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Tom Renner

Client Editor

trenner@dailyvoice.com

No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Voice's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Real Estate

$9 Million Home Sale Is Highest In Westchester This Year TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- A $9 million deal for a home at Greystone on Hudson, the highest figure for a Westchester County home this year, was sold in nine days at the 100-acre private enclave in Tarrytown. It is the first completed sale at Greystone, a project that will include 21 homes on 2-5 acre parcels. “The fact that the home sold after just nine days on the market is an incredible achievement and is further proof of the demand for luxury living outside of Manhattan,” said developer Andy Todd of Greystone Mansion Group. “In 2014, only 19 percent of the homes in Westchester priced at $5 milli…

by Tom Renner

08/27/2015

Sports

Norwalk River Rowing Hires New Coach For Girls Team NORWALK, Conn. – The Norwalk River Rowing Association has hired Andrew Combs as the head coach of its girls youth rowing team. Combs will oversee all aspects of the girls youth team, including training, development, recruiting, race preparation and lineups for upcoming regattas. Along with his colleague Yuri Kolomiets, the head boys coach for NRRA, he will be responsible for continuing to help the club’s youth program grow and succeed through the fall head race season, the spring sprint season and the summertime regattas. Combs is a former standout collegiate rower with 10 years of coachin…

by Tom Renner

08/27/2015

Sports

New Rochelle Braves 14U Team Finishes With 20-Win Season NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- The New Rochelle Braves 14-and-under baseball team won 20 games and finished the season by reaching the semifinals of a national tournament last weekend. The Braves went 3-1 in the national tournament, earning the No. 2 seed and losing in semifinals at Ripken Field in Aberdeen, Md. The Braves had a walk-off win in the first round of the playoffs of the 12-team event. The Braves finished 20-10-1 overall including competition in the Westchester Baseball Association and tournament play. Christopher Fulco, 18, coached the team. Justin Wasserberg will take over as the team…

by Tom Renner

08/27/2015

News

Waveny LifeCare's Adult Day Program Sets Up Camp In New Canaan NEW CANAAN, Conn. -- Waveny LifeCare Network’s Adult Day Program recently set up camp on "Main Street" at The Village. Participants enjoyed a fireside singalong, discussed U.S. national parks, rolled up their sleeves for some campground crafts, and enjoyed guitar music of nature and earth. Campers also made and enjoyed homemade s’mores. For more information on Waveny’s Adult Day Program, which is available weekdays and provides free local transportation throughout most of lower Fairfield County, please call 203.594.5331 or visit waveny.org.

by Tom Renner

08/27/2015

Events

Woman’s Club of Rutherford Hosts Food Tasting Event RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Woman's Club of Rutherford will host “A Taste of Southern Bergen County” on Thursday, Oct. 8. Guests will taste specialties of southern Bergen County restaurants in the clubhouse at 201 Fairview Ave. from 6-9 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased in advance by mail. Make checks payable to The Woman’s Club of Rutherford, 201 Fairview Ave., Rutherford 07070, and include your mailing address. The fundraiser supports the Woman’s Club scholarships fund; the NJSFWC state project, which has been designated as the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jers…

by Tom Renner

08/27/2015

Schools

Danbury's Western Connecticut State Welcomes Students Back Friday DANBURY, CONN. — Western Connecticut State University welcomes its new students with a week full of orientation activities and ceremonies, beginning Friday, Aug. 28.Western Connecticut has two Danbury campuses, at 181 White St. in midtown and at 43 Lake Ave. Extension on the city's West side. “Welcome Week” activities include orientation events geared toward helping new students adjust to college life, as well as workshops for parents and relatives. A highlight of Welcome Week is the “Entering the Gates” ceremony, set to take place at 1:30 p.m. on Friday on the Midtown campus. A symbolic a…

by Tom Renner

08/26/2015

Schools

Students Return To School Thursday In New Canaan NEW CANAAN, Conn. -- New Canaan school district students and parents are putting in final preparations for Thursday’s first day of school. The district has five buildings, including the high school, Saxe Middle School, and West, South and East Elementary. The district projects to have 4,168 students in its schools. Saxe, which hosts students in grades 5-8, has shown increasing enrollment in recent years. This year’s projection is for 1,292 students, an increase of 75 from the 2009-10 school year. Enrollment in New Canaan schools has grown since 2004, bucking the state trend. In June, the N…

by Tom Renner

08/26/2015

Business

More Than 3K Area A&P Workers Could Lose Jobs WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- More than 3,000 workers for A&P in the Hudson Valley could see their jobs eliminated by Thanksgiving, according to filings with New York Department of Labor. A report in TheProducerNews.com said the official Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notices posted Monday by the state alerted more than 13,000 A&P workers across New York state of the potential for mass layoffs. The report said nearly 13,000 employees in the New York City area could lose their jobs. Those numbers include 3,174 in the Hudson Valley, 5,191 in New York City and 4,732 in Lo…

by Tom Renner

08/26/2015

News

Watch Out, Fairfield County: "Super Lice" Spread To 28 States FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn -- A medication-resistant "super lice" has been discovered in 28 states, including Connecticut, according to a story on Syracuse.com New Jersey and New York are among the other states where the strain has been discovered. Initial reports indicated the lice strain had been reported in 25 states. Over-the-counter medications do not kill the newly discovered strain. Children ages 3 to 11 are the most likely to get head lice, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with head lice resistant to over the counter medications shoul…

by Tom Renner

08/26/2015

News

'Super Lice' Spread To 28 States, Including New York PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- A medication-resistant "super lice" has been discovered in 28 states, including New York, according to a story on Syracuse.com New Jersey and Connecticut are among the other states where the strain has been discovered. Initial reports indicated the lice strain had been reported in 25 states. Over-the-counter medications do not kill the newly-discovered strain. Children ages 3-11 are the most likely to get head lice, according to the Centers for Disease Control. People with head lice resistant to over the counter medications should consult their health care p…

by Tom Renner

08/26/2015

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