Sunday, December 03, 2023

Sponsors

Westport Stores That Have Reopened

The Westport Downtown Merchants Association issued this list today of stores that have reopened in Westport. Some are by appointment only.

Albe Furs

Anthropologie

ASF

Bungalow

Catherine H

Choice Pet

Cotelac

Compo Flowers

Earth Animal

Faye Kim

Fleet Feet

Great Stuff

Kerri Rosenthal

Le Rouge Chocolates

Lillian August

Mitchells

Nic+Zoe

Noya

Organachs Farm to Skin

Plumed Serpent

Pottery Barn

Sam Sloat Coins

Savannah Bee

She La La

Silver Ribbon

Soleil Toile

Southern Tide

Splash of Pink

Swoon

Terrain

The Fred Shop

West

Westport Yarns

Williams Sonoma

Winged Monkey

Three New COVID-19 Cases in Westport, Deaths Unchanged at 21

Westport had three new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total to 271 while deaths were unchanged at 21 in the past 24 hours, state officials said today.

There were 57 new fatalities statewide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total to 3,529, Gov. Ned Lamont said. The Fairfield County number was 1,167 up seven.

Statewide hospitalizations were again down, dropping by 27 to 887. In Fairfield County, there was a drop of 15 to 272. Statewide cases were 39,017, up 587 while Fairfield County cases were at 14,719, up 197.

Statewide tests administered was 190,718, up 5,198 in the last 24 hours, Lamont said.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020


Westport Town Offices, Schools, Senior Center, & Library are closed.
11 a.m. – 646-876-9923 ID:  86806581021# – Pension Investment Committee & 401(k) & Defined Contribution Plan Investment Committee
4 p.m. – 646-876-9923 ID:  86795862372# – Library Board of Trustees
7 p.m. – 646-876-9923 ID:  84587341202# – Conservation Commission
7:30 p.m. – Electronically – Board of Finance: live streamed on http://www.westportct.gov, Optimum ch. 79, Frontier ch. 6020. Email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Westport Senior Center YouTube Channel
Westport Library Stuck at Home Activities
Westport Library YouTube Page
Earthplace YouTube Channel
Virtual Westport Museum for History & Culture
See more events: Celebrate Westport Calendar

One New COVID-19 Case in Westport, One New Death

UPDATE Westport had one new COVID-19 case, bringing its total to 268, and one more death at 21 in the past 24 hours, state officials said today.

There were 23 new fatalities statewide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total to 3,472, Gov. Ned Lamont said. The Fairfield County number was 1,160, up seven.

Statewide hospitalizations were again down, dropping by six to 914. In Fairfield County, there was no change at 287. Statewide cases were 38,430, up 314 while Fairfield County cases were at 14,522, up 86.

Statewide tests administered was 185,520, up 7,841 in the last 24 hours, Lamont said.

Staples Top Scholars Named Benjamin

WestportNow.com Image
Staples High School today named its valedictorian and salutatorian for the class of 2020. Besides the highest GPAs in the school, both are named Benjamin, and share the last initial S. And both play saxophone in the Jazz Band. They are valedictorian Benjamin Spector (l) and salutatorian Benjamin Schussheim. Spector plans to study chemical engineering at the University of Michigan. Schussheim plans to attend Duke University and hopes to major in computer science. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photos

Federal Health Officials Optimistic About Connecticut’s Reopening

By Nicole Leonard

www.ctmirror.org

Connecticut’s continuing decline in the number of daily hospitalizations, as well as an uptick in testing capabilities, has both state officials and federal health experts confident that Wednesday’s reopening will be successful.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a Westport resident and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Trump Administration, joined the state daily briefing remotely today.

“We’re at a point in this state that we can start to contemplate a thoughtful stage of reopening of economic activity, having been successful at flattening the curve and making sure that the health care system didn’t get overwhelmed,” he said. “Now we’re at that moment to try to restart activity in a thoughtful way.”

On the eve of Connecticut’s first phase of reopening, 914 people are currently hospitalized for COVID-19, a drop of six people from Monday.

Gottlieb: ‘We’re Going to See Cases Grow’

WestportNow.com Image
Westporter Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, told Gov. Ned Lamont’s news conference today that as the state reopens from the coronavirus, “there will be an uptick in cases. We expected that. We’re going to see more hospitalizations. We’re going to see cases grow. That’s why it is important to have a staged reopening as the state is doing.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Screen grab from CT-N