Greenwich Time Headlines

Out there "¦ Greenwich resident and musician/composer/director Rob Mathes will once again perform and direct at the White House for the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors airing on CBS on Tuesday at 9 p.

Greenwich Time photographers selected their favorite photos of 2009. For Keelin Daly, her photo of Sgt. Roger Petrone stood out. Daly says "Petrone is the most charming person in the Greenwich Police Department and maybe the entire town. He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, but despite the tribulations that come with the diagnosis his humor is in tact.

As the housing market began its downward spiral more than a year ago, real estate agents weren't the only professionals feeling the effects. The businesses on the fringes of the industry, from

STAMFORD -- A state autopsy report on a 7-year-old boy who was found unconscious in a Hilton hotel swimming pool on Christmas Eve has determined that the cause of death

This is the year that Katherine Young was born again. The last survivor among 12 siblings born in a rural South Carolina textile mill town, the 86-year-old lost her birth certificate years ago.

To prepare for what she expected to be a slow holiday shopping season, Shelley Steinberg ordered less stock for Graham's, her Greenwich Avenue toy store.

A well-known restaurateur wants a change in the liquor zoning regulations as he expands his restaurant business.

Paul Ardaji Sr., operator of Le Figaro Bistro de Paris on Greenwich Avenue, plans to open a new establishment, Toscana Restaurant, at 33 Lewis St.

Before the turn of the last century, the home atop the hill at 390 North St. was an anomaly.

The property became known as Electric Hill after Edward H. Johnson -- an inventor who partnered with Thomas Edison and led companies that would eventually become General Electric and Con Edison, New York City's electric utility -- installed at the estate what was believed to be the first electrical lights in Greenwich and, possibly, the world.

A soon-to-be-published study of the Greenwich real estate market found that historically, up to 10.5 percent of a home's price has reflected the opportunity to redevelop it later.

At long last, Connecticut got trains for Christmas. On Thursday, Gov. M. Jodi Rell unveiled the first two M-8 railcars for the New Haven Line at Union Station in New Haven to a gaggle of reporters,

A New York man was beaten during an early morning armed robbery outside a Byram restaurant Wednesday, police said. The 31-year-old man, who was not identified, was taken to Stamford Hospital with

DARIEN -- Darien and Stamford police arrested five suspects Tuesday in connection with Friday's home invasion on Bailey Avenue.

As the school board prepares to vote on the next education budget, some Riverside School parents and educators are worried that the school district has not equitably funded each of its 11 elementary schools.

Greenwich home sales continue to trail behind the number recorded by this time last year, but the market has improved over the past few months and real estate agents hope momentum continues into 2010.

The town health department is holding its first H1N1 vaccine clinic for the general public on Thursday, after following state guidelines to limit the shot to people in certain priority groups.

Greenwich Avenue is back. In the past two months, Greenwich's trendy shopping district welcomed two of the nation's most respected retailers in Apple and Ralph Lauren, and now the thoroughfare has

The Greenwich High School boys ice hockey team's 2008-09 season featured several edge-of-your seat victories, the most exciting of which occurred that memorable March 7 night at Terry Conners Rink.

In the opening scene of the film "Holes in My Shoes," then-93-year-old Jack Beers rips a Greenwich telephone book into four pieces with his bare hands.

Pay now or pay later? Elderly homeowners who meet certain income qualifications will have that option for the first time when they receive their property tax bills in 2010.

Four teenagers turned themselves into police on Friday on arrest warrants stemming from narcotics transaction that turned into an armed robbery at Hamilton Avenue School last month, police said.