Westport was one of several Connecticut communities participating in yesterday’s “Good Trouble Lives On” day of action.
The event on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge marked the 5th anniversary of the death of Congressman and civil rights ledaer John Lewis.
(Photo/Pippa Ader)
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The Westport Farmers’ Market is in full swing.
Yesterday, the Imperial Avenue parking lot was packed — as usual.
And — as they do every Thursday — the WFM put out a “Grow a Row” cooler.
(Photo/Dan Woog)
Grow-A-Row is a volunteer effort to grow and donate fresh produce.
Since 2020 members have planted, tended, harvested and collected nutritious donations of fresh fruits vegetables and herbs to benefit food-insecure people and families throughout Fairfield County.
So: Buy a little extra. Walk a few steps, and drop donations in the collection area at the center of the market.
Every week, let’s all help Grow-a-Row grow.
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Also yesterday: VFW Post 399’s monthly Veterans Benefits Luncheon.
The free event is open to all veterans. It’s part of the VFW’s effort to check in on their welfare, and connect them with the benefits and support they earned.
Representatives answer questions, and provide information on services and assistance available to veterans.
Yesterday’s veterans’ lunch, at the VFW. (Photo/Sal Liccione)
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A reader writes: “Last Thursday (July 10), around 2:55 p.m. I was walking my dog north on the southbound side of Compo Road South.
“I looked carefully at Baker Avenue. A car on Baker had its right turn signal on. The driver swiveled his head, and appeared to see me. Seeing several cars and cyclists heading south, I got ready to cross.
“The car slowly crept forward; then the driver accelerated into me. He must have been trying to pull out into the line of cars/
“I was hit, but my dog was okay. The driver rolled down his window and said, ‘I didn’t see you.’
“He slowly turned onto South Compo as though he would pull over, but took off. I am fairly certain I left a dent in the hood on the driver’s side.
“The car was a mid-range blue SUV (Toyota, Honda, etc.), with a faded American flag sticker. It had Connecticut plates. The driver was a male with white hair and blue eyes. An elderly woman was in the passenger seat.
“A woman and her adult son were in a pickup truck behind the offending vehicle. They got out to sit with me while I calmed down. I’ve forgotten their names, but I would love to reconnect with them. The woman said she lived by Longshore.
“I filed a police report and went to urgent care. If you have any information about the incident, please notify Officer Carr of the Westport Police Department.”
Baker Avenue, at Compo Road South.
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A new home at 5 Fraser Road, off North Avenue, has sold for $10.25 million.
According to SmartMLS, that’s the highest residential price ever in Westport — north of I-95, that is. (Hat tip: Bross Chingas Bross)
Record-setting sale at 5 Fraser Lane. (Photo/Turn Key Media)
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Most lifeguard stations are utilitarian: ladder, seat, umbrella.
They’re almost always all white.
Sherwood Island State Park is an exception.
Jay Dirnberger is intrigued by this one:
(Photo/Jay Dirnberger)
If you know the back story, click “Comments” below.
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Pam Docters serves up today’s “Westport … Naturally” treat.
She spotted these raspberries off Post Road West and Sylvan Road North, near the Pierrepont School.
(Photo/Pam Docters)
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And finally … Connie Francis — the most popular female singer in the US between 1958 and the British Invasion — died Wednesday. She was 87. Click here for a full obituary.
PS: Westport connection: Former resident Neil Sedaka co-wrote her hits “Stupid Cupid” and “Where the Boys Are.”
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Didn’t Connie Francis sing at Greens Farms School in the early to mid 1950s? Anyone remember this?
Jack: Before his days at WMCA in the 1960s, Ed Baer was a DJ at WICC. And he recalled being an MC at a Staples sock hop in 1958 when Connie Francis appeared and performed what was her first Top Ten hit. Perhaps that is what you’re thinking of.
Fun fact: When I (and you) were little kids the Baer’s owned the little store on the corner of RR Place and Riverside. Later on it was Desi’s corner and currently Steam.. On Sundays it was our stop to pickup Sunday papers prior to attending mass at Assumption Church.
Dave, you are absolutely right. Ed helped out at that store (and, if my memory is correct, he continued to do that even after getting the WICC DJ job).
Ed Baer was definitely a “good guy.” I’m glad I got to know him. Here’s a very interesting story about him. It mentions Desi’s Corner. It also notes that a former WICC colleague — WABC’s Dan Ingram — helped Ed get a job at rival WMCA.
https://06880danwoog.com/2016/06/27/ed-baer-westports-record-setting-good-guy/
Fred, Maybe I got the school wrong, but I was in Burr Farms in 1958. Someone just told me this once. Mike Borchetta would have been a student at Staples in 1958, and depending on the month, Christopher Lloyd could have been there too. But Staples makes more sense than singing at Greens Farms.
Alas, those are (invasive) wineberries, not raspberries. Folks say they’re tasty.
We have a lot of raspberry bushes in our yard and every year I make a pie or two from them. The cherries on the very old cherry tree in our back yard ripen in June, the red raspberries ripen in early to mid July and the black raspberries that grow among the red raspberries ripen mid July to late July/early August. From now through the rest of the summer, what everyone thinks is a weed is actually a delicious and healthy plant to add to any salad called purslane. Nicole Apelian has several herbalist books on all the edible plants in your yard and elsewhere that many people overlook.
Didn’t the Bernstein’s sell their Bayberry/Cross highway home to Shonda for like $15m? Maybe smart mls is not-so-smart-mls…