The Board of Finance meets this Wednesday (February 5, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall auditorium).
Among the agenda items are these appropriation requests:
- $3,072,596 for Board of Education building projects.
- $2,012,000 to rehabilitate the Compo Beach Marina piers, fuel dock and electrical switchgear.
- $400,000 for sidewalk maintenance and replacement.
- $198,000 for a highway service truck.
- $2,750,000 to replace the Cross Highway culvert over Deadman Brook.
- $222,000 for architectural study, schematic design, land-use permitting, and preparation of a probable cost opinion, for the Westport Parks & Recreation Department maintenance facility at Longshore.
Click here for a link to the full agenda.
Piers at the Ned Dimes Marina
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It’s hard to trust social media.
But a TikTok video detailing the history of Longshore manages to get every fact right.
And add in a few vintage photos to boot.
I have no idea where this came from. Alert “06880” reader Marshall Kiev sent it along.
It’s at least one reason to be thankful President Trump paused the TikTok ban, I guess.
@callcress Once a grand estate, nearly a 180-parcel housing development. How Westport, CT’s Longshore became a public treasure #westportct #history
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Internationally renowned pianist — and longtime Westporter — Frederic Chiu often roams far from his home (now Norwalk).
In addition to concerts across the globe, he’s a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music.
But his many fans — in Westport, and worldwide — can see him on livestream, for 3 days starting tonight.
The DKV Festival — featuring the intersection of music, technology and community, using the Yamaha Disklavier, which Chiu has tested and played for over 35 years — features several special events.
Today (Monday, February 3, 8 p.m.), Chiu plays 2 pianos at the same time, live.
Click here for more information, and links to the other DKV Festival offerings.
Frederic Chiu accompanies himself on 2 pianos, at the Westport Library.
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Longtime Westport and Weston resident Pauline Wexler celebrated her 100th birthday yeterday at the Westport home of Michael and Eve Catarevas, her nephew and his wife.
Pauline has not slowed down a bit. She still drives every day from her Norwalk home to play bridge, and attend Westport Senior Center events.
She still works too, sewing tapestries, pillows and other items that she sells to stores and on eBay.
Pauline’s late husband, Red Wexler, served in World War II as an artist in the Pacific Theater. A noted cartoonist, he was a member of the Westport illustrators group from the 1960s through ’80s.
Pauline Wexler (center), with Eve and Michael Catarevas.
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Johanna Keyser Rossi snapped this coming-in-for-a-landing “Westport … Naturally” photo, at the Library Riverwalk.
(Photo/Johanna Keyser Rossi)
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And finally … if you have no idea what it means for Frederic Chiu to play 2 pianos at once (story above), check out this video:
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Happy Birthday to Pauline Wexler!