The first Westport-Weston Restaurant Week got under way today with 19 restaurants offering special fixed price lunches and dinners. The event is sponsored by the Westport-Weston Chamber of Commerce. At Matsu Sushi, 33 Jesup Road, one of the participating restaurants, chef Sawn Wang shows off the just prepared WestportNow Roll, made up of king crab, asparagus and crunch on the inside, topped with shrimp, tuna, and avocado. The roll is not part of the fixed menus but may be purchased separately. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y. has issued a Coastal Flood Advisory for Westport and area in effect from 7 p.m. today to 1 a.m. Monday…

Tides running 1 to 1.5 feet above normal will result in minor coastal flooding during the high tide cycle this evening, an advisory said.

High tide in Westport is at 10:58 p.m.

Sisters Emma Loftus (l) 16, and Mollie, 18, both students at Staples High School, enjoy milder weather at a sidewalk table today in front of the Organic Market at Westport’s Playhouse Square. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Water levels were unusually high at Gray’s Creek off Compo Beach Road today following recent rains and snow. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book “Silent Spring” is considered a cornerstone of the environmental movement, will be the subject of the film “A Sense of Wonder” scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the McManus Room of the Westport Public Library.

Free and open to the public, it is being sponsored by the library in conjunction with Westport’s Green Village Initiative (GVI), a grass roots organization stated in Fall 2008 to begin global environmental change at the local level.

It is the first of five events that GVI and the library have scheduled throughout April.

The film which debuted with a 100-city tour last March in conjunction with Women’s History Month, choreographs Carson’s last year of life as she battles cancer and the chemical industry.

Among Project Return birdhouses that have appeared in stores in Westport is this one called “The Homestead” by Dick Reilly of Norwalk. It is in the window of Main Street’s Banana Republic shop. Reilly, a builder who specializes in preservation, received the Historic Preservation Award for the restoration of an 1850s house in Westport. He is one of a few artists who has contributed birdhouses every year since the inception of the Project Return birdhouse fundraiser. The birdhouses promote the 15th annual Project Return Art of the Birdhouse Auction on Friday, March 19 at the Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com