Voting is a privilege, and a right.
It can also help you shop.
Check below, for this great (today only) offer from WEST (117 Post Road East):
(Hat tip: Dave Briggs)
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Want another chance to weigh in on Jesup Green, the Imperial Avenue parking lot and “structured parking”?
The Downtown Plan Implementation Committee’s new survey is now live.
It’s open through Monday, November 11. Click here, then follow the prompts.
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Veterans Day is an important — and often overlooked — holiday.
Westport’s ceremony is always meaningful, and well worth attending.
The Town of Westport and VFW Post 399 will host Veterans Day services next Monday, November 11 (Town Hall auditorium).
At 10:30 a.m., the Westport Community Band will perform marches and patriotic tunes.
The services begin at 11 a.m. The time and date are significant. The armistice ending World War I — “the war to end all wars” — began at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918.
After the ceremony, all veterans and other community members are invited to VFW Post 399 for food and drinks.
Donations will help pay for refreshments (click here; then click “Donate”). Extra funds will help pay for permanent flag stands on graves throughout town.
The VFW has already decorated 500, at Assumption Cemetery. There are 700 more to go in Westport.
The Doughboy statue honors Westporters who served and sacrificed in World War I. It’s at Veterans Green, across from Town Hall where Veterans Day ceremonies are held. (Photo/Topsy Siderowf)
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Sustainable Westport keeps our town on its environmental toes.
Energy, transportation, yard waste, composting — it’s all part of the non-profit’s mission and work.
They’re always looking at new ways to reuse and recycle.
For their latest effort, they did not look far. Just in every corner and closet of every playroom in town.
Introducing: Sustainable Westport’s first-ever Lego donation drive.
Donate your “pre-loved Lego, Duplo, Technic, mini-figure and/or baseplate pieces.” Sustainable Westport volunteers will package and send them to Lego Replay — and arm of the Danish company — to ensure they find their way out of landfill, and into the hands of kids who need them most.
Full collections, partial sets, random pieces — nearly all are welcome. For information about accepted pieces and how to prepare your bricks for donation, click here.
Donations can be dropped off at:
MoCA Holiday Artisan Marketplace (November 15 and 16, noon to 4 p.m.).
Wakeman Town Farm (November 22 through December 8, when open)
Earthplace (December 9 through 15, when open)
Westport Moms Holiday Event at Birchwood Country Club (December 12, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
Westport Weston Family YMCA (December 13 through 22, when open).
Questions? Email ghoffmann@sustainablewestport.org.
PS: Wondering why LEGO can’t be recycled? Click here.
Clean-up time!
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The 84th annual Candlelight Concert is set for Staples High School Friday, December 13 (8 p.m.), and Saturday, December 14 (3 and 8 p.m.). Tickets will be available soon (keep reading “06880” for details!).
Meanwhile, the Staples High School — which offers the beloved event as a gift to the town — welcomes businesses and individuals to purchase ads in the program, to help offset costs (and fund the Music Department’s programs for over 300 students).
Ads will be seen by over 3,000 people. For more information, email staples.music.parents.assn+ads@gmail.com.
Coming soon … Candlelight 2024!
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The National Charity League fosters mother-daughter relationships through a 6-year program of community service, leadership development and cultural experiences.
The Westport chapter has more than 275 members — women and their daughters in grades 7-12 — and provides volunteer support to over 30 non-profits.
Mothers of 6th grade girls are welcome to apply. Click here for more information, or email nclwmembership@gmail.com.
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Rising saxophone star Sarah Hanahan brings her talent to this Thursday’s “Jazz at the Post” (November 7, 7:30 and 8:45, VFW Post 399; dinner service at 6:45 p.m.; $20 music cover, $15 veterans and students; click here for show tickets).
Hanahan — named one of NPR Jazz Night in America’s “30 under 30 Youngbloods” — will be joined by bassist Mikey Migliore, guitarist Tony Davis and drummer Mike Camacho.
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After touring the 4 homes on Sunday’s “Historic Homes of 06880” tour, Nicholas Eisenberger thought he’d seen it all.
But passing Nyala Farm, he saw something else fascinating:
“What a beautiful sight, place, and day!” Nico says, of the bobcat (and tour) — and today’s captivating “Westport … Naturally” image.
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Re: West’s offer for I Voted sticker wearers:
Pet Peeve: There’s no sticker for Absentee Ballot voters. Would it violate state law to have the Town Clerk include one in each envelope? Or at least have them available at Rm. 105?
Try this: write “I voted” on a stickie and sign it. Have it notarized. Better proof.
Ken, you can actually do a printout or screenshot of the fact that your absentee ballot has been received and processed by the Town Clerk. That info is online.
Very beautiful day ruined by the constant noise of leaf blowers. Sounds like a war zone. Why don’t homeowners wait until all the leaves have fallen to remove them? Fall 101.
I hope everyone voted!!
And now may the best woman win!!
TRUMP 2024. Your hate party lost the popular vote also!
Rich white Westport liberals may need medicine and therapy.
What a red wave.
Jeff, were you disappointed that Mark Robinson lost? He seemed like your kind of guy. Glad you live there, not here.
Stop with the complaining about leaf blowers. You live where they are used, if you don’t like it maybe you are living in the wrong place. There are other things that you could use your energy on that would improve your life and those around you.