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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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Business

Italian Brothers Serving Up Delectable Dishes At New Monroe Location MONROE, Conn. — Trumbull residents Joan and Pat DeCarlo thought nothing of traveling to Norwalk to one of their favorite restaurants, Osteria Romana. “There’s not one thing on the menu that isn’t good,” Joan DeCarlo said. “It was worth it.” But the couple was delighted to hear the restaurant’s owners, brothers Graziano and Maurizio Ricci, had opened a new outpost by the same name just over the town border from them in Monroe. “Benvenuti!” Maurizio said, hugging the DeCarlos as they arrived for the grand opening of his new Main Street restaurant Tuesday. “Come in! Come in!” Open just a mon…

by Meredith Guinness

02/19/2016

Police & Fire

Tetreau: Fairfield Coming Together To Support Domestic Attack Victims FAIRFIELD, Conn. — When Fairfield First Selectman Michael Tetreau heard about the domestic attack on Mountain Laurel Road, he was concerned for the family and the officer who fatally shot the presumed attacker. “My first thought went to the police officer and how he responded,” Tetreau said Thursday, noting he also considered all of the first responders involved. “They showed tremendous professionalism because that had to be a horrific scene.” Early Tuesday, Christopher Andrews, 51, is suspected of attacking his family in their rented home, police said. When Officer Sean Fenton, a 25-year…

by Meredith Guinness

02/19/2016

Neighbors

Southport Farmers Market Offers Taste of Summer This Winter SOUTHPORT, Conn. — The gardening season may still be months away, but Fairfield residents can have their pick of fresh state-grown veggies at the Winter Farmers Market of Southport. Tucked on residential street between the Post Road and I-95, the market opens from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday at the Ukrainian American Club, said Diana Lytwyn, who organized the market with her husband, Paul. The Lytwyns started their own small farm on a private road off Mill Plain Road in the 1990s, buying a hen for their daughter to raise. They now have many and are known for the fresh eggs they bring to…

by Meredith Guinness

02/19/2016

Business

Hula Hoop Business Brings Shelton Native Full Circle SHELTON, Conn. — To say Nicole Heriot-Mikula loves her job is a bit of an understatement. “I’m happy. I look at hula hoops all day,” she said while looking around her shop, Bring the Hoopla, in the Conti Building downtown. “It’s a very happy existence to be hooping every day.” And she’s not alone. Since forming as a fitness-minded company in 2011, Bring the Hoopla has grown into a retail shop for custom, handmade hoops and a special events business with a thriving educational component and after-school instructional programs in about 85 schools. A Shelton native, Heriot-Mikula has been hoo…

by Meredith Guinness

02/18/2016

Police & Fire

GoFundMe Page Set Up To Help Fairfield Family Injured In Domestic Attack FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A friend has started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Andrews family from Fairfield who were the victims of a domestic violence incident on Tuesday. The fundraising drive was started by Gina Paoli on Wednesday after the "horrible tragedy occurred." The goal is to raise $200,000 to cover medical and other expenses. By mid-afternoon Thursday, nearly $125,000 had already been raised. "We know that people both near and far are looking to help this family that is dear to so many people, therefore we have set up a GoFundMe Account to off-set medical and other exp…

by Daily Voice

02/18/2016

Police & Fire

Two Derby Men Arrested In Shelton Home Invasion SHELTON, Conn. — Shelton police arrested two Derby men after they barged into a Geissler Drive home and demanded money from the homeowners at gunpoint in December, police said. Ricardo Llera, 21, and Ray Sosa, 41, were arrested on multiple charges stemming from the Dec. 23 incident. The male and female owners of the home reported two men entered their home and stole cash, both of the victims’ cellphones and other items, police said. The victims were not harmed during the incident. Shelton detectives investigated and executed a search warrant at Sosa’s Minerva Street home, where they recov…

by Meredith Guinness

02/18/2016

Business

LA Fitness Ready To Pump You Up In Stratford STRATFORD, Conn. — It’s been a good two years in the making, but Stratford officials marked the opening of the LA Fitness on Barnum Avenue Cutoff with a ribbon-cutting Wednesday, touting the massive facility’s many attributes. “It offers a lot of things that other gyms in town don’t,” said Economic Development Supervisor Amy Knorr, who helped shepherd the project along. The 50,000-square-foot space, formerly the Regal Cinemas Stadium 14, houses a three-lane swimming pool, cardio and aerobics space, a cycling room, racquetball courts, a sauna and whirlpool, and a regulation-size basketball …

by Meredith Guinness

02/18/2016

Police & Fire

Fairfield Police ID Officer Involved In Fatal Shooting In Domestic Attack FAIRFIELD, Conn. — The Fairfield Police Department on Wednesday identified Sean Fenton, a decorated 25-year veteran of the force, as the officer who fatally shot a town man Tuesday during a violent attack at his Mountain Laurel Road home. Fenton was the first officer on the scene and was confronted by Christopher Andrews, 51, the presumed assailant, in the home’s driveway, police said. When Andrews, who was holding a weapon, refused an order to stand down, Fenton fatally shot him, police said. Andrews’ wife and three children — ages 15, 13 and 12 — were all injured in the attack, which too…

by Meredith Guinness

02/17/2016

Police & Fire

Terrifying Details Emerge In Fairfield Domestic Attack That Left One Dead FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A 15-year-old boy managed to wrestle a baseball bat from his father’s hands as he was striking the boy, while his injured 13-year-old sister ran from their Mountain Laurel Road house, calling 911 on her cell phone in the harrowing domestic attack that took place Tuesday morning, Fairfield police said. The man’s wife lay in the master bedroom with “blunt force and stab-like wounds” to her face near their 12-year-old son, who also sustained blunt-force trauma to the head and face, Fairfield Lt. James Perez said. When a police officer arrived at the scene he was confronted …

by Meredith Guinness

02/16/2016

Lifestyle

Westonites Dish Up Restaurant Guide To Fairfield County WESTON, Conn. — Elizabeth Menke was living in Germany when she noticed restaurant-goers using a kind of passport to try new places and get discounted meals. “I thought this was a really cool idea,” said the Weston investment banker. “It gets people together over food.” So when Menke got back to the States last year, she decided to launch her own enterprise, Entrée Nous. She hopes the go-to restaurant guide for Fairfield County will give local foodies a reason to step outside their dinner comfort zones. The handsomely bound guide features 12 restaurants, and each has a two-page spread, inc…

by Meredith Guinness

02/16/2016

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