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Tom Renner

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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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West Nyack Artist Pulls Career Together With An Assortment Of Skills ORANGEBURG, N.Y. -- The term “multi-tasker” fails to adequately describe the skills of West Nyack's Nancy Parker. Her range of skills is unique, esoteric and even a little bit cosmic. Parker is perhaps best described as an artist, and displays much of her work at Bell-ans, the pharmaceutical plant turned artists’ colony. But she is also a Feng Shui practitioner, environmental and personal energy specialist and healer, medium and a former jewelry and lace designer. She knows that many people would charitably describe her as a few carrots shorts of a bunch. “My kids don’t want their friends t…

by Tom Renner

10/31/2016

Schools

Prestigious Award From Ardsley's Acorda Develops Digital Application WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y -- Applications recently opened for the Acorda Scientific Excellence Award, and for the first time in its four-year history, the entire process can be completed online. The award from the Ardsley-based company includes a half-hour radio interview with Lisa Wexler on WGCH-AM 1490 of Greenwich. The school also receives a plaque. More than 60 students from high schools in Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield counties have won the award since it was established. “I wanted to do a ‘brainiac’ award,’’ Wexler said. “There are a lot of scholar-athlete awards. I wanted to do som…

by Tom Renner

10/28/2016

Neighbors

Weston Historical Society Lands County Bank As First Annual Sponsor WESTON, Conn. -- The Weston Historical Society announced that Fairfield County Bank has become its first annual sponsor. “We are very grateful for the bank’s important support for our educational programs and exhibitions,” said Dallas Kersey, the historical society’s President. “We must depend on the support of our members, donors, and other businesses to maintain the Coley Homestead and to make it possible to produce interesting programs.” In the past 15 months, the historical society has had more than 3,200 visitors to the Coley Homestead property on Weston Road. Every month there is a pro…

by Tom Renner

10/27/2016

Neighbors

Lantern Tours Shine Light On Mysteries At Ridgefield's Keeler Tavern Museum RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Visitors can expect the unexpected at the Keeler Tavern Museum in RIdgefield as a troupe of actors prepares for twonights of Lantern Light Tours on Halloween weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29 and 30, from 6 to 8 p.m., visitors will be able to look in on those who passed through the Tavern's doors on Ridgefield's very own Main Street for hundreds of years. Though Lantern Light Tours have been favorites for years, this event promises to be very different. According to Suzanne Scoville, the creative force behind this year’s production, the goal is to give visitors…

by Daily Voice

10/26/2016

Neighbors

Personal Safety Plan Developed By Westport Woman Focuses On Prevention WESTPORT, Conn. -- Sally Cadoux knew the physical techniques to improve personal safety. The Westport woman felt, however, there were many essential components missing to the personal safety training equation. Earlier this year, Cadoux launched Athena Personal Safety Training. Through workshops and integrated personal safety training, Cadoux provides valuable education specifically for women of all ages. “I have taken numerous Karate, MMA based self-defense training systems to include RAD, Rape Aggression Defense Systems,’’ Cadoux said. While all are highly valued and respected discipline…

by Tom Renner

10/26/2016

Business

Greenwich Natives Find Home For New Eatery In Popular Candy Shop GREENWICH, Conn. -- Whether it’s a running shoe, romantic relationship or new business, sometimes the fit feels just right. Such was the case for Greenwich natives Krista and Mike Pietrafeso when they opened Ada’s Kitchen & Coffee earlier this year. The business 112 Riverside Ave. in Greenwich opened in February at a space that stood for 58 years as a popular variety shop and candy store. Students from nearby Eastern Middle School frequented the shop for a post-school sugar fix. “There was a sense of closeness about it,’’ Krista said. “She knew everybody by name. Everybody called Ada ‘…

by Tom Renner

10/26/2016

Real Estate

Value-Packed Easton Property Features Links To Hemingway, History EASTON, Conn. -- Homebuyers can find fascinating history lessons in many Fairfield County homes. One of the most intriguing properties is for sale at 7 Old Redding Road in Easton, where Ernest Hemingway once presumably penned parts of his novel “A Farewell to Arms.” The home on the 3.51-acre property was built in 1780 and features four bedrooms and five baths in 4,608 square feet of space. It is listed by Jill Kelly and Sarah Keenan of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty for $1.549 million. “It’s stunning,’’ Kelly said. “It has a remarkable presence.” Hemingway stayed at the house …

by Tom Renner

10/26/2016

Sports

Hopewell Junction's Theiller Earns Conference Volleyball Honor At Fairfield HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. -- For the second consecutive week, Hopewell Junction's Megan Theiller has been named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Week. She earned the honor for the conference-best third time this season after helping guide the Fairfield University volleyball team to an unbeaten week of MAAC action. Theiller, a graduate of John Jay, led the Fairfield attack in a pair of conference road wins as the Stags officially clinched a berth in the MAAC Championship for the 21st consecutive season. She averaged 5.00 kills per set on .354 hitting and aided the defensive …

by Tom Renner

10/25/2016

Schools

Carmel Technology Teacher Takes Hands-On Approach To Learning CARMEL, N.Y. -- Carmel High School’s Don Saldicco is teaching throwback to the days when students worked with their minds and hands. If knowledge is power, Saldicco believes it can be acquired in part through hands-on learning and teamwork, and not merely by reading books, watching videos and searching the internet. Perhaps his approach as the technology teacher at Carmel High stems from his first certification as an art teacher. Or it could have evolved from his own childhood, when he was more interested in the social scene than academics. It might also be rooted in his interests, which inc…

by Tom Renner

10/25/2016

Neighbors

Saddle River Day School Grad Paints 9/11 Remembrance POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Schandra Singh lived, breathed and smelled every painful second of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City. Less than two months later, an undisturbed canvas in her apartment 1½ blocks from Ground Zero called the painter to create a compelling, haunting and deeply personal representation of the day that shook America. Singh, who has a studio in Poughkeepsie, is a graduate of Saddle River Day School in Saddle River, N.J. She was born in Suffern, N.Y. In September 2001, her 8-foot x 3-foot canvas stood in her apartment upon an easel. She slept as the plane hit the first …

by Tom Renner

10/24/2016

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