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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

The Faces of Westport Voters

Westport voters waited patiently at Saugatuck Elementary School today to cast their ballots. Despite the heavy turnout and long lines, officials said there were only minor problems. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

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On Line Chat

Democratic state Senate hopeful Arlo Ellison chats while waiting on line to vote today at Saugatuck Elementary School. He is the first challenger to incumbent Republican Sen. Judy Freedman in eight years. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 12:43 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Political Sign Language

Republican State Sen Judy Freedman places a campaign sign today at Kings Highway School with help of Dorrie Harris. Freedman is facing fellow Westporter Democrat Arlo Ellison in the 26th Senate District. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 12:37 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Saugatuck Voting Machine Gets Emergency Repair

A cable snapped on a voting machine at Saugatuck Elementary School today and technician Bert Figueroa made some repairs to get it back in working order. It was the only reported snafu in Westport voting which Democratic Registrar Nita Cohen described as “very heavy.” She estimated more than 50 percent of registered voters had voted by early afternoon. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 12:11 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Westport Weston Health District Receives Flu Vaccine

The Westport Weston Health District received a shipment of flu vaccine today. It scheduled a clinic next week for residents 75 or older with mandatory pre-registration set for Friday.

Additional clinics for high risk groups will follow based on vaccine availability, and will be announced shortly after the first clinic, the district said.

An announcement said the pre-registration is required “in order to facilitate effective administration of the vaccine and to eliminate long waits for residents.”

Registration will take place only on Friday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., by phone at 227-9571.

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11/02/04 11:43 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Shays: “I Trust the People to Do the Right Thing”

Republican Rep. Christopher Shays made a new friend while waiting on line to vote today at Bridgeport’s Black Rock School. He told reporters the decision was now in his constitutents’ hands, adding, “I trust the people of the 4th District to do the right thing, whatever it is.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 10:29 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Smiles After Voting

Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, armed with some bake sale goodies, chats with a supporter today outside Bridgeport’s Black Rock School after voting. Wife, Betsi, gives a hug to a friend while their daughter, Jeramy, looks on. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 10:16 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

A Shays Family Affair

It was a family affair today at Bridgeport’s Black Rock School as incumbent Republican Rep. Christopher Shays voted with (l to r) his mother, Peggy, daughter, Jeramy, and wife, Betsi. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 10:14 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Shays Casts His Vote

Republican Rep. Christopher Shays opens the voting booth curtain after casting his vote today at Bridgeport’s Black Rock School. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 10:03 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

What’s an Election Without a Bake Sale?

What’s an election without a bake sale? This is the one at Westport’s Long Lots Elementary School today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 08:09 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Democrat Joe Mioli Does Some Last-Minute Campaigning

Democrat Joe Mioli does some last-minute campaigning today at Westport’s Greens Farms School. He faces Republican incumbent Rep. Ken Bernhard in Westport’s 136th Distict. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 08:04 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Republican Ken Bernhard Seeks Votes

Republican State Rep. Ken Bernhard greets Joan Ryan as she arrives to vote today at Coleytown Middle School. He faces Democratic challenger Joe Mioli in Westport’s 136th District. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

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Lines Out the Door at Greens Farms, Too

At Westport’s Greens Farms School, the voting lines were out the door early today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

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Media Reps Turn Out in Numbers, Too

Media representatives were out in numbers today at Coleytown Middle School as Democratic Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell voted with husband Win. An Associated Press photographer catches the scene as they talk to New Haven’s WTNH-TV, Channel 8. Cablevision News-12 was there, too, along with a reporter from New York’s WCBS Radio. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 07:23 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Hug for a Supporter

Democratic Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell has a hug for supporter Dr. Mitchell Driesman outside of Coleytown Middle School today after she voted. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 06:45 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

They Lined Up Early at Coleytown Middle School

The lines were out the door when the polls opened at 6 a.m. at Westport’s Coleytown Middle School. Moderator Elliott Netherton said he expected the heavy turnout to continue throughout the day. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/02/04 06:43 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Today’s Westport Teardown: 14 Hunting Lane

Today’s WestportNow teardown is 14 Hunting Lane. It sold in June for $525,000. An application for a demolition permit is pending. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

11/02/04 05:43 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Monday, November 01, 2004

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004

6 a.m. - 8 p.m. - Polls open at Coleytown Middle School, Greens Farms Elementary School, Kings Highway Elementary School, Long Lots Elementary School, and Saugatuck Elementary School
10 a.m. - Town Hall Room 102 - Administrative Review Committee

11/01/04 11:04 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Tiffany & Co. Westport Store Opens Thursday

The wraps are off the new Westport branch of Tiffany & Co. at the corner of Taylor Place and Post Road East. The store, occupying space formerly leased by Eddie Bauer, opens Thursday, just in time for the holiday season. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

11/01/04 05:20 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

New Yorker: “Man in Gray Flannel Suit” Set in Westport Dated After 50 Years

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: novel set in Westport is turning 50. File photo This week’s The New Yorker takes a look at Sloan Wilson’s 1955 novel “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, ” which was set in Westport, and finds while it strikes seemingly contemporary themes, it is “utterly dated.”

Writer Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the novel that had Westport much talked about in the post-war years in his “Annals of Psychology” column entitled “Getting Over it: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit put the war behind him. Why cant we?”

Gladwell recalls that the novel is about a public-relations specialist who lives in Westport, works for a media company in midtown, and worries about money, job security, and educating his children.

“It was an enormous best-seller. Gregory Peck played Tom Rath in the Hollywood version, and today, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the bookҒs publication, many of the themes the novel addresses seem strikingly contemporary,” he says.

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Sunday, October 31, 2004

A Halloween Wedding at Compo

Sunday’s summer-like weather was perfect for a late afternoon Halloween wedding at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

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Today’s Westport Teardown: 4 Buena Vista Drive

Today’s WestportNow.com teardown is at 4 Buena Vista Drive, on the hill overlooking Compo Mill Cove. An application for demolition is pending. The house, built in 1954 on 0.20 acres, sold in October for $845,000. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

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Compo Skate Park Closes for Season

Sunday was the last day for devotees of Westport’s Compo Beach skate park. All the kids posed for a fall farewell shot with Parks and Recreation Department Skate Park Director Cheryl Johannson (standing in foreground). (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com

10/31/04 11:06 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Monday, Nov. 1, 2004

9 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Bridge Street Bridge—closed for repairs
7:30 p.m. - Town Hall Auditorium - Golf Advisory Committee

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Trick or Treat!

In a scene repeated all over Westport tonight, this youngster says “trick or treat” to a resident on Sandhopper Trail in the Gault development off of Imperial Avenue. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

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Take a Number, Please

There was a line for trick or treaters to get to some front doors tonight on Westport’s Gault Avenue. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/31/04 07:38 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Halloween “Main Course”

Among those making the Halloween rounds in the Compo Beach area tonight was Staples High School sophomore Katie Groglio, 15, in her “Main Course” costume. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/31/04 07:35 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

A Family Affair

Trick or treating was a family affair for many in the streets of the Gault development tonight, one of Westport’s most-visited locations for Halloween goers. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/31/04 07:34 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

The Candy Went Fast

The Halloween crowds were so plentiful on Bradley Street in the Compo Beach area tonight that the 1,000 pieces of candy bought by Tom Seligson and wife Susan Farewell (l) were gone by early evening. Daughter Justine, 7, (c) helped give away the goodies. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/31/04 07:30 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Soaking Up Some Halloween Rays at Compo

Today was more like summer than Halloween temperature in the low 70s and sunny skies, a perfect day for soaking up a few rays at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/31/04 04:10 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

“This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Remembers Westporter George Silk

Part of ABC News tribute: WestportNow’s photo of George Silk taken last year at a Westport Arts Center exhibition. 2004 WestportNow.com The ABC News program “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” today remembered Westporter George Silk, a famed Life magazine photographer who died Oct. 23 at the age of 87. (See WestportNow Oct. 26, 2004)

The brief tribute came in the program’s “In Memoriam”—Lives of Note” section.

It included a number of photographs Silk took during his lifetime as well as a brief soundbite of him talking about his work: “I just instinctively worked with light. I didn’t know ɖ you know, I have no schooling but I had that already in me very strongly.”

The closing photo of the tribute was a WestportNow photograph of him taken last year at a Westport Arts Center exhibition that included several of his works.

10/31/04 10:12 AM Comments (1) • Permalink •

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Westport Fire Department Marks End of Daylight Savings with Battery Exchange

If you are reading this Sunday morning and did not set your clocks back an hour before you went to bed, you’re up an hour early.

Daylight savings ended at 2 a.m. today (spring ahead, fall back, etc) and to mark the occasion, the Westport Fire Department, the Westport Rotary Club, and the Westport Firefighters Golf Tournament have launched a free battery program.

Consistent with the theme “change your clock, change your batteries,” the groups are offering up to three nine-volt batteries free per household. Residents are asked to bring their old batteries for exchange to fire headquarters, 515 Post Road East.

If residents need assistance, they can call 342-5010 to arrange for someone to come to their home, at no charge.

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Scary Doings at Mitchells

Mitchells of Westport hosted a Halloween party today and all sorts of gremlins and goblins showed up. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com

10/30/04 05:46 PM Comments (0) • Permalink •

Westport’s Sherwood Diner on Shays-McCain Campaign Trail

Westport’s Sherwood Diner was on the campaign trail today for incumbent Republican Rep. Christopher Shays and Arizona Sen. John McCain. They stopped by en route to a Stamford rally for Shays on the last weekend before election day. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/30/04 07:42 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

McCain Greets Emergency Personnel During Westport Stop

Arizona Sen. John McCain says hello to emergency personnel during a stop today at Westport’s Sherwood Diner while campaigning for Republican Rep. Christopher Shays. With him are (l to r) Westport Assistant Fire Chief Robert Kepchar, Firefighter Brendan McHugh and Norwalk Hospital Paramedic Mike Rickard. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

10/30/04 07:41 AM Comments (0) • Permalink •

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