Strongman and strength sports field. Last month, she won her weight class at the America’s Strongest Woman competition in Denison, Ohio. In March 2014, she’ll return to Ohio to compete with women from all over the world for title of “World’s Strongest Woman.”

She participated in her first strongman competition five years ago, after a trainer she was working with told her she was “strong for a girl.” She finished last in that first competition. Those early days often saw competitions with only two or three women attending. On Oct. 27 of this year, Tropea hosted a “Battle of the Belles” tournament at her gym that drew 40 participants.

Interest is growing in gyms like Punch Kettlebell, where there are no treadmills or machines, as strongman sports gain popularity. And the stigma that strength training isn’t feminine is being curbed, albeit slowly. Some women still fear building strength because they think it will make them too muscular, which Tropea scoffs at. “Impossible,” she tells them.

“You don’t have the testosterone to get too muscular.”

Stefanie Tropea

Tropea, for her part, trains for an hour three or four times a week and like everybody else she says it takes discipline to make time and stay on track. “Some people think you own a gym so you must work out all day long, but that’s not the case,” she said.

It wasn’t a life goal to become America’s Strongest Woman. Tropea grew up in Connecticut, the daughter of Italian immigrants who used olive oil, not mayonnaise, in potato and tuna salads.

(When she first tasted the condiment at a friend’s house, she was “traumatized for life.”)

Tropea was a dancer growing up, staying active and fit until starting at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y. There she put on not just “The Freshman 15” but a “Freshman 30” pounds. She took

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the weight back off before her sophomore year and joined the swim team to keep herself accountable. She took a job at the school gym and started going to the weight room three times a week.

“I loved seeing the numbers go up, how much I could lift,” she said. “That’s why I like strongman so much, it’s based on your performance, not your looks. You either lift the weight or don’t. It’s about the number that’s on the bar, not the number that’s on the scale.”

Tropea graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance and out of college she was working as a junior accountant for a company that manufactured components of blinds.

“I was basically bored out of my mind,” she said. “It just wasn’t me. I wanted to be in the gym and share my passion.”

She continued to train on the side — after work, at night, on weekends and even 6 o’clock in the morning before the accountant job.

Tropea, who also has a Master of Science degree in nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, opened Punch kettlebell in January 2009. The original Main Avenue space was a 1,100-square-foot kettlebell space on the second floor. The gym was recently expanded to the first floor, with a 2,500-square foot strength training space. Tropea said the gym now employs five trainers and has about 100 members between 12 and 70 years old.

Tropea’s mother, who is 64 years old, comes to train two times a week.

Many people who come say they have grown bored with traditional gyms and the routine of a standard workout with machines. Some are intimidated though, Tropea said, perhaps because newcomers view the exercise as quite difficult. “To change your body, you have to challenge yourself,” Tropea said.

Punch offers a free orientation, where trainers assess the level of potential members.

“We’re not going to make you lift 300 pounds on your first day,” she said. “They can come in do the free orientation, no pressure and we’ll show you what we do, what your goals are and if this is going to be a good fit.”

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word of mouth, Haines, 30, said she’s been able to give each garden individualized attention. And as time goes on, her clients feel more like friends than customers, as she gets to know their pets, children and grandchildren.

In an era when state officials are seeing entrepreneurs as seeds for economic growth, however, Haines reluctance to grow contrasts with the energy behind each university and towns’ latest incubator, hackerspace and innovation center — all designed to fertilize and accelerate small business growth.

U.S. Census data show more than half of the job growth in lower Fairfield County has come from startups with only one to nine employees over the last three years.

With three to six employees, depending on the season, Haines said she occasionally thinks about hiring additional help or doing more advanced landscaping projects with her existing clients. But for now those dreams are limited. With everything going as smoothly as it is now, Haines said she didn’t want to disrupt the business. She also had a baby in March.

“I like to do it slowly,” Haines said. “If I got 10 more clients, it’d get out of control.”

Haines said she’s never spent any money on advertising and doesn’t have a website. Each of her clients found her through existing clients. Most of her business is centered in New Canaan, Greenwich and Ridgefield.

“I don’t want to grow too much,” Haines said. “I want to keep the houses unique. Nothing we do is cookie-cutter.

Every house is completely different. If you drove down the street you would never know we’ve done the same two houses.”

Graduating college at the height of the recession, Haines’ feelings are not unusual for her age group.

Risk aversion has jumped among

Generation Y entrepreneurs, studies show. Whereas 72 percent of young entrepreneurs said they liked taking risks in 2007, just 56 percent of young entrepreneurs like taking risks today, according to a recent American Express OPEN survey.

Saddled with student loan debt and the reality of often living with their parents, those graduating during the recession were half as likely to start a business

out of school, according to the study. Of those who successfully did, however, the vast majority now say they are better business owners because of it; they think innovatively in the face of adversity.

Haines said she started Avant Gardens while living at home with her parents immediately after graduating from Pennsylvania State University.

“It was difficult; I didn’t know where I was going to go, but I knew there were

opportunities around Fairfield County,” she said. “Thankfully I had the determination, drive and will to get the work and do anything for it.”

“I’m so fortunate to have found something I love to do,” Haines said. “There are good days and bad days. I woke up and it was snowing today… But it’s the relationships and personal connections that make it a wholesome experience for me every day.”

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cross a 20-year period, the UConn Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis tracked poverty data in the state. The report, issued earlier this year, cites nearly one in five Constitution State residents living in poverty or close to it … and the numbers are ratcheting upward. As for the old out-of-sight-outof-mind take on poverty, it’s fading. The report found poverty or near-poverty everywhere.

The center found that as of 2010, there were more than 720,000 people living at or near poverty in Connecticut.

“Those 720,000 people represent 21 percent of all residents in the state who are either living in poverty or facing the uncertainty of falling into poverty.

Every day, they face the struggle of living without the resources necessary to attain economic self-sufficiency, the ability to provide food, clothing and shelter for themselves or their family, and many other challenges. Furthermore, they are not concentrated in just a few parts of the state.

“During the 20-year period, almost all Connecticut towns experienced a rise in poverty. Of Connecticut’s 169 towns, just 38 saw a decrease in the number of very poor residents while 131 towns saw an increase.

Four factors were the big poverty promoters during this 20-year period, according to the report: • Connecticut employment has stag-

nated for more than 20 years. Since 1990, there have been only 11 months during which the number of employed Connecticut residents exceeded the number employed in 1990.

• Connecticut had the worst job creation record in the nation from 1990-2010.

At the same time, the state’s working age population grew by 120,000, driving unemployment rates up, particularly in poverty-sensitive communities.

• Connecticut missed out on the technology related job growth in the 1990s, which deprived the state of the foundations on which much employment at the national level grew after 2002.

• And last, Connecticut has not effectively created or supported educational opportunities or developed other conditions that support job creation.

But the study says steps can be taken to reverse the situation by honoring one simple mantra: Employment is the primary pathway out of poverty. Such steps include: • The state should adopt and implement effective policies, planning and practices that other states have developed to drive economic development, including examining infrastructure needs to improve access to jobs for those most at risk; revisiting permitting and regulatory policies; and restructuring the multi-tiered business-to-business sales tax to attract jobs and employers.

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requirements with job-specific tasks and convene a task force to investigate “barriers to entry” for low-wage jobs, particularly in education and health care. All current and proposed licensing requirements should be evaluated to ensure their paths are truly related to job-specific tasks rather than generic credentials.

• The state should support education and training initiatives, including wraparound funding for early education to address the disparity between towns.

Training for current and future work needs and market-directed training also are needed.

• Finally, the state should create a data center to store, track and analyze economic and jobs-related data in an ongoing and consistent manner. Fully informed and thoughtful planning and decision making can only be accomplished with comprehensive, longitudinal data.

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL • Week of November 25, 2013

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Webster chief urges activism Business community seen as agents for change

By Bill Fallon bfallon@westfairinc.com

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ne-hundred businesspeople who recently attended the Come Together for Business Expo 2013 luncheon in Trumbull heard a keynote plea for the business community to speak with unity to affect change in the arenas of taxation and regulation.

The 400-member-plus Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce and the 900-member-plus Bridgeport Regional Business Council united for the initial expo at the Trumbull Marriott.

Bridgeport Regional Business Council Chairman and CEO Paul S. Timpanelli and William E. Purcell, president of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce,

served as co-hosts/moderators.

The keynote speaker, James C. Smith, is a banker and son of a banker. Father and son remarkably constitute the total fraternity of presidents and CEOs at Webster Bank, dating to its Depresssion-era founding in 1935. Smith joined Webster in 1975 and took the helm in 1987. He said that with 26 years in charge, he still has less than half the time in the position that his father, Harold Webster Smith, accrued.

The Waterbury-based bank today has $20 billion in assets and is one of the top 35 banks in the U.S. Among the issues Smith urged as “part of the debate” were Obamacare, income redistribution and government dependency. More attention to infrastruc-

ture also is long overdue. “We can change all this by getting more actively involved in the process,” he said.

If Smith urged a proactive stance with legislators, his address cited more staid business principals as key to Webster’s mission and success: vision, enduring values, personal responsibility, respect for the dignity of others.

“We like to think that attention to those values is what binds us together and maybe what sets us apart,” he said.

Smith said Webster had survived the recession in good shape. When mortgages appeared in trouble, loan modifications became tools of salvation. “I’m so proud that idea percolated from within our organization,” he said. He also noted the

bank’s charitable giving reached record levels in 2007 and has increased every year since, irrespective of the recession.

After lunch, the expo shifted gears.

Seventy businesses displayed goods and services in the hotel ballroom. Cleaning services and banks vied for attention with insurers and the Bridgeport Bluefish.

Webster Bank was the event main sponsor, with media sponsors the Fairfield County Business Journal, Hersam Acorn, WEBE 108 and WICC 600. (See Faces & Places this issue.)

The event featured breakout seminars on topics that included social media, leadership and branding. A more social event with drinks and food — “Networking Extravaganza” — was slated for 5 p.m.

Snapshots from the Come Together for Business Expo 2013 at the Trumbull Marriott on Hawley Lane 1. Paul S. Timpanelli, chairman and CEO, Bridgeport Regional Business Council; James C. Smith, chairman and CEO, Webster Bank; and William E. Purcell, president, Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce.

2. ServiceMaster’s sales manager Doreen Hansen and Katrina Krewson, marketing development.

3. Housatonic Community College’s Joseph Jenecaro; G. Thomas Sheffer; and Gene LaPorta.

4. Union Savings Bank commercial lending Vice President Mark Petrino and business development officer/ Vice President Judith LaBella.

5. Paige O’Brien and Kristin Roberts of Dental Associates of Connecticut.

6. Alexander Morr, executive director, Greater Bridgeport Symphony.

7. Tom Farruggio, director of sales and operations, Bridgeport Bluefish.

8. Westport-based OptiCare office managers Rae Scott, left, and Joyce Holzer.

9. Seminar instructor Dr. Howard Fero discussing his theme: “Cultivating Exemplary Leadership.”

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Norwalk’s new firefighting gem

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he $13 million Norwalk Fire Department headquarters, which replaced an earlier iteration on the same footprint, began responding to calls in early October. The official opening day was Oct. 5, but Assistant Chief Laurence Reilly, with 38 years fighting Norwalk’s fires, said the first response had been a few days earlier. The new station averages about seven responses per day.

The department’s temporary home during the two-year construction had been across the street.

Norwalk maintains five fire stations with the new, three-story structure fronting Connecticut Avenue and I-95 serving as headquarters. The 31,000-square-foot building designates 29,000 square feet for the fire department and 1,000 square feet each for a state operations center and city computer server center, both costing $1 million with their own financing independent of the fire building budget. The new building should serve the city at least through 2063, 50 years.

The department fields a cadre of 140 in five stations. A minimum 10 respond-

Norwalk Fire Department Assistant Chief Laurence Reilly with a picture of the city’s old Franklin Street Fire House.

Both the house and the part of Franklin Street on which it sat are gone.

Reilly gestures toward the training facilities built into the new Norwalk fire headquarters on Connecticut Avenue.

Reilly in the 22-foot-high apparatus bays.

ers are on duty in the Connecticut Avenue headquarters at any time.

“Personally, I think it’s nice,” Reilly said touring the facility on a recent afternoon. “I didn’t realize how bad the old building was. When we moved in here

it was like, Oh wow — that old place was pretty bad: design issues, window issues, floor issues. This building has natural light on the apparatus floor. The old building’s apparatus floor was like a cave.”

Reilly, of course, does not want your

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Report: Women paid 5 percent less than men for same work

Teresa Younger, executive director of the state’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and Women’s Business Development Council’s Janet Siegenthaler.

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ven when Connecticut men and women hold the same position, women are paid 5 percent to 10 percent less than their male counterparts, according to the results of a recent gender wage gap study.

Factors like unconscious bias, occupational segregation and lower starting salaries for women are among the several reasons behind the gap. However, understanding the gap “is not a simple matter,” according to the report released Nov. 19.

In January, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy commissioned a task force to study the factors that contribute to the gender wage gap and to make recommendation to eliminate it. Led by state commissioners Sharon Palmer of the Department of Labor and Catherine Smith of the Department of Economic and Community Development, the report recommended both the private and public sectors work to increase awareness of the gender wage gap and increase support to working women. The Permanent Commission on the Status of Women also helped contribute to the study.

“This report is a good first step, but no one is under any delusions its recommendations will solve the decades-long problem of pay inequity,” said Teresa Younger, PCSW executive director, in a statement.

“There’s a lot more work to be done, and we’re glad that among the recommendations is a call for a deeper inquiry, starting with collecting unemployment insurance data on full- and part-time workers by occupation, and tracking how businesses and contractors are addressing this form of gender discrimination.”

Without controlling for factors like education, hours worked or position, the

median salary for women in Connecticut is, on average, 22 percent to 24 percent less than the median salary for men, according to the report. In sales and legal occupations, the difference in pay is as large as 60 percent. Even in education, training and library occupations, where women make up 73 percent of the workforce, women are still paid 30 percent less than men.

To help eliminate the gap, authors of the report recommended companies self-audit, evaluate and correct any gender pay gaps; limit the practice of pay secrecy; and promote unconscious bias training. They also recommended the state promote jobs that offer greater economic security for women and coordinate with programs that encourage girls and minority groups to seek high-paying careers in fields normally dominated by males like technology and engineering.

In some case there is still a glass ceiling for women, slower career advancement and lower starting positions, which can contribute to lower pay, according to the report.

With more women as the sole or primary wage earners in their families, the report cautioned against the economic implications of women being paid less than men. Nearly a quarter of households headed by women, with children, fall below the federal poverty line.

“While gender wage disparity impacts women first and foremost, the ramifications can affect entire families,” Malloy said in a release. “In many families, women are the breadwinners. In others, they are the only source of income.

The disparity in Connecticut is unacceptably high, and while this is a complicated issue, that cannot be an excuse for inaction. It’s time for our state to find ways to address gender wage disparity.”

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL • Week of November 25, 2013

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McGladrey charts a mixed-bag October The shutdown hurt

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ith the government shutdown at the forefront of headlines during the first half of October, U.S. economic data appeared to trend in a mostly negative direction for much of the month, according to McGladrey, the Chicago-based tax, consulting and assurance company with a large presence in Fairfield County.

The Citigroup Economic Surprise

index (CESI) traced noticeably higher during Q3, but sharply reversed in early October. The index touched negative territory in the final days of the month, marking the first negative print since July 30. Consumer psyches, as measured by the Consumer Confidence (CCI) and Consumer Sentiment (CSI) indexes, followed suit, trending down in the month.

The CCI dropped nine points (80.2 to 71.2),

marking the largest month-over-month decline since February 2010. The CSI also fell, albeit not as dramatically, from 77.5 to 73.2. The considerable decline in consumer sentiment was largely associated with the government shutdown that stretched on for more than two weeks, according to McGladrey.

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The delayed September unemployment rate came in lower at 7.2 percent (previously 7.3 percent) while adding just 148,000 jobs. Despite coming in below expectations, many market participants viewed this result positively as it increased the probability that the Federal Reserve will continue its bond-purchasing program. The housing market continues its climb as housing prices increased once again in the month of August. The S&P/ Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.8 percent over the trailing 12 months.

This marks the fastest yearly price increase since February 2006. It is worth noting that price appreciation eased in many cities from July, McGladrey reported. With mortgage rates climbing higher and housing prices appreciating at a rate not seen since pre-2008, talks of a peaking housing market are beginning to make their way to the forefront of financial headlines. Other positive news came from the labor and housing markets, according to McGladrey.

The delayed September unemployment rate came in lower at 7.2 percent (previously 7.3 percent) while adding just 148,000 jobs. Despite coming in below expectations, many market participants viewed this result positively as it increased the probability that the Federal Reserve will continue its bond-purchasing program.

The housing market continues its climb as housing prices increased once again in the month of August. The S&P/ Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.8 percent over the trailing 12 months. This marks the fastest yearly price increase since February 2006. It is worth noting, McGladrey said, that price appreciation eased in many cities from July. With mortgage rates climbing higher and housing prices appreciating at a rate not seen since pre-2008, talks of a peaking housing market are beginning to make their way to the forefront of financial headlines. — Bill Fallon

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Old Salem Farm acquires neighbor Equestrian center proves a regional boost

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ld Salem Farm has scored another successful season, doubling both its Westchester and Fairfield audience and sponsorship for autumn’s American Gold Cup in its second year of hosting the prestigious equestrian World Cup qualifier.

But the 120-acre farm — known not only for boarding horses, but also for presenting the elegant Spring Horse Shows — is not one to rest on its laurels. Instead, it jumped at the chance recently to acquire neighboring Grand Central Farm for $14.9 million.

The 286-acre property, about a minute drive from Old Salem Farm, was once owned by Paul Greenwood, a hedge fund manager and former North Salem supervisor who pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud in 2009 and whose assets were thus seized for liquidation to make restitutions. (Old Salem Farm was once his as well.)

“We look at this as a strategic move.

It’s a spectacular property,” Alan Bietsch (pronounced “beach”), Old Salem’s facilities manager, says of Grand Central. “It has wonderful turnout (pastures). The former owner used it for breeding, so it has vet rooms and gives us more opportunity to expand existing operations.”

The acquisition comes at a time when Old Salem Farm has increased its national and international audience. On Sept. 22, a week after the Gold Cup, NBC presented a program on its $200,000 Grand Prix, which the Fédération Equestre Internationale had designated a CSI 4*-W World Cup qualifier, making it key for those hoping to compete at the 2014 World Cup Finals in Lyon, France.

The event drew more than 4,000 people, with sponsors spilling onto the Grand Prix field. The Cup was expected to add some $6 million to the region’s coffers, including land-office business in hotel rooms in Danbury and beyond.

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that “we attracted people who had never ever come to a horse show,” Bietsch says.

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both Westchester and Putnam counties and which is well known to riders from Fairfield County.

“We’re looking at older existing buildings and cleaning it up,” Bietsch says.

“We’re looking forward to operating it and being a good neighbor.”

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THE LIST

Fairfield County Next list: December 2 Biotech Firms

Family-owned Businesses

Family-Owned Businesses

Listed alphabetically.

Name Address Telephone (203) unless otherwise noted

Adrij Roman Antiques

17 Hillandale Road, Brookfield 06804 448-7375

Benedict's Home & Garden

480 Purdy Hill Road, Monroe 06468 268-2537

Bernard's Restaurant and Sarah's Wine Bar 20 West Lane, Ridgefield 06877 438-8282

Betteridge

117 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 06830 869-0124

B & B Moving & Storage L.L.C. 49 Jewett Ave., Bridgeport 06606 335-0528

Building Blocks Early Learning Center L.L.C. 72 Camp Ave., Stamford 06907 883-4374 • 253-3156

Callari Auto Group

140 Ledge Road, Darien 06820 656-1804

Carlson & Carlson Inc.

15 Wilmot Lane, Riverside 06878 637-7575

Centrix Inc.

770 River Road, Shelton 06484 929-5582

Christopher Noland Salon and Beauty Spa

124 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 06830 622-4247

Club NewFit

23 Commerce Road, Newtown 06470 426-8591

Columbus Park Trattoria

205 Main St., Stamford 06901 967-9191

Connecticut Information Security L.L.C. 64 Wall St., Suite 403, Norwalk 06850 354-0224

County Construction Inc. 258 Ely Ave., Norwalk 06854 853-2463

Craig's Fine Jewelry

394 Main St., Ridgefield 06877 438-3701

Cucina Casalinga

P.O. Box 7714, Wilton 06897 762-0768

DPZ Dawn's Pizzazz

81 West St., Danbury 06810 794-1113

Designs By Lee

129 Interlaken Road, Stamford 06903 322-2206

Didona Associates Landscape Architects 70 North St., Suite 301, Danbury 06810 778-1840

DiMatteo Insurance

79 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton 06484 924-4811

DiPalma's New York Pizza

304 Union Square, S. Main St., Southbury 06488 264-3555

Website Year founded

Description

aromanantiques.com 1995

Antique sales

benedictsgarden.com 1940

Garden, farm and pet center

bernardsridgefield.com 2000

Restaurant

betteridge.com 1897

Fine jewelry and watches

bbmovingandstorage.com 1985

Professional movers

blockslearning.com 2008

Child day care

callariautogroup.com 1966

Automotive dealer

carlsonandcarlson.com 1920

Insurance and financial services

centrixdental.com 1970

Manufacturer of dental supplies

christophernoland.com 2010

Beauty salon and spa

newfit.com 1966

Health club

columbusparktrattoria.com 1985

Italian restaurant

ctinfosec.com 2007

Computer security services

countyconstructioninc.com 1979

Residential and commercial instruction

craigsfinejewelry.com 1950

Fine jewelry

cucinacasalinga.com 1981

Home-based Italian cooking school

thedpz.com 1983

Day spa

designsbylee.com 1958

Landscape design and garden center

didonaassociates.com NA

Landscape architect

dimatteoinsurance.com 1960

Insurance, financial, tax and accounting services

dipalmaspizza.com NA

Italian restaurant

Name Address Telephone (203) unless otherwise noted

Dream Spa L.L.C.

1220 Post Road East, Westport 06880 454-3454

Eastern Land Management

142 Hamilton Ave., Stamford 06902 316-5433

Elms Inn Inc.

500 Main St., Ridgefield 06877 438-2541

Enviro Maids L.L.C.

447 Glenbrook Road, Stamford 06907 276-9112

Fairfield County Exteriors L.L.C. 44 Ryegate Terrace, Stratford 06615 375-9700

Fairfield County Landscaping Inc. 25 Katrina Circle, Bethel 06801 730-0752

Fairfield County Real Estate Co. 200 Mill Plain Road, Fairfield 06824 259-9999

Fairfield Marble Inc.

157 West Ave., Stratford 06615 377-1921

Fairfield Recycling Service L.L.C. 40 Gould Ave., Fairfield 06824 873-7312

F.D. Rich Co.

222 Summer St., Stamford 06901 359-2900

Felner Corp.

35 Brentwood Ave., Fairfield 06824 331-4770

Gault Energy

11 Ferry Lane West, Westport 06880 222-3228

Ginamarie Entertainment L.L.C. 737 Villa Ave., Fairfield 06824 335-2121

Grasso Construction Inc.

314 Wilson Ave., Norwalk 06854 838-0123

The Greenwich Medical Skincare & Laser Spa

1345 E. Putnam Ave., Old Greenwich 06870 637-0662

Harborview Market

218 Harborview Ave., Bridgeport 06605 367-7336

Hemlock Hardware

1860 Post Road, Fairfield 06824 255-1771

J. Albert Johnson Jewelers

1957 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield 06825 334-4680

Lacerenza Funeral Home

8 Schuyler Ave., Stamford 06902 324-0158

Mancuso’s Restaurant & Bar

601 Kings Highway East, Fairfield 06825 367-5359

The McIntyre Group

63 Glover Ave., Norwalk 06850 750-1111

Website Year founded

Description

dreamdayspa.com 1986

Day spa

easternland.com 1976

Commercial landscape management

elmsinn.com 1799

Bed and breakfast

enviromaidsllc.com 2001

Maid service

fcexteriors.com 1995

Home improvement contractors

fairfieldcountylandscapinginc.com 1992

Landscaping and snow-removal services

fcre.com 1952

Full-service real estate firm

fairfieldmarblegranite.com 1928

Granite and marble surfaces

dumpruns.net 1935

Recycling and trash removal services

fdrich.com 1920

Real estate development, acquisition and management

felnercorp.com 1978

Property management

gaultenergy.com 1863

Energy, masonry, real estate development

ginamarieentertainment.com 1991

Party planning and entertainment services

grassoconstruction.com 1986

Residential and commercial construction

greenwichmedicalspa.com 2005

Medical spa practice

harborviewmarket.com 1984

Restaurant

hemlockhardware.doitbest.com 1978

Hardware store

jalbertjohnsonjewelers.com 1915

Jeweler

lacerenzafuneralhome.com 1926

Funeral home and cremation services

mancusos-restaurant.net 1974

Italian restaurant

themcintyregroup.com 1986

Staffing and recruiting

NOTE: THIS LIST IS JUST A SAMPLING OF FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. This list has been shortened due to space limitation. Companies M through W will be available online through our digital subsction.

To be included on future lists, email afrey@westfairinc.com.

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U.B. Business School renamed and remade The ernesT c. TrefZ school of business embraces fresh challenges

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rnie Trefz admits to being older than 50, but younger than 100. He rises at 6 a.m. and goes to work each day at his 10 Middle St. office in Bridgeport, “15 minutes from my house.”

Everyone calls him Ernie.

Trefz’s full name will soon identify the University of Bridgeport’s burgeoning business school as the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business. The university’s Mandeville Hall is being remade for the purpose, to be finished this winter. Current business school Dean Lloyd G. Gibson — a former bank executive (and Ph.D.) who took the business school helm last year — will remain.

A Nov. 20 ribbon-cutting made the announcement formal. Besides infrastructure, Trefz’s unspecified-amount donation will support new faculty hires and scholarships.

An expanded online program begins in January. The online MBA — which will confer the same MBA as campus classes — amplifies a more-modest online/ in-class model available now, called blended learning. The new, teched-out building follows that theme, promising borderless education opportunities to complement more traditional learning.

For the 10 a.m. interview that would lead to this reporting, Trefz arrived early. Not idle, he read The Wall Street Journal waiting for others to arrive. He is early by nature, he said. Besides The Wall Street Journal, he reads The New York Times weekends and the Fairfield County Business Journal every week.

(His picture graced the cover in 2010.)

As principal owner, he remains “very much involved” with the Trefz family business, Trefz Corp., which includes ownership of investment property, 44 McDonald’s restaurants and the Bridgeport Holiday Inn. His brother, Christian J. Trefz, is president and his two sons also are now principals: Christian Carl Trefz and Paul Daniel Trefz.

Trefz of late has scaled back his restaurant holdings so that the four Trefz principals individually own 11 McDonald’s. The family enterprise

employs 1,800 to 1,900, he said. “It’s a good organization.” His wife, Joan Trefz, and he are also the force behind what Trefz terms “a small foundation” that gives “to those who work with young and needy people,” including small charities and the national United Way. He gives because, “That’s where the need is,” but he charts a charity’s administration costs with a sharp pencil.

The new business school will most obviously feature the remade Mandeville Hall. Equally important will be new faculty positions and student scholarships.

Without citing specific hires, Gibson said, “There will be expanded faculty and, importantly, they will be practitioners with expertise in business that we will get before the students. This offers a different perspective focused on, step No. 1, graduating; and step No. 2, developing the skills you’ll need in the future to get a job or start a business. The focus on entrepreneurial skills is very important.

“I don’t determine policy by sitting in my office, thinking deep thoughts,” Gibson said. “What I hear is that businesses are looking for entrepreneurial skills; they’re looking for graduates who can think outside the box.”

Trefz, who has supported the school in many ways across 30 years, said talk like that was exactly why he had committed to remake the business school.

“It’s so important,” Trefz said. “What a difference I am seeing. What President (Neil Albert) Salonen sees is a new school and he’s brought in the right people to make that happen.

“Education is so important, particularly for the needy, for people without opportunities,” Trefz said. “This is another option to get the university involved in that mission.”

Salonen cited the gap in what students need to know vs. what they know and said, “Our commitment is to bring in people who are current for a very different business world.”

Salonen noted Trefz sits on the school’s finance board, where “They all look to Ernie. His philosophy is, ‘Hope is not a plan; hope is not a strategy.’”

Salonen said of Trefz, “He’s too hum-

From left: University President Neil Albert Salonen, Ernie Trefz and business school Dean Lloyd G. Gibson.

ble. I can’t state enough what he is doing here, all that he has done for this university. This groundbreaking means a lot to everyone at this university.”

“This is a big deal,” Trefz said. “I’m very proud, of course, but I can do without the praise. They’re over flattering. I believe in what I’m doing. I believe in the University of Bridgeport. They’re going in the right direction. I’m proud to be a part of this.”

Trefz as a boy saw and liked Bridgeport’s patchwork of ethnicities.

That seeming aside factors larger than one might imagine in business school plans.

Trefz’s father ran a meatpacking business in Bridgeport and the young Ernie tagged along on delivery runs.

“Both my mother and father were born in Germany,” he said. “I learned from them. I learned from others. You can never learn enough. And what I learned early — that early exposure — has been integral to my life.

“With dad in a peddler truck, we drove around the city,” he said. “There was such a diversity, such a beautiful harmony between the various religions and people: Hungarians, Poles, Italians.

They were like little cities within the city.

“I still have that love for this city.”

Trefz’s ethnic memories bear out the business school’s current realities.

Gibson, who spent 28 years in banking, 14 of them as a bank CEO, said globalism is a U.B. ready-made asset. “U.B. has

always had a high consensus of international students,” he said. “The most important problems facing the world today are transnational, requiring collaboration with other cultures. We do that on the ground here.”

As for a business school in lieu of a bronze, Trefz said, “A business school is an area I feel comfortable with. It presents opportunities for reaching new levels of economic participation in this city.

“I have a strong feeling about the University of Bridgeport’s development,” he said. “The university has a lot of minority students. It has a lot of groups forming around being young entrepreneurs.

“I’d like to do what I can.”

Trefz shared his thoughts seated in the University of Bridgeport’s administrative offices. President Salonen; Dean Gibson; Mary-Jane Foster, vice president, division of university relations, and Leslie Geary, director of public information and media affairs, joined him.

“First, we needed a beautiful structure,” Trefz said of the new business school building. That work continues apace toward a late-winter finish.

The remade business building will feature the latest technology, including videoconferencing. Trefz identified himself “as low tech as they come,” but sided strongly with the inevitable march of silicon chips: “Our company has all the latest equipment and I have very bright people who run it.”

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WCSU teaches entrepreneurs of all stripes reThinking The dry cleaner and The deli

BY JENNIFER BISSELL

think entrepreneurship is about innovation, like they see watching Shark Tank on TV,” said Assenza, who joined WCSU he entrepreneurial spotlight in September. “It’s not necessarily all primarily shines on innovative, high tech, but finding a need and creattechnology-driven firms these ing a solution for it that creates value.” days. But one professor at Western Within Ancell’s undergraduate manConnecticut State University (WCSU) agement major, more than 130 students in Danbury is reminding students it this year elected to focus their studies on doesn’t take designing the next iPod to small business entrepreneurship, rathget up on the entrepreneur stage. er than human resource management Whether it’s opening up a new dry or supervisory management. In 2002, cleaner or taking over the family cor- around the time the program started, ner store, entrepreneurs come in all only 14 students were enrolled. forms, said Pauline Assenza, who teachAbout 51 percent of Americans would es entrepreneurship at WCSU’s Ancell rather be self-employed, according to School of Business. the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But “I have this fear that students only only 12 percent of workers actually start SCSU_MBA_Fairfield_7.375x7.125_Layout 1 11/14/13 9:47 AM Page 1

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uniquely suited for you,” Assenza said.

“Everyone has something to add, some just need a push to determine what it is.”

In light of Danbury’s new hackerspace and other larger innovation centers in the state, Assenza said it wasn’t WSCU’s focus to produce the next fleet of Steve Jobs, but to educate the future small business owners in the local economy.

“Many characterize entrepreneurship as a journey — ‘creating a path that is uniquely suited to you as an individual, and building a vehicle for driving down that path,’” Assenza said quoting author Jim Collins. “For students who might say, ‘I’m not sure I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur,’ Peter Drucker has this advice: “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity… Anyone who can face up to decision-making can learn to be an entrepreneur and to behave entrepreneurially.”

Building off some new energy within the school, due to some staff changes, the school hopes to continue expanding its entrepreneurial program and to connect with the greater business community, said Kathleen Lindenmayer, an Ancell coordinator.

Recently the school held an event for students where three former WSCU graduates spoke about the small businesses they’ve started. Hundreds of community members also recently attended a luncheon at WCSU to honor Jim Kennedy of the Network Support Co. as WCSU’s entrepreneur of the year.

“The business school has a lot going on,” Lindenmayer said. “There’s a lot of great energy and pride, touching back to some of our former students. We’ve had a lot of successful graduates go on to start businesses around the area.”

Wearable bone-weakness tool wins business pitch competition

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he prize for best overall pitch at Fairfield University’s business incubator — the Fairfield Accelerator and Mentoring Enterprise — and the $1,000 that went with it were awarded to Robert Garrone, 21, a Fairfield University senior majoring in electrical engineering.

His idea is for a wearable wireless device that uses infrared light to monitor bone density.

“We hope to market toward osteoporosis patients as an alternative to hospital visits with specialists,” Garrone said.

From left in the picture, Garrone worked on the pitch with Dolan School of Business seniors Bernardo Navarro and

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Along with the new timetables, rail service to Danbury has also increased 27 percent with the addition of six trains a day and three new shuttle trains between Danbury and South Norwalk.

The increase is the largest since MetroNorth’s inception in 1983. A new signal system at the Danbury branch is also expected to “provide better, safer and more reliable operation.”

Bankwell enters investing arena

New Canaan-based Bankwell Financial — which Nov. 5 gained a branch in Wilton — has launched Bankwell Investment Services, to be headed by financial adviser Louis J. Czerwinski. Bank President and CEO Peyton R. Patterson made the announcement.

Czerwinski recently joined Bankwell Investment Services. He comes to Bankwell with more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry, working most recently at First Niagara Investment Services. He also has worked at Mass Mutual, helping businesses and individuals with their investment analysis as well as legacy and charitable giving strategies. He is securities licensed through Investacorp Inc., a registered broker/dealer.

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Garrone is also working with fellow engineering students on the monitor as part of the senior design course, with faculty Shahrokh Etamad and Ryan Munden serving as mentors. He is also pursuing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering as part of a five-year program.

One of last year’s competition finalists, Jamie Ramerini, is now a bona fide client of the incubator, working toward bringing a “smart,” but inexpensive, power strip to the marketplace.

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The art of supporting art Think about how the arts affect your life — those enlightening moments at a play, a concert, or strolling through a museum. what about the less obvious ways? do you like to read on a rainy day? do you listen to music when you’re stuck in traffic? do you have pictures on your walls at home? arts and culture play an essential role in our lives from childhood through our senior years. They bring us together and create a strong, cohesive community. organizations, artists and creative businesses that make up our membership produce the experiences you enjoy.

The cultural alliance works to keep our members healthy and thriving. here’s what some of our members say about us: “when i began at the silvermine arts center, the first resource i reached out to was the cultural alliance of fairfield county and they are still the first resource i turn to whenever i need an answer.” — leslee asch, executive director of silvermine arts center.

“The cultural alliance has led us to many successful collaborations with other organizations that would not have happened had we not been brought together in the same room.” — michael ross, managing director of westport country Playhouse. and from an artist: “The make.art.work. workshop series is a powerful program that helps empower an artist through knowledge, resources and contacts to properly and systematically blaze a personal path of success in one’s artistic journey.” — Peter, participant in the 2013 make.art.work. series. what we do is not flashy — you will not see the cultural alliance in a rehearsal space, on a symphony stage or in a darkroom. we are the support behind the scenes and our members agree that we are a vital part of our thriving arts and culture community.

Please donate to our annual appeal today and join us in our mission. This year our members have joined us in offering discounts to anyone that donates $50 or more — our fcbuzz supporter discount card is our thank you to you. visit culturalalliancefc. org and click donate. help us keep arts and culture strong in fairfield county.

Ryan Odinak executive director cultural alliance of fairfield county

The mission of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is to support cultural organizations, artists and creative businesses by providing promotion, services and advocacy.

For more information, visit CulturalAllianceFC.org or email infoCulturalAllianceFC.org or call 256-2329.

For events lists, visit FCBuzz.org.

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Arts & Culture of Fairfield County

ANNIE JR.

leapin’ lizards! The downtown cabaret children’s company celebrates the holiday season with “annie Jr.,” the timeless classic for children and families. with equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s new york city. she is determined to find her parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a new york city orphanage run by the cruel, embittered miss hannigan.

“annie Jr.” is an abridged version of the broadway classic about little orphan annie, daddy warbucks, and miss hannigan with all of the time-honored music: “maybe,” “hard knock life,” “little girls,” “nyc” and, of course, “Tomorrow.” The junior version runs an hour and a half with an intermission; perfect for the youngest patrons.

The downtown cabaret has been charming young audiences for 32 years with its unmatched quality of live family entertainment. seating is all “cabaret style” with tables and chairs. audiences are encouraged to pack their own picnics to enjoy during the show. The theater also accommodates large groups at discounted rates making it a perfect place to celebrate birthdays and large family outings. and of course, the children will love meeting all the characters after the show where they can get photos and autographs from the cast.

This holiday season; give your family the gift of live entertainment in this intimate jewel of fairfield county. it is an experience they are sure to cherish for years to come. call the box office at-576-1636, or order tickets online at dtcab.com.

HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW IN FAIRFIELD warm up at the fairfield museum and history center after the town’s tree-lighting ceremony and be the first to see the new displays at the holiday express Train show! kids and adults alike will delight in the magic of the model trains winding around a winter wonderland of spectacular trees and beautiful holiday scenery. The Train show opens the evening of fairfield’s Tree lighting and continues through Jan. 5. on sunday, dec. 5, enjoy storytelling and fun activities learning how people “get around” from the horse and buggy to funny cars and trains! There are also choo choo storytimes scheduled throughout december with free admission. enjoy your favorite — and new — stories about

all things trains! discover adventures on the tracks with books that spark the imagination. and for kids only - put on your pajamas and spend a night of exclusive Train show holiday fun at the fairfield museum on december 14! busy parents can have some time off while ms. karen and ms. annie of great beginnings montessori school lead the way with creative, interactive activities, a pizza dinner and a movie!

The fairfield museum is a cultural and education center featuring modern galleries, a research library, community spaces and museum shop, located in the heart of fairfield’s historic Town green. for more information, visit the fairfield museum and history center’s website at fairfieldhistory.org/

Visit FCBuzz.org for more information on events and how to get listed.

18 Week of November 25, 2013 • FairField County Business Journal

Presented by: Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

BUSINESS JOURNAL ATTACHMENT Berman, Richard, Westport, in favor of David M. Lehn, et al. Property: 48 Compo Mill Cove, Westport.

Amount: $425,000. Filed Nov. 13.

Hunter Ridge L.L.C., Newtown, in favor of the Planning and Zoning Commission, town of Newtown.

Property: 41, 43, 45 and 47 Mount Pleasant Road, Newtown. Amount: $183,720.03. Filed Nov. 12.

BUILDING PERMITS

commerciaL 314 Westport Avenue L.L.C., Norwalk. Reconfigure tenant space for Sitan Boxing School, 314 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Nov. 6.

314 Westport Avenue L.L.C., Norwalk. Reconfigure tenant space for Dance Studio, 314 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $15,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

314 Westport Avenue L.L.C., Norwalk. Reduce to core, Good Price Second Hand Store, 314 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Nov. 6.

3200 Park Avenue L.L.C., Bridgeport. Install antennas for commercial purposes, 3200 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $9,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

840 North Avenue L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform external additions at an existing commercial building, 840 North Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system.

While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to: Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Gannett Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: (914)694-3600 Fax: (914)694-3680

A. Pappajohn Co., Norwalk, contractor for Div 40 Richards L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building for Chaluamean Law Group, 40 Richards Ave., Seventh floor, Norwalk.

Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Nov. 5.

A. Pappajohn Co., Norwalk, contractor for Div 40 Richards L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building for Compassionate, 40 Richards Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $27,000.

Filed Nov. 7.

A. Secondino, contractor for Urstadt & Biddle. Perform additions and alterations at an existing commercial building, 25 Old Kings Highway North, Darien. Estimated cost: $45,000. Filed Nov. 8.

City of Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing commercial building, 405 to 459 Knowlton St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $17,500. Filed Nov. 1.

Collins, Tara, Bridgeport. Reroof an existing commercial building, 2889 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $35,000. Filed Nov. 14.

Discovery Museum, Bridgeport.

Perform external renovations at an existing commercial building, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $28,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Ebenezer Gospel Assembly, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 291 Bunnell St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $60,000. Filed Nov. 7.

First Taxing District, Norwalk.

Install a replacement water tank at an existing commercial building, 34 Grandview Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $189,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Light Associates Contracting Inc., contractor for Cars-DB10 L.P. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, Porsche of Fairfield, 475 Commerce Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Maldonado, Jorge, Bridgeport.

Construct a new storage building at a commercial building, 41 Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $9,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Neupman Carpentry, contractor for Michele and Chris Hackett.

Construct an accessory building at a single-family residence, 112 Pear Tree Point, Darien. Estimated cost: $250,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Pat Munger Construction, Branford, contractor for the town of New Canaan. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 60 Main St., New Canaan. Estimated cost: $316,000.

Filed Nov. 8.

Singer, Moses, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 356 to 360 Center St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Surgical Center of CT, contractor for 4920 Main Street Association.

Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 4920 Main St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $500,775. Filed Nov. 8.

resiDentiaL Able Construction Inc., contractor for Graham Phillips. Construct a new single-family residence, 296 Sherwood Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $600,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Amendola, Joanne, Bridgeport.

Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 34 to 36 Belmont Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Anderson Windows, contractor for John Shields. Perform external renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 47 Fairfield Ave., Darien. Estimated cost: $18,000.

Filed Nov. 13.

Andrews Custom Building L.L.C., contractor for Eileen and Michael Hinton. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 65 Gate Ridge Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Archiball, Galo, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 183 Taft Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,500. Filed Nov. 1.

Astrum Solar Inc., contractor for 370 Davis Road L.L.C. Install solar panels at an existing single-family residence, 370 Davis Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $23,100. Filed Nov. 6.

Bayview Associates, Bridgeport.

Fit-out an existing commercial building, 161 Boston Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $100,000.

Filed Nov. 8.

De Graff, M.C., Darien. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 109 Mansfield Ave., Darien. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Bella Homes L.L.C., contractor for 960 North Benson Road L.L.C. Lay a foundation for a new single-family residence, 948 N. Benson Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $250,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Devore, Michael, contractor for Leslie and Timothy Warren. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 71 School St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Nov. 8.

Bennetts Farm Associates L.L.C., Ridgefield. Construct a new singlefamily residence, 229 Bennetts Farm Road, Ridgefield. Estimated cost: $500,000. Filed Nov. 6.

ERI, contractor for Gail Cunningham. Perform additions and alterations at an existing single-family residence, 37 Country Club Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $78,000.

Filed Nov. 12.

Bento, Susan, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 40 Dixon St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed Nov. 6.

BNT, Bridgeport. Lay a foundation for a new single-family residence, 1975 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Bond-Bilt Garages Inc., contractor for Patricia and Jeffrey McHugh.

Construct an accessory building at a single-family residence, 31 Judson Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Bond-Bilt Garages Inc., contractor for Magnusson Residence.

Construct an accessory building at a single-family residence, 1172 Unquowa Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Brown Dog G.C. L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for Carol and Weda Falaska. Repair two-story rear deck with roof at an existing twofamily residence, 40 Truman St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $9,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Cascella, June, Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 154 Woodbine Circle, Bridgeport.

Estimated cost: $500. Filed Nov. 12.

Commonwealth Engineering, Bridgeport, contractor for Jasmin Ricards. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 81 Sterling Place, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed Nov. 14.

CT Restoration Specialists, contractor for Vitali-Daiter residence.

Repair existing deck at a singlefamily residence, 69 Woody Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $20,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Estes, Anna-Lena and Jon Estes, Fairfield. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 136 Robertson Crossing, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $25,000.

Filed Nov. 5.

Esteves, Maria, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 3323 Old Town Road, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Executive Craftsman, Stamford, contractor for Mohindra-Green Residence. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 40 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Fairfield County Restoration, Norwalk, contractor for Kathleen and Rick Tavella. Perform renovations at an existing single-family residence, 3 Cranbury Woods Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $100,000.

Filed Nov. 13.

Fenn, Scott, contractor for Scudder Bay Capitol L.L.C. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 128 Sterling St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,500.

Filed Nov. 6.

Ford, Lucila, Bridgeport. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 2206 to 2208 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $7,500. Filed Nov. 13.

Fox Hill Builders, contractor for Marcy and Tom Kaplan. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 280 Hollow Tree Ridge, Darien. Estimated cost: $95,000. Filed Nov. 13.

Garnett, Mike, Milford, contractor for Debra Dean. Perform external renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 105 Dixon St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $7,000.

Filed Nov. 8.

Gori, Secondo, Bridgeport. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 139 Lawrence St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,400. Filed Nov. 12.

Gurnari Construction, Norwalk, contractor for Leslie and Jonathan Balkind. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 152 Marvin Ridge Road, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $180,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Harris, Sherna, Bridgeport. Repair fire damage at an existing singlefamily residence, 1488 to 1490 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Hellthaler, Christopher, contractor for Katharine and John Steers.

Rebuild an existing pool house at a single-family residence, 1412 Old Academy Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $90,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Hicks Construction L.L.C., Ridgefield, contractor for David Wolfe. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 83 Mountain Ridge Road, Ridgefield. Estimated cost: $20,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Hyland, Nancy and Craig Hyland, Norwalk. Perform interior demolition at a single-family residence, 315 Rowayton Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Jordon, Michael, Bridgeport. Repair fire damage at an existing single-family residence, 463 to 467 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Kerrigan’s Roofing Inc., contractor for Debra Jones. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 57 Lawrence Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $8,600. Filed Nov. 8.

Kerschner Development Co., Norwalk, contractor for Andrzej Piekarski. Fit-out an existing singlefamily residence, 160 N. Seir Hill Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed Nov. 5.

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NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events KuDoS For wiggin anD Dana lawyer Greenwich-based law firm wiggin anD Dana announced miChael Clear has been named a 2013 “New Leader in the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune.

The honor is presented annually to lawyers under age 40 whose achievements have distinguished them from their peers.

Clear is an associate in the firm’s Greenwich office and a member of the private client services department. He focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration, probate litigation and business succession planning. In 2012, he represented clients in more than 100 major wealth transfer transactions.

He was one of 62 attorneys selected for the honor from a pool of 300-plus nominations from across Connecticut. Wiggin and Dana attorneys DaViD SChaFFer and Kim rinehart were also named “New Leaders in the Law” for 2013.

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Super lawyerS at pullman & Comley Twenty-two attorneys from Bridgeport-based law firm pullman & Comley l.l.C. were recently named to the ConneCtiCut Super lawyerS list for 2013, the law firm reported. In addition, seven of the firm’s attorneys were named to the Super Lawyers “Connecticut Rising Stars 2013” list.

The Pullman & Comley attorneys on the Connecticut Super Lawyers 2013 list include DaViD p. atKinS, eliZaBeth J. auStin, morriS BanKS, Collin p. Baron, DeBorah S. BreCK, eliot B. gerSten, irVe J. golDman, nanCy a. D. hanCoCK, JoShua a. hawKS-laDDS, alex V. hernanDeZ, lee D. hoFFman, thomaS F. maxwell Jr., ChriStopher p. mCCormaCK, D. roBert morriS, gary B. o’Connor, Jonathan B. orleanS, elliott B. pollaCK, miChael g. proCtor, riCharD C. roBinSon, JameS t. Shearin, alan J. SoBol and Diane w. whitney.

Those named to the riSing StarS list include SteVen J. BonaFonte, megan youngling Carannante, Cara a.

CeraSo, aDam J. Cohen, Jonathan a. Kaplan, aDam S. moCCiolo and SteVen J. StaFStrom Jr. The list appears in the November issue of New England Super Lawyers and in the February 2014 issue of Connecticut magazine.

nuSBaum & parrino p.C., a family law firm in Westport, has been ranked as a 2014 Best Law Firm in the category of family law, Metropolitan Tier 1 Stamford by u.S. newS & worlD report and BeSt lawyerS. This marks the fourth year in a row that the award has been given and Nusbaum & Parrino has received the same

Tier 1 ranking each year.

From left in the photo are harolD w. halDeman, senior associate attorney; laura r. ShattuCK, senior associate attorney; thomaS p. parrino, co-founder and principal; eDwarD nuSBaum, co-founder and principal; and ranDi r. nelSon, associate attorney.

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Stamford-based law firm ryan ryan DeluCa announced eight of its attorneys were selected for inclusion in 2013 ConneCtiCut Super lawyerS. Additionally, partners CharleS DeluCa and Daniel ryan were further chosen to be included on the Top 50 ConneCtiCut Super lawyerS list and Ryan was also named as a four time recipient to the Top 100 New England Super Lawyers list.

The recognition is based on a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement as well as third-party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Besides DeLuca and Daniel Ryan, the full list of honored Super Lawyer attorneys includes miChael t. ryan; KeVin m. tepaS, roBert C. e. laney and Catherine S. nietZel. Additionally BeCK S. Fineman and Brian m. CanDela were designated as Connecticut Rising Stars.

Since 2007, New Canaan-based Catherine aVery inVeStment management l.l.C., headed by portfolio manager Catherine aVery, has provided customized asset management service to a select clientele of women and baby boomers. The independent investment firm is now recognized for its outstanding work in this regard with a 2013 Five Star Wealth Manager Award from the award program of the same name. Five Star Professional, founded in 2003, conducts market-specific research throughout the U.S. and Canada to identify top service professionals.

20 Week of November 25, 2013 • FairField County Business Journal

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The Car Care CounCil women’S BoarD and the AutomotiVe CommuniCation CounCil selected Norwalkbased tFi enViSion inC. as the 2013 winner of the Automotive Communications Award in the category of Best Customizable Campaign for the Standard Motor Products Inc. TechSmart “Are you TechSmart?”

2012 integrated brand campaign materials. The award was presented to eliZaBeth p. Ball, president and creative director, and mary ellen ButKuS, vice president of TFI Envision, founded 1975, at the 2013 AAPEX Show at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas Nov. 5.

five uniquely talented musicians to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday, Dec. 12, 8 p.m. They set the standard for a cappella entertainment, sounding like a full band when they “play” rock, pop, jazz, hip hop and all the holiday favorites. For tickets ($45, $35 student tickets available only by calling the box office), call 203438-5795, or buy tickets online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org.

DeCemBer Sunday, Dec. 15, 3 p.m.: “Inventing

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Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,” with Toby Perl Freilich at Temple Israel, 14 Coleytown Road, Westport; free and open to the public. For more information call (203) 227-1293.

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rolanD w. BettS, tom a. BernStein and DaViD a. tewKSBury, principal owners of ChelSea pierS ConneCtiCut in Stamford, will be honored with the 2013 Real Estate Award at the 18th annual marCh oF DimeS Fairfield County Real Estate Award Breakfast Thursday, Dec. 12, 7 a.m., at Chelsea Piers Connecticut. More than 700 industry professionals are expected to attend.

The Real Estate Award Breakfast honors outstanding individuals and/or a company whose commercial real

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estate activities have significantly enhanced the local community. In the event’s history, $5.2 million has been raised in support of the March of Dimes mission to give all babies a healthy start.

“We are honored to join the prestigious group of award winners within the Fairfield County real estate community and are so pleased to support the critical work of the March of Dimes,” said David A. Tewksbury, president of Chelsea Piers Connecticut.

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on the record Kostyk Carpentry, Bethel, contractor for Cathleen and Robert Wyatt. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 140 Richmond Hill Road, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Kuehn Building & Remodeling L.L.C., Danbury, contractor for Alexandra Coope and Jeffrey Brooks. Perform additions and alterations at an existing single-family residence, 90 Hillcrest Road, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $925,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Lahey Construction, contractor for Christina and Donald Sforza.

Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 186 Crest Terrace, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Nov. 5.

M&J Service L.L.C., contractor for Danielle and James Anderson. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 110 Sky Top Terrace, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $15,000.

Filed Nov. 7.

Marquis, Richard, contractor for Kristen Empie. Perform external renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 173 Puritan Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $12,000.

Filed Nov. 5.

Mauro Builders L.L.C., contractor for Diane and Paul Sidoriak. Lay a foundation for a new single-family residence, 25 Penfield Place, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $200,000.

Filed Nov. 5.

Moreira, Joaquim, Bridgeport.

Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 449 Pond St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Murcia, Yanny, Bridgeport. Perform interior alterations at a single-family residence, 209 Saunders Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Nov. 12.

New Ridge Builders, contractor for Jill and Peter Brannigan. Perform interior renovations to an external building at an existing single-family residence, 20 Huckleberry, Darien. Estimated cost: $40,000. Filed Nov. 5.

NLD Carpentry L.L.C., contractor for Danielle and Manuel Broad.

Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 491 Lockwood Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Nordic Builders Inc., Ridgefield.

Construct a new single-family residence, 375 West Road, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $1.03 million.

Filed Nov. 7.

Ortega, Martha, Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 398 to 400 Kent Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Parisi, Stephen, contractor for Jill German. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 70 Shadowwood Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $95,000.

Filed Nov. 5.

Plourde Enterprises L.L.C., contractor for town of Fairfield. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 388 Hoydens Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $29,300. Filed Nov. 8.

Power Home Remodeling Group, Chester, Pa., contractor for the Garrabrant residence. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 230 Partridge Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $18,595. Filed Nov. 5.

Pradelilla, Dirceu, Bridgeport.

Perform interior additions at a single-family residence, 115 Nutmeg Road, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Quinn Contracting, contractor for Lynne Paushter. Lay a foundation for a new single-family residence, 90 River St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $450,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Ramey Construction Inc., Danbury, contractor for Elaine and Kevin Cox, Add a two-story addition to an existing single-family residence, 417 Ridgebury Road, Ridgefield.

Estimated cost: $220,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Ramirez, George, Bridgeport. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 750 Iranistan Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Retirion Inc., contractor for Jane and Walter Bernd. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 99 Parkwood Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $12,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Rick’s Main Roofing, Norwalk, contractor for Susan Kennedy.

Reroof an existing single-family residence, 22 Sunswyck Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $14,000.

Filed Nov. 4.

Sawyer, Dana, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 407 Queen St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $71,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Schettino, Genevieve and James Schettino, Ridgefield. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 35 Park Place, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $3,200. Filed Nov. 7.

Upright-Norton Residence, Norwalk. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 114 Newtown Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Sears Home Improvement, Rocky Hill, contractor for Nicole Paul. Replace windows at an existing singlefamily residence, 50 Newfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,159.

Filed Nov. 12.

VIP Home Improvement, Fairfield, contractor for Daniel Lorenetti. Perform external additions at an existing single-family residence, 494 Amsterdam Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Nov. 6.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Joseph Sopata. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 237 Windsor Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $4,979. Filed Nov. 7.

Wadia Construction L.L.C., New Canaan, contractor for Roseann and Marc DeGaetano. Construct a new single-family residence, 56 Pequot Lane, New Canaan. Estimated cost: $1.5 million. Filed Nov. 7.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Marisa Love and Roy Minton. Replace windows at an existing singlefamily residence, 60 Rolling Hills Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $23,976. Filed Nov. 7.

Water Construction, Bridgeport, contractor for Bridgeport Housing Authority. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 376 E. Washington Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $80,600. Filed Nov. 12.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Denise and Leonard Scinto. Replace windows at an existing singlefamily residence, 22 Bullard St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $6,006.

Filed Nov. 7.

COURT CASES

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Jane Dean. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 450 Center St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $2,187. Filed Nov. 7.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for the Sperry-Mongene r`esidence. Replace windows at an existing singlefamily residence, 154 Pansy Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,578.

Filed Nov. 7.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Mary Rogers. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 2713 Bronson Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $17,935. Filed Nov. 7.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Marcus Watada. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence, 225 Knapps Highway, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,699. Filed Nov. 7.

TM Faucher, contractor for Daniel DiBasio. Perform interior alterations at a single-family residence, 7 Waverly Road, Darien. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Nov. 5.

TMSL Properties L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 1657 Chopsey Hill, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $28,700. Filed Nov. 12.

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Bridgeport District Court 832 Atlantic Navcapman L.L.C., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Milagros DeLeon, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: John P. Majewski, Waterbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 4.

Case no. 6039106.

Abb Flakt Inc., et al., Norwalk.

Filed by Richard Goodwin, Old Towne, Maine, Christopher Meisenkothen, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this product-liability suit against the defendant for failing to warn plaintiff of the dangers of working with asbestos products. Filed Nov. 8.

Case no. 6039219.

Admin Projects L.L.C., Shelton.

Filed by A+ Learning Headquarters L.L.C., Shelton. Plaintiff’s attorney: John K. Cohane, Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $10,000 for the services received. Filed Nov. 4.

Case no. 6039110.

Bidcactus L.L.C., Westport. Filed

by MMP Associates Inc., Rockville, Md. Plaintiff’s attorneys: Joseph L. Clasen and Brian J. Wheelin, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $117,000 for services performed by the plaintiff. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6039178.

Brennan’s Shebeen L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Com Link Inc., Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: John R. Bryk, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant for failing to comply with the terms of a lease agreement. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6039177.

Connecticut Thermofoam L.L.C., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Pedro Quintana, Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Laurence V. Parnoff, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $13,908 for landscaping services received. Filed Nov. 4.

Case no. 6039105.

G.M. Industries Inc., Tolland.

Filed by Bushwick Metals L.L.C., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Steven A. Sugarmann, New Haven.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $30,294.68 for materials sold and delivered to the defendant. Filed Nov. 6. Case no. 6039181.

J.N.F. Rest Inc. d.b.a. Maryann’s Restaurant, et al., Stamford. Filed by the estate of Mitchell Blankenship, Plaintiff’s attorney: John D. Maxwell, Glastonbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries plaintiff sustained causing his death due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 6039202.

Kash’s Garage L.L.C., et al. Filed

by Banco Popular North America, Plaintiff’s attorneys: Douglas S. Skalka and Lucas B. Rocklin, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for its failure to repay an original loan in the amount of $25,000 plus interest.

Filed Nov. 8. Case no. 6039216.

Lawless, Willard d.b.a. B.J. Ryan’s B. and C. House, et al., Norwalk. Filed by Suzette Rochester, Plaintiff’s attorney: Thomas M. Yuditski, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 8.

Case no. 6039210.

Mone, Jone d.b.a. Legend’s Sports Bar, et al. Filed by Connecticut Amusement Inc., Stratford.

Plaintiff’s attorney: John R. Bryk, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay fees to date for a lease agreement. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6039180.

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company L.L.C., Trumbull.

Filed by Pamela Burros, Trumbull. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robert W. Lotty, Fairfield. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 4.

Case no. 6039096.

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company L.L.C., Fairfield.

Filed by Christiane Poggi, Westport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Patrick M. Mullins, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 6039206.

Core Excavating Contractors Inc., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Connecticut Asphalt Paving Inc., Bethel. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lawrnce W. Andrea. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $42,000 for services performed and received. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 6014000.

The Housing Authority of Danbury, Danbury. Filed by Ruth Ahearn, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: Michael A. Stratton, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6013999.

Danbury District Court Algonquin Steel Technologies Inc., et al., West Redding. Filed

by Ernest A. Bothwell, South Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Thomas M. Cassone, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant for failing to perform workmanlike construction services. Filed Nov. 8.

Case no. 6020379.

Glencore Ltd., Stamford. Filed

by Jonathan Goldberg, Stamford.

Plaintiff’s attorneys: Mary-Kate Smith and David M. Cohen, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 6020367.

on the record Stamford District Court Hackett, Chris d.b.a. Greenwich Investment Research, Stamford.

Filed by Hanabergh & Associates, Ransey, N.J. Plaintiff’s attorney: Mark A. Sank, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay commission for services performed by the plaintiff. Filed Nov. 5.

Case no. 6020352.

Norwalk Restaurant Corp., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Gladys Aguilar, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: John Ross Hall II, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant after falling ill from contaminants in the purchased food. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6020358.

Saugatuck Construction Group L.L.C., et al., Stamford. Filed by Connecticut Community Bank N.A., Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorneys: Christine D. Salmon and Richard Lewis, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for its failure to make payments on a commercial promissory note in the amount of $250,000 plus interest. Filed Nov. 8.

Case no. 6020375.

The American Golfer Inc., Greenwich. Filed by Bear Franchising Corp. d.b.a. World Wide Express, Raleigh, N.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Abraham M. Hoffman, Trumbull.

Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay the plaintiff $17,245.39 for shipping services rendered. Filed Nov. 5.

Case no. 6020346.

Walmart Stores Inc., Norwalk.

Filed by Doreen Ventrella, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robert B. Keyes, Norwalk. Action: The plaintiff has brought this suit against the defendant for injuries sustained due to the alleged negligence of the defendant. Filed Nov. 6.

Case no. 6020361.

SUPERIOR COURT RBS Securities. Filed by Securities and Exchange Commission, Plaintiff’s attorneys: John B. Hughes, New Haven and Rua M. Kelly, Boston, Mass. Action: This fraud suit is brought against the defendant for misleading investors about the quality and safety of their investments. Filed Nov. 7.

Case no. 13cv01643.

World Law Group, et al., Dallas, Texas. Filed by Robert Robitaille, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robert Napolitano, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has listed a claim, which is the subject of an asset of his bankruptcy estate. Filed Nov. 11.

Case no. 13cv01668.

DEEDS

COMMERCIAL DFTJV L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Nippowin Lane L.L.C., Greenwich.

Property: 529 and 531 Indian Field Road, Greenwich. Amount: $25 million. Filed Nov. 8.

EWK 1500 BPR L.L.C., New York City. Seller: CPPT Darien L.L.C., New York City. Property: 1500 Boston Post Road, Darien. Amount: $8.3 million. Filed Nov. 1.

QUIT CLAIM DeStefano, Serafina, Stamford.

Seller: Fredrica Arcade, Greenwich.

Property: 5 Putnam Hill, Unit 4D, Greenwich. Amount: $384,500.

Filed Nov. 8.

Anderson, Kimberly A. and Justin Anderson, Fairfield. Seller: Kristen and Matthew Brooks, Newtown.

Property: 33 Key Rock Road, Newtown. Amount: $400,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Buttendorf, Heidi and Andrew Buttendorf, Bethel. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Fla. Property: 1221 Dodgingtown Road, Bethel.

Amount: $284,499. Filed Nov. 13.

Angus 11 L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: 11 Angus Lane L.L.C., Greenwich. Property: 11 Angus Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $1.8 million.

Filed Nov. 8.

Byrne, Meghan and Bradford Harriman, Danbury. Seller: Elaine G. and William Krohn, Newtown.

Property: 7 Timber Mill Road, Newtown. Amount: $348,000.

Filed Nov. 1.

Balogh, Victoria and Lloyd Balogh, Newtown. Seller: Donna G. and William F. Hanna, Newtown. Property: Lot 2, Map 2989, Newtown. Amount: $260,000.

Filed Nov. 1.

Bastos, Heliane and Neuzani Bastos, Danbury. Seller: Ehren and Matthew Hutchins, Bethel. Property: 19 Good Hill Road, Bethel.

Amount: $380,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Beach, William C., Stratford.

Seller: Robert K. Beach, Brunswick, Ga. Property: 130 Fairview Ave., Stratford. Amount: $70,000. Filed Nov. 12.

RESIDENTIAL

Belan, Diane and Robert Belan, New Fairfield. Seller: Halide Akin and Brian H. Mellstrom, Pelham Manor, N.Y. Property: 23 Deer Run, New Fairfield. Amount: $450,000.

Filed Nov. 4.

11 Owenoke Park L.L.C., Wilton.

Seller: Karen N. and Kurt N. Kruger, Westport. Property: 11 Owenoke Park, Westport. Amount: $3.1 million. Filed Nov. 14.

Bihl, Irene and Anthony P. Bihl, Ridgefield. Seller: Julie Burk Dent, New Canaan. Property: 807 Smith Ridge Road, New Canaan. Amount: $2.6 million. Filed Nov. 1.

28 Mianus View Terrace L.L.C., Greenwich. Seller: Vivien and Robert J. Stern, Greenwich. Property: 28 Mianus View Terrace, Greenwich. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Nov. 8.

41 Red Rose Circle L.L.C., Branford. Seller: Elizabeth C. and Lawrence W. Scharbach, Darien. Property: 41 Red Rose Circle, Darien.

Amount: $1.07 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Bingham, Barbara and Anastasia Kokoris, Westport. Seller: Robert N. Fisher, Westport. Property: 28 Jennie Lane, Westport. Amount: $450,000. Filed Nov. 14.

Bollard, Danyelle, Greenwich.

Seller: Marilyn F. Cassin, Greenwich. Property: 104 Ritch Avenue West, Unit 6, Greenwich. Amount: $752,000. Filed Nov. 6.

611 Access Road L.L.C., Stratford.

Seller: Watch Hill Properties L.L.C., Stratford. Property: 611 Access Road, Stratford. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Brandstrom, Arvid A., Ridgefield.

Seller: Lucille D. and Hjalmar W. Anderson, Birch Harbor, Maine.

Property: 65 Lonetown Road, Redding. Amount: $255,000. Filed Nov. 4.

68 Byram L.L.C., Greenwich.

Seller: Penie Jarrett, Stamford.

Property: Lot 84, Map of Byram Crest Park, Greenwich. Amount: $375,000. Filed Nov. 8.

Breda, Timothy J., Stratford. Seller: Sherry and Joseph W. Taft, Stratford. Property: 550 Allyndale Drive, Stratford. Amount: $296,000. Filed Nov. 12.

70 Hamilton Avenue Associates L.L.C., Riverside. Seller: Alvaro S. Manriquez, Old Greenwich. Property: 70 Hamilton Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $775,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Brown, Timothy F., Toronto, Canada. Seller: Piekarski Investments L.L.C., Fairfield. Property: 16 Burr Farms Road, Westport. Amount: $3.05 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Cabrera, Edras and Thomas McClurg, Stratford. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., New York City. Property: 229 Bruce Ave., Stratford. Amount: $138,000. Filed Nov. 15.

Caccamo Lane L.L.C., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Seller: Nancy Weaver Stewart and Cameron F. Stewart, Westport. Property: 3 Caccamo Lane, Westport. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Nov. 12.

Choudhury, Sanjoy R. and Aparajita Banerjee, Stamford. Seller: Marcina and Roberto Cristobal, Westport. Property: 3 Bayberry Lane, Westport. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Curry, Lauren and Brandon Swafford, Darien. Seller: Thomas Keith Boris, Darien. Property: 26 Park Lane, Darien. Amount: $980,000.

Filed Nov. 7.

Daragan, Sharon M., New Milford. Seller: Kyle Peter Mitchell, Brookfield. Property: 108 Stony Hill Road, Brookfield. Amount: $185,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Diana, Susan and Matthew Diana, Old Greenwich. Seller: Brenda A. and W. Braeden Harris, Riverside.

Property: 453 E. Putnam Ave., Apt. 3, Cos Cob. Amount: $450,000.

Filed Nov. 7.

Dodge Schreiber, Dorinda, Greenwich. Seller: Berdie and Mairtin Brady, Greenwich. Property: 661 Steamboat Road, Unit A, Greenwich. Amount: $2.4 million. Filed Nov. 4.

East Mianus Neck L.L.C., Riverside. Seller: 73 Club Road East L.L.C., Riverside. Property: 73 Club Road, Riverside. Amount: $3.4 million. Filed Nov. 5.

Evangelist, Darlene M. and Giltan G. Evangelist, Union, Ky. Seller: Bethel Danbury Two L.L.C., White Plains, N.Y. Property: 16 Bainbridge Blvd., Unit 5801, Bethel. Amount: $488,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Fernandez, Milly M., Katonah, N.Y. Seller: Dorothy K. Doyle, Cos Cob. Property: 14 Hartford Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $450,000.

Filed Nov. 4.

Flores, Jonathan, Norwalk. Seller: Tammy S. Brown, Sandy Hook.

Property: 49 Lakeview Terrace, Newtown. Amount: $228,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Forty, Jennifer and Sean Mahabir, Stratford. Seller: Reversinate L.L.C., Oxford. Property: 15 Henry Ave., Stratford. Amount: $230,000. Filed Nov. 12.

Galin, Catherine and Ira Galin, Westport. Seller: Sir 3 Sharp Turn L.L.C., Westport. Property: 3 Sharp Turn Road, Westport. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Nov. 14.

Goldbach Builders L.L.C., Sandy Hook. Seller: Rosemarie Chapdelaine, Newtown. Property: 35 Meadowbrook Road, Newtown.

Amount: $110,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Green, Veronica Ann and Robert Green, Ridgefield. Seller: Bluewater Yankee Hill L.L.C., Westport.

Property: 15 Yankee Hill Road, Westport. Amount: $5.6 million.

Filed Nov. 12.

Greene, Michelle and Christopher Greene, Bethel. Seller: Michael S. Carroll, Bethel. Property: 37 Deer Run, Unit 49G, Bethel. Amount: $146,000. Filed Nov. 5.

HHH Enterprises L.L.C., Darien.

Seller: Jill M. Dahlgren, Stratford.

Property: 44A Buckskin Lane, Stratford. Amount: $140,000. Filed Nov. 15.

Hill, Jessica and Anthony H. Hill, North Hampton, Mass. Seller: Stuart D. Farnsworth, Westport.

Property: 5 Spicer Court, Westport.

Amount: $999,000. Filed Nov. 4.

JGHT Investments L.L.C., Stratford. Seller: Thomas J. Hubbard Sr., Stratford. Property: 20 Horace St., Stratford. Amount: $150,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Jones-George, Anna Maria and Habib George, Brooklyn, N.Y. Seller: Bethel Danbury Two L.L.C., White Plains, N.Y. Property: 9 Hopkins Court, Unit 6402, Bethel.

Amount: $438,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Juall, Janet and Donald Juall, Orange. Seller: Linda G. and John W. Grich, Newtown. Property: 81 Algonquin Trail, Newtown. Amount: $380,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Kallop, Hilary and William T. Kallop, Greenwich. Seller: Pepper L. and Carlton E. Anderson II, Greenwich. Property: 414 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Kasim, Michelle and Rameez Kasim, Stratford. Seller: Maz’s House L.L.C., Stratford. Property: 110 Fernwood Drive, Stratford.

Amount: $255,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Kearns, Kathleen M. and Gary P. Kearns, New Canaan. Seller: Gertrude M. and James J. Leddy, Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Property: 69 Bank St., Unit 32, New Canaan. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Kimura, Jennifer Lynn N. and Scott E. Carroll, New York City.

Seller: Sharon Lynn and Mark Wu, Greenwich. Property: 28 Bonwit Road, Greenwich. Amount: $875,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Kitman, Susan and Stanley Kitman, New York City. Seller: Cottage Lane L.L.C., Westport. Property: 4 Lehn Farm Road, Westport.

Amount: $825,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Kollar, Lindsay M. and Daniel R. Kollar, Norwalk. Seller: June C. Meyer, Darien. Property: 17 Oak Crest, Darien. Amount: $975,000.

Filed Nov. 5.

Koorbusch, Lisa R. and Timothy S. Koorbusch and Thomas W. Rae, Darien. Seller: Constance H. and David Dirvin, Darien. Property: Lot 35, Map 4205, Darien. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed Nov. 4.

Linney, Erin and Davie DePalma, New Canaan. Seller: Greyrock of Greenwich II L.L.C., Norwalk.

Property: 340 Valley Road, Unit 2, Greenwich. Amount: $1.7 million.

Filed Nov. 4.

Marcal, Isolino P., Riverside. Seller: Melinda B. Scrivner, Cos Cob. Property: 171 Cognewaugh Road, Cos Cob. Amount: $1 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Marra, Tracy and David E. Marra, Villa Mont Clar, Bermuda. Seller: Susan T. and Joseph J. Perticone, Darien. Property: 16 Sunnswyck Road, Darien. Amount: $3.06 million. Filed Nov. 1.

Mioli, Joseph S., Southport. Seller: Gerard L. White, Westport. Property: 45 Drumlin Road, Westport.

Amount: $415,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Mitchell, Kyle, Brookfield. Seller: Rochelle M. and Allan H. Levine, Brookfield. Property: 10 Bayberry Drive, Brookfield. Amount: $286,250. Filed Nov. 4.

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on the record Nelson, Heather and Troy Nelson, New Canaan. Seller: Carolyn T. Becker, New Canaan. Property: 90 Beech Road, New Canaan.

Amount: $925,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Nolan, Douglas J., Monroe. Seller: Marilyn R. Boos, Plantation, Fla. Property: 2178 Nichols Ave., Stratford. Amount: $122,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Nsiah, Emmanuel, Bridgeport.

Seller: Francis Pena, Milford. Property: 203 Woodend Road, Stratford.

Amount: $175,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Oppenheimer, Jane, Milford.

Seller: John O. Trainor, Stratford.

Property: 548A Narraganset Lane, Stratford. Amount: $147,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Ortiz, Johana, Stratford. Seller: Catherine P. Johnson, Stratford.

Property: 49 Shanley St., Stratford.

Amount: $110,000. Filed Nov. 15.

Parisi, Robert J., Fairfield. Seller: Dorothy Schaeffer, Westport.

Property: 18 Center St., Westport.

Amount: $605,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Pattison, Misti L. and Douglas Pattison, Bethel. Seller: Victor Oberhammer Jr., Spruce Pines, N.C. Property: 62 Turkey Plain Road, Bethel. Amount: $145,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Perez, Yolanda and Gumaro Perez, Bridgeport. Seller: Nicholas Caggianiello, McEwan, Tenn. Property: 155 London Terrace, Stratford.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Peslak, Kenneth, Stratford. Seller: Wanda Signavong, Stratford.

Property: 72 Feeley St., Stratford.

Amount: $127,000. Filed Nov. 7.

Pirolo, Mark P., Winston-Salem, N.C. Seller: Michael D. Vanasse, Newtown. Property: 223 Hattertown Road, Newtown. Amount: $220,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Plaskon, Lydia and Shane Hegarty, New York City. Seller: Any Blass Gabriel and Michael Gabriel, Old Greenwich. Property: Map 6165, Greenwich. Amount: $970,000.

Filed Nov. 8.

Prasens, Maria and Jan Prasens, Scarsdale, N.Y. Seller: Laura and Johan Moolenaar, Cos Cob. Property: 335 Valley Road, Cos Cob. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Nov. 8.

Presley, David M., Stratford. Seller: Denis Trescot Flynn, Austin, Texas.

Property: 40 California St., Unit C6, Stratford. Amount: $70,000. Filed Nov. 5.

Reardon, Cynthia R. and Parker W. Reardon, Sandy Hook. Seller: Community Presbyterian Church O.P.C., Bethel. Property: 7 Clearview Drive, Sandy Hook. Amount: $266,600. Filed Nov. 12.

Riordan, Colleen and Scott McDougall, West Haven. Seller: Celine F. and Lawrence Raymond, Stratford. Property: 205 Quenby Place, Stratford. Amount: $305,000.

Filed Nov. 6.

Rizzo, Chelsie C., Bethel. Seller: Tina and Michael C. Jones, Bethel.

Property: 1 Eagle Rock Hill, Bethel.

Amount: $197,000. Filed Nov. 14.

Terminelle, Thomas Sr., Richmond Hill, N.Y. Seller: Eileen and Frank Fields, Westchester, Pa. Property: 26 Ridge Road, New Fairfield.

Amount: $195,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Traditional Building and Design L.L.C., Darien. Seller: R. John Punnett, New York City. Property: Lot 4, Map 5306, Greenwich. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Nov. 5.

Ugolyn, Trevor Kent, Westport.

Seller: Kristy and Brian Gordon, Westport. Property: 2 Twin Circle Drive, Westport. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Rode, Donald D., Darien. Seller: Winifred Kuelling Lewis, York, Pa. Property: 78 West Ave., Darien.

Amount: $470,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Warner, Amy and John Warner, New Canaan. Seller: Sil-Wel 6 L.L.C., New Canaan. Property: 220 Carter St., New Canaan. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Nov. 1.

Rodriguez, Graciela and Ruben Rodriguez, Darien. Seller: CL Darien Partners L.L.C., Darien.

Property: 5 Kensett Lane, Darien.

Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Nov. 1.

West Mianus Neck L.L.C., Riverside. Seller: 73 Club Road East L.L.C., Riverside. Property: 73 Club Road, Riverside. Amount: $6 million. Filed Nov. 5.

Russell, Susan and Robert K. Russell Trust, Darien. Seller: George J. Walsh, Darien. Property: Lot 16, Map 1763, Darien. Amount: $65,587.50. Filed Nov. 4.

Williams, Dona, Cos Cob. Seller: Nancy N. and Eneas P. Freyre, Stamford. Property: 11 Mill Pond Court, Cos Cob. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Saunders, Callie and John Saunders, Stratford. Seller: Patricia M. O’Donnell, Stratford. Property: 60 Ridgefield Drive, Stratford.

Amount: $280,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Yao, James W., New Canaan.

Seller: Kari E. Bayer and Jason G. Pinkernell, New Canaan. Property: 135 Braeburn Drive, New Canaan.

Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Nov. 4.

Scarpati, Erik, Prospect. Seller: Edward J. Scarpati, Prospect. Property: 138 Adams St., Stratford.

Amount: $170,000. Filed Nov. 6.

Yasgar, Ronnie and Laurence Yasgar, Stratford. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., New York City. Property: 2030 Huntington Road, Stratford. Amount: $190,000.

Filed Nov. 4.

Schweikert, Karen, Newtown.

Seller: Barbara E. Kitson, Newtown.

Property: 57 Cedar Hill Road, Newtown. Amount: $270,000. Filed Nov. 1.

Sharma, Shikha and Amit Kumar Srivastava, Westport. Seller: Mattera Construction 9 Highpoint Road L.L.C., Westport. Property: 9 High Point Road, Westport.

Amount: $3.3 million. Filed Nov. 7.

Shea, Elizabeth Jordan and Kevin Michael Silva, Old Greenwich.

Seller: Julie Brennan, Knoxville, Tenn. Property: 5 Irvine Road, Old Greenwich. Amount: $2.8 million.

Filed Nov. 6.

Stroud, Alexis, Redding. Seller: April Y. and Kenneth J. Fritz, Redding. Property: 140 Limekiln Road, Redding. Amount: $490,000. Filed Nov. 4.

FORECLOSURES Budman, Richard R., et al. Creditor: Newtown Savings Bank, Newtown. Property: 5 Barker Drive, Newtown. Mortgage default. Filed Nov. 4.

JUDGMENTS Akers, Lorraine, Bethel. $959.46, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, E. Hartford. Property: 7 Eagle Rock Hill, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Allen, Ellen a.k.a. Ellen Beiermann, Bethel. $19,549.59, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Christopher T. Moylan, E. Hartford. Property: 51 Plumtrees Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 6.

Arcuri, Alice D., Stratford. $9,358.33, in favor of First National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, Neb., by Kie Westby, Thomastown. Property: 65 Bittersweet Lane, Stratford.

Filed Nov. 12.

Booth, Grace E., Stratford. $1,196.44, in favor of Bridgeport Hospital, New Haven, by Nair & Levin P.C., Bloomfield. Property: 36 Lindsley Place, Stratford. Filed Nov. 6.

Didio, Karen, Stratford. $655, in favor of Bridgeport Radiology Associates, Bridgeport , by Jeffrey T. Schuyler, New Britain. Property: 642 California St., Stratford. Filed Nov. 8.

Emslie, Elizabeth S., Bethel. $1,105.89, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 8 Woodlawn Drive, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Fortunato, Nicholas, Cos Cob. $7,632.87, in favor of Castiglione Funeral Home Inc., Greenwich, by Karren M. Riggio L.L.C., Stamford.

Property: 13 River Road, Unit E9, Cos Cob. Filed Nov. 4.

Gaffney, Sherry, Bethel. $738.97, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 66 Benedict Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Payne, Stacey L., et al. Creditor: Savings Bank of Danbury. Property: 61D Taylor Ave., Unit 11, Bethel.

Mortgage default. Filed Nov. 4.

Gaffney, Sherry, Bethel. $4,118.40, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 66 Benedict Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Ross, Shirley E., et al. Creditor: Beneficial Mortgage Company of Connecticut. Property: 51 Roosevelt Ave., Stratford. Mortgage default. Filed Nov. 14.

Gass, Gary, Bethel. $4,214.41, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 4 Mountain Orchard Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Smith, Caroline T. and Leonard Smith, et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., San Diego, Calif. Property: 41 Candle Hill Road, New Fairfield. Mortgage default.

Filed Nov. 4.

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Glick, Philip M., Westport. $2,357.50, in favor of Jefferson Radiology P.C., East Hartford, by Nair & Levin P.C., Bloomfield. Property: 17 W. Parish Road, Westport. Filed Nov. 6.

Gray, Joseph, Bethel. $711.20, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 80 Walnut Hill Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Lucsky, James M., Bethel. $1,507.94, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 50 Whippoorwill Road, Bethel.

Filed Nov. 4.

Hamilton, Robert T., Darien. $14,669.45, in favor of Joshua L. Jones, Wilton, by Howard E. Kantrovitz, Hamden. Property: 9 Joseph St., Darien. Filed Nov. 5.

Martin, Joseph D., Bethel. $980, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 19 Governors Lane, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Hennessy, Timothy, Bethel. $2,202, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 3 Milwaukee Ave., Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

McCue, Jessica L., New Canaan. $561.16, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Christopher T. Moylan, E. Hartford. Property: 248 W. Main St., New Canaan. Filed Nov. 7.

Iannacone, Patricia, Sandy Hook. $352.67, in favor of Northeast Radiology, Brewster, N.Y., by Jeanine M. Dumont, East Hartford. Property: 66 Narragansett Trail, Sandy Hook.

Filed Nov. 6.

McCue, Jessica L., New Canaan. $603.34, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: P.O. Box 358, New Canaan. Filed Nov. 7.

Johnson-Roofe, Doris, Stratford. $2,947.61, in favor of RAB Performance Recoveries L.L.C., Paramus, N.J., by Christopher T. Moylan, E. Hartford. Property: 90 Shanley St., Stratford. Filed Nov. 4.

McGowan, John, Bethel. $2,540, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 8 Fairchild Drive, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Jossick, David, Newtown. $7,809.39, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif.,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 2 Fox Run Lane South, Newtown. Filed Nov. 4.

Judge, Timothy P., Greenwich. $1,764.72, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Jeanine M. Dumont, East Hartford. Property: 22 Oxer Place, Greenwich. Filed Nov. 7.

Keough, Kimberly, Bethel. $1,164.80, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 30 Reservoir St., Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Langguth, Rory, New Fairfield. $499.46, in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, Danbury,

by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 10 Calumet Road, New Fairfield. Filed Nov. 4.

McGowan, John, Bethel. $2,032, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel,

by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 8 Fairchild Drive, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Mian, James, Bethel. $2,425.26, in favor of Main Street Acquisition Corp., Norcross, Ga., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford.

Property: 58 Oak Ridge Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Minogue, Katherine, Darien. $1,983.15, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 6 Ridgeview Ave., Darien. Filed Nov. 5.

Nichols, Laura a.k.a. Laura Boucher, Bethel. $3,909.97, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 25 Governors Lane, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

LaRose, Juliet W. and Roosevelt LaRose, Stratford. $1,122.48, in favor of Anesthesia Associates of New Haven P.C., New Haven, by Eric H. Opin, Milford. Property: 45 Masarik Ave., Stratford. Filed Nov. 7.

Nichols, Laura a.k.a. Laura Boucher, Bethel. $4,835.83, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 25 Governors Lane, Bethel. Filed Nov. 6.

Leamy, Anne M., Greenwich. $3,330.39, in favor of TD Bank N.A., Minneapolis, Minn., by Jeanine M. Dumont, East Hartford.

Property: 509 E. Putnam Ave., Apt. 2, Greenwich. Filed Nov. 7.

O’Connor, Andra F., Bethel. $1,265, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 64 Wolfpits Road, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

on the record O’Shaughnessy, Lillian a.k.a.

Lillian Geronimos, Greenwich. $23,660.83, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Jeanine M. Dumont, East Hartford. Property: 180 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. Filed Nov. 7.

Palmer, Dudley B. III, Redding. $2,164.21, in favor of Bridgeport Hospital, New Haven, by Nair & Levin P.C., Bloomfield. Property: 58 Sport Hill Road, Redding. Filed Nov. 12.

Papic, Eddie, Darien. $50,000, in favor of Connecticut Banking Commissioner, Hartford, by Dinah J. Bee, Hartford. Property: 58 Camp Ave., Darien. Filed Nov. 6.

Phillips, Walter T., Sandy Hook. $175.75, in favor of D’Amato Investments L.L.C., Milford, by James W. Walsh, Ansonia. Property: 14 Edgelake Drive, Sandy Hook. Filed Nov. 12.

Scails, Gregory, Bethel. $228.23, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury.

Property: 24 Saxon Road, Bethel.

Filed Nov. 13.

Schaeffer, Mary V. a.k.a. Mary V. Palmer, Bethel. $515.22, in favor of Western Connecticut Medical Group, East Syracuse, N.Y., by Christopher T. Moylan, E. Hartford. Property: 45 Bethpage Drive, Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

Stavola, Diana M., Bethel. $2,324.11, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Bethel, by Christopher T. Moylan, East Hartford. Property: 15 Hudson St., Bethel. Filed Nov. 4.

LIENS

FEDERAL TAX LIENSFILED Benoit, Robert R., 3 Continental Ave., New Fairfield. $57,352.18, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Bertier, Romene and Williams Bertier, 79 Evelyn St., Stratford. $3,065.12, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Connell, Barry, 29 Benedict Road, Bethel. $47,379.26, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Goldstein, Stephen A., 24 Compo Road North, Apt. 2, Westport. $2,540.16, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Jimenez, Lisa M., 30 Brookside Drive, Apt. 2H, Greenwich. $41,824.79, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Kennedy, Darrell L., 815 Huntington Road, Stratford. $163,235.17, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Loftus, Bonni G., 15 Lafayette Court, Apt. 6B, Greenwich. $609,357.19, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Preston, Thomas, 104B Portland Ave., Redding. $33,155.27, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 12.

Quindazzi, Catherine L., 15 Kayview Ave., Bethel. $74,512.28, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 5.

Skelly, Robert C., 12 Canterbury Road, Bridgeport. $11,969.54, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Westport Music Center L.L.C., 1460 Post Road East, Westport. $23,014.80, payroll taxes. Filed Nov. 4.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSRELEASED Bonis, Dawn M. and James E. Bonis, 45 Blueberry Hill, Redding. $71,040.45, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 5.

Bonis, Dawn M. and James E. Bonis, 45 Blueberry Hill, Redding. $94,332.22, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 5.

Connor, Rani M., P.O. Box 1316, Greenwich. $6,453.83, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 6.

Gojkovich, Mary and Paul Gojkovich, 238 Greens Farms Road, Westport. $723,852.55, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 7.

O’Farrell, Brian C., 17A Hillandale Road, Westport. $11,512.82, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 12.

Roche, Kevin M., 72 Taunton Hill Road, Newtown. $72,808.45, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 12.

Wittich, Rolf, 12 Elmwood Road, Westport. $504,127.60, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSREFILE NOTICE

MECHANIC’S LIENSRELEASED

Evans, Matthew J., 10 N. Pasture Road, Westport. $1,235.60, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

Fog, Wendy and Stephen Fog, New Canaan. Released by, Levco Tech Inc., Norwalk, by Philip N. Levene.

Property: 30 Siwanoy Lane, New Canaan. Amount: $917.78. Filed Nov. 1.

Evans, Matthew J., 10 N. Pasture Road, Westport. $16,214.60, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 4.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSWITHDRAWAL Palmer, Lynda and Kenneth Palmer, 29 Tomac Ave., Old Greenwich. $80,735.67, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 6.

Palmer, Lynda and Kenneth Palmer, 29 Tomac Ave., Old Greenwich. $57,314.37, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 6.

Palmer, Lynda and Kenneth Palmer, 29 Tomac Ave., Old Greenwich. $40,256.20, tax debt on income earned. Filed Nov. 6.

MECHANIC’S LIENSFILED Clark, Andrea M., Westport. Filed

by First Step Landscaping Inc., Norwalk, by Luis F. Castaneda. Property: 17 Hale St., Westport. Amount: $664.70. Filed Nov. 6.

Daybreak Construction L.L.C., Stratford. Filed by Chris Construction Company L.L.C., Stratford, by Christopher Fitzpatrick. Property: 1745 Cutspring Road, Stratford.

Amount: $17,770. Filed Nov. 7.

Honeydo Family L.L.C., Westport.

Filed by T.J. & Son Inc., Danbury, by Peter C. McEwan. Property: 155 to 163 Main St., Westport. Amount: $33,542.60. Filed Nov. 14.

Jordan, Robert F., Darien. Filed by Ronald J. Williams Jr. Property: 301 Middlesex Road, Darien. Amount: $32,751.70. Filed Nov. 1.

Kaye, Jeremy E., Greenwich. Filed

by Superior Cleaning Services Inc., Stamford, by Mike Vitti. Property: 7 Wynn Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $10,351.21. Filed Nov. 5.

Holly Hill L.L.C., Riverside. Released by, Edward Don & Co., Woodridge, Ill. Property: 1114 E. Putnam Ave., Riverside. Amount: $47,818.98. Filed Nov. 6.

Watch Hill Properties L.L.C., Stratford. Released by, M&O Corp., Milford, by Emilio Espejo. Property: 611 Access Road, Stratford.

Amount: $12,247.25. Filed Nov. 7.

LIS PENDENS Arbito, Jacinto, et al., Stratford.

Filed by Kyle T. Auty, Milford, for the town of Stratford. Property: 1479 Barnum Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on real estate liens.

Filed Nov. 6.

Borer, Kenneth F. Jr. (estate), et al., Bethel. Filed by Jo-Ann Sensale, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 118 Seventy Acre Road, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated October 2001. Filed Nov. 6.

Brewster, Kristi and David L. Sirois, et al., Stratford. Filed by Taryn D. Martin, Plainville, for Probuild Company L.L.C., East Hartford, 56 Viele St., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on a judgment lien against the defendant. Filed Nov. 15.

Casale, Dina Marie and Salvatore Zucaro, Darien. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, New York City. Property: 218 Old Kings Highway South, Darien. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of 588,000, dated July 2006. Filed Nov. 4.

Dragone, Emanuel and George Dragone, et al., Stratford. Filed by Kyle T. Auty, Milford, for the town of Stratford. Property: 2400 Barnum Ave., Stratford. Amount: Action: to foreclose on real estate liens.

Filed Nov. 6.

Dussol, Patrick J., et al., Greenwich. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 1465 E. Putnam Ave., Unit 622, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of 245,000, dated October 2004. Filed Nov. 4.

Dwyer, Joan C., et al., Newtown.

Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for OneWest Bank F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif. Property: 10 Fox Run Lane, Newtown. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated March 2009. Filed Nov. 13.

Grant, Jamie L. and Joel A. Grant, et al., Stratford. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 46 Alvord St., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $310,000, dated May 2006. Filed Nov. 13.

Gustafson, Theresa and Richard C., et al., Bethel. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio.

Property: 23 Payne Road, Bethel.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated February 2004.

Filed Nov. 14.

Hood, Eve and Clarke B.R. Hood, et al., New Canaan. Filed by Christopher G. Ciancanelli, Milford, for Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Association, Mineola, N.Y. Property: Parcel A, Map 1503, New Canaan.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage. Filed Nov. 4.

Keeler, Dawn N. and William R. Keeler, et al., Newtown. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, Caliber Home Loans Inc. Property: 9 Quarry Ridge Road, Newtown. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated May 2009. Filed Nov. 6.

Keepnews, Susan T. and Robert T. Keepnews, et al., New Canaan.

Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 144 Hawks Hill Road, New Canaan.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $475,000, dated July 2002. Filed Nov. 8.

Kravits, Corinne and William W. Cox, New Canaan. Filed by Andrew S. White, Hamden, for First Niagara Bank N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 785 Carter St., New Canaan. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $700,000, dated May 2008. Filed Nov. 4.

Lisowski, Michael E., et al., Bethel.

Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 3 Oven Rock Road, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $177,000, dated September 2008. Filed Nov. 4.

Mcdermott, John, et al., Stratford. Filed by Valerie A. Finney, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 88 Greenlawn Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $71,050, dated March 2003. Filed Nov. 13.

McDowell, Dennisse and Joseph McDowell, et al., Stratford. Filed

by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 175 Holmes St., Stratford.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $198,400, dated December 2004. Filed Nov. 4.

Monk, Margaret (estate), et al., Stratford. Filed by Kyle T. Auty, Milford, for the town of Stratford.

Property: 354 Garibaldi Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose on unpaid sewer liens. Filed Nov. 6.

Nixon, Raheem J., et al., Stratford.

Filed by Kevin J. Burns, West Hartford, for Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Rocky Hill. Property: 133 Jackson Ave., Stratford.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $133,450, dated August 2009. Filed Nov. 14.

Noome, Briony and Michael Noome, Bethel. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 33 Mine Hill Road, Redding.

Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $654,500, dated October 2006. Filed Nov. 4.

Rogers, Michael, et al., Stratford.

Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for OneWest Bank F.S.B., Pasadena, Calif. Property: 201A South Trail, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $356,250, dated May 2009. Filed Nov. 13.

Simoes-Ruiz, Lisa M., Bethel. Filed

by Mark Golab, New Rochelle, N.Y., for M&T Bank, Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 36 Payne Road, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $315,425, dated August 2009. Filed Nov. 6.

Taliercio, Margaret A. and Thomas P. Taliercio, et al., Stratford. Filed by Amy L. Harrison, Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 269 Wilbrook Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $352,000, dated January 2007. Filed Nov. 5.

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on the record Temple, Rita M. and William T. Temple, Stratford. Filed by Amy L. Harrison, Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, D.C. Property: 91 Woodland Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $257,600, dated August 2005. Filed Nov. 8.

Troilo, Tracey and Peter Troilo, et al., Stratford. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 263 Mary Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $207,500, dated May 2005. Filed Nov. 14.

MORTGAGES

Commercial 1114 JH L.L.C., Greenwich, by Neubert, Pepe & Montieth P.C., New Haven. Lender: The Washington Trust Co., Westerly, R.I. Property: 1114 E. Putnam Ave., Riverside.

Amount: $14 million. Filed Nov. 6.

70 Hamilton Avenue Associates L.L.C., Riverside, by Michael R. Kaufman, Danbury. Lender: Union Savings Bank, Danbury. Property: 70 Hamilton Ave., Greenwich.

Amount: $620,000. Filed Nov. 4.

Greens Farms Centre Associates, Woodbridge, by Goldman, Gruder & Woods L.L.C., Norwalk. Lender: Bankwell Bank, New Canaan.

Property: 1835 Post Road East, Westport. Amount: $2.05 million.

Filed Nov. 4.

Sound Shore Partners L.L.C., Bronx, N.Y., by Joseph Simone.

Lender: First Niagara Bank N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 1 Sound Shore Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $15 million. Filed Nov. 5.

State and Main Streets L.L.C., Norwalk, by Donnelly, McNamara & Gustafson P.C., Ridgefield. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: 2 Post Road East, Westport. Amount: $4.4 million.

Filed Nov. 7.

Traditional Building and Design L.L.C., Darien, by Donnelly, McNamara & Gustafson P.C., Ridgefield. Lender: Fairfield County Bank, Ridgefield. Property: Lot 4, Map 5306, Greenwich. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed Nov. 5.

Baskets from Heaven, 102 Southfield Ave., Stamford 06902, c/o Suzanne Michaud Diddel. Filed Nov. 8.

Catskills Rentals, 22 Elizabeth St., Norwalk 06854, c/o Konstantin Kostov. Filed Nov. 6.

Connecticut Home Staging, 32 Saw Mill Road, Newtown 06470, c/o Laura P. Morgan. Filed Nov. 4.

Connecticut Sandwich Co., 78 Pine St., New Canaan 06840, c/o Eugene Chun. Filed Nov. 5.

CP Enterprises, 1631 Main St., Stratford 06615, c/o Catherine A. Pikna. Filed Nov. 5.

Construction

Crossover Limousine, 32 Cross St., New Canaan 06840, c/o Nicole and Anthony Silvestro. Filed Nov. 6.

41 Red Rose Circle L.L.C., Branford, by Thomas V. Battaglia Jr., Stamford. Lender: Secure Capital Group L.L.C., Stratford. Property: 41 Red Rose Circle, Darien.

Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Nov. 6.

Dames in Development Consulting, 258 Park St., New Canaan 06840, c/o Judith G. Halleran. Filed Nov. 1.

NEW BUSINESSES Advantage College Consulting, 15 Shady Acres Road, Darien 06820, c/o Farrington. Filed Nov. 4.

Anne Barnard Interiors, 12 Christie Hill Road, Darien 06820, c/o Anne E.M. Barnard. Filed Nov. 5.

April Book Photography, 28 Crawford Road, Westport 06880, c/o April Book. Filed Nov. 13.

Arredondo Partners, 35 Field Point Circle, Greenwich 06830, c/o Carlos A. Arredondo. Filed Nov. 7.

EDESK, 39 Cross Highway, Westport 06880, c/o David Murray. Filed Nov. 6.

Edison Matinez Landscaping, 149 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Edison Martinez Duque. Filed Nov. 5.

Fisher Interiors, 118 Old Road, Westport 06880, c/o Fisher Interiors L.L.C. Filed Nov. 4.

Greens Farms Centre Associates, 208 Rimmon Road, Woodbridge 06525, c/o Gary Bellard.

Filed Nov. 4.

Ivy League Designs, 20 William Street West, Greenwich 06830, c/o Laura Harper. Filed Nov. 12.

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Julie Carney Group, 44 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton 06897, c/o Julie Carney. Filed Nov. 4.

Traxus Strategic Advisors, 49 Lake Ave., Suite LL3, Greenwich 06830, c/o Fred Nahm. Filed Nov. 7.

Jumbo Dog Artbooks L.L.C., 2 Baywater Drive, Darien 06820, c/o Jessica Anderson and Yael Vanhulst. Filed Nov. 5.

Zaniac Greenwich, 644 W. Putnam Ave., Suite 201, Greenwich 06830, c/o Flavia Cattan-Naslausky.

Filed Nov. 7.

Kearse Mobile Fitness d.b.a. Cross Fit Expressions, 1341 W. Broad St., Unit A, Stratford 06615, c/o John T. Wong. Filed Nov. 4.

NEW LIQUOR LICENSE

Lab Interiors, 56 Sanfordtown Road, Redding 06896, c/o Lee Boffey. Filed Nov. 4.

Lace Affaire, 27 Danbury Road, Wilton 06897, c/o Christopher Dean. Filed Nov. 5.

Murphy Family Chiropractic, 182 Grassy Plain St., Bethel 06801, c/o Michael T. Murphy. Filed Nov. 6.

Nonna’s Brick Oven Pizza of Brookfield d.b.a. Forno Brick Oven Pizzeria & Restaurant, 14 Candlewood Lake Road, Brookfield 06804, c/o Adam Schoenbert. Filed Nov. 4.

Primary Food and Drink, 44 Homestead Ave., Stamford 06902, c/o Justin Shaw and Merlin Verrier.

Filed Nov. 7.

Roughsketch Apparel, 92 Saugatuck Ave., Westport 06880, c/o Sheneta Walker. Filed Nov. 6.

Scene I Arts L.L.C., P.O. Box 510, Georgetown 06829, c/o Carol DeGiere. Filed Nov. 12.

Senior Moving, 492 Hollister St., Stratford 06614, c/o Moses Williams. Filed Nov. 5.

The Heated Bra Group, 124 Richt Ave., Apt. B204, Greenwich 06830, c/o Laura Krupinski. Filed Nov. 6.

The Interface Financial Group, 58 High Point Road, Westport 06880, c/o Donald G. Magill III. Filed Nov. 4.

The O Scarf, 129 Minute Man Road, Ridgefield 06877, c/o Rosanne LoSchiavo. Filed Nov. 5.

Three Cheers to Health, 72 Park St., Suite 107A, New Canaan 06840, c/o Debbie Aloypis. Filed Nov. 12.

Thrive Results Coaching, 15R Old Farm Road, Darien 06820, c/o Kristina Hess. Filed Nov. 5.

Aventine Hill, 300 Long Beach Blvd., Stratford 06615, c/o Aventine Hill L.L.C. Filed Nov. 5.

Berkshire Brewing Company Inc., 144 Benton St., Stratford 06615, c/o Berkshire Brewing Company Inc. Filed Nov. 7.

Bobby Q’s, 42 Main St., Westport 06880, c/o Kelly LeRose. Filed Nov. 12.

Luneau USA Inc., 25 Sylvan Road, Suite V, Westport 06880, c/o Luneau USA Inc. Filed Nov. 6.

Panda House, 88 Ryders Lane, Stratford 06614, c/o Hsiang-Yin Hsu. Filed Nov. 4.

Saugatuck Grain and Grape, 40 to 42 Railroad Place, Westport 06880, c/o Caitlin A. Johnson.

Filed Nov. 13.

PATENTS Color job reprint set up for a printing system. Patent no.

8,587,833 issued to Daniel Bray, Rochester, N.Y.; and Aaron M. Burry, Ontario, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Determining a number of objects in an IR image. Patent no.

8,587,657 issued to Yao Rong Wang, Webster, N.Y.; Zhigang Fan, Webster, N.Y.; and Lalit Keshav Mestha, Fairport, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Dual-color matching feedback control method and system for hiding infrared markings and other information. Patent no.

8,587,832 issued to Martin Edward Hoover, Rochester, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Electrophotographic apparatus. Patent no. 8,588,634 issued to Edward Graham Zwartz, Mississauga, Canada; T. Brian McAneney, Burlington, Canada; Eric Rotberg, Toronto, Canada; Richard P. N. Veregin, Mississauga, Canada; Valerie M. Farrugia, Oakville, Canada; and Jordan H. Wosnick, Toronto, Canada. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Flow-coatable PFA fuser topcoats. Patent no. 8,588,669 Qi Zhang, Milton, Canada; Yu Qi, Oakville, Canada; Gordon Sisler, St. Catharines, Canada; Carolyn Moorlag, Mississauga, Canada; and Nan-Xing Hu, Oakville,Canada.

Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Generation of digital electrostatic latent images and data communications system using rotary contacts. Patent no. 8,587,622 issued to George Cunha Cardoso, Webster, N.Y.; and Mandakini Kanungo, Penfield, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Method for securely merging multiple nodes having trusted platform modules. Patent no.

8,589,672 issued to Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, Texas; Lee H. Wilson, Austin, Texas; Scott N. Durham, Raleigh, N.C.; Sumeet Kochar, Apex, N.C.; William B. Schwartz, Apex, N.C.; and Kenneth A. Goldman, Norwalk. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Photoreceptor charging and erasing system. Patent no. 8,588,650 issued to Gerald F. Daloia, Webster, N.Y.; and Michael A. Doody, Manchester, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

Semantic parsing of objects in video. Patent no. 8,588,533 issued to Lisa Marie Brown, Pleasantville, N.Y.; Rogerio Schmidt Feris, White Plains, N.Y.; Arun Hampapur, Norwalk; and Daniel Andre Vaquero, Santa Barbara, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

BUSINESS CONNECTIONS ECONOMY

Forecast: State’s Economic Growth Trails Region, Country

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he New England Economic Partnership released its biannual economic forecast this month. The bottom line for Connecticut? Some progress, sluggish pace.

NEEP says the state’s recovery will continue to trail the region and the United States over the next four years, constrained by a weakened financial services sector, a “business climate perceived to be anti-commerce,” federal sequestration, high energy costs, and uncertainty in the defense industry.

“You’re going to see a decent three or four years for the state of Connecticut,” Edward Deak, chief economist for the partnership’s Connecticut forecast, told the Connecticut Mirror.

“I think it’s pretty good. It’s just not as effervescent as the region’s or the nation’s economic track.”

The non-profit research group believes the federal shutdown and sequester, along with higher federal and state taxes, will limit job growth to 14,400 positions this year, about the same as for 2012.

Expectations are more optimistic for 2014 and 2015, with NEEP predicting 18,700 jobs next year and 24,900 new positions the following year.

By the second quarter of 2016, NEEP expects the state will recover all jobs lost in the recession—through August 2013, Connecticut regained 62,200 of the 121,000 positions lost in the economic downturn. (The U.S. economy has recovered 78% of the 8.6 million jobs lost in the recession.)

And, by the last quarter of 2017, NEEP forecasts employment in the state will reach the March 2008 peak

of 1.713 million jobs, with a 6.4% unemployment rate (it was 8.1% in August 2013).

Those projections are much lower than NEEP’s regional and national forecasts. For instance, NEEP predicts a national unemployment rate of 5.4% at the end of 2017 and average national job growth over four years of 2.1%, compared with 1.2% in Connecticut.

Deak told the Mirror’s Keith Phaneuf that while the state added some jobs through major state taxpayer-funded investments, most post-recession job growth was “because we’re being dragged along by the national recovery.”

“We are an old state and our workforce is not growing,” he said. “We are a high tax state. We’re a high cost to do business state.” f Read more at gov.cbia.com

EVENTS

CBIA/Jackson Lewis Employment Law Conference Leave Management Lessons

HUMAN RESOURCES

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IRS Announces 2014 Pension Plan Limitations

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he Internal Revenue Service announced cost of living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for tax year 2014.

Some pension limitations such as those governing 401(k) plans and IRAs will remain unchanged because the increase in the Consumer Price Index did not meet the statutory thresholds for their adjustment.

However, other pension plan limitations will increase for 2014. Highlights include the following: f The elective deferral (contribution) limit for employees who participate in 401(k), 403(b), most 457 plans, and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan remains unchanged at $17,500. f The catch-up contribution limit for employees aged 50 and over who participate in 401(k), 403(b), most 457 plans, and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan remains unchanged at $5,500. f The limit on annual contributions to an Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA) remains unchanged at $5,500. The additional catch-up contribution limit for individuals aged 50 and over is not subject

to an annual cost-of-living adjustment and remains $1,000. f The deduction for taxpayers making contributions to a traditional IRA is phased out for singles and heads of household who are covered by a workplace retirement plan and have modified adjusted gross incomes (AGI) between $60,000 and $70,000, up from $59,000 and $69,000 in 2013. For married couples filing jointly, in which the spouse who makes the IRA contribution is covered by a workplace retirement plan, the income phase-out range is $96,000 to $116,000, up from $95,000 to $115,000. f The AGI phase-out range for taxpayers making contributions to a Roth IRA is $181,000 to $191,000 for married couples filing jointly, up from $178,000 to $188,000 in 2013. For singles and heads of household, the income phase-out range is $114,000 to $129,000, up from $112,000 to $127,000.

his conference will cover key employee leave issues, offer realistic strategies for addressing leave situations, and help you avoid management paralysis when deciding how to keep a worker healthy and at work—and your company out of court.

Topics f Is Attendance an Essential Job Function? f Reasonable Accommodation Developments f Pregnancy Leave in Connecticut f Wellness Programs, ACA, HIPAA, GINA, and Workplace Privacy Date

Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013

Time

8:30 am–3:45 pm

SCAN TO REGISTER!

Place Hartford Marriott Farmington 15 Farm Springs Rd., Farmington Cost

CBIA members, $180; nonmembers, $210

f Read more at cbia.com/hr

f Register at cbia.com/events

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Announcing the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business

The University of Bridgeport recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the full renovation of its existing School of Business building. The project will expand the University’s state-of-the-art facilities, giving full and part-time students access to our industry-experienced faculty and career-focused curriculum in a small class or blended learning setting.

When the building re-opens in 2014, it will be known as the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business, in honor of one of UB’s own. A trustee of the University since 1980, Ernie is chairman and co-owner of the Trefz Company. He has consistently given back to the UB community in terms of his time, philanthropy and commitment to entrepreneurial excellence in business. We thank him for his continued support, and look forward to what the future graduates of the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business will achieve.

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