Tom Renner

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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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Westport, CT
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Easton Woman Wins College Basketball Honor At Hartwick Easton Woman Wins College Basketball Honor At Hartwick
Easton Woman Wins College Basketball Honor At Hartwick EASTON, Conn. – Easton's Brittney Dumas, a sophomore at Hartwick College in New York, was named the Empire 8 Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. She is a graduate of Joel Barlow High School. Dumas won the award for the first time this season and second time of her career. She averaged 18.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per game last week as Hartwick went 2-1. Dumas began the week with 16 points and a game-high nine rebounds in a 67-65 buzzer-beating loss to Vassar on Tuesday. On Friday night, she helped bring the Hawks back from a 12-point first-half deficit to defeat St. John Fis…

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Stamford, CT
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Stamford's Chelsea Piers Connecticut Names New Baseball Director Stamford's Chelsea Piers Connecticut Names New Baseball Director
Stamford's Chelsea Piers Connecticut Names New Baseball Director STAMFORD, Conn. – Chelsea Piers Connecticut in Stamford announced Thursday that Mike Anderson will be joining its team as director of baseball. Anderson is a 2006 graduate of Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor. He is also a co-founder of both East Coast Baseball Training Facility at Navajo Field in Yorktown Heights and East Coast MAVS Baseball. Anderson was recruited by over 100 Division I baseball schools and offered scholarships from over 50 schools. After committing to East Carolina University, Anderson was a key player on the school’s team from 2006-2011, and served as both a…

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by Tom Renner
Norwalk, CT
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Norwalk Cal Ripken Plans Registration, Pizza Party Norwalk Cal Ripken Plans Registration, Pizza Party
Norwalk Cal Ripken Plans Registration, Pizza Party NORWALK, Conn. -- The Norwalk Cal Ripken Baseball League will be accepting registrations at Cranbury Chapel and Fox Run School from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, Feb. 1 and Feb. 15. There will also be a pizza party on Jan. 21 to learn more about the league. In order to participate, players must be between 4 and 12 years old as of April 30, 2014. There is a $10 discount for all registrations received by Jan. 22 and a $5 discount for those received by Feb. 15. The Norwalk Cal Ripken League stresses the teaching of baseball fundamentals, sportsmanship and teamwork. To kick off its sign-up per…

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Stamford, CT
Obituaries
Pauline Starr, 92, Former Stamford Resident Pauline Starr, 92, Former Stamford Resident
Pauline Starr, 92, Former Stamford Resident STAMFORD, Conn. -- Pauline (Watson) Starr, formerly of Stamford, died Jan. 14 in Arkansas. She was 92. Starr was born Feb. 25, 1921, to Lawrence Watson and Grace (Tharp) Watson.  She was married to Grady Starr for 70 years. She is survived by sons Donald (Linda), Larry (Suzanne), Mike (Janie) and daughter Sonia Spigner (Tom); six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a great-great grandson; special nephew Jimmie Pawlowski (Sandra); and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, at Church of Christ in Romance, Ark. Memorials may be made to Arkansas Hospi…

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Stamford, CT
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Busy Stamford Woman Finds IDEAL University Program Busy Stamford Woman Finds IDEAL University Program
Busy Stamford Woman Finds Ideal University Program STAMFORD, Conn. – Stamford’s Andrea Pagani enjoys people. And her classmates in the University of Bridgeport’s IDEAL program give her a well-rounded cross section with whom she can interact. “It’s interesting,’’ said Pagani, who started attending classes at the university’s Stamford location in January. “I’m a person who gets along with people pretty easily. What’s nice at school is you get a lot of different ideas and perspectives. It starts some really good debates in class. There are a lot of different points of view.” Pagani, 30, graduated from Westhill High School in Stamford in 2001…

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Ridgefield, CT
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Buy A Brick, Back The Prospector In Ridgefield Buy A Brick, Back The Prospector In Ridgefield
Buy A Brick, Back The Prospector In Ridgefield RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – The Prospector Theater in Ridgefield is conducting a “Brick Raiser Campaign” in advance of its opening this summer. Prospector Foundation Inc. is selling bricks to be used in the main entrance of the movie theater. A donation of $250 helps support training and job opportunities for adults with disabilities. Bricks will be sold for a limited time. They can include three lines of text, 15 characters per line. More information on the brick purchase is online. The Prospector Theater is currently under construction at 25 Prospect St. and will open in the summer. The Pro…

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Mount Vernon, NY
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Westchester CC Plans Grand Opening Of Extension Center In Mount Vernon Westchester CC Plans Grand Opening Of Extension Center In Mount Vernon
Westchester CC Plans Grand Opening Of Extension Center In Mount Vernon WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - , Westchester Community College will  hold a grand opening at its new 22,000-square-foot Extension Center at 17 S. Fifth Avenue in Mount Vernon on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 11:30 a.m. The celebration with community and business leaders will include brief remarks and tours of the new site. In 2003, the college opened its first Extension Center in Mount Vernon, which it outgrew. That facility has been closed. The new center is 6,000-square-feet larger than the former site and it will be able to serve a larger number of students starting in the spring semester. A sh…

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North Salem, NY
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South Salem Teen Morales Ranked No. 1 In Nation By Two Golf Organizations South Salem Teen Morales Ranked No. 1 In Nation By Two Golf Organizations
South Salem Teen Morales Ranked No. 1 In Nation By Two Golf Organizations SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. – South Salem golfer Nicole Morales is the top-ranked junior player in two of the nation’s most prestigious associations. Golf Week and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) ranked Morales the No. 1 junior player in the country. Morales has committed to play college golf at the University of Alabama. Last year, Morales won the AJGA’s thunderbird International Junior tournament and finished fourth at the Rolex Tournament of Champions. She was also fourth at the PING Invitational in October. She is scheduled to play this week in the ANNIKA Invitational in Reunion, Fl…

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by Tom Renner
Westport, CT
Breaking News
New York Times' Criticism Of Darien Woman's Cancer Fight Sparks Debate New York Times' Criticism Of Darien Woman's Cancer Fight Sparks Debate
New York Times' Criticism Of Darien Woman's Cancer Fight Sparks Debate DARIEN, Conn. – After a Darien woman who has taken to social media to detail her battle with breast cancer was criticized in an op-ed Monday in The New York Times, readers have lit up the Internet to weigh in on the debate between Lisa Bonchek Adams and writer Bill Keller. Adams has been fighting breast cancer for the past seven years. She runs a website that documents her battle by writing about “my experiences as a wife and young mother of three with breast cancer.” She began by posting on her Facebook page, it says on her website. “I was writing about the darker, richer emotions I was …

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Armonk, NY
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Westchester Real Estate Shows Strong Quarterly, Yearly Growth Westchester Real Estate Shows Strong Quarterly, Yearly Growth
Westchester Real Estate Shows Strong Quarterly, Yearly Growth WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Tuesday’s report from the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors painted a positive picture for the year and the fourth quarter in Westchester real estate. Sales of single family houses jumped 21.7 percent for the year in Westchester, with a 3.9 percent jump in the median sale price. For the fourth quarter, sales of single family homes in Westchester rose 17.9 percent and the median sale price rose 2.4 percent. “Everything is looking up,’’ said Diane Cummins, the HGAR President. “There’s a rosy picture and it’s only getting better.” "We're in a full-blown reco…

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