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BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

CONSTRUCTION ON THE NEW $450 MILLION STAMFORD HOSPITAL is under way and on target to receive patients in two-plus years. Steel beams three stories high are in place for a quarter of the future footprint and construction on a new central utility plant is nearly complete. About 10 years in the making, the singlephase construction project is expected to finish by spring 2016. City and hospital representatives officially broke ground in May. “It’s amazing that this was something

that just started out as an idea,” said Michael Smeriglio, executive director of facilities management for Stamford Hospital. “It’s really just phenomenal to be a part of it and see construction start.” Before putting on a hardhat and yellow construction vest over his suit, Smeriglio laughed as coworkers joked he’s spent his whole life working on the project. Original plans included a multiphase construction project that could have lasted as long as 15 years, as opposed to the current three-year plan. “I think it’s going to be good for the community,” Smeriglio said, reflecting on the amount of detail going into the project plans. “They’re » Sutures, page 6

wo leaders in their respective business fields are joining forces. Westfair Communications — publisher of the Fairfield County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, HVBiz and WAG magazine — and FairfieldCountyJobs.com, part of the network of AllCountyJobs.com job boards acquired in May 2012 by Norwalk-based OperationsInc, are combining their efforts to provide unique and comprehensive information-sharing platforms. “We are thrilled to be partnered with Westfair and their leading regional business publications. The combination of their audience and content along with our online visitors, both area employers and job seekers, is a winning one we are looking forward to leveraging,” said David Lewis, founder, president and CEO of OperationsInc, as well as president and CEO of AllCountyJobs.com. Lewis will be writing a monthly column that will appear in the Business Journals. “Having covered local business news for more than 50 years, the Fairfield County Business Journal and the Westchester County Business Journal have garnered a good sense of some of the major employer and employee concerns throughout the decades,” said Dee DelBello, publisher of Westfair Communications. “Few have been as dramatic as the recent great recession-caused jobs and employment decline, which, though five years old, still has the region rattled. That’s why partnering with

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Tennis entrepreneur aces design-build game BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

ohn A. “Lex” Kessler’s ties to tennis, both business and personal, are abundantly evident in his one-man office in North Salem, N.Y. There’s the artful US Open poster that hangs in the lobby. There’s the hall of rackets — wall mountings that trace the evolution of the sporting weapon that Kessler watched Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams winningly wield at Forest Hills this month. In the owner’s inner sanctum at Indoor Courts of America, tennis ball cans are stacked in one corner near a wire basket brimming with official US Open balls. Kessler, a former chairman of the U.S. Tennis Association’s technical committee, built the ball-testing lab at the USTA’s Platinum Mile headquarters in Harrison. There’s the bright-orange collection of Wheaties boxes, the breakfast, or supplemental meal ticket, of box-cover champions like Pete Sampras, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe and Andre Agassi. Beside his desk, there’s a framed signed photo of Agassi raising his racket in victory at the French Open. An autographed racket that Agassi carried in his bag that day overlays the portrait. Speaking of Arthur Ashe: Kessler’s ICA company designed and built the USTA’s $65 million, 12-court indoor facility at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens. It’s one of several construction projects for which Kessler’s ICA company has won awards from manufacturers, builders associations and the USTA in a career that spans 30 years and the miles that separate Westchester County, where Kessler resides in Somers, from ICA headquarters in Olathe, Kansas. The plaques line a hallway wall of the ICA East office in North Salem. This month, the 51-year-old Kessler added to his standing in the sports construction industry when the USTA recognized Sportime Randall’s Island, a cityowned public tennis facility in Manhattan that is home to the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, with its Outstanding Tennis Facility award. Kessler partnered as design-builder on the $19 million project with the facility’s operator, Long Islandbased Sportime. Kessler expects that a current project of his, an indoor tennis facility at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., will win the USTA award next year. It is the Trump company’s first indoor tennis facility.

“I happen to be the only guy in the entire world who has made an adult career and living on just building these indoor tennis facilities,” said Kessler, who also is sole owner of Sports and Wellness L.L.C., which operates an indoor tennis club in Old Mystic, Conn., and a tennis and fitness club in Danbury. “We can do them anywhere in the world less expensively than a local guy.” He estimated that Indoor Courts of America has done about 500 design-build jobs, including about 50 new facilities. His list of completed projects in Westchester alone reads like a Yellow Pages directory of tennis clubs and indoor facilities available here. “New York’s the number-one indoor tennis market in the world,” he said. “Within about two hours of New York (City), there are over 300 indoor tennis facilities.” The nation’s next largest market for Kessler’s business, metropolitan Chicago, has about half that number. “I design-build,” he said. “That’s what I do. But I’m purely an entrepreneur. I’m not an architect. I’m not a designer. I’m not a construction manager.” “I’m closer and more connected to the client than an architect or engineer or contractor could ever be.” Working through the concept, design, budgeting, permitting and construction management stages of a facility renovation or new development, “I’m constantly viewing the process from the clients’ eyes,” he said. ICA’s fee is 10 percent of project cost. Growing up in suburban Kansas City, Kessler showed entrepreneurial skills at an early age. At 12, he started a neighborhood lawn and landscaping business with five employees. He got out of the business after about two years. “When I could get my license, I went into house painting,” employing “about a dozen guys.” With savings from that, he bought his first house after moving out of his parents’ home at 17. The bank, though, would not close on his loan until he turned 18. “I had less than zero interest in being in school,” he said. A day job at a bank for which he received high school credits “was my ticket out of school. It was like a work-release program.” He started but soon dropped out of a community college in Kansas. “I was bored to death,” said Kessler, whose wall of awards includes a plaque from Mensa, the international society of persons with high IQs. The entrepreneur went to work as a roving installer for the insulation busi-

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Lex Kessler at his Indoor Courts of America office in North Salem, N.Y.

ness owned by his father, who had patented an insulation system. After three years, Kessler left to start his own installation business and add products from major manufacturers. “When the beer companies in the ’80s started temperature-controlling their warehouses, we went on a run,” he said. His company, Insulation Corp. of America, also renovated “a couple hundred” AMC movie theaters. “We had these different runs when we started working for owners rather than for general contractors.” Kessler’s specialty design-build company began in the early ’80s when he met the owner of indoor soccer teams in Kansas City and on Long Island. He traveled to New York to convert a tennis building into an indoor soccer field for the New York Cosmos in the short-lived North American Soccer league. While here, Kessler was hired to renovate a tennis club on Cape Cod that needed a ceiling replaced in the wake of a fire. “That’s what began the back and forth from new York and Kansas City, those two jobs,” he said. The entrepreneur decided to market his services to other indoor tennis facilities. “Every job we did, we’d get like two more,” he recalled. “It was like mushrooms.” “There’s a magic about great insulated ceilings and tennis courts,” Kessler said. Recognizing that magic, in the early ’90s he patented a system for bouncing light off the ceilings his company insulated to cast more light for players on the face of an approaching ball. “Fast-forward 20, 30 years, we’re on our third-generation lighting system,” he said. With the advent of air conditioning in

tennis facilities, he later patented a system for ventilating the cavity above the insulated ceiling in a Butler building to eliminate the roof’s solar heat load, which lowers air conditioning costs by about 75 percent, he said. With his businesses prospering, Kessler “semi-retired” at 40 and became a stay-at-home single dad to his son and daughter. But the recession and lingering economic malaise and the bankruptcy of the two Connecticut clubs in which he was a partner sent him back to work. “I’m currently working 70 to 80 hours a week, and I will be for at least another year,” he said. “From 1990 until 2009, we had a nice run.” But design-build jobs slowed after lenders tightened credit about five years ago. “That hasn’t changed. We’re getting some nice clients, but it’s not what we were doing 20 years ago. Now you have to be gold-plated to get in the indoor tennis business.” Kessler and his partners in Sport & Wellness L.L.C. in 2009 filed for bankruptcy protection for their Connecticut clubs, Mystic Indoor Tennis and Danbury Sport and Wellness. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 with Kessler as sole owner. “After three years, this is the first year we’re in the black,” he said. “It was starting over from scratch. That was after being in business for 10 years.” The entrepreneur apparently hasn’t lost his touch since emerging from semiretirement. From 2010 to this year, membership at the clubs has grown from about 300 to 1,255, he said. “We’re a success story in Danbury because of this three-year recovery,” Kessler said.

Doom, gloom cloud outlook BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

usiness leaders see Connecticut as a bad place to do business. Some 80 percent of them have a somewhat to very negative view of Connecticut as a place to operate, according to a new survey by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association. That’s up 11 percentage points from last year, leaving the number of people who see the state in a positive light at a new low. “There’s a lot of uncertainty over whether Connecticut is a business friendly place,” said Peter M. Gioia, CBIA vice president and economist. “You wonder how optimistic and good it could be if businesses thought it was super friendly here … It’s something we could certainly improve.” At the annual CBIA Connecticut Economy conference in Rocky Hill, business leaders from around the state gathered Sept. 6 to review the year and discuss the state’s economy. There, in a partnership with BlumShapiro, an accounting, tax and business consulting firm, CBIA released its 2013 Survey of Connecticut

Businesses, showing a bleaker outlook. Only about one in 10 respondents have a very or somewhat positive opinion of the state. At a time when states like North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia and Texas are actively recruiting Connecticut companies to move, speakers at the conference stressed the state will need to do more to stay competitive. Gioia admitted Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Department of Economic and Community Development officials have made positive steps and seem to be listening to businesses concerns over energy costs and hiring. But he said more could be done stabilize government finances and to promote pro-businesses rhetoric. About 65 percent of survey respondents say they are somewhat to very pessimistic that the state will have a vibrant, growing economy in the next five years. Many say the state needs to control spending and balance the budget without additional taxes. “I think we’re on the cusp of businesses being able to grow,” Gioia said, while announcing results of the 2013 Survey of Connecticut Businesses at the

David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller and a Bridgeport resident, addresses conference.

conference. “But where they grow is the question.” Roughly 377 businesses responded to the survey, now in its 12th year. Those responding constituted a 35 percent decrease from last year. According to respondents, Connecticut’s quality of life remains one of its greatest assets, followed by its proximity to customers and major markets in New York and Boston. However this year, far fewer respondents said the state’s skilled workforce was also an asset. Whereas more than half of respondents

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usually identify skilled workers as a key asset, only 32 percent of respondents did so this year. In a closer look, Thomas Devitto, a BlumShapiro chief marketing officer, said many respondents felt the state’s workforce skills were no better or worse than others, that there was a shortage of skills specific to their business needs and that skills overall had declined. “This is a shame,” Devitto said. “This is the first time it’s fell below 50 percent … they don’t see a difference between our state and others.”

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The burdens of being busy

he long-agreed-upon state of affairs in modern life is “busy.” Some are busier and somewhere there is the superlative and lonely “busiest person on the planet.” The organ of Harvard Business School, the Harvard Business Review, tackled the word recently and reported thinking of “being busy” as either cool or laudatory “is ridiculous,” because networking and life take a back seat to … being busy. But who would dare answer the “how goes it” question with a “kickin’ back, chillin’ out” response? Even on days off we tear up the golf course, slam tennis balls, party hardy … busy, busy, busy. The last person to admit to napping every afternoon may have been Winston Churchill. The American humorist Robert Benchley, for whom a haircut and clipping tropical fish pictures from magazines — “with the idea of someday buying myself one” — constituted hard work, addressed the issue in the 1940s. Does satire die on Saturday night, like the critics say, or does a sharply barbed pen speak across the decades? Let the busy decide: “A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done,” Benchley wrote, acknowledging he was spreading himself too thin. “Hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country are wondering how I have time to do all my painting, engineering, writing and philanthropic work when, according to the newspapers, I spend all my time riding to hounds, going to fancy-dress balls disguised as Louis XIV, or spelling out ‘Greetings from California’ in formation

with 3,000 Los Angeles schoolchildren. “The secret of my incredible energy and efficiency in getting work done is a simple one. I have based it very deliberately on a well-known psychological principle and have refined it so that it is now almost too refined. I shall have

anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley

face on Monday morning, it is little wonder that I go right back to bed as soon as I have had breakfast, in order to store up health and strength for the almost superhuman expenditure of energy that is to come.” Benchley professes a half-hearted interest in writing his article, but is distracted by tropical fish. The world may be racing, deadlines may be approaching, but for Benchley, “One of the interesting things about the silver hatchet fish, I find, is that it has eyes in its wrists. I would have been sufficiently surprised just to find out that a fish had wrists, but to learn that it has eyes in them is a discovery so astounding that I am hardly able to cut out the picture.” With September, the idle times of August (if they existed) are history. Get busy. But don’t forget there’s a fish out there with eyes in its wrists that’s likely chillaxin’, wondering what all the hubbub is about.

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Navigators docks in Stamford BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

and, ho! The Navigators Group Inc., a global insurance company, has officially docked at its new corporate headquarters in Stamford. “We couldn’t be more delighted,” said Stanley A. Galanski, Navigators president and CEO. “Our preference was always to be in Connecticut, but the costs just didn’t work for us before.” But with an $11.5 million state incentive package, Galanski said he’s happy to now call Connecticut home, spending an additional $13.5 million beyond the package to set up shop. Earlier this month employees left their previous offices in Rye Brook, N.Y., to settle into their new corporate headquarters at 400 Atlantic St.

The company is the 10th selected under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s First Five and Next Five initiatives.

The group has also has moved its global data processing center to Summer Street and added employees to an existing Danbury underwriting office. Among other services, the company specializes in marine insurance products. “We’re really excited to be a part of the Stamford business community,” Galanski said, mentioning the city’s intellectual capital and public transportation. “So far it’s been everything we expected.” The company is the 10th selected under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s First Five and Next Five initiatives, designed to attract and retain large employers. In March, Malloy announced the company

would be the latest to receive a $3.5 million grant and loan of up to $8 million, interest-free and forgivable after 10 years. In exchange, the company must maintain a Connecticut headquarters and create 200 jobs within five years. The package is aimed to assist in relocation costs, facility upgrades and employee training. Jim Watson, a spokesman for the Department of Economic and Community Development, said so far the company is on schedule in terms of moving and meeting its job targets. The roughly 100 employees it’s moved into the state so far count toward the 200 jobs goals. Though not all employees may live in or plan to move to, Connecticut, they’ll still pay state income taxes. “We’ve been pleased with their progress on all fronts,” Watson said. The company’s presence will help replenish some of the jobs lost in the insurance and financial services sector during the recession. “It’s another indication of the strength in this sector,” he said. “To have another headquarters in the state is a positive element.” A commercial property and casualty insurance company, Navigators first began in 1974 as a family business in Manhattan, spun from Lloyd’s of London. For nearly 30 years the company maintained its headquarters in the city, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Galanski said he felt it would be safer to move farther north into Rye Brook as the company embarked on a new period of growth. From 2001 to 2013 the company workforce nearly tripled to roughly 580 global employees. When the company originally moved out of the city however, Galanski said he had considered moving to Connecticut. He also lives in Ridgefield. But in the end, he said it seemed too expensive. As the company’s lease came to a close at the Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook however, Galanski said the group had entered into negotiations with the Connecticut DECD. “The insurance commissioner, governor and head of the DECD all made it evident they cared about us and valued us as a growing company,” Galanski said. “That went a long way. It feels good to be wanted.”

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FairfieldCountyJobs.com is very important to us. Its dynamic outreach and special programs for job seekers and those in need of employees are exactly part of what the journals are all about.” Lewis started OperationsInc 12 years ago and has grown it to become the largest human resources outsourcing and consulting firm in Connecticut with more than 700 clients. AllCountyJobs.com was started in 1999 and now includes 21 job boards along the Boston-Washington, D.C. corridor. Combined, Lewis said, “they reach over 120,000 monthly jobseekers along the East Coast.” The AllCountyJobs.com network of job boards are “powered by the leading job board software developer Madgex Ltd.,” Lewis said, which allows for “cutting-edge functionality for employers as well as job seekers.” In signing up with the job board, job seekers can: • Search and apply for the latest jobs from top employers.

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going to benefit immensely with the efficiencies of the building.” Once completed, the more than 640,000-square-foot building will stand adjacent to existing hospital buildings, some built as early as the turn of the 20th century. The 11-story, mostly glass building will double the size and number of rooms in the emergency department and provide all patients with private rooms and bathrooms. Hundreds of patients, employees and community members weighed in on the design, which follows nationally embraced patient-centered criteria. The new building will displace old parking spaces, which are now relocated along the perimeter of the hospital, said Paul Nylund, a Skanska construction project executive based in Parsippany, N.J. About 45 single-family houses were purchased and demolished to expand the campus by 50 percent, he said. Skanska is a global project development and construction group headquartered in Sweden “We’ve counted so many car spaces sometimes we see parking spaces as we go

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to sleep,” Nylund said with a pause. “One, two …” So far, Skanska workers have finished grading the hospital site for construction and are finishing efforts to realign roads and reroute utilities from an existing boiler house to the new central utility plant. Construction on the power plant began August 2012 and is expected to finish this winter. After steam and water pipes are rerouted this fall, steelwork will begin on the building’s remaining footprint. About 140 people are currently working on the site. “I tell ya, there’s a lot of activity on this site,” Nylund said. “What’s paramount is that we keep the hospital going during construction without a hitch. So far we have.” Given the age of the buildings, Stanley Hunter, project director of the facility’s master plan, said the new designs were more responsive to today’s health care industry. Larger surgical suites will accommodate the latest technology; the intensive care unit will expand; and all Heart and Vascular Institute services will be in a centralized location, as will be mother-child services. “There are a lot of things that are going to change how providers give care,” Hunter said. “It’s really responding to the needs of the city of Stamford and providing quality care to the community.”

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Excavation begins on the eastern side of the future Stamford Hospital. Officials anticipate using as much concrete as it would take to fill an entire football field 13 feet deep.

A contractor works inside the central utility plant’s tunnel running steam on the left and chilled water on the right to the hospital. Most of the plant’s systems work underground as far as 40 feet.

A greener Bridgeport BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

ake a look at Mayor Bill Finch’s vision for Bridgeport and you might think you’ve put on a pair of green-colored glasses. Since launching the BGreen2020 initiative, the mayor has introduced several new sustainability practices. And while change does take time, at least one of the programs is already showing a dramatic improvement: recycling. In just two years, recycling tonnage has increased 67 percent. “We’re changing the mindset of a wasteful economy and making it more efficient and profitable,” Finch said. “Our goal is to have everyone recycle.” In the last year, ending in August, Bridgeport residents recycled 5,336 tons of material, which is the equivalent of nearly 890 P.T. Barnum elephants. To contrast, in 2011 residents recycled about 3,203 tons, which is roughly 356 fewer elephants. In a poorer community, where recycling rates are typically lower, the high-

Blackout buster By Bill Fallon

er rates are welcomed news, Finch said. More recycling not only means a greener community, but it also means fewer trash collection fees. So far the city has saved nearly $400,000 in avoidance

“We have to work a little harder to get our numbers up. But I look at it as an opportunity to show wealthier towns that if we can do it, they should be doing a lot better than us.” – Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch

fees and new revenue through regional incentive programs. » » Bridgeport, page 18

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Call it the Sandy effect. Once-unthinkable upheavals with bottom line-busting potential have become reality. Almost as unthinkable is that a company might respond to power-killing emergencies in about the time it takes Usain Bolt to run a 100-meter dash. The company is Kinsley Power Systems, headquartered in Hartford County’s East Granby, with offices in Westchester County, N.Y., where it maintains a presence in Bedford Hills. It also runs offices in three separate upstate New York cities: Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse. Kinsley provides electricity in the tristate region via commercial Kohler brand generators. In the wake of superstorm Sandy and the infamous October 2011 snowstorm — each of which kyboshed power for days (even weeks) — the need for alternative power has been laid bare. Restaurants and markets lost food; gas stations could not pump fuel. “From new equipment, to pre-planned maintenance, to emergency service — even an emergency-deployed backup

generator for your business — we will do everything to help ensure your uptime,” Kinsley reported. “In as little as 10 seconds from a power outage, your business could be up and running with full power, as if the power never went out.” Kinsley has distributed and serviced Kohler generators since 1966. In that time, the company by its count has served thousands of businesses, governmental agencies and homeowners — assisting with sizing, selling and supporting new Kohler generator systems. Beyond Kohler, company technicians service any backup generator system “from a single location to multi-location major retail, property management companies, financial/insurance companies, health care facilities, emergency/911 centers, water/wastewater management districts, telecommunication towers and data centers, plus other critical users. “Further, we ensure that your generator — regardless of brand — is kept in sound mechanical condition.” Equipment can be monitored locally or remotely, and even directly by Kinsley, which also then handles any worker dispatch duties. Contact sales@kinsleypower.com for more details.

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Civic pride on the half shell Norwalk Seaport Association welcomes thousands By Bill Fallon bfallon@westfairinc.com

Rafael Miranda and daughter Isabella were the very first customers at the festival.

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or Jerry Toni, co-chairman, along with Steve Nezas, of the 36th annual Norwalk Oyster Festival, 362 days of planning just came down to three days of events — Sept. 6, 7, 8 — and $1 million in revenue. By end of day Sept. 8, 30,000 to 40,000 fairgoers would affirm Norwalk, sometimes called Oyster Town, as the Big Oyster. The city could also lay claim to Big Heart Town, since volunteers came by the hundreds to help. The festival was expected to deposit $225,000 in the accounts of local charities. Joe Dudek was there, along with 500 volunteers at the Exchange Club of Norwalk, where lobsters and lobster rolls were the order of the day. Over three days, Dudek hoped to serve 3,000 customers, with proceeds benefiting abused children and school sports programs. Like other events that size, there

were glitches. On the last day, emergency responders reacted when the power failed on a ride, injuring patrons. “We’re relieved to hear that there were no life-threatening injuries,” Norwalk Seaport Association Inc., the event organizer, said in a statement. “Our understanding is that 12 of the 13 individuals who received hospital attention were seen and released. Our thanks go out to all of the first responders, who handled this incident so quickly and professionally, including Norwalk’s police, fire and EMT personnel, as well as mutual aid responders from surrounding communities.” The Seaport Association and its 1,000 volunteers are solely responsible for organizing and financing the event. The association manages the Sheffield Island Lighthouse and 49-seat, 49-foot catamaran ferry, both of which benefit from the festival. “Keeping the money in the community is a big thing for the festival,” Toni said. “The overall impact is in excess

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of $1 million.” He said 20 to 25 charities would benefit, netting $225,000 combined. At heart, Toni remains the local boy he once was. “I fished these waters my entire life,” he said. “I have a great affinity for the water. The festival keeps a lot of us going; it’s a great way to give back. It’s win-win for everybody.” He sported a yellow event golf shirt and said the association had outfitted every volunteer with one, 1,600 total, although he acknowledged, “A few volunteers might have gotten two.” Tad Diesel, business development director for the city of Norwalk, said, “The festival represents better than any other single event the hospitality of Norwalk, the friendship of our community and the relationship we enjoy with the Long Island Sound.” Sponsors included First County Bank, Bud Light/Heineken/Blue Point Beers, The Hour, Stew Leonard’s and PepsiCo.

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The 29 victims of the 9/11 attacks with ties to Greenwich will be memorialized at Cos Cob Park, the new town park by the train station overlooking the Mianus River, with a pair of glass towers reminiscent of the towers of light that shone at night after the tragedy. A fundraising campaign to bring the memorial to fruition within a year was launched this month at the Riverside Yacht Club. The goal is to raise $750,000 and to break ground April 2014 for a Sept. 11, 2014 formal dedication. The names of the victims will be etched vertically on the towers so they will align across to spell the words freedom, liberty and forever. Stylized American flags will top the sculptures. The designer is Greenwich architect Chuck Hilton of Charles Hilton Architects. A variety of donation levels are available at Sept11memorialgreenwich.org. Speakers at the fundraising launch included Dana Noonan, wife of victim Walter Noonan; and Demi Ferraris, cousin of victim Teddy Maloney. Also speaking were U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Selectman David Theis; James Ritman, who heads Greenwich Community Projects, the nonprofit running the drive; and John Carlucci, project spokesman. “We raised over $25,000 yesterday,” said Carlucci following the event. Because of the broad nature of the attacks and the cross-border contacts of the victims, Carlucci said the hope is that businesspersons throughout the region would participate.

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(DRS) to launch a so-called “lean initiative” that has brought more efficiency to the state tax registration process. The partnership has led to a quantifiably shorter tax registration period for businesses and has also allowed for a more productive reallocation of existing staff to eliminate a backlog of suspended return transactions and electronic applications, according to BlumShapiro. BlumShapiro maintains offices in Connecticut, including in Shelton, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The implementation of “lean” techniques — private-sector implementation tools that are employed to simplify operations and improve efficiency — involved BlumShapiro working with a team of DRS employees to review the department’s daily operations “and then making recommendations to increase efficiency and quality of services.” “The results of our being able to work with DRS have been dramatic,” said James Kerr, a strategic partner of BlumShapiro. “The completion time for paper registrations dropped from 15 to 20 days to one to two days, and similar improvements were seen with online applications; the wait went from 10 to 13 days down to between two and five days. DRS is now a great example of what can be accomplished with an appropriate application of private sector ‘lean’ approaches to government agencies.” Kerr said DRS’s backlog of suspended return applications was significantly reduced via a tighter deadline for response from taxpayers who had not supplied complete information for their applications. — Bill Fallon

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BY KENNETH a. HOROWITZ

The right investment plan, part 1

Simplified Employee Pension I nd iv idu a l Ret i rement Arrangement (SEP-IRA) or a Profit Sharing Plan (PSP): Which plan is right for your client or business? Both plans allow similar contribution limits, the lesser of 25 percent of compensation or $51,000 (indexed for 2013). However, differences exist in several aspects such as eligibility, vesting, design ability and other points discussed below. Business owners are often advised to go the route of SEPs for their simplistic design, low startup costs and

ease of administration. An SEP is an individual retirement account or qualified annuity. All contributions are made directly to each participant’s account or IRA by the employer. A profit-sharing plan (PSP) is a plan trust that holds all the plan assets also funded by the employer. For a newly established business with few employees, an SEP design is attractive since there are no plan documents to be filed with the IRS. Nor are there annual administration and IRS 5500 filings required. There are no reporting requirements with a one-

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person (or participant and spouse) PSP until assets exceed $250,000. An additional benefit of a SEP is being able to establish and fund plans up until the date the tax return is filed, including extensions. So for example, an SEP can be established and funded through October of the following year in which the deduction is taken. PSPs have the ability to be funded until extensions are filed. From a pure cost standpoint, SEPs may be more suitable in situations with a few employees. However, as a company grows and becomes more profitable and adds employees, the increased cost efficiencies from a more customized plan design can favor profit-sharing plans. These benefits can potentially outweigh the “simplicity” and convenience of the SEP design. The following compares several differences between the profit sharing and SEP plan design: Maximize Contribution Both plans have similar funding formulas – the lesser of $51,000 or 25 percent of annual compensation (indexed for 2013). However, only a PSP allows for the inclusion of a 401k arrangement. With that comes an additional $5,500 contribution if participant is over age 50 resulting from a catch-up provision and annual contributions of $56,500. Permitted Disparity/Integration and 401K Design Permitted disparity or integration can lower the required contribution an employer needs to fund for plan participants. SEPs allow for integration under section 408k (3)(d). However, it applies to all employees, owners included. Which means the maximum annual plan contribution will lower by $6,480 from $51,000 to $44,519 (5.7 percent of $113,700 tax wage base). Integration in a SEP actually penalizes highly compensated employees. Importantly, integration in a SEP reduces the maximum contribution for those employees who would otherwise receive a contribution of $51,000. There is no reduction in the maximum contribution in PSP due to integration.

Permitted disparity in a PSP allows those earning more than the Social Security taxable wage base to receive a higher contribution rate than those employees earning below the taxable wage base. Moreover, the owner may continue to receive a contribution of $51,000 unlike the SEP. For example, an owner earning in excess of $255,000 may receive a contribution of $51,000 in the PSP at an employee cost of approximately 16.8 percent of employee compensation for those employees earning less than the taxable wage base. This is compared with a contribution rate of 20 percent of pay if the PSP did not have permitted disparity or integration. Further reduction in rank and file cost is possible from incorporating “new comparability” design to a profit sharing plan. This technique is not available in SEPs. New comparability is most effective when the demographics are such that the owners and or key people are older and earn more than the rest of the employees. adding 401(k) Design The ability to add a 401(k) feature to the PSP not only produces an opportunity to add $5,500 if over age 50, it can potentially lower employee costs. The actuary can now use lower a lesser funding formula needed to fund an owner’s maximum contribution because the first $17,500 ($23,000 if over 50) comes from salary deferrals of the 401(k ) component. As a result of funding part of the $51,000 from $17,500 means now the balance or $33,500 can come from profit-sharing cost. This lowers the percentage of pay rate from 20 percent to 13 percent used to calculate employee contributions. Incorporating “new comparability” can further drive employee allocation rate between 5 percent to 7 percent. Next week: Individual designs, part time workers, last-day requirements and loans. Kenneth A. Horowitz is a registered representative and financial adviser of Park Avenue Securities L.L.C., doing business in Rye Brook, N.Y., as Integrated Benefit Consultants. He can be reached at (914) 288-8946.

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BY aNDI GRaY

No more drama in the workplace I cannot have drama in my office anymore. I mean slamming doors, not talking to people and holding grudges. one really valuable employee is creating a lot of disruption. I can’t let the person go — this one employee is too important to my company. But I also can’t ignore the problems the person is causing. THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Setting the ground rules for acceptable and unacceptable behavior in an office is essential. When people misbehave, look at what’s causing the stress. No one is above the rules. When

you put someone on notice, start looking for a replacement. Take a look at the impact this person’s behavior is having on everyone else in the company. My guess is it’s having a big impact, whether or not people are saying anything directly. Fixing this situation now is critical, as bad behavior over time only tends to get worse. Has this behavior been around for a long time or is it recent. If it’s recent, sit down for a chat to ask about what’s changed recently for this individual. If it’s longstanding, it’s time to change the rules of behavior for this person, and while you’re at it, to set the rules of what will and will not be tolerated from everyone in the

company. Establishing a standard of acceptable behavior makes it easier for you and all the rest of your managers to address conditions that stray out of bounds. Consider implementing these simple rules: • Courtesy and respect for everyone, by everyone, 100 percent. • Take time each day to tell others how much you appreciate their help. • Recognize good work publicly, as often as possible. • When providing correction, do it in private; don’t embarrass anyone publicly. • If it’s unclear who is in charge or who should be in charge, call a meeting to discuss the situation, ask a manager to sit in to

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moderate the discussion. • No one lives above the rules. Some people have received less social grounding than others. Some people are poor observers of the impact they’re having on the world around them. Make sure that this individual is aware of how his/her actions are being perceived. Cite specific examples. Ask this person to discuss what else could have been done, that would have been more appropriate. When someone acts out, it’s usually because of underlying problems. Where is the stress coming from for this person? Home? Work? Combination of the two? And what can you do about it, if anything? Time for a lengthy discussion. Keep it businesslike. You’re not a therapist. If there are personal issues, suggest the person seek professional help. Make it clear that behaviors have to change. After the meeting, if you’re so inclined, you may want to do some research on resources this person could tap into to get help, whether the issue calls for financial counseling, social interaction modification or personal coaching. Many times when people are under stress, they are least likely to seek out help and most confused about what to do next. It’s not your place to tell them what to do, but you can make suggestions. Make it clear that immediate behavior change is essential. Do put this person’s job on the line. You cannot risk losing the rest of your good employees because of one bad apple. Put the person on notice and create a written agreement around what has to change. Ask this person to sign the agreement to acknowledge that they understand. And stop hoping things will change: instead make plans in case they don’t. Post the job, interview candidates, line up two to three people who would be qualified to do the job. Having options will make it easier for you to hold this person accountable for making changes and will make the transition smoother if things don’t change. Looking for a good book? Try “The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace; Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier” by Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford and Gib Akin. Andi Gray is president of Strate�y Leaders Inc., strate�yleaders.com, a business-consulting �irm that specializes in helping small to mid-size, privately held businesses achieve doubled revenues and tripled profits in repetitive growth cycles. Interested in learning how Strate�y Leaders can help your business? Call now for a free consultation and diagnostic process: (877) 238-3535. Do you have a question for Andi? Please send it to her, via email at AskAndi@Strate�yLeaders.com. Visit AskAndi.com for an entire library of her articles.

BY NORMaN G. GRILL

Is it time to streamline your ﬁnancial statements?

his past summer, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) released “Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities” (FRF for SMEs). The organization’s intent was to ease financial reporting for smaller, privately held, owner-managed companies not required to follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). This development isn’t for every business, but it could benefit yours. Just a suggestion The origins of the FRF for SMEs lie in the perceived need of business owners and other stakeholders for a more costeffective way to generate consistent, reliable non-GAAP financial statements. Many small to midsized companies have seen their statements scrutinized and questioned in part because of how different their reporting methods are from those of GAAP-compliant entities. Using a mix of traditional accounting methods and accrual income tax methods, the FRF for SMEs is intended to streamline the reporting process for businesses while providing added assurance to those who use the financial statements in question. To be clear, however, the FRF for SMEs holds no authoritative status and adoption isn’t required of any business. What’s more, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), which works with accounting regulators and practitioners, has said it doesn’t support the FRF for SMEs. Instead, NASBA supports modifying GAAP through the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to meet the needs of private companies. The AICPA has stressed that the FRF for SMEs isn’t a replacement for GAAP. Rather, it’s a carefully engineered alternative for companies that aren’t required to use GAAP and would like a clear-cut but less expensive means of generating reliable financial statements. Crossbeams and supports If your company has ever tried to conform to GAAP or you’ve personally had some experience dealing with it, you know that the challenge of doing so is significant. GAAP includes complex, detailed and prescriptive standards and many, many disclosure requirements. That said, at the end of the day, the information provided to stakeholders is substantial.

The FRF for SMEs, says the AICPA, delivers data in a much more streamlined format that will be less costly to owners of small to midsized businesses. It does so by focusing on the performance and creditworthiness of the subject company and its assets, liabilities and cash flows. Specific measures in play include: • Pro�itability • Liabilities • Cash flows and cash available • Assets to cover expenses. Like the literal framework of a house (albeit a modest, “simple” one), this one has several crossbeams and supports. For example, it uses historical cost as its measurement basis, allowing users to avoid complicated fair value measurements. It also doesn’t require complex accounting for derivatives, hedging activities or stock compensation. These simplifications tend to reduce book-totax differences, eliminating multiple adjustments. The FRF for SMEs allows much greater flexibility than GAAP in how the financial statement provider expresses relevant information to stakeholders based on those end users’ respective needs. It also makes clear that users may contact the issuer for more information. Ideal candidates Small to midsize businesses are clearly the targeted entities of the AICPA’s efforts. Yet because so many different types of companies may classify themselves as such, the organization didn’t want to get specific about who should adopt the FRF for SMEs. Instead, it set forth a few guidelines regarding “best fit” candidates. As mentioned, to adopt the FRF for SMEs, a company can’t be required to use GAAP-based financial statements — either literally or essentially. The FRF for SMEs is also not intended for nonprofits, public or soon-to-go-public companies or businesses with foreign operations. Again, the focus is on simplification, so ideal candidates will generally be businesses operating in industries that don’t call for complex financial transactions or highly specialized accounting guidance. And, typically, the companies that use it will have “owner-managers” — that is, one person or group of people who both own and run the business.

cial statements. Specifically consider your lender (or prospective ones in your industry). If it doesn’t base loan decisions solely on your financial statements, but also looks at collateral or other evaluative metrics, the framework may not rub it the wrong way. Talk to your lender(s) before switching to the FRF for SMEs. And remind them that financial statements prepared using the framework can still be audited or reviewed by a CPA to provide added assurance. Simple solution, tough choice Until FASB modifies GAAP to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses, the AICPA’s FRF for SMEs offers qualifying private companies an immediate oppor-

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tunity to streamline the often arduous task of generating financial statements. In doing so, you could save money and precious time. But this is not a decision to undertake lightly. Consult your financial advisers before making the call. Norm Grill is managing partner of Grill & Partners L.L.C., certi�ied public accountants and advisers to closely held companies and high-net-worth individuals, with of�ices in Fair�ield and Darien. He can be reached at N.Grill@ GRILL1.com or (203) 254-3880.

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THE LIST

Residential Real Estate Firms Listed alphabetically.

Residential Real Estate Brokers

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Listed alphabetically. Name, address, phone number Area code: Website

Better Homes & Gardens/Rand Realty 1 N. Broadway, Suite 120S, White Plains, NY 10601 328-0333 • randrealty.com

Coldwell Banker Gumbo Realty 6 Broadway, Valhalla, NY 10595 682-2200 • cbgumbo.com

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage* 360 Main St., Suite 4, Ridgefield, CT 06877 (203) 244-2900 • coldwellbankermoves.com

Century 21 Schneider Realty 255 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605 345-3550 • c21schneider.com

Dwyer Agency of Mahopac 579 Route 6, Mahopac, NY 10541 (845) 628-3555

Esther Ingber Realty 12 Keri Lane, New Hempstead, NY 10977 (845) 354-6060

Gains Realty Inc. 829 Franklin Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 (914) 769-9006 • gainsrealty.com

Grand Lux Realty Inc. 428 Main St., Armonk, NY 10504 (914) 273-9688 • grandluxrealty.com

Hegarty & Company Real Estate Inc. 166 Whisconier Road, Brookfield, CT 06804 (203) 775-8353 • hegartyrealestate.com

Henry Djonbalaj Real Estate L.L.C. 655 McLean Ave., Yonkers, NY 10705 (914) 376-1000 • hdrealtyny.com

Higgins Group Real Estate 27 Strawberry Hill Ave., Stamford, CT 06902 (203) 504-5005 • higginsgroup.com

Homerica Realty Services/Homerica Mortgage Corp. 235 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605 (914) 946-7100 • homerica.com

Houlihan Lawrence Inc. 4 Valley Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 (914) 337-0400 • houlihanlawrence.com

Independent Realty Group 499 Federal Road, Suite 20A, Brookfield, CT 06804 (203) 740-2452 • candlewoodlakeproperties.com

Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty 1946 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY 10538 (914) 834-0270 • juliabfee.com

Keller Williams NY Realty 120 Bloomingdale Road, Suite 101, White Plains, NY 10605 (914) 437-6100 • westchesterkw.com

Top local executive(s) Contact (bold) Email address Year company established Matt Rand Rosemarie Glasel matt.rand@randrealty.com 2001 Jonathan Gumowitz Jonathan Gumowitz forsale@coldwellbanker.com 1985

Cathleen Smith 1906 Brad Schneider, Subomi Macaulay Sherry Schneider ofc@c21schneider.com 2004

Name, address, phone number Area code: Website

Mark Seiden Real Estate Team 1238 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510 (914) 762-2200 • homeman.net • sellingmyhomesucks.com • wlshomesearch.com

North Country Sotheby's International Realty 39 King St., Chappaqua, NY 10514 (914) 238-2090 • northcountrysir.com

Prudential Centennial Realty 4 Chase Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 (914) 723-5225 • prudentialcentennial.com

Prudential Connecticut Realty 860 North Main Street Extension, Wallingford, CT 06492 (860) 571-7000 • prudentialct.com

Kevin B. Dwyer Kevin B. Dwyer kevinbdwyer@msn.com 1927

Prudential Douglas Elliman Westchester

Esther Ingber Esther Ingber esthie4@optonline.net 1983

Prudential Wykagyl/Rittenberg Realty

Margaret McGean Connie DeFilippis gainsreality@optonline.net 1970

101 King St., Chappaqua, NY 10514 (914) 238-3988 • elliman.com

1299 North Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804 (914) 632-9100 • pruwr.com

Realty Executives - Williams-Sykes Realty 266 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 (845) 485-9960 • dutchesscountyhouses.com

Michael F. Levy Michael Levy michael.levy@grandluxrealty.com 2006

RE/MAX Benchmark Realty Group

John F. Hegarty John F. Hegarty jwilliams@hastingsrealestate.com 1949

Realty Seven Inc.

Henry Djonbalaj Henry Djonbalaj henry@hdrealtyny.com 2001 Jason Kinard Jason Kinard jkinard@higginsgroup.com 1998

Bruce Lublin Georgia Kalayjian-Murphy gkm@homerica.com 1989 Stephen Meyers Cindy Landis clandis@houlihanlawrence.com 1888 Ellen Cavallo Buccitti Ellen Cavallo Buccitti ellen@candlewoodlakeproperties.com 2005 Paul Breunich Jim Whittemore 1953 Justine Aiello Justine Aiello kwjustine@gmail.com 2006

Note: This list is a sampling of residential real estate firms. To be included on future lists, email Afrey@westfairinc.com. WND Would not disclose.

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100 Commerce Drive, Suite 105, New Windsor, NY 12553 (845) 565-0004 • remax-benchmark-ny.com

250 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 762-5548 • realtyseven.com

Round Hill Partners 189 Mason St., Greenwich, CT 06830 (203) 861-0050 • roundhillpartners.com

Settlers & Traders Real Estate Co. 215 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06880 (203) 226-0000 • settlers.com

Stiefvater Real Estate Inc. 303 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, NY 10803 (914) 738-1133 • pelhamny.com

Thomas E. Griffith Realtors Inc. 226 Main St., Goshen, NY 10924 (845) 294-9333 • griffithrealtors.com

Westchester Real Estate Inc. 484 White Plains Road, Second floor, Eastchester, NY 10709 (914) 961-5510 • homesny.com

John J. Lease Realtors 5020 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 565-2800 • johnjleaserealtors.com

Vincent & Whittemore Real Estate On the Green, Bedford, NY 10506 (914) 234-3642 • vinwhit.com

Top local executive(s) Contact (bold) Email address Year company established Mark J. Seiden Amy Seiden info@homeman.net 2003 Michael Norton Michael Norton michael.norton@northcountrysir.com 2011 (under current ownership) Mark Nadler info@prucent.com 1981 Candace Adams Bob and Richelle Ward rward@prudentialct.com 1997 WND Gabe Pasquale 1968

Scott M. Cohen Gerri Patricello scohen@pruwr.com 1956 Matt Willliams realexec@mac.com 2002 Janet Delgado Vicki Moschiano remax@hvc.rr.com 1991 Peg Koellmer Owner/broker Peg Koellmer homes@realtyseven.com 1978

Renee Gallagher and Joanna Erb Mona Beerman info@roundhillpartners.com 1993 Michael Calise Sally Palmer sales@settlers.com 1976

Scott M. Stiefvater Marilyn M. Stiefvater 1974 Linda A. Clark Mary-Gray Griffith griffithrealtors@griffithrealtors.com 1970 Gail Fattizzi Gail Fattizzi info@homesny.com 2003 John Lease Ken Davies kendavies@johnjleaserealtors.com 1938

Ghy Manning Owner/broker info@vinwhit.com 1920

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industry that jumped the Pacific with them, notably project scheduling and budgeting, subjects they studied at the University of New South Wales. Their core values also translate well between Australia and the U.S. and they drive them home in tandem: “Proficiency. Punctuality. Professionalism.” “We’re not your typical contractors,” said Lumby, Wellbuilt co-founder. “We’re a full-service building and development firm.” But that tag alone » Australian, page 19

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“Admittedly, Bridgeport had lower rates than other towns and now we’re trying to catch up,” Finch said. “We have to work a little harder to get our numbers up. But I look at it as an opportunity to show wealthier towns that if we can do it, they should be doing a lot better than us.” To increase recycling efforts, the city employed several tactics. Most successful has been the city’s switch to a single-stream recycling system and partnering with Recyclebank, a rewards program for residents. Single-stream recycling refers to automatic sorting efforts once trash is collected at a waste-management facility. Using magnets, fans and other sorting machinery, the city is able to automatically sort recycled material by paper, plastic, metal and glass. Now residents at home no longer have to hand sort the materials, making it more efficient and easier to try recycling. But beyond system upgrades, Finch also said the city’s door-to-door education initiatives and rewards program have encouraged residents to recycle more. Since launching the Mayor’s Conservation Corps in 2009, groups of young adults have knocked on more

than 30,000 doors in Bridgeport, educating citizens about greener lifestyles. One-on-one, residents are taught what’s recyclable, how to recycle and how to earn points for recycling, redeemable at stores such as Macy’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Connecticut Science Center and Foot Locker. Since 2011, the program has awarded more than $47,000 worth of points. Mentioning the different material it takes to make a pencil — wood, graphite, metal — and all the different steps it takes to transport raw materials, Finch said recycling helps cut down on the amount of steps and energy it takes to produce even the simplest products. “There’s 10 steps to every product; the most energy intensive are in the earlier stages (like) mining and extraction,” he said. “If you can eliminate those steps in the beginning of the cycle, you cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. Plus, from our standpoint, it’s highly economical.” Moving forward, Finch said the city hopes to start collecting recycling totes once a week, instead of every other week. He also would like to see more recycling enforcement in city apartments.

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does not guarantee success and Lumby acknowledged, “We have knocked on a lot of doors.” “We saw things could be done better,” Kidd said. “The company is based on core values and most of our customers are repeat. You only have to do one good job and people will recognize you.” Their work portfolio includes projects in Australia, where their university scholarships were sponsored by one of the largest construction outfits in the country, St. Hilliers Construction Ltd., for which they worked after graduating. They followed St. Hilliers with a five-year stint building upscale homes. Photos of their projects speak volumes

about craftsmanship. Beyond repeat customers, Lumby stressed the importance of repeat business with architects, designers and contractors. Wellbuilt employs 10 full time and expands to suit projects. The company not only notices trends, it has to make them reality for its clients. “Open plans centered around kitchens,” Lumby said of a current popular look. “A lot of blown-out walls.” Kidd added, “Reclaimed wood is very popular.” The caveat: “Not in the whole house.” Tieless and crisply attired in what might be termed business-rugged, the two men spoke in the Business Journal office. Both are from New South Wales.

Kidd is from Orange and Lumby is from Dubbo, an Aboriginal place name. “I’d say 95 percent of our business is service oriented,” Lumby said. “A lot of people don’t know what they want.” Wellbuilt offers design variations via Internet sites, he said. “And with our knowledge of pricing, we can offer three different options. It’s value engineering. It’s value designing. Even on the high-end projects, the clients want to hear ‘value.’” Kidd nodded and said, “Sometimes even more.” The Wellbuilt office in Boston is managed by Todd Rotondi, who is American. “We can’t all be so lucky,” Kidd said with a shrimp-on-the-barbie laugh. The move into Fairfield County

Houlihan Lawrence jumps the border HOULIHAN LAWRENCE, the well-known real estate brokerage in New York’s Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, has opened its first Connecticut office in Greenwich. It is staffed by 17 topproducing regional agents, the company reports. Previously affiliated with each of the top four brokerage offices in Greenwich, Houlihan Lawrence said the 17 have participated in home sales totaling more than $600 million since 2012. “We have assembled a team that establishes Houlihan Lawrence as an immediate force in Greenwich,” said Houlihan Lawrence managing principal Chris Meyers. “Our Greenwich agents now have access to our existing brokerage network and our integrated marketing resources, enabling them to offer a superior level of service to their clients.” Opening a Greenwich office has been a longtime strategic goal for Houlihan Lawrence, the company reported. The firm’s chairman, Nancy Seaman, and her brother, Chris Meyers, are longtime Greenwich residents. They run the firm with their brother, Stephen Meyers, president and CEO. “As Westchester County’s luxury leader, our brand of service is well-suited for the Greenwich market,” said Stephen Meyers. The Greenwich office is managed by Greenwich resident David H. Haffenreffer, who joins from Prudential Connecticut Realty. He also worked in the Beverly Hills office of Sotheby’s International Realty.

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UCONN NO. 19 IN ANNUAL SURVEY

U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Connecticut as the 19th best public school, according to its assessment of public universities. University of California at Berkeley took the top spot, followed by UCLA and the University of Virginia. The ranking is the university’s highest so far, which officials say gives credence to its growing reputation among peer institutions. With major state investments underway — such as efforts to increase enrollment, build new facilities and create a thriving bioscience sector — UConn officials expect their ranking to continue to climb. “The rankings are not a perfect measure of university excellence,” said UConn President Susan Herbst in a statement. “That said, this is without question the most impressive position on the U.S. News

ranking that UConn has ever reached.” “It confirms what many already know,” she added. “That UConn is among the best universities in the nation, with a superb and growing academic reputation.” The university is the highest ranking public school in the Northeast, with the University of Vermont following at No. 34.

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SIKORSKY SELLS SECOND CHOPPER TO CHINESE COMPANY

Stratford-based Sikorsky aircraft recently penned a deal with China-based Yunnan Jingchen Group to purchase an S-92 helicopter for transporting corporate and government VIPs. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford. Yunnan Jingchen Group recently received Chinese government approval to establish a general aviation company named Ruili Helicopter Group. The new S-92 helicopter will become the second operated by Jingchen, after the first Sikorsky chopper was ordered in 2012 and delivered in June. The newly ordered S-92 helicopter is scheduled for delivery November 2015. Web source Aircraft.com places the cost at $17.7 million for the S-92. “Jingchen is a new and already growing customer. We are excited to be able to support their expansion and are working closely to help ensure a smooth start to their operations by providing initial technical support on site,” said Ed Beyer, vice president of Sikorsky Global Helicopters, the commercial aircraft business of Sikorsky Aircraft. The multi-mission S-92 helicopter incorporates numerous safety features, including a so-called “flaw-tolerant design.” — Bill Fallon

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On-site, off-site

Franklin Street Works is a not-for-profit contemporary art space/café that opened two years ago in Stamford. While we are located in a great physical space and many of our exhibits occur “on site,” we also engage with the community in “off site” art projects and exhibitions. This year we are working with a variety of dedicated partners to activate Stamford and other off-site venues throughout the region. This summer, we contributed to the Stamford Downtown Special Services (DSSD) art walk with two projects that animated the downtown, prompting pedestrians to tweet one-of a-kind fashions modeled by a Flint, Mich., artist collective and eat reclaimed radishes, avocados and more around a communal picnic table with award-winning Brooklyn artists. We are continuing our collaborations in the coming year with a broad swath of educational, notfor-profit, and small business partners from the region — including downtown stake holders in Stamford and Purchase college, SuNY, in Purchase, N.Y. our next project opens in Stamford Sept. 12 and involves civic leaders, the DSSD, downtown property managers and developers. The exhibition “What’s up Stamford” will feature images of Stamford’s significant architecture reproduced as banners and hung in the unused, street-level shop windows of St. John’s Towers that face Washington Boulevard. The buildings featured show a range of architectural styles spanning more than one hundred years. By expanding our reach beyond a static “art space” destination through art projects and performances that meet people where they live, Franklin Street Works aims to engage the community in today’s innovative art world. come visit us at our downtown Stamford location at 14 Franklin St. — we have a café and are a hub for exhibitions, programming and conversations about the arts. or visit our website, www.franklinstreetworks.org.

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on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Stepping Stones Museum for children in Norwalk is waiving its admission fee in honor of Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play. For the 10th year, Nickelodeon stations will go dark and urge families to get up and be active. a longcommitted partner, Stepping Stones is hosting its own action-packed day of play with activities throughout the

museum and Mathews Park — free of charge. New this year will be a parkwide book walk to exercise bodies and brains and a “run for FuN.” additionally, children can take a yoga, Zumba or martial arts class, learn golf skills, meet sports mascots and dance to live music. There will be crafts, a special gymnastics performance, chess games and Victorian lawn games with lockwoodMathews Mansion and sport stencil art with the center for contemporary Printmaking. Pepperidge Farm is the lead sponsor with additional support from People’s united Bank. “We are thrilled to host a Worldwide Day of Play at Stepping Stones for the sixth time,” said rhonda kiest, executive director of the museum. “as a children’s museum, we recognize the important role of play in a child’s development and are dedicated to helping families maintain a commitment to healthy living. With our focus on the healthy children, healthy communities initiative, our status as a let’s Move! Museums and Gardens institution, our increased emphasis on healthier cafe options and our tremendous variety of special programs, Stepping Stones is the perfect stage for a spectacular day of health-based family fun.” Visit: steppingstonesmuseum.org.

‘SPAMALOT’ ALERT “always look on the bright side of life” may be a great mantra for us all, but it’s also the title of one of the many hummable (and sing-a-long-able) songs in “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the 2005 Tony award-winning Best Musical that opens curtain call’s 23rd season in The kweskin Theatre, Stamford, Sept. 13 and playing through oct. 5. as noted in its original marketing, “Spamalot” is “lovingly ripped oﬀ from the motion picture ‘Monty Python and the holy Grail’” and is not only a special treat for Python fans but is a terriﬁc, Broadway musical comedy (in the style of The Producers) for anyone else. The production is directed by George h. croom with music direction by Michael andrew cooney and choreography by kari Sweeney. The design team includes curtain call associate artistic director Peter Barbieri Jr. doing set design;

lighting design by Scott Borowka and costume design by Megan latte ormond. The stage management team — led by Jan ursone — includes Sara DeFelice, Tommy DeSalvo and Jordon Michael hensley. Tickets are available from the box offi ce at 461-6358 or curtaincallinc.com. Ticket prices are: adults $29, seniors $22 and students/cchildren $14.50. Discounted fi ve-, seven- and 10-ticket Flex Passes can reduce price by up to 25 percent. curtain call is the nonprofit, professionally run, community-based theatre company in residence at The Sterling Farms Theatre complex, 1349 Newfi eld ave. in Stamford. Year-round productions and educational workshops are presented by and for area residents in The kweskin Theatre and The Dressing room Theatre.

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BUSINESS JOURNAL aTTaCHMENTSFILED

City of Shelton. Construct a new commercial building, 40 Riverdale Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Create A Scape L.L.C. and Christopher M. Harvey-Smith, Norwalk. $48,000, in favor of Webster Bank N.A., Meriden, by Stan R. Dombroski, New Haven. Property: 52 Elmwood Ave., Norwalk. Filed Aug. 27.

Coastal Wall II L.L.C., contractor for FBW L.L.C, Expand retail store for The Paper Store, 2271 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $52,200. Filed Aug. 30.

Create A Scape L.L.C. and Christopher M. Harvey-Smith, Norwalk. $48,000, in favor of Webster Bank N.A., Meriden, by Stan R. Dombroski, New Haven. Property: 31 Taylor Ave., Norwalk. Filed Aug. 27.

Connecticut Dismantling L.L.C., contractor for 1262 Post Road L.L.C. Perform interior and exterior demolition (façade to remain) 1262 Post Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $70,000. Filed Aug. 26.

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Hazelnut Cosntruction L.L.C., contractor for H J J Inc. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building for Duchess, 625 Post Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed Aug. 28.

commerciaL A.P. Construction, Stamford, contractor for Greenwich Plaza Inc. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, Partner Reinsurance, 1 Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $225,000. Filed Aug. 28. Bell Atlantic Inc., contractor for Natick Sixth Realty Corp. Replace antennas, 40 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $15,500. Filed Aug. 27. Camelot Development L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform interior and exterior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 89 to 93 Alice St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $70,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Kolich Properties L.L.C., Bridgeport. Construct a new commercial access ramp, 1431 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,500. Filed Aug. 29. Lanese Construction Inc., contractor for Fairfield University. Fit-out an existing commercial building for Levee, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Aug. 23. New England Artisans Remodeling, contractor for Southport Volunteer Fire Department. Strip and reroof an existing commercial building, Southport Volunteer Fire Department, 69 Main St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $11,500. Filed Aug. 23.

Charcoal Hill Associates L.L.C., Fairfield. Fit-out an existing commercial building for Grain, 222 Post Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Aug. 30.

New England Artisans Remodeling, contractor for the town of Fairfield. Strip and reroof an existing commercial building, Quinn House, 125 Penfield Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $11,500. Filed Aug. 23.

Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

Perryridge Corp., Greenwich. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 55 Holly Hill Lane, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $77,000. Filed Aug. 28.

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Property Connecticut OBJLW One, Greenwich. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, Dr. Seth Miller, 6 Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $72,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Rich, Albert, West Haven, contractor for 55 OFPR L.L.C. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, Night Owl Investment, 55 Old Field Point Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 28. Ryan, John, contractor for George Bradley. Construct an access ramp onto a landing, 248B South Trail, Stratford. Estimated cost: $2,975. Filed Aug. 28. SL Management, contractor for SL Greens Farms Road L.L.C. Perform interior alterations at an existing commercial building, Symphony Work Places, 55 Greens Farms Road, Westport. Estimated cost: $503,000. Filed Aug. 27. State Street Bridgeport NE Development L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, Family Dollar, 1175 State St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $467,000. Filed Aug. 30. Ultimate Construction L.L.C., contractor for the town of Fairfield. Strip and reroof an existing commercial building, Gym, 250 Fern St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $15,792. Filed Aug. 22. Verizon Wireless, contractor for HG Stratford Associates L.L.C. Install commercial antennas, 568 Newfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Aug. 27. YWCA, Greenwich. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 259 E. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $300,000. Filed Aug. 29.

residentiaL 3 Valley Heights L.L.C., contractor for 106 Old Road L.L.C. Construct a new single-family residence, 106 Old Road, Westport. Estimated cost: $500,000. Filed Aug. 29. Alsop, James, Bridgeport. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 53 Highridge Road, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Aug. 28. America One Abatement, New Haven, contractor for Omar Telfer. Perform interior and exterior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 319 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,470. Filed Aug. 29.

Archadeck, Stamford, contractor for Todd Bookless. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 41 Chapel St., Greenwich. Estimated cost: $11,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Carter, Bob, Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 262 Benham Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $10,800. Filed Aug. 30.

Archadeck, Stamford, contractor for Matthew Rizzo. Perform external renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 11 Park Ave., Old Greenwich. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Cedar Street Condos, Bridgeport. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 151 Cedar St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Associated Design & Development, contractor for Amy and Peter Robles. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 2305 Hillside Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $45,000. Filed Aug. 23. Astrum Solar, Middletown, contractor for Nancy Persons. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 88 Bartram Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $500. Filed Aug. 30. BB Builders L.L.C., Norwalk, contractor for BHA Baldwin Properties. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 338 Hanover St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed Aug. 30. Brian & Bryan Construction Co., contractor for 1261 Pequot Avenue L.L.C. Repair storm damage at a single-family residence, 1261 Pequot Ave., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $162,000. Filed Aug. 30. Burden, Robert, Norwalk, contractor for Rose Thompson. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 143 Ash St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $15,650. Filed Aug. 28. Cahill, Noel, contractor for Barbara and Ira Sands Lewis. Perform external additions and replace a deck at an existing single-family residence, 265 Figlar Ave., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $75,000. Filed Aug. 21. Canterbury Development L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 836 Cleveland Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $38,000. Filed Aug. 29. Capuano, Gerald, contractor for Margaret and Charles Berke. Construct an accessory building with a nonhabitable space at a single-family residence, 661 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Celotto Properties, contractor for Mary and Peter Daytz. Perform interior renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 82 Old Hill Road, Westport. Estimated cost: $15,000. Filed Aug. 28. Chukwa, Oni, Orange. Repair storm damage to a single-family residence, 98 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $26,000. Filed Aug. 28. Classy Builders L.L.C., contractor for Beachside Estates L.L.C. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 16 Norcliff Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $370,000. Filed Aug. 21. Claude, Issa, Shelton. Perform interior and exterior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 23 Earl St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Aug. 28. D&P, Bridgeport, Capitol Estates L.L.C. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 542 Capital Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,300. Filed Aug. 29. Daley Construction, Westport, contractor for Elizabeth Collins. Perform additions to a single-family residence, 345 Old Battery Road, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $225,000. Filed Aug. 30. Daley Construction Company Inc., Westport, contractor for Karina and Dean Gramesty. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 33 Brooklawn Terrace, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $16,000. Filed Aug. 22. DiGiorgi Roofing & Siding Inc., Beacon Falls, contractor for Barbara Gaetano. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 79 Chelsea St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $1,320. Filed Aug. 28. DiGiorgi Roofing & Siding Inc., Beacon Falls, contractor for Robin Gaskins. Reroof an existing singlefamily residence, 35 Willard St., Stratford. Estimated cost: $6,483. Filed Aug. 28.

East Coast Structures L.L.C, Darien, contractor for Stephen Minor. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 665 Steamboat Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $950,000. Filed Aug. 29. East Coast Structures L.L.C., Darien, contractor for Mary Jean and Thomas Tisdale. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 347 Penfield Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $130,000. Filed Aug. 21. Elmwood Estates L.L.C., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 2567 Main St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $6,000. Filed Aug. 27. Espano, Bryan, contractor for Madelyn Cerritelli. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 131B Bison Lane, Stratford. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Aug. 28. Fairfield County Building & Restoration, contractor for the estate of Virginia Wheaton. Add a two-story addition and construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 65 Bonney Terrace, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $28,000. Filed Aug. 28. Giardina, Debra Ann, Shelton. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 50 Great Oak Road, Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,900. Filed Aug. 28. Hamilla, S. William, contractor for Amadeo Cannone. Construct an accessory building with a nonhabitable space at a single-family residence, 37 Tahmore Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $31,000. Filed Aug. 21. Hand, Maeve Durkin, Westport. Repair tree damage to a single-family residence, 53 Kings Highway North, Westport. Estimated cost: $120,000. Filed Aug. 27. Hellthaler, Christopher, contractor for Kelly and Domnic DePiano. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 58 Shagbark Lane, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $38,000. Filed Aug. 26. Hood, Sophia and William Hood, Greenwich. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 1 Partridge Hollow Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $266,000. Filed Aug. 27. Hook, Leon Jr., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 561 to 563 Hollister Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Aug. 29.

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NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events NEW NAME FOR THREE BANKS Residents and business owners in New Canaan, Fairfield and Stamford are seeing their local banks get a new name and look, as THE BANK OF NEW CANAAN, THE BANK OF FAIRFIELD and STAMFORD FIRST BANK officially change their names to that of parent company BANKWELL. There is no change in ownership. Bankwell is owned by Bankwell Financial Group Inc., formerly BNC Financial Group. “The new name connotes a sense of well-being, and promises a premium banking experience,” said CEO PEYTON R. PATTERSON. “It is straightforward, honest and to the point. In short, clients can expect to be treated, served and advised well at Bankwell. “We will continue to be the ‘gold standard’ for what it means to be a community bank, providing the best possible customer service and adding value to the communities we serve,” Patterson said. Bankwell reported it has a “definitive agreement to acquire THE WILTON BANK later this year,” pending regulatory approval.

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GOOD NEWS ARRIVES OVER THE FENCE Wilton-based RIVERSIDE FENCE has been named to INC. magazine’s seventh annual Inc. 500|5000 list, a ranking that showcases the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. The company ranks No. 2,596 on the list with a three-year revenue growth of 136 percent. It is the only fence company from Connecticut to make the list. Riverside Fence manufactures all of its wood fencing onsite. The company also oﬀers a variety of fencing, including PVC, aluminum, chain-link, wrought-iron, driveway gates and more.

TEN FOR THE Y SUSAN ARTURI, JANE BATKIN, ANNE HARRISON, DIANE BLANCHARD, MICHELE SMITH, KAREN KEEGAN, SUSAN MAHONEY, DEBBIE SICILIANO, HEATHER WISE and ANNE WALLACE JUDGE will be honored Sept. 19 at the Spirit of Greenwich Awards sponsored by the YWCA OF GREENWICH. The event is to be held at a private home. This year the YWCA of Greenwich will dispense $2.4 million in programs and services free of charge via workshops, scholarships, crisis intervention and special events. The Spirit Awards event raises funds for those initiatives. For more information, call Danielle LeBrando at 869-6501.

Longtime Trumbull resident and television industry veteran LOU OCCHICONE has been named as the first President and COO of newly formed CMJ CONCEPTS INC. in Trumbull. The new division of CMJ PRODUCTIONS II INC., a global independent production company specializing in high-quality, factual TV series, will focus on creating factual production partnerships with like-minded television networks from around the world. The objective of CMJ Concepts is to develop programming that is fully-financed and provides TV networks with technically customized series and programs that fit their audience profiles.

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PEOPLE’S UNITED BANK, with branches strung between New York and Maine – including in Fairﬁeld County – is helping with regional back-to-school eﬀorts, this year targeting the Empire State. Public schools throughout New York are receiving new classroom supplies for the school year, thanks to a PEOPLE’S UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION $100,000 grant to DONORSCHOOSE.ORG. People’s United Community Foundation joined DonorsChoose.org as a matching program partner, “supporting initiatives that improve the quality of education in low-to moderate-income school districts throughout the People’s United Bank footprint, from New York to Maine.” Through the DonorsChoose.org website, teachers submitted project requests for materials and resources needed to enhance students’ learning experiences. The People’s United Community Foundation grant provided 50 percent of the costs for eligible classroom projects, with the remainder donated by individuals, bringing the total campaign impact to $40,000.

WAGNER TAPPED TO PILOT OFFICES FOR COLDWELL BANKER RESIDENTIAL

COLDWELL BANKER RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE announced GREGG WAGNER has been appointed regional vice president of Fairfield and Litchfield counties. Reporting to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage President CATHLEEN F. SMITH, Wagner will be responsible for the oversight and productivity of the company’s 15 sales offices in Fairfield and Litchfield. Prior to his new role, Wagner served as vice president and brokerage manager of the Cape Cod, Mass., offices for SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY. Both Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Sotheby’s International Realty are part of NRT L.L.C., the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company. “Gregg is a well-respected real estate professional who has a proven track record of cultivating talent, leading offices to greater productivity and motivating his team to achieve impressive sales results,” said Smith “With extensive experience and knowledge of the region’s market, Gregg will offer the type of expertise that will certainly benefit our agents and our homebuyer and seller clients. I am pleased that he has accepted this important new role with our team.” “I look forward to working with this talented group of sales associates and management team to achieve their goals and to continue providing the superior customer service that our customers and clients rely on,” said Wagner, a Greenwich native.

NEW DIRECTOR MARY JOGGERST has assumed leadership of the CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT’s Darien/New Canaan office, 972 Post Road in Darien. Prior to becoming director of the office earlier this year, Joggerst was a clinician in the center’s emergency mobile crisis program, providing services to some of the highest risk adolescents and children in the community. As a member of the crisis team, Joggerst, who has a master’s in social work, provided assessment and stabilization services to children threatening suicide or violence, and to those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. She also dedicated time to providing longerterm individual, group and family therapy to youngsters with a wider range of mental health issues to help them resolve problems and develop skills to more independently manage overwhelming feelings and challenging life circumstances. “Knowing we are meeting such an intense need is extremely fulfilling,” Joggerst said. “Because we offer comprehensive services, we have the tools here to work with and help some very high-risk children and families.”

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MANN AND KEYSTONE TEAM FOR A GOOD CAUSE DOROTHY MANN, the popular women’s clothing and accessories store in New Canaan hosted a charity event to benefit KEYSTONE HOUSE the evening of Sept. 11. The store allowed people to shop all the new fall fashions and accessories with 10 percent of purchases going to Keystone House. Dorothy Mann, owner, opened the store in 1985 in Greenwich and eight years ago moved to Elm Street in New Canaan. The choice of Keystone as the beneficiary for the event came as the result of a longtime client, ELIZABETH P. BALL, president of TFI Envision Inc. in Norwalk. “I decided to do this event because I take an interest in my customer’s lives and Liz has always supported my business. I wanted to support and contribute to something she felt strongly about as a thank you. She is a board member and long time supporter of Keystone House of Norwalk.” said Mann. Keystone is a Norwalk-based nonprofit that provides services for adults with psychiatric disabilities in the Fairfield County area.

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The CONNECTICUT INNOVATION SUMMIT slated for Nov. 7 at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford has a more pressing deadline. Sept. 16 is the deadline to apply for the “Tech Companies to Watch” category. In its seventh year, the Summit recognizes 75 tech start-ups representing cutting edge, early stage and emerging growth companies. If a company is innovative, has the potential to grow quickly and does not exceed $3M in revenue, applicants are urged to contact the sponsoring BUSINESS COUNCIL OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY; call 705-0683.

CAROL MCMANUS, business woman, speaker and host of her daily ‘LinkedIn Lady’ radio show will be the speaker at the Sept. 24 Fall Communication Workshop Series hosted by the Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce. The seminar is at The Westport Inn, 8-11 a.m. The fee for the Lecture is $50 per member and $65 per future member. To register, call 227-9234 or visit westportwestonchamber.com

A nine-week program sponsored by the WOMEN’S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL and titled “Fast Trac New Venture” is “designed for the aspiring or emerging business owner” and is led by business counselors who provide resources, support and motivation to help a business move from concept to new levels of growth via a business plan. Additional counseling is provided following completion of course work. The registration and materials fee is $300, but ﬁnancial assistance may be available. Call 353-1750 for more information.

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on the record Hook, Leon Jr., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 561 to 563 Hollister Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,300. Filed Aug. 30.

Lipka, Alexander, Shelton. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 2 Newport Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $6,560. Filed Aug. 27.

Miller, Charles, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 302 Northfield Drive, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Livingston Builders L.L.C., Greenwich, contractor for GEH Properties L.L.C. Perform interior additions at a commercial building, 133 E. Putnam Ave., Cos Cob. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Miranda, Gloria and William Miranda, Shelton. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 8 Crescent Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $14,811. Filed Aug. 22.

Lopez, Esteban, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 270 Coleman St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,500. Filed Aug. 29.

Miressi, Kerry and Michael Miressi, Shelton. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 49 Wesley Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Lott, Bridget, Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 510 Colorado Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Molnar, Timea and Tibor Molnar, Shelton. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 16 Blacks Hill Road, Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,280. Filed Aug. 28.

Lott, Bridget, Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 512 Colorado Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Muller, Kevin, Fairfield. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 18 Bloomfield Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Lubinski, Barbara and Anthony Lubinski, Shelton. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 63 Cornell St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $7,300. Filed Aug. 27.

Murillo, Maria, Shelton. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 715 to 717 Noble Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $800. Filed Aug. 29.

Lupinski, Robert, contractor for Kate and David Grange. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 3 Tamarac Road, Westport. Estimated cost: $50,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Odell Construction Inc., contractor for Stephen Ramsey. Repair to interior and roof of an existing singlefamily residence, 363 Old Post Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $40,000. Filed Aug. 22.

Kudej, Stanley, Shelton. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 43 Plaskon Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $1,400. Filed Aug. 27.

MacKenhimek, Andrew, Bridgeport. Construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 208 Harriet St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed Aug. 30.

PA Contracting, Port Chester, N.Y., contractor for Maria Jarillo. Repair fire damage at an existing singlefamily residence, 69 to 71 Ives Court, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $12,600. Filed Aug. 28.

Kydes Construction, Milford, contractor for Wells Fargo. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 125 Springdale St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Martins, Jesus, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 923 to 925 Noble Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Lahey Construction, contractor for Diane and Michael Bourque. Add a two-story addition and construct a new deck at an existing single-family residence, 74 Middlebrook Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Mavrioin, Brian, Bridgeport. Perform interior additions at a singlefamily residence, 175 Valley Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $16,500. Filed Aug. 30.

Hylwa Inc., Meriden, contractor for 1700 Park Avenue L.L.C. Fit-out an existing commercial building for 570 Pequonnock St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Aug. 29. J Rodgers Builders L.L.C., contractor for Joan and Christopher Fleming. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 145 Birch Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $175,000. Filed Aug. 23. Jablko Construction, contractor for Raleigh and Patrick Leahy. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 26 Pequot Trail, Westport. Estimated cost: $150,000. Filed Aug. 28. Jean-Calixte, Alfred, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 265 Hawley Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 29. Kardamis, Dean, Bridgeport. Add a two-story addition to an existing single-family residence, 162 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Aug. 27. Khan, Mohammad, Stratford. Convert a single-family residence into a two-family residence, 555 Sedgewick Ave., Stratford. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Lentner, Thomas, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 33 Adams St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Aug. 29. Lewis, Kathleen, Shelton. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 63 Wopowog Trail, Shelton. Estimated cost: $11,000. Filed Aug. 22.

McGough, Peggy, Shelton. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 44 Monroe St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,900. Filed Aug. 28. Merrill Brown Construction Inc., Ridgefield, contractor for Emily and Dominic Maciocia. Perform external renovations at an existing singlefamily residence, 20 Wheeler Road, Ridgefield. Estimated cost: $40,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Pasquerella, Lynda and Wayne Pasqueralla, Shelton. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 14 Falcon Lane, Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Aug. 22. Picataggio, Jeff J., contractor for Luise Bianco. Repair flood damage to a single-family residence, 38 Canal Road, Westport. Estimated cost: $26,000. Filed Aug. 28. Plucinski, Mary, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 169 Deacon St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,000. Filed Aug. 29. Podosek, Anna, Shelton. Add a twostory addition to an existing singlefamily residence, 71 Ojibwa Trail, Shelton. Estimated cost: $19,200. Filed Aug. 27.

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Power Home Remodeling Group, Chester, Pa., contractor for Nicole and Mark Wilhelm. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 58 Reid St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $6,169. Filed Aug. 29. PSG Enterprises, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 540 Atlantic St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,200. Filed Aug. 27. RAM Construction L.L.C., Stamford, contractor for Andrew Wiener. Add a two-story addition and perform interior renovations to an existing single-family residence, 125 Woodside Drive, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $932,000. Filed Aug. 30. Reisman, Louise, Stratford. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 197A Bayfield lane, Stratford. Estimated cost: $1,700. Filed Aug. 28. Rios, Raul, Norwich, contractor for Ruth Jones. Reroof an existing single-family residence, 83 Willow St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $19,000. Filed Aug. 29. Rosles, Christian, Norwalk. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 1310 Reservoir Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $800. Filed Aug. 29. Sakey, Matthew, Fairfield. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 11 Oldfield Drive, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $25,000. Filed Aug. 21. Salcedo, Edy, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 69 Tarinelli Circle, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Aug. 27. Schrom, Rainer and Pinar Oray, Fairfield. Perform external additions at an existing single-family residence, 58 Warsaw St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $11,500. Filed Aug. 30. Sears Home Improvement, Rocky Hill, contractor for Nicole Paul. Replace windows at an existing singlefamily residence, 50 Newfield Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $2,159. Filed Aug. 30. Sienkowski, Richard, Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 93 Mayflower Drive, Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $3,500. Filed Aug. 28. Solar City, Rocky Hill, contractor for Lillie Toni. Install solar panels at an existing single-family residence, 92 Reeds Lane, Stratford. Estimated cost: $10,290. Filed Aug. 28.

Stabile, Kathlene, Shelton. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 372 Navajo Loop, Shelton. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Aug. 22. State Street and Bridgeport L.P., Bridgeport. Perform interior renovations at an existing commercial building, 651 State St., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed Aug. 29. Storms Construction Company L.L.C., contractor for Bonita Svrcek. Raise a single-family residence above the base flood elevation, 307 Eastlawn St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $30,000. Filed Aug. 23. Storms Construction Company L.L.C., contractor for Bonita Svrcek. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 307 Eastlawn St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $120,000. Filed Aug. 23. Sunwood Condominium, Shelton. Reroof an existing residential community, 81 to 85 Black Birch Court, Shelton. Estimated cost: $24,800. Filed Aug. 23. T N T Builders L.L.C., contractor for Christopher Klutch. Repair storm damage to a single-family residence, 963 Fairfield Beach Ave., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $2,500. Filed Aug. 22. Takano, Kumi, Greenwich. Perform interior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 40 Ettl Lane, Unit 19, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Aug. 30. Terry Contracting, Stratford, contractor for the city of Bridgeport. Perform external renovations at an existing single-family residence, 179 Seaview Ave., Bridgeport. Estimated cost: $944,800. Filed Aug. 30. THD at Home Services Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., contractor for Viveca and Walter Woods. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 2 Bote Court, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $7,120. Filed Aug. 28. THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Helen J. Hart. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 44 Fox St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,189. Filed Aug. 21. THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Megan and James Quinn. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 508 Wilson St., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,678. Filed Aug. 21.

THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Thu Loan and Thach Bao Tran. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 112 Benedict Ave., Fairfield. Estimated cost: $3,361. Filed Aug. 21. THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Elizabeth Nelson. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 29 Falmouth Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $1,996. Filed Aug. 21. THD at Home Services Inc., Shrewsbury, Mass., contractor for Barbara and Robert Duggan. Replace windows at an existing single-family residence, 273 Mailands Road, Fairfield. Estimated cost: $1,776. Filed Aug. 21. The Gardiner Group L.L.C., New Canaan, contractor for 465 Field Point Realty L.L.C. Perform interior and exterior renovations at an existing single-family residence, 465 Field Point Road, Greenwich. Estimated cost: $350,000. Filed Aug. 27.

COURT CASES

Bridgeport District Court city of Marlborough, Marlborough, Mass. Filed by Santa Buckley Energy Inc., Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Joel Z. Green, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breachof-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay for gas delivered by the plaintiff. Filed Aug. 26. C ase no. 6037503. Foote, Arthur d.b.a. Yankee Restoration Inc. Filed by Allied Building Products Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Steven M. Zelman, Farmington. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $14,630.75 for goods delivered by the plaintiff. Filed Aug. 26. Case no. 6037501. Riverview Realty & Development Corp., Stamford. Filed by Merrit Contractors Inc., Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Paul A. Sobel, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay for a construction contract entered between the defendant and the plaintiff. Filed Aug. 26. Case no. 6037502. St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Filed by Connecticut Post Publishing Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Howard Evan Ignal, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $4,879.82 for advertising services performed for the defendant. Filed Aug. 27. Case no. 6037555.

on the record Town of Fairfield, et al., Fairfield. Filed by Virginia Fingelly, Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Salvatore Law Firm, Milford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for the improper issuance of permits. Filed Aug. 27. Case no. 6037513.

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Powerplay Merketing & Media L.L.C., New Canaan. Filed by The Star Ledger, Newark, N.J. Plaintiff’s attorney: Myra L. Graubard, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $6,869.70 for advertising services performed by the plaintiff. Filed Sept. 3. Case no. 6019665.

SUPERIOR COURT

Brunetti & Sons Property Management, et al. Filed by Colonial Automobile Co. d.b.a. Colonial Ford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Christopher G. Winans, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant for failing to pay for automobile services performed for the defendant. Filed Sept. 3. Case no. 6013423.

Allied Community Resources Inc. and Robeth Meyer, Norwich. Filed by Jacqueline Frederic, East Windsor. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lorenzo J. Cicchiello, Norwich. Action: The plaintiff has brought this discrimination and harassment suit in the workplace against the defendant. Filed Aug. 27. Case no. 13cv1251.

Silvestri Group L.L.C. Filed by DHD Windows & Doors L.L.C., et al. Plaintiff’s attorney: Joseph M. Tobin, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay $6,248.56 for supplies and services provided to the defendant. Filed Sept. 3. Case no. 6013414.

Ameircan Medical Systems Inc., et al. Filed by Tracy and Dennis Alterio. Plaintiff’s attorney: David M. Bernard, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant after she received a pelvic mesh implant alleging the defendant is negligent for manufacturing and offering to sell a defective product. Filed Aug. 30. Case no. 13cv1277.

Stamford District Court Aesthetic Surgery Center L.L.C., et al. Filed by Loriann Pelletier. Plaintiff’s attorney: Terrence S. Hawkins, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this malpractice suit against the defendant that failed to warn the patient of certain risks associated with her surgery. Files Sept. 4. Case no. 6019700. Haviland Arms Condominium Association Inc., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Herbert Valentine. Plaintiff’s attorney: James A. Fulton, Greenwich. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant for injuries sustained while making use of the defendant’s sidewalk. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 6019652. Longo’s Rent-A-Tool Inc., Stamford. Filed by T Dev Construction Services Inc., Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Dominick M. Angotta, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-of-contract suit against the defendant for failing to pay for removal services that were provided to the defendant in the amount of $8,795.32. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 6019653.

B&J Multiservice Corp., et al. Filed by American Contractors Indemnity Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Matthew M. Horowitz, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach-ofcontract suit against the defendant. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 13cv1262. C.R. Bard Inc. and Tissue Science Laboratories Limited. Filed by Maria and Nelson Pimental. Plaintiffs’ attorney: David M. Bernard, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiffs have brought this product-liability suit against the defendant for marketing, selling and distributing Pelvicol, which they claim is defective. Filed Aug. 28. Case no. 13cv1257. Haynes Brokerage Group Inc., Martinsville, Va. Filed by PHL Variable Insurance Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Eric L. Sussman, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breachof-contract suit against the defendant for its failure to pay for the insurance policies issued to the defendant. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 13cv1271. Metro North Commuter Railroad Co., New Haven. Filed by Timothy Fontaine, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Patrick J. Filan, Westport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant upon the derailment of one of its commuter trains and collision with another train. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 13cv1261.

Metro North Commuter Railroad Co. Filed by Lionel Harris, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: Patrick J. Filan, Westport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal-injury suit against the defendant upon the derailment of one of its commuter trains and collision with another train. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 13cv1263. Pall Corp., Port Washington, N.Y. Filed by Joseph M. Adiletta, East Windsor. Plaintiff’s attorneys: Nicole M Rothgeb and Gregg D. Adler, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this age-discrimination in the workplace suit against the defendant. Filed Aug. 27. Case no. 13cv1252. Shetucket Iron & Metal Company Inc., Norwich. Filed by Soundkeeper Inc., et al. Plaintiff’s attorneys: Alexandra Ilona Hankovsky, Edan Rothenberg and Reed W. Super, New York City. Action: The plaintiff has brought this clean-water-act suit against the defendant for discharging polluted storm water from its premises. Filed Aug. 29. Case no. 13cv1276. Thomas Products Limited, et al., Southington. Filed by Dickson Larriu Jr., Portland. Plaintiff’s attorney: Emanuele Robert Cicchiello, Hartford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this race-discrimination suit against the defendant, claiming it maintains a negligent and hostile working environment. Filed Aug. 30. Case no. 13cv1281.

DEEDS

COMMERCIAL 180 Westport Partners L.L.C., Wilton. Seller: Baystreet Properties L.L.C., Chester. Property: 180 Post Road East, Westport. Amount: $10.6 million. Filed Aug. 30.

QUIT CLAIM Leahy, Brendan, Fairfield. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A., San Francisco, Calif. Property: 2417 Broadbridge Ave., Stratford. Amount: $130,000. Filed Sept. 3. Mason, Steven, Stratford. Seller: Susan Mason Lazarev, Burlington, Vt. Property: 1275 Success Ave., Stratford. Amount: $68,000. Filed Aug. 27. Neuhoff, John, Sandy Hook. Seller: Sherril J. and Vincnet R. Johns, Oklahoma City, Okla. Property: 48 Algonquin Trail, Sandy Hook. Amount: $16,500. Filed Sept. 4.

Neuhoff, Maya and John Neuhoff, Sandy Hook. Seller: Sherril J. and Vincnet R. Johns, Oklahoma City, Okla. Property: 46 Cedarhurst Trail, Sandy Hook. Amount: $16,500. Filed Sept. 4.

Barnes, Michelle and Mark P. Barnes, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Seller: Rebecca F. and Joseph P. Cerroni, Westport. Property: 9 Baldwin Place, Westport. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Aug. 27.

Rodrigues Ribeiro, Michelle, Stratford. Seller: Flagpole Holdings L.L.C., Newtown. Property: 35 Marsh Way, Stratford. Amount: $24,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Behr, Brant, Norwalk. Seller: Lena Maxine Bailey Saeed, Norwalk. Property: 50 Cedar St., Norwalk. Amount: $180,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Casey, Jessica M. and John W. Casey, Bridgeport. Seller: Caroline M. and Edward J. White, Shelton. Property: 96 Kneen St., Shelton. Amount: $211,750. Filed Aug. 30.

Bergemann, Sarah Elizabeth and Pedro A. Losa, Southport. Seller: E*Trade Bank, West Palm Beach, Fla. Property: 100 Pease Ave., Unit 100, Southport. Amount: $482,500. Filed Aug. 29.

Chacon, Norma D. and David M. DeJesus, Manhasset, N.Y. Seller: Raquel Cueto, Epifania Cueto and Juan A. Cueto, Miami, Fla. Property: 13 Lancaster Drive, Norwalk. Amount: $375,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Birns, Melissa and Richard Birns, Westport. Seller: Mattera Construction 7 Sprucewood Lane L.L.C., Westport. Property: 7 Sprucewood Lane, Westport. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Aug. 27.

Chen, Mei Z. and Qi L. Chen, Bridgeport. Seller: Lucille C. Imperato, Stamford. Property: 297 Glenbrook Road, Stamford. Amount: $389,800. Filed Aug. 27.

RESIDENTIAL 115 Ruane Street L.L.C., Stamford. Seller: Jeanne M. and John M. Sullivan, Fairfield. Property: 115 Ruane St., Fairfield. Amount: $528,937.50. Filed Aug. 27. 191 Second Avenue L.L.C., Stratford. Seller: William S. Curran, Stratford. Property: 191 Second Ave., Stratford. Amount: $126,500. Filed Aug. 29. 6 Cross L.L.C., Westport. Seller: 6 Cobb L.L.C., Westport. Property: 123 Cross Highway, Westport. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Sept. 5. Adelstein, Pamela, Fairfield. Seller: Barbara M. and Edward M. Mason, Fairfield. Property: 107 Marne Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $490,000. Filed Aug. 23. Afonso Pires, Nancy and Michael A. Pires, Shelton. Seller: Michele and Gregory G. Doomany, Shelton. Property: 31 Mimosa Lane, Shelton. Amount: $600,000. Filed Aug. 28. Agresta, Sandra J. and William M. Agresta, Trumbull. Seller: Sheila M. and Richard P. Jenkins, Trumbull. Property: 54 Shelter Rock Road, Trumbull. Amount: $378,000. Filed Aug. 30. Alterman, Amy and Jeffrey Alterman, Trumbull. Seller: Elspeth A. and Theodore E. McCormack, Trumbull. Property: 32 Gray Rock Road, Trumbull. Amount: $395,000. Filed Aug. 30. Aspesi, Marcelo, Cos Cob. Seller: K29 L.L.C., Stamford. Property: 1500 Bedford St., Unit 207, Stamford. Amount: $235,000. Filed Aug. 28. Bach, Nina, Stratford. Seller: Diane DeGennaro, Stratford. Property: 493B Pawnee Lane, Stratford. Amount: $147,000. Filed Sept. 4. Barabas, Peter, Stratford. Seller: Martha K. Gibbons, Stratford. Property: 50 Pine Tree Trail, Stratford. Amount: $177,000. Filed Aug. 29.

Bolanos, Victor, Norwalk. Seller: Andrew B. Rattray, Norwalk. Property: 27 N. Taylor Ave., Unit 4, Norwalk. Amount: $75,000. Filed Aug. 28. Bowman, Robert, trustee, Westport. Seller: Westport Building Company L.L.C., Fairfield. Property: 27 Darbrook Road, Westport. Amount: $425,000. Filed Aug. 30. Brady, Diana M., Bethel. Seller: Margaret E. Scolpino, Bethel. Property: 32 Topstone Drive, Bethel. Amount: $140,000. Filed Sept. 4. Branson, Norma and Donald Branson, Westport. Seller: Jacqueline and Jeffrey Grosberg, Fairfield. Property: 245 Sunnyridge Road, Unit 30, Fairfield. Amount: $210,000. Filed Aug. 27. Bronowicz, Anna, Danbury. Seller: Lucy G. Cushman, Stamford. Property: 14 Woodland Drive Extension, Redding. Amount: $430,000. Filed Aug. 27. Burke, Karen P. and Melissa B. Fahey, Stratford. Seller: Ann L. Hughes, Stratford. Property: 750 E. Broadway, Stratford. Amount: $305,000. Filed Sept. 3. Burke, Sara, New York City. Seller: Carol Ann Gladue Speros, Westport. Property: 4 Scherer Court, Westport. Amount: $634,000. Filed Aug. 30. Burrell, Amy M. and Cass D. Burrell, Killingworth. Seller: George N. Venizelos, Easton. Property: 76 Knapp St., Easton. Amount: $865,000. Filed Sept. 3.

Cannata, Andrea and Darrin Fodor, Monroe. Seller: Diana R. and Charles T. Furdon, Monroe. Property: 179 Cutlers Farm Road, Monroe. Amount: $425,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Chiodo, June M. and George Chiodo, West Haven. Seller: The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. Property: 70 Blackhouse Road, Trumbull. Amount: $186,200. Filed Aug. 29. Conatser, Brian, Stratford. Seller: Matthew T. DeBernardo, Stratford. Property: 146 Wood Ave., Stratford. Amount: $260,000. Filed Sept. 3. Cordova, Karina and Raymond A. Gonzalez, Trumbull. Seller: Monica L. and Brian J. Rogers, Trumbull. Property: 7 Ruth St., Trumbull. Amount: $309,900. Filed Aug. 30. Creamer, Maria D., Stamford. Seller: Kevin G. Tingley, Stamford. Property: 95 Greenleaf Drive, Stamford. Amount: $1.02 million. Filed Aug. 27. CT Garden Estates L.L.C., Westport. Seller: Kim A. Baldwin, Lawrenceville, N.J. Property: 39 Woodcrest Ave., Trumbull. Amount: $175,000. Filed Aug. 28. Cuevas, Marie P. and Richard R. Cuevas, Holliston, Mass. Seller: Mary E. and Roy H. Larsen, Ridgeley, West Va. Property: 6 Manor Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $365,000. Filed Sept. 3. Currie, Alexandra W. and Jeffrey R. Currie, Fairfield. Seller: Olivia H. Dunn, Fairfield. Property: 580 Sasco Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $2.5 million. Filed Aug. 27. Cutler, Dana L. and Robert A. Cutler, White Plains, N.Y. Seller: Stacy L. and Michael A. Moeller, Norwalk/ Westport. Property: 100 Patrick Road, Westport. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Sept. 3.

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on the record Davis, Janet E., Westport. Seller: Catherine Goldschmidt, Westport. Property: 27 Woods Grove Road, Westport. Amount: $762,500. Filed Aug. 27.

Eckert, Christie and Ryan B. Eckert, New York City. Seller: Robert J. Comerford and Russell E. Lawrence, Norwalk. Property: 255 Silvermine Ave., Norwalk. Amount: $860,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Dcunha, Jennifer and Brian Rebello, Westport. Seller: Gayle M. and Jack C. Henry, Westport. Property: 6 Pamela Place, Westport. Amount: $772,000. Filed Aug. 27.

Eldridge, David A., Shelton. Seller: Pamela L. Davies, Bethel. Property: 26 Midway Drive, Bethel. Amount: $140,000. Filed Sept. 5.

Derene, Sharon and Maurice Streicker, Rye Brook, N.Y. Seller: Nina Bach, Stratford. Property: 199A Bayfield Lane, Stratford. Amount: $321,000. Filed Sept. 4.

Ellen V. Chikarova, New Canaan. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Fla. Property: 27 Hulls Highway, Fairfield. Amount: $211,299. Filed Aug. 28.

Derubertis, Valerie A., Danbury. Seller: Toll CT III L.P., Newtown. Property: 25 Woods Lane, Newtown. Amount: $455,677. Filed Sept. 3.

Esposito, Jennifer B. and Gerald D. Esposito, Shelton. Seller: Dolores and Leroy Beavers, Southbury. Property: 204 Beardsley Road, Shelton. Amount: $278,900. Filed Aug. 28.

Devitt, Laurie L. and Frederick D. Krupp, New Canaan. Seller: Barbara K. and C. Edward Oberholtzer, Norwalk. Property: 10 Seaside Place, Norwalk. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Aug. 29. Dinota, Francesca and Pasquale Lungariello, Trumbull. Seller: Carolyn A. Corless, Santee, Calif.; James J. Corless III, Trumbull, and Michael J. Corless, San Diego, Calif. Property, 110 Flint St., Trumbull. Amount: $215,000. Filed Sept. 3. Dohan, Barbara C. and Andrew Dohan, Sandy Hook. Seller: Barbara A. and R.C. Johann, Old Greenwich. Property: 33 Watkins Drive, Sandy Hook. Amount: $465,000. Filed Sept. 3. Douglas, Adilia D. and Thomas S. Douglas, Westport. Seller: Heather S. and Kevin J. Crepeau, Fairfield. Property: 15 Flora Blvd., Fairfield. Amount: $960,000. Filed Aug. 26. Dubois, Regina D., Monroe. Seller: Lee Ann and Earl J. Robinson Jr., Monroe. Property: 28 Pamela Drive, Monroe. Amount: $300,000. Filed Aug. 29. Dubow, Danielle E., Easton. Seller: Janet Z. and Douglas D. Bell, Sandy Hook. Property: 9 Pilgrim Lane, Sandy Hook. Amount: $260,000. Filed Aug. 28. Duncan, Elizabeth A., Fairfield. Seller: Cynthia B. Philpott, Bridgeport. Property: 90 Ryegate Road, Fairfield. Amount: $609,000. Filed Aug. 26. Dunn, Olivia H., Fairfield. Seller: Anthony Holdampf, Southport. Property: 60 Christmas Tree Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Aug. 28.

Evans, Kristy L. and Bradley C. Evans, Fairfield. Seller: Darin J. Ingels, Fairfield. Property: 7 Stillson Place, Fairfield. Amount: $602. Filed Aug. 29.

Gabriel, Beth Marie, Derby. Seller: Herren Y. and Luis A. Rueda, Shelton. Property: 77 Cedarcres Court, Unit 77, Shelton. Amount: $235,000. Filed Aug. 30. Garcia, Kelly Sue and Mauricio Garcia, Schenectady, N.Y. Seller: Carole D. and James A. Brown Jr., Sandy Hook. Property: 48 Marlin Road, Newtown. Amount: $595,000. Filed Aug. 30. Garofalo, David, Shelton. Seller: Cranberry Estates L.L.C., Fairfield. Property: 9 Cisco Drive, Unit 9, Shelton. Amount: $456,300. Filed Aug. 26. Gemski, Kristin M. and Justin C. Gemski, West Harrison, N.Y. Seller: Jean Marie and Joseph M. Montesano Jr., Easton. Property: 20 Canterbury Lane, Easton. Amount: $792,000. Filed Aug. 27. Geronimo, Vito J., Redding. Seller: Ann Forbes, Redding. Property: 26 Woods Way, Unit 11, Redding. Amount: $520,500. Filed Sept. 4.

Fabbro, Deborah A. and Nikolaus W. Wagner, New York City. Seller: Suzanne J. and Todd J. Schettini, Norwalk. Property: 6 Tannery Lane North, Weston. Amount: $753,000. Filed Aug. 28.

Gilman, Brittany E. and Joshua F. Gilman, Darien. Seller: Bruce R. Adler, Weston. Property: 11 November Trail, Weston. Amount: $213,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Fiore, Joan T. and Linda Kiley, Stratford. Seller: Lorraine H. Zitnay and Robert J. Aldino, Stratford. Property: 106 Stonybrook Road, Stratford. Amount: $225,000. Filed Sept. 6.

Gladstein, Geoffrey, Trumbull. Seller: Lisa and Ronald Brown Jr., Trumbull. Property: 60 Frederick St., Trumbull. Amount: $559,900. Filed Aug. 28.

Firgau, Conrad J., Shelton. Seller: Courtney M. Logan and Jason S. Good, Shelton. Property: 26 Manhassett Trail, Shelton. Amount: $179,900. Filed Aug. 28. Fischel, Harold, Westport. Seller: Mohua and Sarbamangal Choudhury, Fairfield. Property: 56 Bibbins Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $514,000. Filed Aug. 23. Florczak, Anna, Shelton. Seller: Grace M. and Joseph N. Bourque, Shelton. Property: 14 West St., Shelton. Amount: $195,000. Filed Aug. 30. Forrester, Ridelle and Carlton Forrester, Stamford. Seller: Janet S. and Louis G. Marino, Monroe. Property: 30 Avenue C, Norwalk. Amount: $369,900. Filed Aug. 28. Friend, Holly H. and Warren H. Friend, Darien. Seller: Roger B. Friend, Shelton. Property: 159 High Hill Road, Shelton. Amount: $305,000. Filed Aug. 27.

FORECLOSURES Asmar, Marshall A., et al. Creditor: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Mendota Heights, Minn. Property: 516 Columbus Ave., Stratford. Mortgage default. Filed Sept. 6. De La Torre, Jadira and Carlos De La Torre, et al. Creditor: The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, Horsham, Pa. Property: 15 Goodwin St., Stamford. Mortgage default. Filed Aug. 28. Lisa, Christine M. and John T. Lisa, et al. Creditor: Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 11 Mount Pleasant St., Shelton. Mortgage default. Filed Aug. 28. Sanchez, Lilian Caro and Sergio A. Sanchez, et al. Creditor: CitiMortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: Unit B16, Linden Terrace Condominium, Norwalk. Mortgage default. Filed Aug. 28.

FORECLOSURES BY SALE CitiMortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Appointed committee: Patrick D. McCabe, Stamford. Property: 93 Lawton Ave., Stamford. Amount: $342,498.83. Filed Aug. 28.

JUDGMENTS Akers, Lorraine, Bethel. $1,115.05, in favor of Bethel Volunteer Fire Department Inc., Bethel, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 7 Eagle Rock Hill, Bethel. Filed Sept. 4. Alfaro, Walter, Stamford. $2,065.79, in favor of Cavalry SPV I L.L.C., Valhalla, N.Y., by William L. Marohn. New Haven. Property: 60 Pine Tree drive, Stamford. Filed Aug. 28. Audio Design Inc. and Ira Fagan, Fairfield. $57,673.66, in favor of Gravity Payments Inc., Seattle, Wash., by Keith R. Ainsworth, New Haven. Property: 75 Craig Court, Fairfield. Filed Aug. 29. Bernstein, Samantha, Fairfield. $20,290.18, in favor of GE Capital Retail Bank, Draper, Utah, by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 275 Lalley Blvd., Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23. Cascella & Son Construction Inc. and Todd Cascella, Monroe. $28,023, in favor of Santa Fuel Inc., Bridgeport, by Joel Z. Green, Bridgeport. Property: 260, 264, 268 Garder Road and 490 Fan Hill Road, Monroe. Filed Aug. 26. Cogswell, Harold J., Norwalk. $3,367.60, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Joseph M. Tobin, New Haven. Property: 18 Spring Hill Ave., Norwalk. Filed Aug. 26. Ditoro, Matthew J., Stratford. $2,527.40, in favor of LVNV Funding L.L.C., Greenville, S.C., by Sara M. Gould, Stamford. Property: 615 N. Johnson Lane, Stratford. Filed Aug. 30. Dorrington, Leigh A., Newtown. $40,074.19, in favor of American Express Centurion Bank, New York City, by Sara M. Gould, Stamford. Property: 46 West St., Newtown. Filed Sept. 3. Fech, Jon M., Fairfield. $5,041.78, in favor of Ed Mitchell Inc., d.b.a. Mitchells of Westport, Westport, by William L. Marohn. New Haven. Property: 172 Eastlawn St., Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23. Francis, Alban M., Stratford. $974.62, in favor of Capital One N.A., Richmond, Va., by Russell L. London, Newington. Property: 36 Homestead Ave., Stratford. Filed Sept. 5.

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Haglund, Kevin P., Stratford. $2,178.80, in favor of Sterling Jewelers Inc., d.b.a. Kay Jewelers, Akron, Ohio, by Sara M. Gould, Stamford. Property: 96 Melville St., Stratford. Filed Aug. 30.

Mileti, Edward A., Fairfield. $9,292.26, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by Joseph M. Tobin, New Haven. Property: 231 Somerset Ave., Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23.

Hammershoy, Thomas J., Bethel. $491.11, in favor of Danbury Diagnostic Imaging, Danbury, by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 65 Benedict Road, Bethel. Filed Aug. 30.

O’Neil, David, Stratford. $19,004.60, in favor of Griffin Hospital, Derby, by Karen E. Lahey, Waterbury. Property: 21 Fairview Ave., Stratford. Filed Sept. 3.

Hoyland-Devaney, Kimberly and Martin G. Devaney, Southport. $10,000, in favor of Stafford Higgins Industries Inc., Westport, by Mark J. Kovach, Westport, 126 Wakeman Lane, Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23. Jones, Andrea, Stratford. $1,166, in favor of Bridgeport Anesthesia, Stratford, by Karen E. Lahey, Waterbury. Property: 253 Barnum Terrace, Stratford. Filed Sept. 5. Junes, Jerry F., Stratford. $769.19, in favor of Capital One N.A., Richmond, Va., by Russell L. London, Newington. Property: 80 Sunrise Terrace, Stratford. Filed Sept. 5. Kochiss, John, Fairfield. $736.05, in favor of Bridgeport Radiology Associates, Bridgeport, by Richard Terry, Hamden. Property: 359 Reid St., Fairfield. Filed Aug. 26. Kodz, Thomas M., Monroe. $28,235.62, in favor of Access Group Inc., by Joel M. Jolles, Hamden. Property: 1 Turtlebrook Trail, Monroe. Filed Aug. 27. Kolenda, Karen, Fairfield. $457.05, in favor of Bridgeport Radiology Associates, Bridgeport, by Jeffrey T. Schuyler, New Britain. Property: 46 Moritz Place, Fairfield. Filed Aug. 27. Lafaro, Rocco, Shelton. $7,162.03, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by William L. Marohn. New Haven. Property: 4 Country Walk, Shelton. Filed Aug. 30. Lamparski, Michael, Fairfield. $1,887.11, in favor of City Line Distributors Inc., West Haven, by Russell L. London, Newington. Property: 661 Galloping Hill Road, Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23. Macchia, John E., Fairfield. $10,978.92, in favor of Asset Acceptance L.L.C., Warren, Mich., by William L. Marohn. New Haven. Property: 30 Eastfield Circle, Fairfield. Filed Aug. 23. McPartland, Laura E., Trumbull. $5,984.21, in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 6 Cypress Lane, Trumbull. Filed Sept. 3.

Pettway, Priscilla, Stratford. $5,080.59, in favor of Astoria Park d.b.a. Parcc Health Care Center, Bridgeport, by Kenneth A. Votre, East Haven. Property: 180 Ryan Ave., Stratford. Filed Sept. 6. Rigney, Dawn, Bethel. $396.46, in favor of Northeast Radiology, New York City, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 7 Rockwell Road, Bethel. Filed Sept. 4. Rodriguez, Brodonosky, Stratford. $18,979.52, in favor of American Express Centurion Bank, New York City, by Sara M. Gould, Stamford. Property: 91 Oakland St., Stratford. Filed Aug. 30. Rodriguez, Milagros, Monroe. $4,444.09, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 327 Fan Hill Road, Monroe. Filed Aug. 26. Sikiotis, Petule, Stamford. $653.30, in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates L.L.C., Norfolk, Va., by Joseph M. Tobin, New Haven. Property: 59 High Rock Road, Stamford. Filed Aug. 28. Szalay, Lorna, Sandy Hook. $524.84, in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Robert L. Peat, Danbury. Property: 3 Oak Drive, Sandy Hook. Filed Aug. 28. Williams, Caston, Norwalk. $405, in favor of Midland Funding L.L.C., San Diego, Calif., by Robert E. Johnson, East Hartford. Property: 27 Neptune Ave., Norwalk. Filed Aug. 23.

LIENS

FEDERAL TAX LIENSFILED B Glenn Blair D P M P.C., 375 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton. $27,058.21, U.S. corporation income tax return. Filed Aug. 26. Boyd, James, 41 Ursala Place, Unit 1, Stamford. $48,109.53, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27.

on the record Chacon, Marco, 77 Benedict St., Apt. 1, Norwalk. $58,068.80, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 28. Cronin, Robert P., 221 Guinea Road, Monroe. $117,422.08, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Cronin, Robert P., 221 Guinea Road, Monroe. $4,749.87, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Duffy, Thomas P., 85 Ivy Lane, Southport. $115,772.79, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Erwin, Charlene E. and Robert C. Erwin, 38 Pumpkin Hill Road, Westport. $8,299.73, tax debt on income earned. Filed Sept. 3. Ferro, Carol and Raymond Ferro, 14 Weed Road, Bethel. $40,557.98, tax debt on income earned. Filed Sept. 3. Harbinson, Thomas W., 15 Soundcrest Drive, Shelton. $61,009.60, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 26. Henry, Leversey Jr., 59 Providence Ave., Apt. A, Shelton. $27,218.37, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Hiren, J. and Dimpal Patel, 121 Meadow St., Shelton. $16,954.57, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 26. Holmes, Russell R., 14677 Via Bettong, Unit 331, San Diego, Calif. $62,990.26, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Hooker, Samuel, 35 Bayberry Lane, Easton. $17,296.03, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 19. J&J Fence Service, 43 Dale St., Stamford. $11,877.33, payroll taxes and quarterly tax returns. Filed Aug. 27.

Santos, Steven A. Sr., 4363 Madison Ave., Trumbull. $20,703.29, tax debt on income earned; and trust fund recovery penalty and/or excise taxes imposed. Filed Sept. 3. Schatten, Petra and Mark B. Schatten, 15 Fairweather Drive, Norwalk. $22,758.96, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Schrager, Sher H. and Frederick Schrager, 98 Southfield Ave., Apt. 603, Stamford. $94,443.94, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSRELEASED B Glenn Blair D P M P.C., 375 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton. $18,157.32, payroll taxes. Filed Aug. 26. Cobb, Bernadette and Calvin Cobb, 96 Bridle Trail, Fairfield. $1,458.14, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Cobb, Bernadette and Calvin Cobb, 96 Bridle Trail, Fairfield. $156.15, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Cobb, Calvin E., 96 Bridle Trail, Fairfield. $18,361.55, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Dickson, Marion L., P. O. Box 6698, Stamford. $240,825.29, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Dinino, Ennio, P.O. Box 4228, Stamford. $15,777.24, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27. Gilmore, Pam K. and Sean O. Gilmore, P.O. Box 548, Fairfield. $2,857.60, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27.

Martini, Alfred V., 65 High Meadow Road, Easton. $33,276.56, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 19.

Orrico, Diane and Anthony Orrico, 11 Grandview Ave., Bethel. $43,822.10, tax debt on income earned. Filed Sept. 5.

Monroe Town & Country Veterinary, 607 Main St., Monroe. $1,626.26, payroll taxes. Filed Aug. 27.

Renasci Academy of Hair Inc., 3 Isaac St., Norwalk. $67.36, payroll taxes. Filed Aug. 27.

Negron, C. Quinones and Miguel Negron, 5 Sherwood St., Norwalk. $16,932.36, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 27.

Ridgefield Cycle Centre Inc., 1492 High Ridge Road, Stamford. $12,505.40, payroll taxes. Filed Aug. 27.

Peterson Jack, Caryn and Andrew Peterson Jack, 85 Norton Road, Easton. $87,844.30, tax debt on income earned. Filed Aug. 26.

FEDERAL TAX LIENSWITHDRAWAL Galiani, Jacqueline and Jeffrey B. Galiani, 97 Saxony Drive, Trumbull. $54,335.63, tax debt on income earned. Filed Sept. 3.

Galiani, Jacqueline and Jeffrey B. Galiani, 97 Saxony Drive, Trumbull. $31,739.63, tax debt on income earned. Filed Sept. 3.

MECHANIC’S LIENSFILED 500 Shelton Avenue L.L.C., Shelton. Filed by Green Day Construction L.L.C., Stamford, by Cassandra Damascus. Property: 500 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Amount: $74,300. Filed Aug. 29. 500 Shelton Avenue L.L.C., West Haven. Filed by Concrete Coring L.L.C., North Haven, by Anthony Dara Jr. Property: 500 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Amount: $1,586. Filed Aug. 30. 682 Commerce Drive Associates L.P., Fairfield. Filed by Southern CT Welding Inc., Westport, by John Mori. Property: 682 Commerce Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $16,007.67. Filed Aug. 23. Malasky, Daspina and Daniel Malasky, Westport. Filed by Premier Partners & Associates L.L.C., Westport, by Patrick Snow. Property: 35 Bermuda Road, Westport. Amount: $2,900. Filed Sept. 4. Saugatuck Construction Group L.L.C., Stamford. Filed by J. Videira’s Paving L.L.C., Bridgeport, by Maria E. Videira. Property: 500 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Amount: $92,255. Filed Aug. 27. Saugatuck Construction Group L.L.C., Shelton. Filed by Three T’s L.L.C., Trumbull, by Steven Boa Demaura, Bethel. Property: 500 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Amount: $8,650. Filed Aug. 28. Saugatuck Construction Group L.L.C., Stamford and People’s United Bank, Shelton. Filed by Arboreta Landscapes L.L.C., Milford, by Michael Kijewski. Property: 500 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Amount: $39,122.14. Filed Aug. 27.

MECHANIC’S LIENSRELEASED Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford. Filed by Reliable Truss and Components Inc., Mansfield, Mass., by Manuel M. Pina. Property: 6900 Main St., Stratford. Amount: $224,187. Filed Aug. 30.

LIS PENDENS Almeida, Susan W. and Gary E. Almeida, Stratford. Filed by Kristen Haseney, Hartford, for PNC Bank N.A., Pittsburgh, Pa. Property: 91 Sands Place, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $139,600, dated September 2003. Filed Sept. 6. Assis Santos, Ana L. and Joao P. Filho Dossantos, Bethel. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Household Realty Corp., Dayton, Ohio. Property: 35 Fairchild Drive, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $306,704.18, dated October 2007. Filed Sept. 5. Azarian, Gary A., et al., Fairfield. Filed by James W. Donohue, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 192 Hawthorne Drive, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $360,000, dated October 2005. Filed Aug. 29. Barnish, Margaret Mary, et al., Stratford. Filed by James W. Donohue, Farmington, for Hudson City Savings Bank, Yonkers, N.Y. Property: 65 Longbranch Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $190,000, dated June 2007. Filed Sept. 5. Barrett, Chandra Owens, Norwalk. Filed by James W. Donohue, Farmington, for Hudson City Savings Bank, Yonkers, N.Y. Property: 66 Martin Drive, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $278,000, dated March 2008. Filed Aug. 29. Bernadel, Victor, et al., Stratford. Filed by James W. Donohue, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 1650 James Farm Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $417,000, dated March 2009. Filed Aug. 30. Blanco, Silvia C. and Jesus L. Flores, Norwalk. Filed by Amanda Tiernan, West Warwick, R.I, for Deutsche Bank National Trust, trustee, Los Angeles, Calif. Property: 15 Grey Hollow Road, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $516,000, dated June 2005. Filed Aug. 30.

Brown, Barbara, et al., Norwalk. Filed by James W. Donohue, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 97 W. Norwalk Road, Unit 5, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $229,000, dated November 2001. Filed Aug. 29.

Ellis, Yvonne C., Stratford. Filed by Christopher J. McCarthy, Hartford, for Connecticut Housing Financial Authority, Bridgeport. Property: 20 Tomlinson Place, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $141,324, dated September 2011. Filed Sept. 6.

Cacciola, Ronald J., et al., Redding. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 34 Black Rock Turnpike, Redding. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $495,000, dated March 2005. Filed Aug. 28.

Fisk, Gregg, Redding. Filed by Assafz. Ben-Atar, Bridgeport, for Georgetown Place Condominium Association Inc., Redding. Property: 56 Portland Ave., Unit 6, Redding. Action: to foreclose on unpaid common assessments. Filed Sept. 3.

Chrysadakis, John, et al., Fairfield. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 43 Vermont Ave., Fairfield. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $430,000, dated March 2005. Filed Aug. 29. Contreras, Edwin, et al., Stamford. Filed by Jeffrey M. Knickerbocker, Hartford, for Citimortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: 192 Richmond Hill Ave., Unit 15, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $96,000, dated March 2004. Filed Aug. 27.

Giraldo, Marybel and Marino Giraldo, Norwalk. Filed by Christopher J. McCarthy, Hartford, for Connecticut Housing Financial Authority, Bridgeport. Property: 4 Phillips St., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $332,800, dated June 2007. Filed Aug. 28. Greenfield, Sharon M. and David B. Greenfield, et al., Stratford. Filed by Kristen Haseney, Hartford, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, D.C. Property: 430 Brinsmayd Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $417,000, dated January 2008. Filed Sept. 6.

Costello, Georgianna T., Norwalk. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Citimortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: 24 Hollow Tree Road, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $268,000, dated June 2006. Filed Aug. 27.

Harianto, Regina H., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Valerie A. Finney, Farmington, for CitiMortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: 26 Strawberry Hill Ave., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated January 2007. Filed Aug. 26.

Deptula, Catherine and Robert A. Deptula Jr., et al., Shelton. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for JPMC Specialty Mortgage L.L.C., San Diego, Calif. Property: 47 Grove St., Shelton. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $205,000, dated December 2008. Filed Aug. 29.

Herzog, Peter E., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Valerie A. Finney, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 100 Richards Ave., Unit 402, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $230,000, dated June 2005. Filed Aug. 23.

Dewey, Caroline and Charles E. Dewey, et al., Westport. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: Westport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $589,000, dated March 2005. Filed Aug. 28.

Horse Tavern Builders L.L.C. and Horse Tavern Development L.L.C., Fairfield. Filed by Kathleen M Dunn, Stratford, for Horse Tavern Builders L.L.C. Property: 291 Mill Hill Road, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a mechanic’s lien. Filed Aug. 26.

Edwards, Robert C., et al., Trumbull. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 46 Raleigh Road, Trumbull/Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $193,288, dated March 2011. Filed Sept. 3.

Huston, Leslie Jane, Newtown. Filed by Thomas J. Welch, Shelton, for Webster Bank N.A., Waterbury. Property: 8 Hopewell Junction, Newtown. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage dated August 2003. Filed Aug. 30.

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on the record Ibarra, Ismael A., et al., Westport. Filed by Valerie A. Finney, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: Westport. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $225,600, dated March 2001. Filed Aug. 28. Inno-Haven L.L.C. and Nanoviricides Inc., Shelton. Filed by Stuart A. Margolis, New Haven, for Svigals and Partners L.P., New Haven. Property: 1 Controls, Shelton. Action: to foreclose on a mechanic’s lien. Filed Aug. 26. Jack Curtis & Associates; and Dorothy P. and Jack Curtis, Monroe. Filed by Vincent L. Noce Jr., Bridgeport, for Charbarry Square Association Inc., Monroe. Property: 500 Purdy Hill Road, Unit 4, Monroe. Action: to foreclose a statutory lien on this unit. Filed Aug. 30. Johnson, Anita R. and Allen L. Jr., Stratford. Filed by Erin A. Mutty, Hartford, for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 712 Sedgewick Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $170,000, dated April 2006. Filed Sept. 3. Jones, Kenneth B., Monroe. Filed by Anna Gersham, Armonk, N.Y., for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 638 Elm St., Monroe. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $287,000, dated July 2005. Filed Aug. 26. Kelly, Dawn M. and Brian C. Kelly, et al., Norwalk. Filed by Simon Sumberg, Norwalk, for Thomas Place Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: 11 Thomas Place, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a lien held by the plaintiff, against real property. Filed Aug. 26. Kelly, Lisa and Francis E. Kelly, Stratford. Filed by Marisa M. Engel, Milford, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 85 Ruby Lane, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $394,108, dated September 2010. Filed Sept. 6. Lanham, Kim, Stratford. Filed by Dyan M. Kozaczka, Orange, for Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 55 Agresta Drive, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $75,509, dated March 2008. Filed Sept. 3.

Lee, Chia-Han and Min Yu Lee, et al., Stamford. Filed by Erik Loftus, East Hartford, for PHH Mortgage Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. Property: 202 Soundview Ave., Unit 11, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $393,300, dated June 2008. Filed Aug. 27. Moller, Marguerite and Thomas J. Probert and Catherine D’Amore, et al., Stratford. Filed by Holly L. Rutko, Pawtucket, R.I., for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 25 Denton Place, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $260,000, dated June 2006. Filed Aug. 29.

Pompee, Marie M. and Destin Pompee, et al., Stratford. Filed by Christopher J. McCarthy, Hartford, for Connecticut Housing Financial Authority, Bridgeport. Property: 50 Roosevelt Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $128,000, dated April 2011. Filed Aug. 28. Purcell, Lisa and Stephen Purcell, et al., Fairfield. Filed by Jeffrey M. Knickerbocker, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md. Property: 34 Overlook Ave., Fairfield. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $200,000, dated May 2005. Filed Aug. 29.

Mucci Cruz, Jennifer and Ary Cruz Jr., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Steven G. Berg, Norwalk, for Foxboro Court Condominium Association Inc., Norwalk. Property: 312 Foxboro Drive, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on unpaid common charges and assessments. Filed Aug. 30.

Rabines, Dulce E. and Carlos A. Rabines, Fairfield. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 89 Adley Road, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $413,100, dated February 2009. Filed Aug. 27.

Murphy, Linda, Stratford. Filed by Marisa M. Engel, Milford, for U.S Bank N.A., trustee, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 212 McGrath Court, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $141,950, dated September 2006. Filed Sept. 6.

Reeb, Gail A., et al., Bethel. Filed by Loren M. Bisberg, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 78 Deer Run, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $95,000, dated December 2005. Filed Sept. 4.

Ordonez, Blanca L. and Isaud Ordonez Posadas, et al., Stratford. Filed by Joshua Pedreira, Hartford, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 320 West Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $178,000, dated December 2007. Filed Sept. 3.

Reyes, Mercedes, et al., Stratford. Filed by Jeffrey M. Knickerbocker, Hartford, for CitiMortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Mo. Property: 400 Ferry Blvd., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $200,000, dated July 2008. Filed Sept. 3.

Parrotta, Dante, Stamford. Filed by Kristen Haseney, Hartford, for HSBC Bank USA N.A., Buffalo, N.Y. Property: 14 Hubbard Ave., Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $482,000, dated August 2006. Filed Aug. 27. Pertesis, Maria L., Fairfield. Filed by Adrienne Roach, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 235 to 237 Roselle St., Fairfield. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $520,000, dated November 2007. Filed Aug. 27. Pham, Trung V. and Giau N. Phan, et al., Stratford. Filed by Kenneth J. Pollock, Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 192 Soundview Ave., Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $232,000, dated May 2006. Filed Aug. 29.

Reynolds, Deborah, et al., Bethel. Filed by Jeffrey M. Knickerbocker, Hartford, for JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Columbus, Ohio. Property: 16 Sunny Acres Road, Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $370,000, dated January 2007. Filed Sept. 4. Robinson, Casey R., et al., Newtown. Filed by Adrienne Roach, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, New York City. Property: 11 Fieldstone Drive, Newtown. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $342,000, dated August 2005. Filed Sept. 4. Sapione, Emily and William Sapione, et al., Norwalk. Filed by Anna Gersham, Armonk, N.Y., for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 2 Spring Hill Ave., Unit 10, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $367,016, dated May 2009. Filed Aug. 23.

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Talley, Robert, et al., Norwalk. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for Bank of America N.A., Charlotte, N.C. Property: 18 Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $98,600, dated November 2006. Filed Aug. 26. Tapia, Celia and Raul Caceres, et al., Bethel. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C., Lewisville, Texas. Property: 88 Wooster St., Bethel. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $288,000, dated March 2007. Filed Sept. 4. Tyson, Shereda Y., et al., Norwalk. Filed by Kristen Boyle, Hartford, for JPMC Specialty Mortgage L.L.C., San Diego, Calif. Property: 135 Flax Hill Road, Unit 17B, Norwalk. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $168,500, dated June 2005. Filed Aug. 28. Valentine, Shyanne M., et al., Stratford. Filed by Christopher J. Smedick, Milford, for town of Stratford. Property: 237 Short Beach Road, Stratford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage. Filed Aug. 29. Villano, Ellen and Anthony Villano and Shorty Long Irons I L.L.C., Stratford. Filed by Timothy D. Miltenberger, New Haven, for Harborside Associates L.L.C., Stratford. Property: 946 Ferry Blvd., Stratford. Action: to avoid a fraudulent transfer of property to the defendants. Filed Sept. 3. Wilson, Sylvester, et al., Stamford. Filed by Adrienne Roach, Hartford, in favor of Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Frederick, Md., 73 Seaton Road, Unit A1, Stamford. Action: to foreclose a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $140,390, dated December 2006. Filed Aug. 28.

MORTGaGES

commerciaL

NEW BUSINESSES 1414 Publishing, 11 Redwood Drive, Bethel 06801, c/o Adrienne Austermann. Filed Sept. 5.

Barnum Discount Liquor Store, 2248 Barnum Ave., Stratford 06497, c/o Tony Y. Makari. Filed Sept. 3.

Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices New England Properties, 860 N. Main Street Extension, Wallingford 06492, c/o CTRE . Filed Sept. 3.

Dan’s Liquors, 607 Post Road East, Westport 06880, c/o Raymond E. Battaglia Sr. Filed Sept. 4.

Blossoms at Daniels Flower Shop, 2151 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield 06825, c/o LKH&S L.L.C. Filed Aug. 19.

Sports Corner Café, 1212 Stratford Ave., Stratford 06615, c/o Cheryl Skirmont. Filed Sept. 3.

C A S Consulting & Publishing, 8 Pleasant Valley Lane, Westport 06880, c/o Carl A. Swanson. Filed Sept. 3.

PaTENTS

CTRE L.L.C., 860 N. Main Street Extension, Wallingford 06492, c/o CTRE . Filed Sept. 3. Carole Fenton (travel services), 55 Bunnell Ave., Stratford 06614, c/o Carole Fenton. Filed Sept. 5. Events d.b.a. Seven Herman, 96 Fairmount St., Bridgeport 06606, c/o Steven Herman. Filed Aug. 23. Fabulous Evens CT, 1 Beaconview Drive, Fairfield 06825, c/o May Clark. Filed Aug. 19. Paw in Hand Animal Healing, 36 Center St., Westport 06880, c/o Denise Cain. Filed Sept. 5. Resevved Magazine, 773 Judson Place, Stratford 06615, c/o Whitney Mercudio. Filed Aug. 28. Soluxe Energy Solutions, 225 Main St., Westport 06880, c/o Soluxe Inc. Filed Aug. 30. Sun and Moon Healing Arts, 36 Center St., Westport 06880, c/o Denise Cain. Filed Sept. 5. The Nauti Dolphin, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield 06824, c/o S&G Levee L.L.C. Filed Aug. 22.

B W Church East L.L.C., Westport, by David A. Waldman. Lender: Bank of Fairfield, Fairfield. Property: 44 to 52 Church Lane, Westport. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Aug. 29.

Thrive One Inc., 42 E. Paulding St., Fairfield 06824, c/o Julia Turner Life Coach. Filed Aug. 30.

CONSTRUCTION

Universal Building Services, 189 Brentwood Ave., Fairfield 06825, c/o Paul and Robert Taddiera. Filed Aug. 26.

180 Westport Partners L.L.C., Wilton, by Luzern Realty Fund II L.P. Lender: Washington Trust Co., Westerly, R.I. Property: 180 Post Road, Westport. Amount: $10.5 million. Filed Aug. 30.

NEW LIQUOR LICENSES

Well Path Press, 2860 North St., Fairfield 06824, c/o Randi Redmond Oster L.L.C. Filed Aug. 29. Wine Media, 100 Dalewood Ave., Fairfield 06824, c/o Barbara Marsh. Filed Aug. 19.

Chromatography oven with heat exchange and method of use. Patent no. 8,529,672 issued to Jim Botelho, Danbury; Stephen Pignataro Jr., Norwalk; John Mezzoni, Milford; and John H. Vanderhoef, Stratford. Assigned to PerkinElmer Health Sciences Inc., Waltham, Mass. Cluster model for controlling color in a color-marking device. Patent no. 8,531,734 issued to Lalit Mestha, Fairport, N.Y.; Edul N. Dalal, Webster, N.Y.; and Wencheng Wu, Webster, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. Interface that allows a user to rifﬂe through pages of an electronic document. Patent no. 8,533,623 issued to Robert J. St. Jacques Jr., Fairport, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. Production digital printer. Patent no. D689,544 issued to Mark S. Penke, West Henrietta, N.Y.; Donald A. Brown, Honeoye Falls, N.Y.; and Karen Reid, Walworth, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk. Release-agent-resistant fixing belts, fixing devices and methods of making fixing belts. Patent no. 8,532,555 issued to Sandra L. Schmitt, Williamson, N.Y.; Augusto E. Barton, Webster, N.Y.; and Kevin H. Taft, Williamson, N.Y. Assigned to Xerox Corp., Norwalk.

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State Spending, Obamacare, Taxes Impacting Economic Growth

hile Connecticut’s economy showed signs of growth in recent quarters, employers remain concerned about the state’s business climate and overall economic outlook according to a survey released today. The 2013 Survey of Connecticut Businesses, published by CBIA and the accounting, tax, and consulting firm BlumShapiro, identifies issues and trends within the state’s economic, fiscal, and regulatory climates. The survey revealed modest improvement in private sector job creation, with 43% of companies having hired or planning to hire new employees in 2013 and 47% saying they will add jobs in 2014. Speaking at the release of the survey results during today’s Connecticut Economy conference in Rocky Hill, CBIA economist Pete Gioia said he expected the state will see positive jobs numbers over the next 15 months, “maybe not as strong as we’d like.” Manufacturing Growth? For manufacturers, those job creation numbers jump to 48% in 2013 and 56% in 2014. Two-thirds of those companies adding jobs did report problems finding qualified workers to fill positions. Employers cited state and national economic weakness, the state’s business climate, and labor costs associated with government mandates as ongoing barriers to private sector job creation efforts.

“We must redouble our efforts to make our state the best place for businesses to grow and create good jobs. If we fail to do that, our future will not be as bright as it should be for future generations.” State’s Economy Tops Concerns Connecticut’s economy was the single greatest concern for 34% of businesses, followed by national economic uncertainty (21%), tax burden (14%), Obamacare (11%), and regulatory compliance costs (9%). Looking ahead to 2014, when federal healthcare reform requirements take effect, the percentage of businesses that ranked implementation as their top concern doubled to 22%, second only to state economic issues (26%). Thomas DeVitto, BlumShapiro’s chief marketing officer, said many companies were “planning for the worst” in meeting the Affordable Care Act’s requirements. Gioia added that businesses must get educated about the impact of Obamacare.

Just 11% felt the state was a positive place to do business, reflecting concerns over the pace of the state’s economic recovery and Connecticut’s ability to compete on a regional, national, and global basis. Economic Competitiveness “There are fundamental reasons Connecticut lags the nation in recovery and these latest survey results underscore some of those key issues,” said Don Klepper-Smith, chief economist at DataCore Partners. “There is an indisputable link between business vitality and state fiscal policy, which impacts our long-term economic competitiveness.” Quality of life continues to be one of the state’s greatest business assets, cited by 54% of respondents, with proximity to customers and major markets nominated by 41%. Exporting also continues to be an area of strength, with 79% of manufacturers and 32% of the state’s businesses overall engaged in international trade.

More than half (56%) of surveyed businesses expected to record a profit this year, down three percentage points from 2012. Twenty-eight percent expect to break even in 2013, a 10-point jump from last year. “Despite the challenges businesses have identified with our economy this year, Connecticut companies continue to invest in their employees and infrastructure,” DeVitto said. “It’s imperative that we create the proper business climate in order for these companies to thrive and profit in Connecticut.”  Learn more at gov.cbia.com

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What Obamacare Means for Small Business

he Affordable Care Act (ACA) poses many challenges for employers, and we know that many of you have questions. We also know that you rely on us and your broker to guide you to make the right health insurance choices for your company. With January 1, 2014—the date many of the healthcare reform regulations take effect—right around the corner, this is an especially confusing time. We’d like to help. How does the ACA specifically impact your company? If your company has fewer than 50 employees, join us for an important meeting about the ACA. Our business and insurance industry experts will move beyond high-level concepts and provide practical information you can use immediately to navigate any regulatory changes and human resources obligations heading your way.

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“Connecticut is fortunate to have a wide array of businesses that can be competitive,” said CBIA president and CEO John R. Rathgeber. “Many states recognize this and are recruiting Connecticut companies to make investments in their locales.

About half of those surveyed viewed conditions for their companies as below average, while 28% ranked them as average, and 24% said conditions were above average.

Topics:  ACA update  New benefit plans, rating rules, and what that means to you  Purchasing choices: private-sector vs. public exchange  Subsidies, tax credits, and penalties  Your responsibilities to your employees and the government  Extensive Q & A. Bring your questions. Date

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