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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

Powerball Fever Strikes Stratford As Jackpot Hits Record $700 Million FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — Pay off the mortgage? Travel around the world? Buy a pony? What would you do if you won the Powerball jackpot? With no big winner Wednesday night, the pot surged to a record $700 million and beyond. And plenty of Fairfield County residents were lining up with $2 and a dream on Thursday. “I'd pay off the mortgage. ... I've got a daughter getting married next year, pay off everybody's school loans, help whoever I can live a more comfortable life,” said Bill John of Trumbull. He bought his single ticket Thursday afternoon from Nada Ghalayini at Nick’s Grocery in Brid…

by Daily Voice

01/08/2016

Business

Stratford Disney Fan Shares Tips And Tricks With Vacation Clients STRATFORD, Conn. — Lang Mastro of Stratford figures she’s got one of the happiest jobs around. Not only is the town resident a vacation planning specialist, but she specializes in all things Disney. “I love what I do,” said Mastro, staffing the Mickey Adventures booth at a recent holiday vendors fair at Eli Whitney School. “I help make dreams come true.” As those who’ve planned a trip to the Magic Kingdom or other Disney locales and cruises know, getting all the details right can seem like a second job, said the mom of two. By contrast, Mastro, who has visited Disney World so many times s…

by Meredith Guinness

01/07/2016

News

Fairfield Celebrates $3.3M In Federal Funds To Fix Penfield Pavilion FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Federal and state legislators braved frigid temperatures at Fairfield Beach on Tuesday, joining local officials in celebrating a $3.3 million federal grant to repair damage to Penfield Pavilion caused by Superstorm Sandy. “When we needed them, they came through,” First Selectman Michael Tetreau said of the town’s representatives. “We’ll have Penfield back.” The pavilion, which includes a snack stand, rental space and lockers for town residents, has been shuttered since the storm hit in fall 2012. The Representative Town Meeting in December approved a total of $7.4 milli…

by Meredith Guinness

01/06/2016

Police & Fire

Man Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries In Crash Into Tree In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Bridgeport man suffered life-threatening injuries when he drove his Honda Civic across the yellow line and slammed into a tree on Tunis Hill Cutoff on New Year’s Day, Fairfield police said. Shawn Charles, 25, of Cowles Street, was driving south at about 6 a.m. when he crossed into the northbound lane, mounted a curb and hit a tree near Hillcrest Drive, police said. Another motorist called 911, and Fairfield firefighters had to extricate Charles from his badly damaged car, police said. He was transported to St. Vincent’s Medical Center, where he was in the intensive car…

by Meredith Guinness

01/05/2016

Neighbors

'Mama P' Becomes Uber Driver Extraordinaire To Fairfield College Students FAIRFIELD, Conn. — When Della Pagano’s two 20-something daughters moved to Vermont, the Fairfield single mom found herself awfully lonely in her empty nest. So in August 2014, she started driving for Uber, figuring she would meet plenty of young people in a town that boasts both Sacred Heart and Fairfield universities. Her plan certainly worked: Pagano is now the go-to driver — and cook, seamstress and nonjudgmental sounding board — for at least 150 college students, who have fondly dubbed her “Mama P” and ask for her by name. “Staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning has never been so much…

by Meredith Guinness

01/05/2016

Police & Fire

Donations Pour In From Stratford For Bridgeport Fire Victims BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Bridgeport aid workers were inundated with generous donations to help those left homeless after a devastating New Year’s Eve fire at a Charles Street apartment-condo complex, as workers tore down the remains of the charred building just off Main Street on Monday. Leo Koutikas, owner of New Colony II Diner next to the complex, collected clothes, toys, food and other supplies all weekend. He sent eight packed box trucks full of donations to Bridgeport Rescue Mission’s Connecticut Avenue warehouse for distribution to affected families. “We knew a lot of those people. They u…

by Meredith Guinness

01/05/2016

Police & Fire

Man Charged With Violating Order In Fairfield With New Year's Texts FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Bridgeport man was arrested on New Year’s Day on charges of violating an hours-old protective order after he sent his ex-girlfriend texts just after midnight, police said. A Fairfield woman filed a protective order against Shivan Mohammed Sofi , 25, of Clinton Avenue, on Dec. 31, saying he had been arrested on domestic charges previously and she feared him, police said. She called police after Sofi sent her one text reading “Happy New Year” and another asking whether she could watch their godson, police said. She also noticed he had posted a photo of two guns with the …

by Meredith Guinness

01/05/2016

Police & Fire

Weston Woman Arrested On Narcotics Charges In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield police investigating a possible shoplifting incident at Kohl’s ended up arresting a Weston woman on narcotics charges outside the Tunxis Hill Road store Jan. 2. Officers were called to Kohl's after an employee thought a man trying to return goods at the customer service desk had stolen them from the store, police said. A brief investigation proved that was not true, but police asked the man for identification and he said it was outside in a car, police said. Officers went to the car and found 21-year-old Carolina Rivera, of Eleven O’Clock Road, who was acting s…

by Meredith Guinness

01/04/2016

Police & Fire

Stratford Firefighters Help Tackle Bridgeport Blaze That Left 100 Homeless BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — It was just after 6 a.m. New Year’s Eve when Marisol Melendez looked out the window of her Charles Street apartment and saw flames licking up the sides of the large, gray apartment complex next door. “I saw that fire and I grabbed the urn with my father’s ashes and ran out to my car with it. That’s all I cared about,” Melendez said as Bridgeport firefighters continued to fight the smoldering blaze six hours later. “That and my birds,” she said. “I’ve got six finches. They’re still in there, and I hope they’re OK. It was smoky. “But these poor people? They lost everythi…

by Meredith Guinness

12/31/2015

News

Friends, Colleagues Remember Fairfield U. Professor's Love of Life FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield University faculty and staff were in shock Thursday, mourning the loss of Gisela Gil Egui, a warm, accomplished associate professor of communication with a penchant for laughter and cigars who died early Wednesday with her husband, mother and brother in a horrific accident on I-95 in Florida. A 23-year-old wrong-way driver slammed into the car carrying Gil Egui, 48, and her husband, Jose Martin Labrador, 52, of Bridgeport, at about 1 a.m. Friends said the couple had traveled to Miami to ring in the New Year with her two brothers and their mother, who had traveled…

by Meredith Guinness

12/31/2015

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