Four big — no, huge — shows highlight the final 6 weeks of the Levitt Pavilion.
Concerts include:
- Peter Frampton (Sunday, September 15, 7 p.m.)
- Arrival from Sweden: The Music of ABBA (Friday, September 20, 8 p.m.)
- Tower of Power (Saturday, September 21, 7:30 p.m.)
- Brad Tursi: singer/songwriter with Old Dominion, and Staples High School graduate; solo show (Saturday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.).
Click here to purchase tickets, and more information.
But wait! There’s more!
The Levitt also offers free shows, too. They include:
- DNR, the (almost) all-physician rock band (Friday, September 6, 7:30 p.m.)
- Billy and the Showmen (Saturday, September 7, 7:30 p.m.)
- Amy Irving’s Birthday Show (Tuesday, September 10, 7 p.m.)
- Bia Ferreira Trio: Songs of Brazil (Tuesday, October 1, 7 p.m.)
Click here, then scroll down to reserve free tickets to those shows.
Peter Frampton
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Optimum’s outage last night — affecting thousands of customers in the tri-state area — had many Westporters fuming.
And not just at the lack of internet and TV service.
Calls to the company went unanswered.
Some users heard a recording that they were experiencing a “higher than average” volume “due to the COVID pandemic.”
One caller — okay, I — heard the spectacularly unhelpful suggestion to go online, at Optimum.net.
Service has now been restored. Let’s hope their call volume is down too.
Even with everyone stuck at home, because of the pandemic.
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Westporters love our US Postal Service clerks.
From time to time, we give shout-outs to extra-special efforts. Here’s one more, from Karen Como:
“On Friday, Ruben went above and beyond for me.
“I had to return a skirt to a fly-by-night company. He found the smallest (least expensive) envelope. He folded the skirt for me, put it in the envelope, helped me attach the address with his tape, and found me the cheapest way to send it.
“Then he advised me to call my credit card company to report what I feel is a scam.
“He was sooo nice, and sooo helpful!”
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Hot on the heels of the rescue of 5 kittens from a Post Road East storm drain, comes another animal-saving story.
Once again, the Westport Fire Department and Animal Control played big roles.
Larry Hoy reports: “Yesterday morning, my son Colin Hoy and his girlfriend Zoe spotted 4 little feet hanging from the storm drain grate on Quentin Road, next to Gray’s Creek.
Trapped raccoon …
“They realized the tide would soon rise, and drown the little feller.
“Quick action by Westport’s Bravest freed the little varmint. Then Animal Control came to insure its safety.”
Well done, Colin, Zoe, the WFD and Animal Control!
… and the “grate” rescue. (Photos courtesy of Larry Hoy)
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Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer.
Compo Beach was packed yesterday, with residents and visitors enjoying a gorgeous day. The weather, humidity and sun were perfect.
The picnic tables and grills on South Beach were all taken.
These folks may have had to go to Plan B — the pavilion — for their dinner.
But they made the most of it.
(Photo/Gil Ghitelman)
Also making the most of it: a large party on the Old Mill sand bar, celebrating Popup Bagels’ founder Adam Goldberg’s, and his wife’s, birthdays.
The timing was perfect, for food, drinks, even a band on a boat that floated away with the tide.
(Photo/Dave Briggs)
(Photo/Dave Briggs)
(Photo/Dinkin Fotografix)
Meanwhile, off Old Mill in the Sound just a few yards away, a dozen or so boats moored.
The adults socialized, while the kids skim boarded. Another great way to end the summer. (Hat tip: Anna Rycenga)
(Drone phot/Matt Shiel)
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Gabriella S. Izzo died peacefully at her Westport home on Sunday. She was 87.
The native of Ielsi, Campobasso, Italy came to the US with her family in 1947. She was educated in Norwalk, and graduated from cosmetology school. She was a hairdresser in Darien for over 50 years, until her retirement in 2020.
Gabriella was a talented chef, and gave home-grown grape jelly, fresh tomato sauce, homemade sausage, Christmas cookies and Easter pies to family, friends, co-workers and cherished clients.
She honored Ielsi by cooking and baking traditional recipes for special holidays. As a longtime member of Assumption Church, she volunteered for many years. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters until it disbanded.
Gabriella was predeceased by her husband of 57 years, Joseph, and brother Nicholas Testa. She is survived by her daughter Lisa (George) Stanton of Westport, son Joseph (Jennifer) of Wilmington, North Carolina, and daughter Felicia (David) Smith, of Westport; grandchildren Melissa (Edward) Carter, Jeffrey Stanton, and Timothy and Kevin Izzo, and many nieces and nephews.
Calling hours are tomorrow (Wednesday, September 4, 5 to 8 p.m., Harding Funeral Home). A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at Assumption Church at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 5. Interment will follow at Willowbrook Cemetery.
Condolences may be left online at www.hardingfuneral.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Gabriella’s name to Assumption Church.
Gabriella Izzo
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Don’t call them “birdbrains.”
Every spring, for years, birds know to return to the same spot at the Playhouse Condominiums.
There — atop a fire alarm, underneath the protected parking garage — they build their nest.
The mother sits on the eggs. Eventually, they hatch.
They hang out for a couple of months, doing whatever birds do all day.
At night, they sleep.
And next spring, the baby will return to do it all over again.
It’s “Westport … Naturally” at its finest.
(Photo/Dick Truitt)
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And finally … as soon as you saw the raccoon rescue story (above), you knew this was coming:
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We dropped Optimum almost a year ago and switched to YouTube TV – couldn’t be happier.
Who did you go with for Internet?
Last spring I was walk down Quentin and saw the paws of a raccoon trying to escape that same grate.a neighbor and I tried to lift the grate up but it was wedged in place by sand and silt. We called Westport PD and an officer was there in minutes. Animal control and the fire dept arrived to. The FD had crow bars to lift it up, but the clock has been ticking. At some point we lost sight of the paws and knew it succumbed to the rising tide. 🙁
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
William Shakespeare
Are the picnic tables always removed that quickly after Labor Day? Plenty of spectacular nights left to enjoy a dinner on the beach.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to. No picnic tables have been removed.
It would be good if we could help the homeless and rough sleepers “within minutes”. Is there an equivalence between people, kittens and raccoons? Of course people helping is much more complex and the legal system must get its cut of the profits.
With “Of course people helping is much more complex,” Weiss William 111, you have explained your own hidden question of why, if we can be so good to animals, can’t we do the same for people.
Let’s just be very, very, glad that Westport can, and does, respond to animals in distress in a speedy and humane way.