Locust Street sewer repair has minimal problems. Picture the poor young reporter, alone in an otherwise-empty newsroom, all his peers having long since been reduced in force, dreaming of a Pulitzer, and the stories he’ll discover to earn that prize. Did John Tesei really have to repeat Second Grade at Cos Cob School? What’s Franklin Bloomer doing on a $10,000 bicycle that he charged to the Land Use Commission? Sure he said he’d found it in his attic, but there are no attics in town anymore – they’re not allowed. If ….
Suddenly his fat, rumpled editor bursts from the bathroom, used these days as an office, too, and looks around, bewildered. “Where’s Dumas? Yudain? Lane, Kent? ”
“All gone, Boss. I think they’re starting their own blogs.’
“Great Caesar’s ghost! Well you’ll have to do this job, kid, what’s your name – forget it, you won’t be here next week anyway. Listen: there’s a story breaking on Locust. A catastrophe! Disaster! I hate to send a kid out, but you’re all we have. Can you handle it? You’ll have to! Grab a pad and pencil and get over there, now!”
And he goes – this story is the result. Of such stuff publishing legends are made.
For What It's Worth 
The sewer repair story is just smiley faced window dressing to keep residents from realizing that everything is spinning out of control. If you read further, you’ll discover the nanny crime spree:
http://www.greenwichtime.com/ci_12497916?source=most_viewed
drunken afternoon brawls at the train station:
http://www.greenwichtime.com/ci_12496951?source=most_viewed
and celebrities trashing police cars:
http://www.greenwichtime.com/ci_11134572
I think the Visigoths are probably gathering in Stamford for their assault.
Good luck.
You call that a “bottom” story? At least you don’t have strippers (past and/or future trophy wives?) kicking men in the head like they’re doing down in West Palm Beach: “A patron violently slapped the young woman on her buttocks and she was walking around the top of the bar and I guess out of a natural response she turned around and kicked him. ”
This important story can be researched (excellent photo of stiletto heeled artist on top of bar) at: http://www.wptv.com/content/aroundtheweb/story/Strip-club-sued-over-strippers-kick-to-mans-head/IROL6MsNBU2H67bx5JI8LA.cspx
My take is that some naive guy – perhaps a realtor with too much times on his hands – was trying to reach out, as they say, to the Stripper-American community only to have his peaceful (pieceful?) overture rejected. Could this be a cautionary tale that our new president should ponder as he tries to “reach out” to America’s adversaries?