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Missing Fairfield Student, Marathon Winner Top Week's News In Greenwich

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Here's a look at the top stories from last week across Fairfield County. 

Police are continuing to investigate the cause of death of Max Maisel, a student from Fairfield.

Police are continuing to investigate the cause of death of Max Maisel, a student from Fairfield.

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  • A body pulled from Lake Ontario has been identified as Max Maisel, a 21-year-old student from Fairfield who went missing Feb. 22 from his campus at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Officials had been searching the frigid water for weeks after his car was found near a pier. 
  • A Ridgefield woman in her 70s was gravely injured in a fire in her condo at 15 Cook Close, and her two sons also suffered injuries trying to rescue her from the blaze. 
  • Greenwich’s Sharon Vos, 60, won the women’s 60-64 age group in Monday’s Boston Marathon with a time of 3:12:51, beating her nearest competitor by more than three minutes. 
  • In his second State of the City address, Stamford Mayor David Martin boasted of the city's strong fiscal state, low crime rate and high quality of life while promising to continue to make the city a welcoming place to live.
  • The owners of the Gates restaurant in New Canaan have sold the popular eatery, and the new owner plans to shut it down Sunday to undergo major interior renovations. 
  • A group of Bedford Middle School students in Westport with a passion for science is heading to a national competition next month in Nebraska after winning the state Science Olympiad.
  • Students at Royle Elementary School in Darien were excited to try out their brand-new playground, which was donated to the school by their parents. 
  • Candy from China -- brought back from a high school spring break trip -- made seven students and two teachers feel ill at Weston Middle School. 
  • Cheers! A recent poll shows that Samuel Adams is the top-selling beer in Connecticut.
  • A Wilton driver who slammed into a utility pole near his home and snapped it in two was charged with drunken driving, police said. 
  • Danbury has a new restaurant option in a familiar location with Ole Mexican Grille dishing up a full menu of options on White Street across from the midtown campus of Western Connecticut State University.
  • Bridgeport continued its work to complete the environmental remediation of the former Remington Park property and develop a business park on the site.
  • Kevin Kolenda, 57, of Norwalk, faces charges of again running a hole-in-one golf insurance scam after he was picked up by authorities from Washington state, police said.
  • Police are searching for a man who robbed a Mobil gas station in Fairfield at gunpoint late Tuesday night.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a $5 million federal lawsuit can go forward against the police departments of Easton, Monroe, Trumbull, Darien and Wilton in connection with a drug raid on an Easton home in 2008 that left a Norwalk man dead. 

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