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A reader sent in this photo of the Greenwich Time Pub in Detroit. Sounds like a cool place, except it’s in Detroit. Here are the photo and a description of the restaurant:

Restaurant Description
Greenwich Time Pub is a restaurant that allows all customers to benefit from a neighborhood feel of family run business. You’ll feel right at home here in work boots or a tuxedo. Family run for the past 45 years, Greenwich is a Detroit staple. The menu consists of fresh, crisp salads including the Burger ‘n Greens and Crispy Chicken Salad, piled high sandwiches such as the Stacked Ham and Corned Beef sandwich, fresh handmade burgers made daily, and other American favorites. The recipes are true family secrets and only the freshest and highest quality ingredients are used. Greenwich’s burger was nominated as one of Detroit’s Best Burgers by the Detroit Freepress, once you try one you’ll know why. All it takes is one visit to Greenwich Time Pub and you’ll see what the locals are raving about. The knowledgeable and courteous staff at Greenwich Time Pub ensures a pleasurable dining experience.

Greenwich Time Pub also offers a private banquet center that can be reserved for your next event and off-site catering to your office or personal event. Our professional staff will work with you to create a menu that is as unique as you are. Greenwich’s catering menu consists of everything from Prime Rib and Crab Legs to Pizza and Mostaccioli, our Authentic Mexican catering selections are exceptional. To discuss your personal catering needs in full please call us today. We look forward to sharing our family recipes with your family.

Coldwell Banker issued a report Tuesday on affordability of homes in the US. It’s the first of its kind: A snapshot of average cost of a four bedroom, two bath house.

The average for the country is $353,000.

Newport, CA, is the most expensive. Detroit is the most “affordable.”

Greenwich is $1,195,614.

Good report. Fun to read.

Like many residents I am grateful that the town Planning and Zoning Commission rejected the application to locate a bank in Cos Cob at the site of the restaurant Bella Nona. That entire strip on the Post Road is being taken over by bank branches. Can’t be good for the business mix in that section of town. Certainly is not good for the public aesthetic.

But is it legal to turn down an application just because you don’t like the type of business? After all, the PZC had approved numerous other banks. What if the glut had been for clothing stores or restaurants? Does the commission have the right to legislate tastes?

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Speaking of the Post Road, Has anyone tried driving across town in the morning rush hour lately? I recently had an 8 a.m. meeting off of King Street. I thought I gave myself plenty of time when I left my house in Riverside at 7:30, but I barely had enough time to make my appointment.

It took almost a half hour to drive across Greenwich.

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I deleted my recent post on the Greenwich Police’s lack of equipment. I got universally slammed on that post by readers. Plus, the police department said I made numerous errors. It’s the second post I have trashed since I started my Greenwich blog 18 months ago.

I can’t wait for my Sunday paper tomorrow and the article illuminating Wilton’s unique school district which has one school for each grade instead of multiple neighborhood schools such as what we have in Greenwich.

This is not a new issue. Former First Selectman Jim Lash told me about this idea at a breakfast meeting several years ago and I posted a blog on it. When Lash made his decision not to seek re-election he made his politically suicidal proposal to cut back on Greenwich’s 11 elementary schools.

Now that Wilton is ranked No. 1 in the state for its aggregated standardized test scores, the idea deserves another look.

Think about the cost of running 11 schools, 11 different facilities, 11 different support staffs, 11 coaches, 11 nursing offices, 11 cafeterias.

The Greenwich Time has been doing an excellent job of covering the schools in Greenwich this year. This is yet another example of its commitment to great local investigative journalism.

Why haul your boat at an expensive marina when you can just use a small island? That’s apparently what this boat owner did on Labor Day to take advantage of the extreme tides and free “dockage” to make some repairs to the bottom of his catamaran. Don’t know what the harbor master or the selfish commission thought of the idea … At least he’s not hogging time at the town dock.