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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Bridgeport, CT

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Working Parents Share Stories Of Childcare 'Crisis' In Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — About 150 parents and childcare providers implored state and local leaders to preserve a state childcare subsidy program used by thousands of working parents in Connecticut at a crowded legislative forum Wednesday night in Bridgeport. Those gathered said changes by the state in eligibility rules will leave an estimated 4,500 families — about 6,100 children — ineligible for the Care4Kids program beginning July 1. “Is this the American Dream?” said Chantel, a single mother of three who sobbed as she told her story to the group. “You’re forcing us into homelessness and p…

by Meredith Guinness

06/23/2016

Shelton, CT

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Shelton Police Chase Waterbury Man In Stolen Van Filled With Juveniles SHELTON, Conn. — Shelton police arrested a 20-year-old man who led them on a brief pursuit Wednesday in a stolen van filled with juveniles, police said. Deion Lovett, of Waterbury, was charged with first-degree larceny, engaging police in pursuit and three counts of risk of injury to a minor, police said. A 17-year-old was also charged with first-degree larceny in the case, police said. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, a Shelton detective saw Lovett driving a Chrysler van with its rear door wide open in the downtown area, police said. When the detective tried to stop the van, it sped off and a p…

by Meredith Guinness

06/23/2016

Westport, CT

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Westport Hunt Club Adopts 'Bumper,' The Stowaway Kitten WESTPORT, Conn. — A vagabond kitten rescued from under the hood of a car at the Fairfield Country Hunt Club Horse Show on Wednesday has been adopted by the hunt club staff. Aptly named Bumper, the feline stowaway caused quite a scene at the horse show Wednesday morning, taking a ride under a worker’s car hood and refusing to come out. Westport Fire personnel already on scene for fire safety stand-by spent more than two hours working to extricate the frightened feline, raising the vehicle and removing various car parts to access the area where they could hear meowing, fire officials said. …

by Meredith Guinness

06/23/2016

Westport, CT

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Trapped Kitten Steals Spotlight At Westport Horse Show WESTPORT, Conn. — A stowaway kitten caused quite a scene at the Fairfield County Hunt Club Horse Show Wednesday morning, taking a ride under a worker’s car hood and refusing to come out. Westport Fire personnel already on scene for fire safety stand-by spent more than two hours working to extricate the frightened feline, raising the vehicle and removing various car parts to access the area where they could hear meowing, fire officials said. The owner of the car, a Hunt Club employee, said she stopped at a Norwalk Dunkin' Donuts on her way to work and came out of the shop to find someone l…

by Meredith Guinness

06/22/2016

Fairfield, CT

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Fairfield Police Release Suspect's Photo In Wallet, Credit Card Theft FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman believed to have stolen a wallet from a car parked in Southport and used credit cards at several businesses in Bridgeport on June 8, police said Tuesday. The police department released two photos of the suspect, a white woman believed to be in her 20s with brown hair, who was wearing blue jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt when she was caught on surveillance video, police said. On June 8, around noon, someone entered a vehicle parked in the 300 block of Pequot Avenue in Southport, police said. A walle…

by Meredith Guinness

06/21/2016

Bridgeport, CT

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Childcare Advocates Host Forums On Care4Kids Funding 'Crisis' In Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Early childcare advocates will host a legislative forum in Bridgeport this week to oppose state childcare eligibility changes they say may mean working parents will have to quit their jobs to care for their children. An estimated 4,500 Connecticut families — 6,100 children — will be affected by the changes to the Care4Kids program, which now offers financial childcare subsidies to working parents whose income is 50 percent of the state median income or lower, said Catherine Vanicky, director of Honey Bear Learning Center in Stratford. As of July 1, she said, the cutoff …

by Meredith Guinness

06/20/2016

Bridgeport, CT

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Lawmakers Start A Buzz About Mosquito Prevention In Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The City of Bridgeport launched a public awareness campaign about mosquito prevention Monday, with local officials going door-to-door to tell residents how they can help stop the spread of Zika and West Nile viruses and other insect-borne illnesses. “Zika is a vicious, insidious virus and its handmaiden is the mosquito,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, holding up a door hanger of tips to protect residents. “These 10 steps — diez pasos — can help save lives, literally.” Blumenthal joined Mayor Joe Ganim, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, several City Council members and volunteers …

by Meredith Guinness

06/20/2016

Stratford, CT

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When Reading Gets Ruff, Therapy Dogs Are Ready In Stratford STRATFORD, Conn. — Drago may only be 10 years old, but he’s already teaching children to read. Which is even more surprising when you consider…he’s a dog. Every other week, Drago and Siena, 13, a pair of pure-bred Spinone Italianos, drop by the Stratford Public Library with their owner, Lauren Friedman, to listen as children practice their reading in a no-judgment zone. Unlike teachers and well-meaning parents, the trained therapy dogs are content to simply listen as children — some of whom are learning English, too — practice sounding out new words and trying their hand at public speaking…

by Meredith Guinness

06/19/2016

Fairfield, CT

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Fairfield Ludlowe Grads Urged To Go With The Flow, Follow Their Dreams FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Under picture-perfect skies, Fairfield Ludlowe High School valedictorian Emery Zeller Wallace told her 363 classmates on Thursday to thank their teachers, their families and especially their parents, the human alarm clocks in their lives. “I know that at least I would have been late for school every morning,” she said to laughter from the hundreds who gathered for Ludlowe’s 11th annual commencement. On a more serious note, Wallace encouraged the class of 2016 to remember what her dad always tells her when she looks to him for advice: “A wise man once said ‘nothing does no…

by Meredith Guinness

06/17/2016

Bridgeport, CT

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Black Rock Farmers Market Dishes Up Food, Fun In Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Black Rock residents have been counting the days and its finally here: The Black Rock Farmers Market will open for 2016 this Saturday. The popular and varied market, which tied Westport for Best Farmers Market in Fairfield County in a 2015 DVlicious Poll, will welcome shoppers and browsers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday through Oct. 15 with a year-end Harvest Hootenanny planned for Oct. 29. The market, at 481 Brewster Street, just two blocks south of bustling Fairfield Avenue, is a world away, said co-founders Karyn Leito and Michelle Margo. “The community comes to…

by Meredith Guinness

06/16/2016

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