Saturday, July 31, 2004
Good Day for Sailing
Today’s sunny skies, warm temperatures, and a nice breeze made for a perfect day for sailing Long Island Sound off of Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com
Friday, July 30, 2004
Saturday, July 31, 2004
8 p.m. - Levitt Pavilion - Ash Creek String Band
Long Lots School Parking Lot Expansion in High Gear
Work on the expansion of the Long Lots Elementary School parking lot is underway. The parking lot in front of the school is torn up, and the adjacent property purchased by the town for the project is being graded with two large excavators. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Julia Mally for WestportNow.com
Town Picks Up Martha Stewart’s Rocks in Sweep of Turkey Hill Road South
As if Westport’s Martha Stewart doesn’t have enough problems, today she got one more town employees picked up the rocks she and her neighbors had placed in front of their homes to discourage parking and to protect their roadside grassy areas. 
Westport public works employees today removed rocks along Turkey Hill Road South, including some in front of Martha Stewart’s house. Left photo was taken July 8, the one on the right today. Alan Beasley photo/WestportNow.com photo
“I got orders from my boss to pick them up and that’s what I did,” said Scott Sullivan, superintendent of the Highway Division in the Department of Public Works.
Sullivan, whose boss, Public Works Director Stephen Edwards is on vacation, said the town acted after publication of a letter July 21 in the Westport News complaining that the rocks along Turkey Hill Road South were a danger to cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, and snowplows.
A neighbor tipped off Stewart—who was not at home at the time—to what was happening and she called the town attorney’s office to complain, according to a Town Hall source. Her stones had reportedly been imported from her property in Bedford, N.Y.
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Thursday, July 29, 2004
Spray Play
More than 350 children at the Westport Public Library had a treat Thursday as members of Westports fire, police and EMS units turned out for a ғlocal heros program. Here Westport fire Lt. Ken Lombardi demonstrates how a fire hose works. (CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE) Karen Bruce for WestportNow.com
Friday, July 30, 2004
8:30 a.m. - Room 309 - Westport Transit District Directors’ meeting
8 p.m. - Levitt Pavilion - The Dave Mason Band
Martha Stewart Visits Probation Officer
Westport’s Martha Stewart has paid a visit to her probation officer, several newspapers reported today.
The New York Post and Newsday said Stewart appeared Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Manhattan
“She came in to review and sign a document concerning the conditions of her supervised release that will follow her five months of imprisonment,” said Chris Stanton, head of U.S. Probation.
Stanton said Stewart was notified that she must follow 13 specific conditions that include not leaving the district without permission from her probation officer and is subject to check in monthly with the office.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Half a dozen scullers make their way along the Saugatuck River Wednesday afternoon during low tide. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
Thursday, July 29, 2004
8 p.m. Levitt Pavilion - Blum-Wessell-Harris Group, jazz
Fender Bender
Several people suffered minor injuries today in a two-car accident on Wilton Road. Fire Department personnel cleaned up a fluid spill while traffic slowed in the area during the afternoon rush hour. Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Political Talk
Westport First Selectwoman Diane Farrell (l) confers with Westport Democratic chair and Connecticut delegate Martha Aasen at the Democratic national convention in Boston. Farrell was a featured speaker at today’s Connecticut delegation breakfast at the Lenox Hotel. WestportNow. com photo
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Smile for the Birdie
The Westport Rotary Club Tuesday presented a check to the Sound Cyclists Bicycle Club in support of the second annual Harvest Rides Sunday, Sept. 19 bicycle classic (rain or shine) that benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Posing for the cameras are (l-r) Debbie Horne, development coordinator for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut; Emil Albanese, president Sound Cyclists Bicycle Club; Peter Ferrara, president Westport Rotary Club, and Chris Klimek, community and media relationship manager, Cablevision. Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
10 a.m. - Town Hall Room 201 - Sasco Brook Pollution Abatement Committee
10:30 a.m. - Town Hall Room 102 - International Hospitality Committee
12:15 p.m. - Westport VFW - Classic car maven Miles Morris addresses Westport Kiwanis Club about forthcoming “Concours d’Elegance”
5:30 p.m. - Town Hall Room 309 - School Building Committee Staples Subcommittee
Monday, July 26, 2004
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
2 p.m. - Town Hall Room 309 - Revaluation Working Group
7:30 p.m. - Town Hall Room 309 - Architectural Review Board
Balloons Galore for Levitt Fundraiser
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Balloons galore were ready tonight for a private reception before the Levitt Pavilions annual fundraiser concert starring Smokey Robinson. Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
Board of Selectmen Approves Athletic Gift to Town
Westports Board of Selectmen today approved acceptance of a gift from the Staples Gridiron Club Inc. to the town of goal posts at the Wakeman ғC field and replacement of old goal posts at the Doubleday football field. First Selectman Diane G. Farrell and Selectman John Izzo listen to an explanation from Dan DeVito, supervisor of operations. (CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
Reval Firms Make Presentations
Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell prepares to meet today with two firms bidding on Westports physical revaluation. Board of Finance and Representative Town Meeting members joined the Revaluation Working Group for the presentations. (CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
Martha Stewarts Lawyer: She is Considering Starting Prison Sentence
The lawyer for Westports Martha Stewart said today she that is “taking a look at” the idea of voluntarily beginning her five-month prison sentence while appealing her conviction.
“She’s willing to think about this because of the company,” attorney Walter Dellinger said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He said Stewart “would consider the possibility” of serving her sentence “in the near future ... at the time that’s best for the company.”
“No decision has been made about whether she’s going to do it, but she is taking a look at it,” said Dellinger, who is handling Stewart’s appeal.
Dellinger said Stewart wants her appeal to “go ahead vigorously because she wants to clear her name.” He said the legal team believes it has strong grounds to appeal.
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
10 a.m. - noon, 2 p.m. - 4 p .m. Town Hall Auditorium - Board of Finance, RTM Finance Committee and Revaluation Working Group
4:30 p.m. Town Hall Room 309 - Board of Selectmen
9 p.m. Levitt Pavilion - Smokey Robinson concert, rain or shine
Saturday, July 24, 2004
Sunday, July 25, 2004
7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion - Sherry Winston Band, three-time Grammy-nominated jazz flutist
Friday, July 23, 2004
Puddle Jumpers
After a full day of rain, Westport’s Compo Beach Friday evening was gray and desolate but for a few individuals—two friends daring each other to jump the gap over a massive puddle. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
Saturday, July 25, 2004
8 p.m. Levitt Paviliion - Curtis T. and the Bernadettes rhythm and blues band
Fairfield County Caucus Urges Congress to Preserve Transportation Funding
Westport’s state Sen. Judith G. Freedman, leader of the Fairfield County Caucus, today urged Congress to protect Connecticuts funding while working to resolve the differences in separate pending House and Senate federal transportation bills.
She was among a number of Fairfield County legislators who signed a letter to the conference co-chairs urging Congress to enact a six-year reauthorization bill funded at $318 billion, and maintain the 90.5 percent minimum guarantee contained within the current formula.
The state legislators wrote their letter to emphasize their support for the position staked out by Gov. M. Jodi Rell in a letter she wrote to Congress earlier.
ғAs Connecticut state legislators who represent Fairfield County, we are deeply concerned about the effects that federal transportation legislation can have- both positive and negative on our state֒s ongoing highway and mass transit programs,” the letter said.
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Government Witness in Martha Stewart Trial Spared Jail Time
The stockbroker assistant who was the government’s star witness in the case against Westport’s Martha Stewart today was spared jail time and probation and was fined $2,000 for his part in the case.
Douglas Faneuil, 28, who testified that his boss ordered him to tip Stewart about a stock trade, previously pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and cooperated with government lawyers.
U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum handed out a lesser sentence than recommended by guidelines. She cited Faneuil’s “substantial assistance” during the trial.
The federal sentencing guidelines recommended a prison sentence of up to six months that could have been followed by probation.
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Singing at Camp
Youngsters in grades five through nine participating in Westport Continuing Education’s Westport Youth Summer Theater Camp wound up their five-week workshop Thursday night. Norah Kennedy and Zoe Apoian sang “Ah, Paris!” in the “Around the World in 80 Plays” revue. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Julia Mally for WestportNow.com
Getting Ready for “A Community Collects:” What Do Our Neighbors Collect?
By Emily Laux
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The homes in my quiet neighborhood are full of surprises. One of my neighbors, a banker with a lot of frequent flyer miles, collects sand from beaches and deserts around the world. 
Elise Meyer, curator of “A Community Collects,” with her collection of 1930s-era Chase Chromeware, which she says proves that once the collecting bug hits, itӒs hard to stop at just one. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Emily Laux for WestportNow.com
His collection is meticulously displayed—each sample of sand is sealed and neatly labeled in a glass laboratory vial.
Hundreds of the matching glass vials are perfectly lined up in rows in an enormous rosewood cabinet he had custom made in Hong Kong.
His wifeԒs collection of snow globes is equally impressive, but less rigorously displayed.
They sit in a friendly manner on open shelves suspended below her kitchen cabinets, inviting guests to pick them up and shake vigorously.
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Friday, July 23, 2004
8 p.m. Levitt Paviliion - Rock around the docs with DNR, Fairfiield County’s all-physician rock band
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Good Buddies
The pet companion program of Westport-based CLASP Homes was recently featured in a national newsletter of PetsMarts Charities. CLASP, which serves developmentally disabled adults, found that by adopting homeless pets and bringing them into CLASP homes, both the pet and resident benefited. Shown here are Hollis and her cat Sky. Contributed photo
Thursday, July 22, 2004
7:30 p.m. - Auditorium - Planning & Zoning Commission
8 p.m. - Levitt Paviliion - The Armstrong Duo, chamber music
Blumenthal Announces Global Warming Lawsuit at Sherwood Island
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, joined by Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell, tells a Sherwood Island press conference today about a “groundbreaking” lawsuit filed by Connecticut and seven other states against global warming polluters to force them to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo
UPDATE: New Haven Line Restores Normal Service
Downed power lines in New Rochelle disrupted service on Metro-North’s New Haven Line at the end of the morning rush hour today affecting thousands of commuters. But the line said normal service was restored by 5 p.m.
A Metro-North spokesman said four tracks in the area of New Rochelle were knocked out of service due to wire damage, which occurred shortly before 8:30 a.m.
Service remained disrupted throughout the day, but in mid-afternoon a spokesman “Metro-North expected to operate regular PM peak service on the New Haven Line.”
An announcement shortly after 5 p.m. said full service had been restored.
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Longtime Westporter Stanley A. Barnett Dies at 83
Stanley A. Barnett, a longtime Westporter who served as an alternate on the Planning and Zoning Commission and was active in the Westport League of Women Voters, has died at the age of 83.
His son, Don, said his father died Monday at Waterbury Hospital after a brief illness.
Barnett moved to Heritage Village in Southbury in 2000 after living in Westport for more than 40 years. But he returned here frequently for town events and the occasional Town Hall brown bag lunch.
Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell, who appointed Barnett as one of her representatives to the Southwest Regional Planning Agency, said she was saddened by his passing.
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Westport’s Sherwood Island Hosts Global Warming Suit Announcement
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal used Westport’s Sherwood Island State Park today as the backdrop for announcement of a suit aimed at forcing the nation’s largest power companies to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.
Sherwood Island State Park: Global warming lawsuit announced. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo
Blumenthal and attorneys general from seven other states and New York City filed a public nuisance lawsuit in Manhattan’s federal district court earlier in the day and then addressed a news conference there.
Blumenthal later traveled to the Westport state park where he held another news conference. Also in attendance were Chris James of the state Department of Environmental Protection and Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell.
Blaming the federal government for inaction, Blumenthal said he expects more states to join California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin and New York City in the legal action.
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Paul Newman Stars in Special Benefit Performance of “Trumbo” Tonight
The Westport Country Playhouse, located temporarily in Ridgefield, presents a special benefit performance tonight of “Trumbo” starring Paul Newman and Gordon MacDonald. The play is about the blacklisted screenwriter and novelist, Dalton Trumbo, and the loss of his freedom of speech. Contributed photo
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Gillespie Center Shelves No Longer Bare
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The shelves at the Interfaith Housing Association’s Gillespie Center are bare no longer. The Rev. Peter Powell, head of the Westport group, said Tuesday he has been overwhelmed by the community response to his plea to help restock the food shelves at the facility which serves the homeless as well as distributes food to the needy. Contributed photo
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