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Hamilton Avenue Assistant Principal Jill Flood has been named the new principal at North Street School. A5

Foul spill: Raw sewage bubbled up through a manhole on Milbank Avenue Wednesday. A5

Testimony: Joan Badaracco, the wife that didn’t vanish, takes the stand in her husband’s judge-bribing trial. A7

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By Justin Pottle

For Alan Sharkany, the Fourth of July means a whole lot more than planting a craft-store flag on your front lawn and catching the fireworks in Old Greenwich. Rather, it’s time to offer acknowl-edgment to the sacrifices so many citizens make for their country. As a retired Marine and the man be-hind this year’s Salute to Veterans, which kicks off Saturday morning at Havemeyer Field, he holds those sacrifices, and the Salute, close to his heart.

“It’s simply a chance to bring the public together so close to the Fourth for an event to honor those

who serve and who have served and their sacrifice and commit-ment,” said Sharkany.

In its second year back from a brief hiatus, the Salute to Veter-ans, which runs from 9 to noon, will feature live music from the United States Service Organi-zation, a variety of decorated speakers, and the acknowledge-ment of local veterans young and old.

“It’s been a great tradition for two decades,” said Selectman David Theis, “and it will continue to be this year.”

Originally the brainchild of Greenwich’s Veteran Appreciation Council founder Jim Carrier, the

Salute to Veterans was organized under his leadership for 18 years before he stepped down from his post in 2009. Sharkany has since stepped in to fill the void, and he’s sticking true to the legacy Carrier left behind.

Speakers this year include U.S. Senator Richard Blumen-thal; Deputy Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and Green-wich native, Rear Admiral John F. Wheigold IV; and retired Col. Jack Jacobs, one of 79 living Medal of Honor recipients. A vet-eran of the Vietnam War, Jacobs was awarded the medal by Presi-dent Richard Nixon for saving 14

By Brittany Lyte

The first thing Maria Scrivan did Monday was buy the newspaper.

Hurriedly, she flipped to the funny pages of the New York Post. Two strips below Garfield, there it was: Rhymes with Orange, the nationally syndicated daily comic strip by Hilary Price.

This week’s edition of the strip, however, is like none other. Scrivan is the guest cartoonist.

Scrivan, a 42-year-old

full-time cartoonist, grew up reading the Sunday com-ics. Her work has appeared on greeting cards, bank checks, short-sleeve shirts and the pages of Parade Magazine and Mashable.com, but never before in the newspaper pages that first galvanized her love of funny, character-driven vi-sual art.

Monday, however, just inches below the strip about the iconic orange cat, was Scrivan’s drawing of

TasteInnovations that break away from the dreaded taco kit. B13

STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Greenwich Selectman Drew Marzullo waited and watched the TV screen anxiously Wednesday morn-ing. The Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex mar-riage was supposed to be announced by 10 a.m.

“Honestly, I was nervous during the lead-up to the announcement,” said Marzullo, who, alongside his partner and many other members of Green-wich’s gay and lesbian community, celebrated the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, under which same-sex marriages went unrecognized by the federal government. Justice Anthony Kennedy was the swing vote, joining with the Court’s lib-eral wing to declare the bill uncon-stitutional.

First signed into law by Presi-dent Bill Clinton in 1996, DOMA prevented same-sex couples mar-ried in states where gay marriage was legal from re-ceiving a host of federal benefits.

Greenwich resident Michael Kovner married his husband, Jean Doyen de Montaillou, on the first day he legally could in the United States — May 17, 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to legal-ize same-sex marriage. Yet, despite the length of his own marriage, the Court’s ruling came as a surprise.

“It’s something I never thought I’d see in my life-time,” Kovner said. “Today, younger generations don’t see anything strange about this, but for many people over 40, it’s shocking. I’m delighted because it’s been a long time coming.”

Marzullo, a Democrat, and Greenwich’s first open-ly gay public office holder, sought to put yesterday’s

Gay couples in town rejoiceFor some, a ‘huge victory’; others troubled by ruling

SUPREMES STRIKE DOWN DOMA

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The U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon performs during the Salute to Veterans ceremony at Havemeyer Field in Greenwich on June 23, 2012. The annual salute returns to Greenwich on Saturday.

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Maria Scrivan, a professional illustrator/cartoonist and Greenwich High School graduate, in her home workspace in Stamford on Wednesday.

Professional cartoonist Maria Scrivan paints a cartoon in her Stamford workspace. “It’s literally the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do,” Scrivan said.

Greatest Generation in spotlight as Salute to Veterans returns

SATURDAY KICK-OFF AT HAVEMEYER FIELD

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Washington: Supporters of same-sex marriage burst into cheers, wept openly and chanted “DOMA is Dead” outside the Supreme Court after ruling. A14

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