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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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Politics

No Signs, No Suggestions At Bridgeport Polling Place BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Presidential primary voters were met with no last-minute help or hassles at Black Rock School at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The same was true at the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture School, where voters breezed in without hearing from any campaign volunteers standing near the doorway. Registered Democrats and Republicans in Connecticut can cast their ballots anytime between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Anyone standing in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed to vote. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Rocky de la Fuente, who petitioned his way onto the ballot and randomly drew the top spot, fac…

by Meredith Guinness

04/26/2016

Police & Fire

Speeding Teen Apprehended With Pot, Beer, Fairfield Police Say FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A 17-year-old Fairfield boy was arrested Friday after he was found speeding on the Post Road and ran from officers, who found marijuana and beer in his car, police said. The teen was charged with interfering with an officer, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol by a minor, after police clocked his car traveling 54 mph on the Post Road east near River Street at about 9 p.m., police said. Police said the teen did not initially stop for blinking lights. After he was stopped, he refused to put down his cellphone or get out of the…

by Meredith Guinness

04/26/2016

Lifestyle

Tiptoe Through The Tulips At Bridgeport Garden BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A group of dazzling daffodils and tulips are greeting visitors at Colorblends House & Spring Garden, 893 Clinton Ave. Free and open to the public until the flowers fade in early May, the half-acre floral display was created by Colorblends, a wholesale flower bulb firm that renovated the 1903 Colonial Revival mansion on the property. For an admission fee of $3, visitors also can go inside and peruse the pop-up art gallery featuring works by Bridgeport artists and artisans. For more information, visit colorblendsspringgarden.com or call 1-888-847-8637. To see what’s i…

by Meredith Guinness

04/26/2016

Police & Fire

'Intoxicated' Mom Arrested After Child's Call, Fairfield Police Say FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A 37-year-old Fairfield woman was charged with two counts of risk of injury to and impairing the morals of a minor Sunday evening, when her 9-year-old daughter called police and said her mother had fallen and hit her head, police said. A dispatcher who received the 6:40 p.m. call had instructed the children to go outside and wait for police officers. The girls’ father, who lives in the home, was not there. Officers on the scene said the woman appeared intoxicated and unable to care for her daughters, 9 and 4, police said. They found her lying face down on the daughter’s b…

by Meredith Guinness

04/25/2016

Police & Fire

Bridgeport Man Tells Officer He Shot Up Before Fairfield Crash, Police Say FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Bridgeport man was charged in a November car accident, in which he told police he had injected himself with heroin just before the crash, police said Monday. Jose Natal, 60, of Monroe Street, was arrested on a warrant in Bridgeport and transported to Fairfield in connection with the Nov. 4 incident, police said. Police said Natal was in the left lane traveling west on the Post Road around 10:42 p.m., when he crossed the double yellow line and crashed into an eastbound car near Shoreham Village Drive. Officers at the scene thought he may have had a medical emergency and…

by Meredith Guinness

04/25/2016

Schools

Trumbull We the People Squad Competes in National Finals Today TRUMBULL Conn. — The Trumbull High School We the People team is competing Monday in the national finals on Capitol Hill, after making the Top 10 of all competing teams last weekend. The team has won the state championship five years in a row and has placed as high as eighth in the nation two years ago. “We’re very excited and working hard to bring back results to Connecticut,” said teacher Katie Boland, the team’s adviser. The Trumbull squad has won for 21 of the 29 years the state competition, which promotes civic competence and responsibility in high school seniors, has existed. This yea…

by Meredith Guinness

04/25/2016

Schools

Emotions Expert From Yale Imparts Wise Insights In Trumbull Talk FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Hundreds of parents and students packed the Trumbull High School auditorium for a lively session on emotional intelligence and how knowing how to recognize and regulate feelings can affect performance in school, work and life. “Emotion management is tough, isn’t it?” lecturer Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, asked the audience last week. “We’d all be a little healthier and happier if we were more skilled at regulating feelings.” Brackett, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject, led the group through a series of exercises to…

by Meredith Guinness

04/25/2016

News

Stratford Woman Joins Protesters Outside Trump Campaign Rally BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — While Donald Trump pledged he would “do such great things” for America at a rally in Bridgeport on Saturday, about 100 protesters and onlookers waving signs outside the event at the Klein Memorial Auditorium weren’t so sure. Sonya Huber of Stratford, a professor at Fairfield University, said she and a few students joined the crowd in large part because of the Republican presidential frontrunner’s past statements about Muslims and immigrants. “His message is very scattered and disorganized, and it’s just really to divide people,” Huber said, holding up a neon orange “No H…

by Meredith Guinness

04/23/2016

Politics

Boisterous Crowd Cheers As Trump Brings Message To Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump blew into Bridgeport on Saturday, raising cheers from fans for his promises of border control, trade agreements and jobs but drawing chants of “No hate in our state” from protesters outside. Raucous fans waving Trump signs filled the 1,400-seat Klein Memorial Auditorium for hours before the candidate arrived. They jumped to their feet and chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” as Trump took the stage to the pumped-up sounds of “Get Ready for This.” As he has many campaign speeches, Trump pledged to erect a wall at the U.S. border with Me…

by Meredith Guinness

04/23/2016

Politics

Trump Is In The House At The Klein In Bridgeport; Protesters Tossed Out BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Donald Trump rolled into Bridgeport at midday Saturday for rally before a raucous crowd at the Klein Memorial Auditorium. Before the rally began, a few protesters were removed from the crowd by security. And a few more were booted near the start of the rally with Trump calling, "Take them out" to cheers from the crowd. Trump brought a local message to his Bridgeport audience, blasting the loss of more than 60 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 1990 and the move of Fairfield-based General Electric to Massachusetts. "You should be ashamed of yourselve…

by Meredith Guinness

04/23/2016

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