A new (and free) support group — “Alternatives to Suicide: Navigating the Darkness Together” — launches October 4. The group meets Tuesdays (7 p.m., 90 Post Road West).
Sponsored by Positive Directions, it’s a safe, non-clinical and peer-led space where people 18 and older can talk openly and non-judgmentally. about suicide thoughts, attempts or experiences like self-harm.
Positive Directions says, “We do not assume suicidal thoughts are connected to mental illness, and you do not need to be experiencing a current crisis to attend. No referrals or connection to mental health services is needed.
People are welcome to show up to a meeting, or call 203-227-7644 or email akernan@positivedirections.org for more information.
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Today’s LobsterFest will draw 1,500 people to Compo Beach. There are lobsters, steaks, beer, wine — and plenty of waste.
The sponsoring Westport Rotary Club is on it. Lobster shells will be recycled (after de-banding); bottles are recyclable, and there’s plenty of composting.
An added element: Sustainable Westport will host informational stations throughout the event. Attendees can learn all about our town’s Zero Weaste and Net Zero initiatives, and how they can help.
Lobsterfest is always a good time. Today, it’s educational too.
Sustainable Westport’s waste stations, at last week’s Slice of Saugatuck.
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Last month, “06880” reported on the kerfuffle involving outdoor tables at Nômade (the new Main Street restaurant replacing Tavern on Main) and Savvy + Grace (the gifts-and-more store on the street level, underneath the eatery).
Shoppers have had a narrow path to the store – until yesterday.
In 13 years of publishing “06880,” I’ve posted dozens of photos of entitled drivers. This is the first one of an entitled bicyclist:
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Yesterday’s “Westport … Naturally” photo showed a beautiful caterpillar, about to become an even more beautiful butterfly.
Today’s illustrates nature in action: a monarch butterfly being devoured by a praying mantis.
It’s a gorgeous world out there. But it’s a jungle, too.
(Photo/Melissa Crouch Chang)
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And finally … It took 62 years. But on this day in 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first Black Miss America.
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