STAMFORD, CT — Numerous businesses have recently registered to hang out a shingle in Stamford.

Here is a list of businesses that were formed in Stamford from June 28 through July 25, 2024. The data is from the Connecticut Business Registry, maintained by the Secretary of the State, Business Services Division.

A week since announcing her bid for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has raised more than $200 million dollars, according to her campaign.

To put that figure in perspective, it’s four times what the Biden re-election effort raised in the entire month of April. Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign said he raised nearly $112 million in the month of June, Politico reported.

The Harris campaign said 66% of the donations came from first-time donors. Along with fresh dollars, the campaign has signed up over 170,000 new volunteers since president Biden announced he would step down and endorsed her to be the Democratic nominee last Sunday.

That energy is much needed for the vice president who, as of Sunday, has just 100 days until voters hit the polls. This weekend alone, the Harris campaign has scheduled more than 2,000 events in swing states.

“The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real – and so are the fundamentals of this race: This election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states,” the campaign’s communications director, Michael Tyler, wrote in a memo.

The vice president has already secured commitments from enough democratic national convention delegates to lock up the nomination, with elected Democrats and grassroots groups rallying around her.

On Saturday, during a fundraiser in the Berkshires, Harris told supporters that she was the underdog in the race, but was heartened by the overwhelming support she has received. Roughly half of the money raised in the first week came in the first 24 hours after Biden endorsed her. That was a record-breaking pace.

“And since then, in battleground states, people have been flooding our offices around the country to volunteer,” she said in Pittsfield, Ma. “This is good. We’ve got momentum.”

One key aspect her campaign remains to be seen: Who Harris will choose to be her running mate? The process for a VP pick would normally take months. But for Harris, her deliberation period can best be measured in days.

One source familiar with her thinking said Harris was looking for a vice president with executive experience and someone who could be a governing partner with her, among other considerations. That source declined to share names of people being vetted.

A second source said Harris’ team had not yet narrowed down the field and was vetting about a dozen potential candidates for the job, and also declined to give names of people being vetted.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity to share information about the private process.

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Volunteers searched several communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts Saturday as they hunted for the remains of Harmony Montgomery, the little girl who was brutally beaten to death by her father in 2019.

Crews combed the 600-acre Rumney Marsh Reservation as they tried to find Harmony Montgomery’s body, the location of which her killer dad has refused to reveal.

“That’s the acceptance I’ve had to come to terms with in my grief — just accepting the fact that he’s never going to do the right thing for her,” Crystal Sorey, Harmony’s heartbroken mom, told WCVB 5 in Boston.

Harmony’s dad, 34-year-old Adam Montgomery, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison in May for murdering the 5-year-old girl, then hiding her body in a tote bag, a cooler and a freezer at the restaurant at which he worked.

Eventually, he disposed of her remains — but he’s never said where.

Prosecutors even offered him a lighter sentence that would have cut his jail time by 21 years in return for the information. But Adam Montgomery remained mum.

“I’ve had a lot of dreams and this area has been in my dreams,” Sorey said Saturday, according to the outlet.

“It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, right?” added volunteer Thomas Seretta.

“I just wish that monster would have shared some dignity to help put her to rest,” said Susan Vandecasteele, who was also helping comb the area.

Authorities had narrowed their search to a 106-mile route between Manchester and the Tobin Bridge in Boston that Adam Montgomery had driven in a rented U-Haul in March 2020, according to the station.

“Harmony’s remains are likely somewhere along this route,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said.

Sorey plans to organize monthly searches as she continues to look for her vanished daughter. She encouraged anyone with information to call the case tip line at 603-932-8997.

“There’s no reason to be afraid anymore,” she told the network. “Even if you think it’s the tiniest of information, it can help in a huge way.”

At his trial, prosecutors said Adam Montgomery beat the girl to death in a fit of rage because she had bathroom accidents in their car. Then he went for fast food and did drugs — all while ignoring her final cries as she died in the backseat, the court was told.

Afterward, he lugged her decomposing body to the restaurant each day and left it in the freezer, keeping it next to food.

Eventually, he threw out the little girl “like yesterday’s trash,” prosecutors said.

During Adam Montgomery’s sentencing, Agati told Judge Amy Messer that Harmony’s family would get much-needed closure if her dad would reveal where he left the little girl’s body.

But Adam — who has maintained his innocence — refused to answer.

So Agati said the killer’s inability to repent was “yet another reason” why Judge Messer should throw the book at him.

The court sent him to jail for 45 years to life, a sentence to run consecutively to the decades-long term he was already serving for weapons charges.

“In light of the egregious nature of the crimes of which you have been convicted in this case, and taking into consideration your extremely violent criminal history, the court finds the only way to do this is to keep you off the streets,” the judge said.

Harmony disappeared in 2019, but cops didn’t learn about the disappearance until two years later.