Starting today, the Old Mill Beach parking lot is fully re-opened.
That means a reversion to previous rules: Parking is available for vehicles with beach emblems or hang tags, on a space available basis.
As in the past, Parks and Recreation Department staff will strictly enforce all parking regulations.
Greens Farms Academy has announced plans for in-person, on-campus instruction, 5 days a week, beginning September 1.
The private school on Beachside Avenue has spent the summer making numerous preparations — everything from changing physical spaces and furniture, to mandating one-way building pathways, to delivering lunch to assigned spaces.
One more change; There will be no formal uniform at GFA this year.
Meanwhile, the fall sports season will look different this year. The Fairchester Athletic Association has canceled all regular season games and tournaments. The league cited “differing return-to- school plans and academic models” for its member schools, in light of COVID-19, as the reason.
However, GFA says, the league’s announcement does not preclude the school from scheduling interscholastic opportunities between and among like schools, if able.
The Senior Center is sponsoring 3 interesting events this month.
Next Thursday, August 6 (10 a.m., Zoom meeting), a Westport Weston Health District panel will discuss COVID-19 in Connecticut. Viewers can ask questions too. Click here for the link.
A Caregiver Support Group meets on Wednesdays (August 5 and 19, September 2 and 16, 10 a.m.). Positive Directons’ Terry Giegengack will facilitate the sessions. For more information, call Holly Betts (203-341-5096) or email hbetts@westportct.gov.
Friends of the Westport Center for Senior Activities hosts a free summer concert series in August and September. The stars are local musicians. First up (August 14, 1:30 p.m.): pianist Mathew Graybil, who has played around the world. He’ll feature works by Chopin, Schubert and Brahms. Click here for the Zoom link.
The Senior Center is closed. But programs continue.
At Staples High School, 2004 alum Charlie Stoebe was a soccer and track star (and captain). He graduated from Dartmouth College, and is now working with NBC Sports.
Charlie is multi-talented. In his spare COVID-related time, he created a new party game.
“What Was the Question?” tests how well you know your friends and family. But unlike most getting-to-know-you games, it starts not with a question, but an answer. Players must figure out the question. After each reveal there are fun discussions on the answer the player gave, and the predictions everyone else made.
“What Was the Question?” is now in Kickstarter mode. To help get it to market — and help out a really great Staples grad — click here.
And finally … Danish pianist Bent Fabricius-Bjerre died yesterday at 95. You may know him as Bent Fabric. Or maybe you just know his most famous song:
Impressed Dan, you knew his real name, it is quite a difficult one for someone not speaking Danish. Anyway proud of my fellow Dane, I looked him up a few years ago, and was surprised he was still alive. Even when I was a teen ager in the sixties, I thought of him as older, could be because he already then had white hair. I read a funny story about his mother, who lived also to be quite old, I think close to a 100. Bent was on vacation in Italy and she called him up and said she was tired of living and she was going to die. Bent asked her to wait a few days so he could get back to Denmark, she resisted, but when he reminded her at her age what was a few more days, she relented and said: “Okay, I will wait to you get back”. Don’t remember the rest of the story when she actually died soon after.