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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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Schools

Petition Supporting Fired Greeley Basketball Coach Nears 500 Signatures CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- An online petition to reinstate Dave Fernandes as the head coach of the Horace Greeley High School varsity boys basketball team in Chappaqua has reached nearly 500 signatures. In a meeting with with athletic director Pete Kuczma, Fernandes, a Dutchess resident, was told the school wanted to go in a “different direction.” Fernandes, the head custodian at the school, has coached the team since 1994 and started as a freshman coach in 1988. Fernandes’ dismissal brought a wave of criticism from players, past and present. Rob Cross, who played basketball at Greeley from 2007-10…

by Tom Renner

08/19/2016

Neighbors

Clifton Native Starts New Program To Help Disadvantaged Teens CLIFTON, N.J. -- Paul Muratore found the experience of helping at risk youth rewarding when he signed on as a volunteer at The Children’s Village of Dobbs Ferry 30 years ago. Now newly-retired and seeing the challenges late teens from the Village face , the Clifton native is launching a new program to help them integrate more quickly and more fully into society. The Children’s Village works to help society’s most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, equipped to work, and responsible members of their communities. The Village serves approximately 10,000 children an…

by Tom Renner

08/19/2016

Neighbors

Greenwich Teens Make Life-Changing Trip To Reservation In South Dakota GREENWICH, Conn. -- Six teenagers from Greenwich stepped outside their comfort zone this summer for a week to help change the lives of residents of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota. In doing so, they changed their own lives as well. The students are members of Greenwich High School’s AVID program, or Advancement Via Individual Determination. They partnered with Round Hill Community Church, Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich and a Norwalk-based company, Simply Smiles, to spend a week on the reservation. Pastor Dan Haugh of Round HIll Community Church, who served …

by Tom Renner

08/19/2016

Sports

Norwalk TL Elite Softball Team Plans Tryouts For '17 Season NORWALK, Conn. -- Tryouts for the Norwalk TL Elite 2017 softball teams will be held at Norwalk High School. Tryouts for the 12-and-under and 14-and-under teams will be held from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 27. Players should arrive 30 minutes before the tryout. The teams begin weekly conditioning and practices in September and continue throughout the Fall. Practices will increase after the holidays and winter clinics will begin. Games are played against teams throughout Connecticut, and tournaments will be played within the Tri-state area. Parents and players …

by Tom Renner

08/18/2016

Neighbors

Armonk Firefighter Recalls 60 Years Of Service To Town ARMONK, N.Y. -- During his 60 years as a volunteer member of the Armonk Fire Department, Mitch Sime fought some of the biggest blazes in the town’s history. As a long-time town resident, the emotional damage from those fires still hurt the 82-year-old firefighter. He recalls fires at a lumber yard, the town center and super-sized homes where families lost everything they owned. Sime has seen them all since joining the department in 1956, and while he enjoys his association with the unit, the pain inflicted on families and businesses from the blazes stick with him. One that's forever seared …

by Tom Renner

08/18/2016

Sports

Watch For Hackensack Olympian Thursday HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Olympic shot-putter Stephen Mozia of Hackensack will compete for the first time on Thursday. Mozia is a Hackensack High School graduate whose parents are from Nigeria, where he has dual citizenship. The athlete won the U.S. Junior Championships in 2012, but started to compete for Nigeria in 2014. He is a three-time bronze medalist in the African Championships, taking home two medals this year in the shot put and discus. Like many track and field athletes, especially throwers, Mozia’s early sports background focused on basketball and football. In a story on Throwholi…

by Tom Renner

08/17/2016

Neighbors

Westchester Exec Starts New Program To Help Disadvantaged Teens BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. -- Paul Muratore found the experience of helping at risk youth rewarding when he signed on as a volunteer at The Children’s Village of Dobbs Ferry 30 years ago. Now newly-retired and seeing the challenges late teens from the Village face , the Briarcliff Manor resident is launching a new program to help them integrate more quickly and more fully into society. The Children’s Village works to help society’s most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, equipped to work, and responsible members of their communities. The Village serves approximatel…

by Tom Renner

08/16/2016

Sports

Rutherford's Corey Wootton Reflects On NFL Career RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The signature play from Corey Wootton’s six-year NFL career almost never happened. Even the Rutherford native and former Don Bosco star does not remember why. Wootton, 29, announced his retirement last month after a career in which he played for the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. In a game on Dec. 20, 2010 Wootton sacked Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre during the second quarter of a game in Minnesota. Favre never played again in the NFL. “On that play we had to call timeout because I had to go in for (Julius) Peppers,’’ said Wootton, a rookie fro…

by Tom Renner

08/16/2016

Neighbors

Fairfield University Grad Makes 'Connections' To Help Disadvantaged Teens FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Paul Muratore found the experience of helping at-risk youth rewarding when he signed on as a volunteer at The Children’s Village of Dobbs Ferry 30 years ago. Now newly retired and seeing the challenges facing the teens from the Village, the Fairfield University grad is launching a new program to help them integrate more quickly and more fully into society. The Children’s Village works to help society’s most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, equipped to work, and responsible members of their communities. The Village serves 10,000 children …

by Tom Renner

08/16/2016

Sports

Olympics End for Mohegan Lake's Gonzalez, U.S. Field Hockey WESTCHESTER COUNTY, Conn. -- The United States field hockey team saw its Olympic run come to an end Monday with a 2-1 loss to Germany in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Rio de Janeiro. Germany took a 2-0 lead in the first half. Katie Reinprecht and Katelyn Falgowski combined to work for a goal for the U.S., with the ball getting deflected into the cage off the stick of a German player. The U.S. had a one-player advantage in the final two minutes after a penalty was called on the Germans, but the Americans could not get the tying goal. New Zealand also advanced to the semifinals. The …

by Tom Renner

08/15/2016

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