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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
Fairfield Warde Grad Honored With Business School Scholarship Fairfield Warde Grad Honored With Business School Scholarship
Fairfield Warde Grad Honored With Business School Scholarship FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A 2017 Fairfield Warde High School grad is a little closer to his business dreams, thanks to a scholarship from the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce. Gareth Gacetta won one of two FELO Scholarship Awards from the chamber’s Fairfield Emerging Leaders Organization. He received $1,500 towards his college education. “I’m very excited about the chamber’s involvement with scholarships through FELO,” said chamber President Beverly Balaz. “I love education and I love business. We want to be part of each student’s college success!” FELO is an emerging professionals group who network…

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Neighbors
Heat Kills: Students' Signs Serve As Life-Saving Reminder In Westport Heat Kills: Students' Signs Serve As Life-Saving Reminder In Westport
Heat Kills: Students' Signs Serve As Life-Saving Reminder In Westport WESTPORT, Conn. — Westport kids and their furry friends are a little bit safer this summer due to an imaginative project by three Staples High School students. Brandon Malin, Alison Green and Jordi Katz teamed up to create heat safety signs for local parking lots, reminding drivers about the dangers of leaving children and pets in parked cars in the summer heat. With support from First Selectman Jim Marpe, the Westport Police Department, the Department of Public Works and Westport Animal Shelter Advocates (WASA), the trio planned to install signs in town-owned lots and some private lots aro…

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Lifestyle
Bookworms Unite! It's Time For The Pequot Library Summer Sale In Fairfield Bookworms Unite! It's Time For The Pequot Library Summer Sale In Fairfield
Bookworms Unite! It's Time For The Pequot Library Summer Sale In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — With an estimated 140,000 books to choose from, there will be something for every taste at the 57th annual Pequot Library Summer Book Sale, a much-anticipated event running from Friday, July 21 through Tuesday, July 25 at the Southport library. Dubbed “The Best Book Sale in New England,” the library’s sale draws both book dealers looking for rare finds and voracious readers picking up a novel or two for the beach. The sale boasts dozens of categories from biography and cookbooks to fiction and “exotica.” The sale takes place under large tents on the library’s Great Lawn…

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Lifestyle
City Lights Celebrates SAMESEX With Exhibit, Pride Parade, Variety Show City Lights Celebrates SAMESEX With Exhibit, Pride Parade, Variety Show
City Lights Celebrates Samesex With Exhibit, Pride Parade, Variety Show BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — City Lights invites the public to the 7th annual SAMESEX exhibit Thursday night, followed by the yearly Pride Parade, a drag contest and a variety show featuring members of Les Ballet Eloelle and a Liberace tribute. SAMESEX explores LGBT themes, same-sex attraction and current affairs. Artists, who need not be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to participate, have created paintings, photography, fiber art and pottery for the show, which is sponsored by Triangle Community Center and Dave Ivanko and John Brannelly. The opening night reception runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m…

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Neighbors
Governor, Ganim Applaud New Digs At Former Father Panik Site in Bridgeport Governor, Ganim Applaud New Digs At Former Father Panik Site in Bridgeport
Governor, Ganim Applaud New Digs At Former Father Panik Site in Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Gov. Dannel Malloy and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim made the scene Tuesday for the official opening celebration at Crescent Crossings, a new mixed-income complex that has risen from the site of one of the most violent housing developments in the country. The former Father Panik Village, which was demolished in the 1990s, is now home to 93 units of energy-efficient one-, two- and three bedroom units set around lush green courtyards with benches and barbecue grills. The new East Side apartments, which were fully rented by December 2016, were so desirable, there are still 200…

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Police & Fire
Police: Burglar Steals $7,000 In Tools From Fairfield Home Police: Burglar Steals $7,000 In Tools From Fairfield Home
Police: Burglar Steals $7,000 In Tools From Fairfield Home FAIRFIELD, Conn. — About $7,000 in power tools were taken from a home under construction on Black Rock Turnpike sometime last week, police said. The owners had left the home on July 9, returning on Friday to find a lock box on the rear sliding door had been pried and the key was missing, police said. Detectives are investigating the crime.

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Police & Fire
Police: Wrong-Way Crash Sends Man To Hospital In Fairfield Police: Wrong-Way Crash Sends Man To Hospital In Fairfield
Police: Wrong-Way Crash Sends Man To Hospital In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Massachusetts man found himself in the hospital Sunday after an early-morning wrong-way crash near the Post Road traffic circle. Police said the 47-year-old from Haverhill was driving westbound on the Post Road around 3:45 a.m. when he failed to veer to the right to enter the traffic circle, instead heading straight into eastbound lanes. He struck a utility pole between Circle Diner and Fairfield Wines & Spirits. He did not have his headlights on, police said. The man sustained non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Bridgeport Hospital. The case is u…

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Police & Fire
Fairfield Cops: Woman Leaves Door Open For Cat, Burglar Walks In Fairfield Cops: Woman Leaves Door Open For Cat, Burglar Walks In
Fairfield Cops: Woman Leaves Door Open For Cat, Burglar Walks In FAIRFIELD, Conn. — An Oldfield Road woman’s $600 bike disappeared Friday night when she left her garage door slightly open for her cat. Sometime during the overnight hours, a thief got into the garage, taking the turquoise Raleigh bike and apparently leaving a small blue bike in front of the neighbor’s house, police said. The thief left the woman’s helmet behind on a table.

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Police & Fire
Fairfield Police: Driver, 85, At Fault In Head-On Collision Fairfield Police: Driver, 85, At Fault In Head-On Collision
Fairfield Police: Driver, 85, At Fault In Head-On Collision FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Two drivers were sent to the hospital Saturday after a head-on collision on Stratfield Road around 12:30 p.m., police said. Terence Roach, 85, of Bennett Street, received a misdemeanor summons for making an improper left turn when he tried to turn onto Bond Street from the southbound lane and hit an oncoming car driven by a 35-year-old Bridgeport man, police said. Both men were transported to St. Vincent’s Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

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Police & Fire
Fairfield Police: Banned Woman Found In Downtown Bookstore — Again Fairfield Police: Banned Woman Found In Downtown Bookstore — Again
Fairfield Police: Banned Woman Found In Downtown Bookstore — Again FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Newtown woman who had been banned from the downtown Fairfield University Bookstore was arrested July 14 when she was found sitting in the store drinking a coffee, police said. Megan Oddis-Switzer, 51, of Huntington Road, was charged with first-degree criminal trespass. On Feb. 15, 2015, Oddis-Switzer was found on the the university’s North Benson Road campus and was warned not to return, police said. The following day, she was charged with breach of peace and first-degree criminal trespass when she was found at the Post Road bookstore creating a disturbance, police sai…

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