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Meredith Guinness

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mguinness@dailyvoice.com

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Meredith Guinness was formerly a Daily Voice reporter covering breaking news and community features in Fairfield County.

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Neighbors

Friends Christen Terry Backer Community Farm In Stratford STRATFORD, Conn. — Farmers as well as town and state officials converged on Stratford Community Farm on Wednesday, taking time out from a picture-perfect day to officially christen the site after one of its main champions — the late Long Island Soundkeeper and longtime state representative Terry Backer. “We all knew him as a man of the sea, but he ended up not only being a person of the sea, but also a farmer,” said Mayor John Harkins, who helped unveil the sign marking the 90+ community plots after Backer, who passed away last December after a long bout with brain cancer. Kaye Backer of No…

by Meredith Guinness

09/15/2016

Police & Fire

Fairfield Police Release Photos Of Credit Card Theft Suspects FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men who stole credit cards from a couple in Fairfield and used them to buy $2,000 in gift cards at Target in Trumbull in August, police said. Police said the credit cards were stolen from a woman and her husband on August 16 at Trader Joe’s on Black Rock Turnpike. A short time later, the two male suspects used the stolen cards to buy $2,000 in gift cards at a self-checkout at the Target on Main Street in Trumbull, police said. The men left the store and came back about 20 minutes later and bought an i…

by Meredith Guinness

09/14/2016

Lifestyle

'Timing' Is Everything For Faculty/Staff Theater Troupe At Fairfield U. FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield University students will see a whole new side of their professors later this month when faculty and staff take to the stage in “All in the Timing: Five Short Comedies by David Ives.” The evening of witty, romantic and existentially minded theater will be the fifth production presented by The Academy Players of Fairfield University, a group of employees who enjoy melding live theater with themes found in their ‘day jobs.’ “When I attended a production of David Ives’ ‘The Goodness of Your Heart’ on Broadway a couple of years ago, I immediately noticed themes that …

by Meredith Guinness

09/14/2016

Neighbors

The Circus Comes To Town For Special Group of Youngsters In Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Clowns, ponies, dancing dogs and trapezes artists came to town for about 700 lucky youngsters Tuesday, as St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation hosted its 14th annual Zebrini Family Circus in Bridgeport for children with cancer, chronic diseases and special needs. And the Florida-based traveling troupe will be back again Wednesday for a second round of circus shenanigans before another 600 to 700 children under a Beardsley Park big top, said Lyn McCarthy, the foundation’s executive director. “Why do we do this?” she said. “If you see the smiles on the kids’ faces when …

by Meredith Guinness

09/14/2016

Lifestyle

Halloween Lovers Carve Out Some Time To Pick Pumpkins In Shelton SHELTON, Conn. — For some, Halloween decorating means a hastily carved Jack-o-lantern, a bowl of fun-size Snickers and maybe a plastic skeleton hanging from the front porch. For others, the holiday is a month-long invitation to bring on the spooky. If you’re in the latter camp, you might want to head over to Jones Family Farms later this month for a heaping helping of the last fruits of the 2016 harvest — pumpkins. The farm goes all out, offering hayrides and a corn maze as well as a sea of orange orbs in all manner of shapes and sizes. “People probably come with a vision in mind of what …

by Meredith Guinness

09/13/2016

Police & Fire

Fairfield Woman Charged In Hit-And-Run Accident FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Fairfield woman was arrested Saturday after she hit another car on Sport Hill Road, deploying its airbags, and left the scene, police said. Police said Nancy McCullough, 54, of Ocean Reef Drive, was traveling south on Sport Hill Road around 10:30 p.m., when she struck a car headed from Easton Turnpike to Congress Street. She did not stop at the scene, police said. A witness reported McCullough’s license plate number to police and officers were waiting at her home when she returned, police said. Officers noticed an odor of alcohol on her breath and she failed field sobri…

by Meredith Guinness

09/12/2016

Police & Fire

Stratford Man Found With Heroin In Westport, Police Say WESTPORT, Conn. — A Stratford man is facing drug charges after he was stopped for allegedly driving erratically on the Sherwood Island Connector on Friday morning, police said. An officer pulled over Ronald Baldino, 29, of Short Beach Road, for driving erratically and failing to stop for red lights about 9:30 a.m., police said. He was found to have five wax baggies containing about a gram of heroin, as well as needles and spoons in the car, police said. Baldino was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. He was held on $1,000 b…

by Meredith Guinness

09/12/2016

Police & Fire

'Friendly' Escort Steals $500, Man Tells Fairfield Police FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Stratfield Road man called police early Monday to report an escort he met on Craigslist and thought he was “developing a friendship” with had stolen $500 from him, police said. The 40-year-old victim called police about 1 a.m. Monday after a woman he knows only as “Amanda” came to his home, had sex with him and then said she had to get something from her car, police said. When she didn’t return, the man went to look for her and found $500 he left on a counter missing and “Amanda” nowhere to be found, police said. The man told officers he met “Amanda,” who said she was a…

by Meredith Guinness

09/12/2016

Neighbors

Shelton Center Offers Beacon Of Hope To Grieving Children SHELTON, Conn. — When Allison Wysota’s husband, Adam, died suddenly of a heart attack in 2012, the Weston resident looked around for help for her three grieving teenagers. “Everything is isolated ‘therapy,’” Wysota said of the kinds of programs she found. “They really just needed to be with their peers — people who were going through the same things — and know they weren’t alone.” On Thursday, Wysota officially opened Adam’s House, a new grief education center housed in a bright and spacious Coram Avenue Victorian that she hopes will address the same need for other families. The site will …

by Meredith Guinness

09/12/2016

Business

Bridgeport Team Uses Artificial Intelligence To Help Small Businesses Grow BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — You don’t have to tell Chris Palmer how tough it is to succeed as a small-business owner in Connecticut. Between taxes and insurance — don’t get him started on all the paperwork — he said it’s nearly impossible for him to responsibly grow Outdoor Design Living, a high-end outdoor kitchen and landscaping firm he started in the late 1980s in Fairfield. “It’s very hard to run a small business in the state of Connecticut,” he said. “We could use technology help and find ways to simplify, so I can get more money to stick to my fingers.” Enter HelpGrowCT, a new Bridgeport-bas…

by Meredith Guinness

09/12/2016

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