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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

Bridgeport Staffing Firm Offers Job Help To Displaced Hurricane Victims BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport staffing and recruitment firm hopes to assist those displaced by Hurricanes Irma and Maria by helping them find temporary employment while they’re staying in Connecticut. Engage Staffing has extended “a hand up” to residents of Puerto Rico now here, encouraging them to apply for temporary work assignments. The agency hopes to create opportunities by exploring individuals’ talents and matching them with local employers. “These disasters have affected countless families and we are witnessing unprecedented economic loss,” said Engage Direct Michael Morgan. “We …

by Meredith Guinness

10/26/2017

Police & Fire

Police: Eviction Shutters Hookah Lounge That Vexed Fairfield Neighbors FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Sky Hookah Lounge, the source of repeated complaints from neighbors about noise and drug and criminal activity around the business, is no more, according to Fairfield police. The King’s Highway East lounge closed within the last four or five weeks, said Lt. Robert Kalamaras, the department’s spokesperson. “The Fairfield Police Department has seen a marked reduction in calls for service related to quality of life issues in that neighborhood since the business has closed,” Kalamaras said. He said the lounge closed as a result of a civil eviction process initiated by the la…

by Meredith Guinness

10/25/2017

Police & Fire

Fairfield Police: Newtown Man Accused Of Indecent Exposure Turns Self In FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Newtown man accused of public indecency at Jennings Beach in September turned himself in to police on Thursday. William J. Connelly, 61, was charged with one count of risk of injury to a minor, three counts of second-degree breach of peace and three counts of public indecency, police said. The arrest stems from three separate incidents on the beach. On Sept 26, the Fairfield Police Detective Bureau released photos of a man involved in the incidents. With the help of media outlets and the public, the man was identified as Connelly, who has had several similar incidents i…

by Meredith Guinness

10/25/2017

Police & Fire

Police: Bridgeport Bookkeeper Embezzled $29K From Westport Business WESTPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport bookkeeper was charged with embezzlement Tuesday, after her employers told police she stole more than $29,000 from them, police said. Kimberly Goodman, 33, of Midland Street, was charged with first-degree larceny in the case, which spanned from February through this month. On Oct. 5, Goodman’s employers came to police headquarters to report she had made fraudulent transactions in order to credit her personal accounts multiple times each month, police said. She credited more than $29,00 to her own credit and debit cards from the business account, police said. …

by Meredith Guinness

10/22/2017

Neighbors

Fairfield Couple Co-Hosts ZenRide Benefit To Honor Their Little Girl FAIRFIELD, Conn. — ZenRide Spinning Studio and Fairfield residents Cindy and Tim Shanley on Sunday will present the third annual “Biker-Barre” to help fund a cure for hydrocephalus, a brain condition the Shanleys’ little girl lives with every day. Located at 869 Post Road, ZenRide will offer a spinning and Bar Method combo class at 3 p.m. After that, participants can stay on for refreshments and a silent auction to benefit the cause. All proceeds will go to the all-volunteer Pediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation. The Shanleys support the effort to honor their daughter, Reagan — “Rae Rae” to h…

by Meredith Guinness

10/22/2017

Events

Author Of Most Popular ESPN Story To Speak At SHU In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Kate Fagan, author of “What Made Maddy Run,” the most-watched feature on ESPN digital media, will speak at Sacred Heart University on Oct. 23. Fagan, who expanded her story on Madison Holleran, a track and field athlete who committed suicide, to a full-length book, will take the stage at the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. Fagan writes for espnW, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She is a panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn” and has appeared on “Outside the Lines.” Her espnW story on Holleran got over 3 million hits. A companion video for SportsCenter has…

by Meredith Guinness

10/22/2017

Lifestyle

Fairfield's New Pocket Park Offers Environmental Oasis FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield officially opened a pretty pocket park last week, inviting residents to enjoy a tiny oasis of flowers and clover at the corner of Rockland Road and Wilson Street. Funded in large part by a $4,500 Placemaking grant from the National Association of Realtors, the park is a testament to form and function. “What we plant and what we do affects our rivers,” said Stephanie Barnes, president of the Greater Fairfield Board of Realtors. The triangle dotted by boulders from the old Penfield Pavilion features indigenous plants, such as echinacea, swamp milkweed, coreopsis …

by Meredith Guinness

10/22/2017

Police & Fire

Cops: Man Turns Hostile When Westport Barista Refuses Free Coffee Demand WESTPORT, Conn. — A Bridgeport man began cursing and refused to leave a Westport Starbucks Tuesday, after baristas would not give him free coffee. Gary Hubina, 63, of Fairfield Avenue, became hostile and ignored a request for him to leave, using the bathroom instead at the Parker-Harding Plaza eatery, witnesses told police. When he did leave, he used profanity against staff and customers, witnesses said. Hubina was charged with first-degree criminal trespass and breach of peace. He was unable to post a $500 bond and was transported to court for arraignment on Wednesday.

by Meredith Guinness

10/21/2017

Schools

Norwalk Library Hopes Kids Check Out Their First Library Cards NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk Public Library is on a mission — to make sure every one of the 844 kindergarteners in town gets a library card. To that end, the library and Norwalk Public Schools held a rally at Tracey Elementary School Friday morning with Principal Theresa Rangel and other school officials telling stories of their first library cards and handing out card applications and free copies of the book “Lola at the Library.” By Monday, every kindergartener in town should have an application. Parents can bring the completed forms to the main library at 1 Belden Avenue or the South No…

by Meredith Guinness

10/21/2017

Police & Fire

Police: Brooklyn Man Found With Pound Of Pot In Speeding Car On I-95 WESTPORT, Conn. — A Brooklyn, N.Y., man faces drug charges after he was found with more than a pound of marijuana on I-95 on Friday, Westport police said. During the early morning hours, Cpl. Kevin Smith saw a vehicle traveling southbound at more than 20 mph over the speed limit, police said. Smith stopped the car at Exit 17 and, while speaking to the driver, he detected the smell of marijuana and called for a K-9 unit, police said. During a pat-down, officers found a plastic sandwich bag containing marijuana on the passenger, Ken Alexander, 22, of Church Avenue, Brooklyn, police said. A …

by Meredith Guinness

10/20/2017

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