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Meredith Guinness

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Meredith Guinness was formerly a Daily Voice reporter covering breaking news and community features in Fairfield County.

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Police & Fire

Hyde Park Woman Faces Larceny Charges In Westport WESTPORT, Conn. — A New York woman turned herself in to Westport police Monday and is facing larceny charges in connection with a clothing theft, police said. On Oct. 24, a woman stole more than $300 in clothing from a downtown merchant. A second woman, later identified as Kathy Deacon, 65, of Cardinal Road, Hyde Park, returned the stolen items to the store and received a gift card for their value, police said. Police sought a warrant for Deacon’s arrest and she was charged with sixth-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit sixth-degree larceny, police said. She was released after posting…

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Business

Shelton Company Named One Of 'Best & Brightest' In The U.S. SHELTON, Conn. — Barnum Financial Group of Shelton has been named one of the “Best and Brightest” companies to work for in the United States. The company is one of 437 selected for the honor from about 2,000 nominees by the Best and Brightest organization, part of the National Association of Business Resources. “We are extremely pleased to be recognized nationally as an employer who recognizes the need to interact with employees as partners with shared values and goals,” said Paul Blanco, CEO and founder of the Barnum Financial Group. “This national recognition and the numerous Best Places…

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Police & Fire

Police: Coffee Grab Leads To Three-Car Crash In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Fairfield driver who told police she glanced down to reach a cup of coffee Friday ended up causing a three-car crash, police said. The woman was traveling north on Rowland Road around 9:15 a.m. when she swerved to the right, colliding with an unoccupied parked car, police said. The force of the crash pushed the second car 54 feet across a lawn and into another parked car, where a service person was filing some paperwork, police said. While trying to correct her car, the first driver hit the second car again pushing it into the third car for a second time, police said. …

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Lifestyle

Former First Daughter To Speak At Sacred Heart University FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager will speak at Sacred Heart University Wednesday as part of the school’s Distinguished Leaders Series. The public is invited to the free event and signed copies of “Sisters First,” which Hager co-wrote with her twin sister Barbara Pierce Bush, will be available for sale. The talk begins at 6 p.m. in SHU’s Martire Center Atrium. The daughter of former President George W. Bush, Hager is a New York Times best-selling author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine and a correspondent for NBC News. She is the author of “Ana’s Sto…

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Police & Fire

Fairfield Police: $1,900 Laptop, Cash Stolen From Unlocked Cars FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield Police are once again urging residents to lock their cars and bring valuables inside after two more reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles in town. A Rowland Hills Drive woman who left her car unlocked overnight told police someone entered the car and stole her work laptop, which is the property of the U.S. Department of Justice, police said. She believes the theft occurred between 8 p.m. Jan. 18 and 7 a.m. Jan. 19. The HP laptop was worth $1,900, police said. A Morehouse Highway resident reported $10 taken from the center console of his can, which was parke…

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Lifestyle

Art Masterpieces Never Before Seen In U.S. Coming To Fairfield University FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield University Art Museum will soon present a major exhibition featuring international masterpieces never before seen in the United States. “The Holy Name — Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age” will be on view in the museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries from Feb. 2 through May 19 with a series of related talks and programming across campus celebrating the works in this monumental exhibition. “If I were still director of the Metropolitan, I would be jealous of Fairfield doing this show,” said Philippe de Montebello, director emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,…

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Police & Fire

Fairfield Driver Flips Car On Westport Turnpike FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Fairfield woman trying to avoid a car exiting a Westport Turnpike driveway ended up hitting a snowbank and flipping her car Friday morning, police said. The driver, a 39-year-old Westport Turnpike resident, was traveling east on Westport Turnpike around 9:30 a.m. when she tried to maneuver around a car coming out of a driveway, police said. Her car clipped a snowbank, hit a stone wall and flipped onto its roof, coming to rest in the roadway, police said. No one was injured, but the driver was given a summons for failure to grant right of way from a private driveway.

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Police & Fire

Police: Overnight Car Thieves Caught On Tape In Fairfield FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Car thieves were caught on tape stealing a car from outside a Flintlock Road home Sunday, police said. The car’s owner was able to show officers the two men who approached her 2016 BMW X3 at 4:48 a.m. on surveillance video from her home, police said. The men walked to the car and then one got in, backed out of the driveway and headed north on Flintlock with the other following in a separate car, police said. The owner’s daughter had left the car unlocked with the keys inside the night before, police said.

by Meredith Guinness

01/23/2018

Police & Fire

Labor Department: Bridgeport Woman Stole $15,000 In Benefits BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The state Department of Labor has accused a Bridgeport woman of collecting more than $15,000 in fraudulent unemployment benefits, according to the Connecticut Post. Monica Smalls, 38, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree larceny for collecting the funds between July 2012 and September 2014, the Connecticut Post said. She was released on $10,000 bond and is due in court on Jan. 25. Click here to read the full Connecticut Post story.

by Daily Voice

01/22/2018

Police & Fire

Fairfield Police: Woman Breaks Boyfriend's Car Window With Her Fist FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Waterbury woman was arrested in Fairfield Saturday night after she broke her boyfriend’s car window with her bare hands outside a Post Road bookstore, police said. The 31-year-old woman had been waiting for her boyfriend to come home to watch their one-year-old son, so she could go visit her sister, police said. When he didn’t arrive at home, she did a search of his phone and found it was at the Starbucks in the Fairfield University Bookstore, police said. When she got there she found the boyfriend had gone there to meet a female friend from college, police said. The …

by Meredith Guinness

01/22/2018

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