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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.

Tom Renner's Contributions

Real Estate

Silo Ridge Field Club In Amenia Will Feature Fine Homes, Recreation AMENIA, N.Y. -- A 245-home enclave on 850 acres in Amenia that includes a private golf course, family barn, field house and wellness and recreation programming is in the final planning stages. The Silo Ridge Field Club homes will range from $1 to $10 million, and will include condominiums and townhomes along with estate lots that could have up to two acres of land. Discovery Land Company is the developer of the project. The company has developed some of the most prestigious residential golf communities in the world, according to the Silo Ridge website. “There is nothing in this area …

by Tom Renner

04/29/2015

Business

New Dance Teaching Team Coming To Arthur Murray In Greenwich GREENWICH, Conn. -- Ricardo Sopin and Iraida Volodinoa complement each other expertly as dance partners. Beginning Friday, Fairfield County will get the benefit of their expertise when they join the Arthur Murray Grande Ballroom of Greenwich team. Sopin and Voldinoa will be introduced at Friday’s open house from 5 to 10 p.m. at the studio, which is located at 6 Lewis St. Owner Christine Georgopulo, whose studio was voted the 2015 winner of the Best of the Gold Coast, believes the business’ new lead instructors will work well with the clientele. “They were looking to make a change and th…

by Tom Renner

04/29/2015

Events

Ridgefield Chamber Honoring Business Founder As Woman Of The Year RIDGEFIELD, Conn. --The Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce will host its 10th annual Women’s Forum on Tuesday, May 12, from 2 to 7 p.m. at the newly renovated historic Lounsbury House. Each year, the Chamber honors one businesswoman as its Woman of the Year. The 2015 recipient will be Mary Kate Gobleck, president and founder of Reliance Merchant Services. The credit and debit card processing corporation focuses on business relationships in Fairfield County and Westchester County, N.Y. “I'm so flattered and surprised to have been chosen for this award,'' Gobleck said. "I enjoy supporting my …

by Tom Renner

04/29/2015

Sports

Bedford-Bred Upstart Bids For Historic Kentucky Derby Win BEDFORD, N.Y. -- Only one New York-bred horse has won the Kentucky Derby. Upstart, bred in Bedford at Sunnyfield Farm, will attempt to become the third one on Saturday, May 2. Joanne Nielsen owns Sunnyside Farm and Upstart is owned by Upstart is owned by Ralph Evans of Greenwich. Jerry Nielsen of Darien, Joanne Nielsen’s son, said the family will visit Churchill Downs for the race. “I gotta tell you, every time I hear that we have a horse in the Kentucky Derby I get goose bumps,’’ Jerry Nielsen said. “My dad always said he wasn’t going to the Derby until he had a horse racing in it. Now…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Obituaries

Herbert Loistl Of Ossining, 78; Food Service Director At Marymount College OSSINING, N.Y. -- Herbert Loistl of Ossining died Wednesday, April 22, at Cedar Manor Nursing Home after battling a long illness. He was 78. Born in Hohenfurth (Lahrenbecher), Czechoslovakia on Sept. 20, 1936, he was the seventh of 11 children born to Johann Loistl and Katharina Prieschl. He immigrated to the United States in 1964. On June 11, 1965 in a civil service he married Heide Ziegler in the United States and then in a church wedding on July 10, 1965 in Esslingen, Germany. Loistl enjoyed spending time with family and friends along the Neversink River in the Catskills and Sarana…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Sports

Fairfield County AAU Basketball Team Falls In Regional Semifinals FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- The Academic Basketball Club under-16 team, a squad made up of Fairfield County area sophomores, went undefeated in pool play but lost a shorthanded nail-biter in its divisional semifinals at the North East Live AAU tournament over the weekend in Springfield, Mass. On Saturday, ABC defeated the Global Sports team from New York City, 72-61, and the X Men team from Brooklyn, 70-55. On Sunday morning, injury and illness eventually dropped ABC's game roster down to six players. At 8 a.m., they got out to a fast start, started to tire in the second half, but then r…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Events

80th Annual Dogwood Festival Blooms In Fairfield In May FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- The Greenfield Hill Congregational Church in Fairfield will celebrate spring with its 80th annual Dogwood Festival next month. The annual Dogwood Festival will take place from May 1 to May 3. The event that ushers in the season of spring, and the three-day festival will celebrate the white and pink blossoms that have become the prized symbols of the town of Fairfield. The Dogwood Festival is a great destination for visitors near and far, and a special opportunity for congregants of Greenfield Hill Congregational Church to open their doors and share the season of spring…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Sports

Norwalk Woman Paces Age Group At New Jersey Marathon NORWALK, Conn. -- Norwalk's Shannon Whipple won her age group and finished eighth among the female runners in Sunday's New Jersey Marathon in Oceanport, N.J. Another Fairfield County runner, Sara Belles of Brookfield, won the women's division. Daniel Clark of Stamford won the men's 60-64 division. Whipple ran a person best 3:18:25, an average of 7:35 per mile for the 26.2-mile race. She was eighth out of 785 women and qualified to run in next year's Boston Marathon. Whipple won her age group by more than a minute. Stamford's Katherine Munno was 14th in the same group and Darien's Meg…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Real Estate

Berkshire Hathaway NE Properties In Greenwich Plans House Tour GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Greenwich and Old Greenwich offices of Berkshire Hathaway New England Properties is hosting its biannual Spring Open House Tour on Sunday, May 3, from 1 to 4 p.m. The event will showcase more than 30 of the finest homes on the market. See www.OpenHouseGreenwich.net for details. The Greenwich office will offer a presentation on Sunday on "5 Essential Topics For Buying Or Selling In Today's Market." The presentation will include talks on: Market Trends - What’s Hot, What’s Not Reading the Tea Leaves - Making Sense of Local Sales Data Three to Get Ready -…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

Sports

Greenwich-Owned Upstart Racing For Kentucky Derby Win FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- When the horses line up Saturday, May 2, for the Kentucky Derby, racing fans in the Nutmeg State can root for one of their own: Upstart, bred in Bedford, N.Y. at Sunnyfield Farm, is owned by Greenwich's Ralph Evans. Jerry Nielsen of Darien, son of Sunnyfield Farm owner Joanne Nielsen, said the entire family will travel to Churchill Downs to root for Upstart in person. “I gotta tell you, every time I hear that we have a horse in the Kentucky Derby I get goose bumps,’’ Jerry Nielsen said. “My dad always said he wasn’t going to the Derby until he had a horse raci…

by Tom Renner

04/28/2015

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