Farrell: “Negotiate a reasonable price.” WN photoWestport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell today urged the owners of the 200-year-old Abel Bradley House on the Westport-Fairfield border to continue to negotiate a “reasonable” sale price with those seeking to save it from demolition.

Addressing a Town Hall news conference, Farrell said she was pleased that a Superior Court judge in Bridgeport had issued an injunction putting off destruction of the house until at least March 7.

She said she had met with preservationists and owners of the property earlier to try to come to agreement on price and urged them to “come back to the table to negotiate a reasonable purchase price.”

The owners of the home have set a $1.2 million price tag on the property while preservationists have said they have raised $850,000 toward purchase of the property. (See WestportNow Feb. 24, 2005)

Westport’s Peter Perry knows his movie stuff. The Westport Public Library patron correctly chose the six top winners in Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony in Hollywood.

Out of 57 entries dropped in a ballot box in the library’s audio-visual department, his was the only entry that chose Best Picture (“Million Dollar Baby”); Best Director (Clint Eastwood); Best Actor (Jamie Foxx); Best Actress (Hillary Swank); Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) and Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchette).

For his Oscar expertise, Perry won a $10 gift certificate to use in the library store or the librarys As You Like it Cafҩ, according to Sheri Szymanski, head of the library’s access services.

The Police Athletic League (PAL) ice skating rink at Westport’s Longshore Club Park, which had been scheduled to close Tuesday, has extended its winter season through Sunday. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Westport Democratic Town Committee has canceled its scheduled meeting tonight due to weather, chair Martha Aasen announced. She said the meeting would be rescheduled.

Westport First Selectwoman Diane G. Farrell (c), along with officials of the Westport/Weston YMCA, met with reporters at Town Hall today in what Farrell said was “a response to a public stirring up” of talk that the Y still wanted its new headquarters on the town-owned Baron’s South property. The Y officials said this was not true and that even if the town made Baron’s South available, the preferred location was the Y’s Camp Mahackeno Outdoor Center in northwest Westport. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Tonight’s state tournament girls’ basketball game at Staples High School has been postponed until Tuesday at 7 p.m. due to weather.

The ninth-seeded Lady Wreckers (15-5) will host the 24th-seeded Bunnell High School (11-9) of Stratford in a first round game in the Connecticut Class LL tournament.

If you can’t make it to the Staples gym, you can hear all the action on WWPT
90.3 FM, the Staples student-run radio station. Sophomores Greg Kaplan and Patrick Toole will call the game starting at 6:50 P.M.

7:45 p.m. – Room 201 – RTM Health and Human Services Committee – CANCELED

Volunteers sort through books in preparation for the Westport Public Library’s annual winter book sale. It begins next Saturday and runs through Tuesday, March 8. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo