Month: June 2009

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Levitt Westport Community Band Performance Rescheduled

Tonight’s Levitt Pavilion performance by the Westport Community Band has been rescheduled for Monday, July 6, due to inclement weather. Showtime will be 8 p.m. and admission is free.

A One, and a Two, and a Three

Today was the start of the acquasize class sponsored by the Westport Center for Senior Activities and Westport Parks and Recreation Department at Longshore Club Park. The teacher is Westporter Ruth Sherman who is well known for her classes at the Family Y and for her bicycling for good causes. Any Westport senior may sign up for the free classes which are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Westport Thursday Market to Feature Chefs

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Sherri Brooks Vinton: market visitors can learn cooking tips and tricks. Contributed photoThe Thursday Westport Farmers’ Market will feature weekly cooking demonstrations from area chefs through Nov. 19, organizers announced today.

The demonstrations will feature products available in the market and will offer eaters tips and tricks for working with local, seasonal foods, said Sherri Brooks Vinton, market director.

The cooking lessons and tastings will be held in the community tent, a 40-seat tented area sponsored by the Town of Westport as part of this year’s Celebrate Westport programming.

The Westport Farmers’ Market sees the demonstrations as an integral part of their commitment to eater education, Brooks Vinton said.

Lazy, Hazy Day of Summer

A fisherman at Westport’s Compo Beach watches the Long Island Sound activity as he waits for a bite. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com

A Comfy Place

Westporter Diana Zaslow was greeted by this visitor under a bench near her garage. Gone for the day, she found the fawn still there on her return. “My husband and I did some gardening and carefully walked around the baby,” she said in an e-mail to WestportNow. “It did not run away. I thought it might be sick or hungry so I brought out some baby carrots and lettuce.” The animal ran into the woods but returned later in the day. “Later in the afternoon the mother deer came back and the baby got up and followed the mother across my yard and into the woods,” Zaslow said. “I guess the baby said, ‘My mother left me here for the day and this is where she will find me again.’” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Diana Zaslow for WestportNow.com

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued

The National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y., has issued severe thunderstorm watch for Westport and area in effect until 7 p.m.

Summer Westport Scene

The view from Westport’s Compo Beach Monday at dusk. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Westport Historical Society – “Years in the Making: Ageless Artists, Ageless Art”
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Westport Historical Society – “Heads & Hands” by Kristin Rasich Fox
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Westport Arts Center – “Sentimental Shipbuilding”
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Westport Arts Center – “2009 Solos Show”
7 p.m. – Westport Public Library – TEAM Westport presents “Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice: Good Nomination or Bad?”
8 p.m. – Westport Country Playhouse – “tick, tick … Boom!”
8 p.m. – Levitt Pavilion – Westport Community Band

Checking Their Catch

A couple of fishermen at Westport’s Compo Beach check out a sea robin one of them hauled in. The sea robin fish has large wings like a bird and when caught makes a croaking noise similar to a frog. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Compo Basketball

The Westport Basketball League teams played hard to win tonight at Westport’s Compo Beach. Tonight it was Team Mox vs Croakie Mafia. The teams play Monday and Tuesday nights. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com