Cos Cob News

Will Gregory of New Canaan, 24, has launched a new campaign Web site, gregoryforcongress.com, and a Web advertisement in his bid to claim Connecticut's 4th Congressional District seat from incumbent Democrat Jim Himes of Cos Cob.

Luc Hardy, a resident of Cos Cob where he lives with his wife and two daughters, is an intrepid French-American explorer on an environmental mission.

Greenwich Democrats suffered bitter defeats on Tuesday as Lin Lavery lost to Republican incumbent first selectman Peter Tesei by a very wide margin- 65% to 35% with one district still to report.

Life is all about challenges. But me, an honorary judge in a Chili Cook-Off Challenge? Give me a break.

Alan Gussow's "Surf/Monhegan" shows how the painter, born and raised in New York City, found a sense of the city's frenetic energy in the violent surf of the Atlantic Ocean, off the Maine coast.

Captain Andy Palmer built his home in Shore Colonial style on a cul-de-sac at the end of Edgewater Drive in Old Greenwich about 1900.

Governor Jodi Rell visited Stamford and Greenwich Friday. Rell announced the state will receive $5,400,000 in bonds for rail improvements between Fairfield County and New York.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell and state Transportation Commissioner Joseph Marie stopped at the Cos Cob rail station on Friday to tout a $5.3 million project to design and build an upgrade to a power system that would allow more Metro-North Railroad trains to run.

College graduates across the country may be struggling to start their careers, but two recent ones from the University of Connecticut, who decided to become entrepreneurs with a boat-washing business, are making a name for themselves at Fairfield County marinas.

RI governor not opposed to casino referendum PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri says he wouldn't oppose a referendum on whether a bankrupt slot parlor in Lincoln should become a full-fledged casino.

Two Connecticut physicians and end-of-life advocates have filed a lawsuit seeking to clarify whether doctors can help terminally ill patients with dying.

The first Go Greener Greenwich Eco-Fair took root in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Sunday as swarms of green-minded citizens, many on the young side, strolled by an extraordinary array of show-and-tell exhibits demonstrating how to live greener both inside and outside.

A pair of posters portraying Barack Obama as Adolf Hitler -- a toothbrush moustache added to the president's visage -- stopped visitors to the Cos Cob post office in their tracks Thursday.

Join the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich at the Bush-Holley House in Cos Cob, Connecticut for a day seminar to learn strategies for discovering your family history.

Gus Bertolf Jr. and his father returned to their Cos Cob dock last week with about $200 worth of conch, their new cash crop in the continued aftermath of a lobster die-off that began in the late 1990s, they said.

For many a Greenwich gardener the summer of 2009 -- one of the coolest and wettest on record -- will be remembered for when their tomatoes suddenly died.

Jennifer Petty Mann grew up in New York City, moved to London, England, then back to Boston, and is now happily ensconced on the EightMile river in Lyme with her husband and three little ones.

Jonathan Phillips is an actor passionate about his craft. A Cos Cob native, he comes from a family of actors.

It started when Joan Neville Poulos took a curious incident her daughter Carrie had as a second grader at Cos Cob School, and turned it into "The Day Carrie's Pajamas Went to School." It's a charmer of a children's book, rich with Poulos's own illustrations, and touches of Greenwich history throughout .

Looking at figures from the state Department of Children and Families, it would appear that cases of child abuse and neglect across the state take somewhat of a summer vacation.