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A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House's role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin. Frank Trinity, general counsel for the Corporation, met with a bipartisan group of congressional investigators on Monday. When the investigators asked Trinity for details of the role the White House played in the firing, Trinity refused to answer, according to two aides with knowledge of the situation.

At the Pound Ridge Cemetery, a stone wall runs along West Lane, its rocks stacked neatly atop one another, but one 25-foot section of the wall has crumbled away. Restoring that portion is the latest project of the Pound Ridge Stone Wall Rebuilding Club,... "The stone walls are an integral part of the community," said Josh Arnow, a 47-year-old investment manager who helped found the group. "The walls were originally built ... to separate people, and we are using the opportunity to rebuild walls as a way to bring people together, bring neighbors together." They fix the deteriorating structures the...