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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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Schools

Yankees Great Bernie Williams Boosts The Arts In Visit To Bridgeport School BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — New York Yankees legend and Latin Grammy nominee Bernie Williams visited Tisdale School in Bridgeport Monday, jamming with students in the music room and helping to donate $8,000 to enhance arts instruction. The four-time World Series champ, a school mentor through the national Turnaround Arts program, told students he loved playing baseball, but his passion remains music. “The arts and music made me who I am today,” said the guitarist. To that end, the former centerfielder has returned to Manhattan School of Music full time and will graduate with a degree in jazz perfo…

by Meredith Guinness

03/08/2016

Police & Fire

Police: Two Arrested After Raid Of Bridgeport Drug Factory BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport man and his girlfriend were charged with operating a drug factory out of their George Street home Saturday, after a police raid recovered crack cocaine, marijuana, scales, weapons and more than $42,000 cash at the site, police said. Members of the Tactical Narcotics Team obtained a search warrant for the home after an investigation suggested a resident, Darius Gamble, 31, was trafficking cocaine, heroin and marijuana from the home, police said. Gamble was taken into custody when he arrived at the home with his infant child, police said. Police detained Gambl…

by Meredith Guinness

03/08/2016

Police & Fire

Woman Charged With DUI After Passing Out In February Crash In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Bridgeport woman was charged with driving under the influence Monday after Fairfield police received a medical report from a Feb. 22 car accident on lower Black Rock Turnpike, police said. Michelle Stanford, 44, of Monroe Street, was arrested at her home and charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and following too close, police said. She was being held on $20,000 bond. Stanford was sent to St. Vincent’s Medical Center when she was found unconscious in her mother’s Volvo after striking a pickup truck on lower Black Rock Turnpike at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 22, police…

by Meredith Guinness

03/08/2016

News

Blumenthal Gathers Stories Of Addiction On Eve Of Heroin Bill Vote BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Lance Supersad remembers exactly why he thought he could smoke marijuana with no lasting health effects. “People go, ‘Weed is not a drug, weed is not a drug, weed is not a drug,” the 20-year-old said at a recent meeting at Southwest Community Health Center in Bridgeport. “Weed is definitely a drug. That’s how it started for me.” Now 18 months into recovery from an opioid addiction, Supersad was among those invited to tell their stories at a forum with U.S Sen. Richard Blumenthal, community leaders and substance abuse and medical professionals. With the Senate poised to …

by Meredith Guinness

03/08/2016

Police & Fire

Two Fairfield Men Arrested On Drug, Assault Charges After Speeding Stop FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Fairfield driver was arrested on drug charges Saturday and his passenger was turned over to Bridgeport police after a routine traffic stop revealed numerous baggies of marijuana and drug packaging and paraphernalia in the vehicle, police said. Chris Pecora, 20, of Rakozcy Avenue, was charged with dangerous weapons in a motor vehicle, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. His passenger, Deldar Malaka, 18, of Knapps Park Drive, was turned over to Bridgeport police for a warrant there, where he was charged with second-degree assault, …

by Meredith Guinness

03/08/2016

Lifestyle

Stars Turn Out As Don Gummer Exhibit Opens At Fairfield University FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Sometimes acclaimed Connecticut artist Don Gummer knows exactly where he’s going with his drawings and sculpture — and sometimes he revels in not having a clue. “You have to start from zero and begin, just by starting,” he said of his work. “To start something without knowing what it’s going to be in the end is much more exciting, and more alive.” Art lovers can judge for themselves at “Don Gummer: The Armature of Emotion,” an exhibition of some of his stunning works that opened Thursday and will run through June 11 at Fairfield University’s Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery. …

by Meredith Guinness

03/07/2016

News

Ganim Touts Savings, Steelpointe During State Of The Bridgeport Address BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim outlined his accomplishments over his first 100 days in office Thursday, noting the city has received both the biggest federal grant and the largest private investment in its history since he was sworn in Dec. 3. He also announced the next phase of the much-anticipated Steelpointe project will include 250 waterfront housing units to begin construction this year. “I think, in many ways, we’ve just begun and we have so much more to do over the next four years,” he told about 350 people gathered for a Bridgeport Regional Business Council lun…

by Meredith Guinness

03/04/2016

Lifestyle

Westport Author Tells Haunting Tale In New Book On Teddy Roosevelt WESTPORT, Conn. — When author Eric Burns sat down to write a book about Theodore Roosevelt, he was well aware of the copious amount already written about the 26th president of the United States. “Teddy Roosevelt’s life was a mural. There was so much in it,” the Westport resident told an audience at the Westport Library recently. “But there was a story to be told that hadn’t been told yet.” That tale became “The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt,” which hit bookstore shelves in February. In his fifth book, Burns, a former correspondent for NBC News and host of …

by Meredith Guinness

03/04/2016

Neighbors

Fairfield Honors Duo Whose Quick Thinking Saved A Life FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Evan Tilley, a retired anesthesiologist, had just gotten out of the pool at the Fairfield YMCA on a recent Monday when his wife yelled for him to help. A friend of about 20 years who was working out in the weight room had collapsed and appeared to be in cardiac arrest. “She said, ‘Evan, they need a doctor!’” the Fairfield resident recalled Wednesday. “I was just in my suit and flip-flops.” But he ran to the weight room and started chest compressions, while a staffer brought an automated external defibrillator (AED) to Tilley and Sam Mouziyk, the Y’s aquatic coordinator, …

by Meredith Guinness

03/04/2016

Police & Fire

Bridgeport Man Charged With Stealing From Westport Construction Sites WESTPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport man was arrested on burglary and larceny charges after he stole large sheets of copper from two home construction sites in Westport, police said In February, Fairfield police alerted Westport detectives that Richard Jaiman, 49, was a suspect in recent construction site burglaries in their town. The two police departments worked together, linking Jaiman to a Jan. 28 burglary at a house under construction on Saugatuck Avenue in Westport, police said. The site manager reported large sheets of copper stolen from the site. Police received reports of more copper …

by Meredith Guinness

03/03/2016

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