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Roundup: Pushing And Riding For 9/11; Honoring Post-9/11 Vets …
For the 5th year in a row, retired United Airlines flight attendant Paul Veneto is pushing an airline service cart several hundred miles on foot. His journey honors the “first first responders” —...
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Roundup: Dog, Art, Music …
On Wednesday, our Roundup reported that a couple of days earlier, a Westporter had found a large, heavy sign at Schlaet’s Point. It honored a dog, and had apparently been placed on Cockenoe Island. The...
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Roundup: AED Survey, Sunday Worship, Quake Donations …
Sarah Lyle is a rising junior at Staples High School. The Troop 139 member is working on her Eagle Scout project. It may be one of the most important in Westport Scout history. Collaborating with...
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Best. Photo. Ever?
Like many “06880” readers, Alex O’Brien was intrigued by a recent “Friday Flashback” photo. It showed Cockenoe Island — the 28-acre sanctuary a mile off Compo Beach. With a nuclear power plant. The...
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Friday Flashback #513
Our Friday Flashbacks usually offer places and things — restaurants, stores, trolleys, Compo Beach bathhouses, and so much more — that no longer exist. Today we explore 2 that never were. Through the...
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Roundup: PopUp Bagels, Hydration Stations, Fashionably Fun …
PopUp Bagels — the Westport start-up that popped up during the pandemic, roared into regional and now national prominence, and has clearly outgrown its motto — “Not famous, but known” — is in the...
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Wait, What? The Y Was Downtown?!
The other day, a woman I did not know made idle chatter as we left the Westport Weston Family YMCA. “This is such a nice place,” she said. “How long have you been a member?” “Well,” I said, “I learned...
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RTM At 75: Town’s Legislative Body Still Going Strong
It’s getting harder and harder to find old New England, in new Westport. Traditional stone walls give way to faux ones, with symmetrical stones as even as countertops. Hundred-year-old trees are clear...
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Roundup: Marc Lasry, Pajamas, Compo Beach Dogs …
If you’re a Giants, Jets, Mets, Yankees, Knicks or Rangers fan, you’d love the chance to listen to their owners — and tell them everything they’re doing wrong. Those local teams will not be represented...
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Pic Of The Day #2625
Longshore Sailing School at Cockenoe Island … … and heading home for the day. (Photos/Brandon Malin)
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Save Cockenoe From Mile-a-Minute
Since graduating from Greens Farms Academy in 2003, Sefra Alexandra has been on a mission: preparing people around the globe to survive. Jesse Levin and Sefra Alexandra. She and her twin brother Jesse...
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Roundup: Missing Boaters, Sakura Trees, I-95 Bridge …
Westport Police offer this update on the vessel that sank near Cockenoe Island on Sunday: Just before noon yesterday, they located the boat near buoy #2. The search for 2 missing boaters continued all...
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Roundup: Traffic, Garden, “The Exorcist”…
We expected the worst all weekend. “The slide” — the simultaneously high-tech and low-tech effort to replace the aging I-95 Saugatuck Avenue bridge with a new one, constructed alongside it — began...
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Roundup: School Security, Spotted Lanternflies, Slice of Saugatuck …
Today’s “Westport … What’s Happening” podcast is timely and important. Police Chief Foti Koskinas joins 1st Selectwoman Jen Tooker to discuss why, how and where additional school security personnel...
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RTM 101: You Keep Hearing About It. What Does It Do?
The leaf blower ordinance. Wheels2U. Affordable housing. If you follow those stories, you may know that the RTM has a hand in them. But what is “the RTM”? Who are these people, and what do they do?...
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Alicia Mozian Leaves Mark On “Wet Westport”
If you’re a Westport homeowner, there’s a 40% chance you live on wetlands, or in a floodplain. If you’re part of that 40% and have moved here since 2001, you’ve received a letter — and fat...
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Roundup: Chief Foti, Mark Blake, Food Inequality …
The other day, Police Chief Foti Koskinas took CNN’s Alisyn Camerota for a spin. The footage wound up yesterday on the network’s “Champions for Change” segment. Foti was cited for his innovative...
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Roundup: Straight White Men, Jewish Teenagers, Martha Stewart …
There’s something new at the Westport Country Playhouse: hosts for the evening. And they don’t look like anything you’d expect: Ashton Muniz, one of the Westport Country Playhouse hosts. (Photo/dan...
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Fishin’, Not Fission: Paddlers Celebrate Cockenoe Purchase
It took years of protests, high-level negotiations, and the help of the state legislature. But on December 23, 1969, a real estate deal closed. The town of Westport bought Cockenoe Island for $200,000....
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