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Monday, September 06, 2010

The South Beach at Westport’s Compo Beach was crowded with visitors Sunday enjoying the Labor Day weekend. More good weather is forecast for today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

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Westport Town Hall, Public Schools, Public Library, Health District, and Arts Center are closed

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

With the wind behind them and colorful spinnakers flying, these Atlantics head up course today in waters off Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com

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A youngster shows friends a horseshoe crab she found late today at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

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The patio bar at Westport’s Splash Restaurant at Longshore Club Park was rocking today with the Sunday afternoon live music. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

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Harrison Sholler, 8, of Westport got in some good rides on his Boogie Board along the sandbars at low tide at Westport’s Compo Beach today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com

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Sailors and fishermen were busy in the Long Island Sound waters today off Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com

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Westport’s Compo Beach was crowded today with beach goers enjoying the Labor Day weekend. Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s made for an ideal Sunday at the beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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The low tide did not bother this beach goer today at Westport’s Compo Beach who found a nice spot to cool off. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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Westport artist and illustrator Elaine Clayton took her sketchbook to a beach in the Saugatuck Shores area of Westport. See more of her work at illuminara.com. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Elaine Clayton for WestportNow.com

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Yankee baseball fans of all ages today crowd the Westport station platform awaiting the arrival of the 10:52 a.m. Metro-North New Haven Line Yankee Clipper express train to Yankee Stadium. The Labor Day weekend baseball schedule traditionally marks the start of the final lap for major league teams pursuing a berth in the post season playoffs. The Yankees seek their ninth straight win today in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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It was a windy wedding photo shoot Saturday at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Ted Horowitz for WestportNow.com

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Saturday, the day after a weakened Hurricane Earl brushed the New England coast, skies were sunny but winds kicked up to 36 miles per hour—higher winds than when Earl was around. Scene is the Ned Dimes Marina at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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10 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Saugatuck Congregational Church (245 Post Road East) - Westport Sunday Farmer’s Market
Noon - 4 p.m. - Westport Arts Center - Summer Group Members Show

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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Winds gusting to 36 miles per hour today made for good sailing and windsurfing in waters off Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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Members of the Westport Rotary Club were on hand at Compo Beach today selling tickets for their upcoming raffle fund-raiser. Proceeds from the raffle go to support various local charities. The raffle winners will be selected at the Concours d’Elegance at the Fairfield Hunt Club Sunday, Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. Pictured are (l-r) raffle chairwoman Elaine Whitney, immediate past president Robin Hammond, Todd Mauerman, current Westport Rotary presdident. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com

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Westporter Payton Meehan helps her mom launch a colorful kite on this windy day at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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The Funicello family poses at their Tutti Restaurant, 599 Riverside Ave. Westport during a celebration of the homecoming of their professional soccer star son Giusseppi, 23. Until earlier this week, he played in the right back position for the Iceland Thor professional soccer team before his contract was acquired by the Finland IFK Mariehamm team for an extended 18-month term. The Finnish team has six games remaining on its schedule and, according to Giusseppi, he will be a starting player in each of them. Giusseppi, who was born in Salerno, Italy and moved to the United States with his parents when he was three, has played professional soccer internationally since graduating from Norwalk High School in 2005. He is pictured with parents Pasquale and Maria and sister Elvie. Giusseppi said he flies to Helsinki tonight. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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Westport Firefighters Earl Hill (l) and Pete Nichio review photographs of Westport firefighters assisting at a recent fire in Norwalk before sending them to fellow firefighter Nick Marsan who is serving with the military in Afghanistan. The Westport Fire Department continues to be a drop off site for donation items in the Give 2 the Troops (http://www.give2thetroops.org/). Hill reminds all area residents to continue their generous contributions of the many simple items that are so welcomed by U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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Stan Groner, president of the Y’s Men Camera Club, puts the finishing touches on the month-long September display of his photographs and those of his wife, Phyllis Groner, contributing photographer for WestportNow, at the Westport Center for Senior Activities. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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Friday’s weekly Art Cafe at the Westport Arts Center included a talk on the importance of cooperation among Westport’s art institutions by Westporter Ann Sheffer, co-chair of the Advisory Council of the Westport Country Playhouse. She and Kim Harizman, co-chair of the Playhouse’s Sept. 13 gala saluting Stephen Schwartz, reminded guests that tickets are still available for the fund-raising event. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

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Despite Hurricane Earl-related tropical storm and hurricane warnings farther to the east, the skies above Westport’s Compo Beach cleared in time Friday night for another pretty sunset. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

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Noon - 4 p.m. - Westport Historical Society - “The Kids’ Wall” 10th Anniversary (last day)
Noon - 4 p.m. - Westport Arts Center - Summer Group Members Show
8 p.m. - Westport Country Playhouse - “I Do! I Do!”
8:30 p.m. - Levitt Pavilion - Selichot concert: The Shuk

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Friday, September 03, 2010

The view from Westport’s Burying Hill Beach across Long Island Sound looked gloomy at about 6 p.m. today as a weakened Hurricane Earl made its way up the coastline. Westport had a few showers but winds gusting only to 14 miles per hour during the evening. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bob Eckman for WestportNow.com

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A treasure hunter and some swimmers had much of Westport’s Compo Beach to themselves today as Hurricane Earl passed off the southeast Connecticut coast. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com

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Westport property transfers as reported by the Town Clerk’s office for the period Aug. 16 - 20, 2010:

Kimo and Akiko Honda to Trailing Rock LLC, 6 Trailing Rock Lane, $700,000

Constance Bateman Case aka Constance C. Rodriguez to Stuart S. McCarthy, 14 Catamount Road, $700,000

McKelvey Family Living Trust to Siew Hui Terence Oh, 2 Gilbert Lane, $795,000

Jeffrey Kimball and Patricia Lewis to David and Stacy Lessing, 7 Sycamore Drive, $2,350,000

More "Westport Property Transfers August 16 - 20, 2010"

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Comp Beach lifeguard Brandon Ogiba of Weston surveys the beach today in advance of a weakening Hurricane Earl’s arrival off the New England coast. Ogiba said that there are only two or three lifeguards on duty today compared to the 10 lifeguards on a typical summer weekday. “Most of the lifeguards have gone back to college,” he said. He said there will again be 10 lifeguards on duty this weekend. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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UPDATE The National Weather Service today discontinued the tropical storm watch for Westport.
The latest track of Hurricane Earl shows the discontinued storm watch for the Westport area. National Weather Service map

But an 11 a.m. advisory continued a tropical storm warning along the Connecticut shoreline area from New Haven eastward as a weakening Earl moved toward New England.

Portions of Long Island were also under a tropical storm warning. These included areas from Fire Island Inlet eastward on the South Shore and Port Jefferson Harbor eastward on the North Shore.

Forecasters warned large swells will likely cause dangerous surf conditions and rip currents all along the East Coast as Earl headed for the Cape Cod area tonight.

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Westport emergency management officials listen to a 10:30 a.m. weather briefing today at fire headquarters in which National Weather Service officials said a weakening Hurricane Earl would likely result in lifting a tropical storm watch for southwest Connecticut, including Westport. The 11 a.m. forecast from the National Hurricane Center did include elimination of the watch. However forecasters warned beach erosion from surging waters along Long Island Sound could be severe. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

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With a weakening Hurricane Earl moving off the New England coast, the Westport Public Schools today maintained a normal schedule.

School officials had said Thursday they would evaluate a possible early dismissal because of Earl this morning.

On the basis of weather forecasts showing Westport likely to be minimally impacted by the storm, school officials decided to make no change in dismissal times, according to town emergency management officials.

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By Keith M. Phaneuf
www.ctmirror.org

Connecticut’s congested transportation network does more than try motorists’ patience: It costs businesses and residents at least $670 million a year, according to a new draft report prepared for the state’s Transportation Strategy Board.

The position paper, one of several that ultimately will comprise the board’s 2011 update to its statewide transportation strategy, says lower productivity, higher operating expenses, weakened worker recruitment efforts and other problems associated with clogged highways and limited alternatives contribute to the rising price tag.

And though the problem is worst in the Stamford-to-Bridgeport corridor in Connecticut’s southwestern corridor, major congestion costs also plague the Hartford and New Haven areas, leaving the state at an increasing business disadvantage.

The report’s findings are bolstered by a new national study that ranks Connecticut among the worst states for urban highway congestion.

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UPDATE Metro-North said New Haven Line service is operating on or close to schedule following earlier power problems between Pelham and Harrison, N.Y.

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The house at Westport’s 12 Caccamo Lane Extension, off Juniper Road, was demolished Thursday. Built in 1963, the one-story raised ranch had 1,556 square feet, was situated on a .65-acre property and changed ownership in April for $920,000. It was the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on July 9, 2010. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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The house at Westport’s 12 Danbury Ave. in the Compo Beach neighborhood, was demolished Thursday.  Built in 1920, the one-story bungalow had 1,248 square feet, was situated on a .11-acre property and was the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on March 23, 2010.  Los Angeles area residents Rikki Gordon and her husband Allen Pack, owners of the house, said it was the summer home of Rikki’s grandparents—Irving and Mildred Hillelson—and her parents—Arline and Irving Gordon—for 58 years. The property’s legacy will remain with the family descendants as the couple plans to build a new house on the site so they can come to Westport frequently and stay for extended periods. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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It was a hazy sunset Thursday evening as viewed from Westport’s Compo Beach. Forecasters said Hurricane Earl’s effects on Westport today would be minimal with winds likely to pick up in late afternoon and evening but unlikely to exceed 30 miles per hour. The forecast called for showers, mainly after 3 p.m. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

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