Westport firefighters tonight assisted Norwalk at a one-car rollover southbound just before Exit 40 in Norwalk. The car left the roadway, then rolled several times before coming to rest on a rock on its roof in the wooded area between the parkway and Creeping Hemlock Lane, said Norwalk Deputy Fire Chief Edward Prescott. A man and a woman were outside the car when firefighters arrived, he said. Both were transported to Norwalk Hospital. Firefighters cut open the car to search for more victims and scoured nearby woodlands but found no one, Prescott said. Norwalk Fire Department photo

UPDATE Several hundred employees of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates on Glendinning Place, the Nyala Farms office complex, and Riverside Avenue were evacuated today on a report of a telephoned bomb threat, according to police.

The Bridgewater Associates Glendinning Place complex. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bridgewater Associates photo

Police said at 4 p.m. Bridgewater employees were dismissed for the day. Shortly after 5 p.m., remaining employees were allowed to return to the buildings after sweeps by police bomb detection dogs found nothing.

A brief police news release tonight merely said there had been a bomb threat at Glendinning, with no mention of the other Westport locations, that “no evidence of an explosive device was discovered,” and that the Detective Bureau and FBI were investigating the incident “to the fullest extent.”

Police shut off entrances to the Glendinning complex as well as a portion of Clinton Avenue leading to Ford Road near the complex entrance, according to reports from the scene.

Westport police today arrested three New York men on larceny, forgery and ID theft charges after $74,000 in stolen or fraudulent checks were found on them and in their vehicle.

Arrested: (l-r) Maliki Cottrell, Alphonso Stewart, and Rashon Perkins. Westport Police photos

A detective in the area of Post Road East and Bulkley Avenue became suspicious after spotting a silver vehicle with out of state plates and watched passengers exit and the vehicle drive off, said Lt. Eric Woods.

The detective, who had been in the area because of an attemped house break-in on Tuesday, summoned additional officers and the three men were stopped and had different stories about their reason for being in the area that could not be corroborated, Woods said.

A subsequent search of the vehicle and the men found eight checks totaling more than $74,000, Woods said. “All of the checks were either stolen and/or fraudulent,” he said, adding they were not tied to the attempted break-in.

Eagle-eyed WestportNow contributing photographer Mark Molesworth spotted this specimen along the Saugatuck River in Westport. “I’ve been looking for this predator for over a year,” he said in an email. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Mark Molesworth for WestportNow.com

By James Lomuscio

One month from today, longtime Westporter Clayton Chalfant, a 92-year-old Army World War II veteran, will get a new roof on his 1950s-built home thanks to a charitable roofing organization dubbed the Santa Klaus Project.

Clayton Chalfant: World War II veteran. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photos

Westport firefighters and Westport Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) members will also be on site, pitching in at the Garden Lane home of Chalfant and Mary, his wife of 69 years.

The Santa Klaus Project is a philanthropic brainchild of Klaus Larsen, whose eponymous Lebanon, Conn.-based company Klaus Larsen LLC uses some of its profits to put roofs over the heads of those in need.

“He’s always been a gentle man with an infectious smile,” Deputy Fire Chief Bob Kepchar said about Chalfant.