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1 day ago | greenwichtime.com | Jessica Simms

GREENWICH — Greenwich Country Day School's 99th commencement ceremony was on Thursday and during it, 122 students officially became school alumni. Brooke Pinto, a District of Columbia councilmember and GCDS alumna, delivered the commencement address. Two graduates, Senior Class President Harrison Servedio and Student Body President Walker Laitala, also spoke during the ceremony that was held in the school's new gymnasium, dubbed the DON.

3 days ago | greenwichtime.com | Jessica Simms |Mollie Hersh

GREENWICH — At 10 years old, Jeb Brown already had a career most performers would dream of, working with the likes of Tennessee Williams, Fred Gwynne, Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley performing eight shows a week in the Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”Even then, the Greenwich-raised Brown knew how significant it was when the show transferred from Stratford’s American Shakespeare Theatre in 1974.

4 days ago | greenwichtime.com | Jessica Simms

Greenwich Eagle Scout organized cleanup of Stamford cemeteryA Greenwich Eagle Scout organized and held a cleanup for a Stamford cemetery over Memorial Day Weekend. Article continues below this adColin Reynolds, a member of Troop 5, put together the effort to fix up the Northfield Cemetery as part of his Eagle Scout project. The Northfield Cemetery became a formal cemetery in 1787 and is located in the downtown of the city.

4 days ago | greenwichtime.com | Andrew DaRosa

For Connecticut writer Shawn Dagle, his rabbit hole into learning more about a 1766 schoolhouse explosion in Hartford started with him researching his genealogy. The relative in question was Oliver Wolcott, Jr. — the United States Secretary of the Treasury following Alexander Hamilton and the governor of the state of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827. Wolcott's brother-in-law, Levi Jones, was one of the six people killed in the explosion Dagle said.

4 days ago | greenwichtime.com | Liese Klein

BRANFORD —With billions of dollars being cut from public health programs worldwide, it’s only a matter of time before life-threatening viruses like COVID and HIV present a renewed threat here in Connecticut, Public Health Commissioner Dr. Manisha Juthani said on Monday. “When things are happening in other parts of the world, eventually they make their way here,” Juthani said.