Pop-up Bagels popped up in Westport during COVID.
Adam Goldberg began baking sourdough bread, then moved on to bagels.
He sold them to friends, then friends of friends. It was an “if you know, you know” business.
Suddenly, PopUp Bagels exploded — to the rest of Fairfield County, then New York. The upstart from the ‘burbs won awards in — are youse sittin’ down? — Brooklyn.
Today, Goldberg’s little bagel business annoounces a huuuuge expansion. They’re going from 13 stores on the East Coast, to 300 nationally.
We’re talkin’ Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando — cities that think bagels are made of cardboard.
“We’re bringing our stores to places where people don’t necessarily think of themselves as ‘bagel people’,” Goldberg told Fast Company. “We’re introducing bagels into their routines.”
They’re working with 15 franchisees,each of whom will run multiple locations. PopUp will make the dough regionally.
PopUp Bagel’s tagline is “Not famous, but known.”
Sounds like it’s time for a new one.
Click here for the full Fast Company story.
Founder Adam Goldberg (right) with CEO Troy Bartlett.
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“06880” reader Michael Szeto writes: “I was taking my dog out to our mailbox at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, when I saw a coyote on my front lawn on Minute Man Hill.
“Fortuantely, I pulled our dog back into the house. The encounter could have been very bad.
“The past 2 nights we were awakened by blood-curdling coyote howls, between midnight and 2 a.m. Our dog couldn’t stop barking.
“There is so much uncontrolled wild life on our properties. I’m not sure what we can do about it. We can’t even enjoy our backyards without fearing an attack on our dog by coyotes.”
Minute Man Hill coyote. (Photo/Michael Szeto)
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A few dozen members of Staples High School’s Class of 1995 gathered for their 30th reunion Saturday, at the Saugatuck Rowing Club.
They don’t look — um, “close to 50” — do they? (Hat tip: Laura Loffredo)
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Yesterday, VFW Post 399 celebrated the installation of a 120-year-old 23-karat gold leaf eagle, on its flag pole.
The gold bird was regilted by Marty Rogers, and hung by Bert Porzio’s tree company.
Bob Rogers and Frank Veno organized the event.
(Photo/David Tetenbaum)
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Speaking of patriotism: All around Westport, American flags wave proudly.
Except this one, on Post Road East. It’s been stuck for days in a tree branch, says Bob Weingarten, and cannot wave at all.
(Photo/Bob Weingarten)
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Longtime Westport resident Richard “Chick” Hayden died peacefully at his home in Rye, New Hampshire on July 5. He was 89.
The Duluth native graduated from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota with a degree in English. He spent nearly 40 years at IBM, retiring as director of industry relations.
In retirement Chick worked with Cross Roads House of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, including a term as president.
Chick was father to 8 children with his first wife, Jane Alma Hofmann. Though they divorced, they remained lifelong friends until her death. Chick found love again, and in 1983 married Caroline Poor Cilley. They moved from Westport to New Hampshire in 1996, settling in a 1735 farmhouse with an attached barn that they turned into a hub for get-togethers for their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
His family says, “Having endured his own hardships, he was ever sensitive to the trials of others, providing wisdom, compassion and love (both soft and tough) in whatever measures needed.
Chick is survived by his wife Caroline, children Kristin, Kimberly, William, Michael, Patrick, Anthony and Kathleen; step-children Caroline Sumrall, Charles Cilley and Doug Cilley; 22 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his daughter Mary.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Chick’s name may be made to the Cross Roads House.
Richard “Chick” Hayden
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We receive deer photos every day, for our “Westport … Naturally” feature.
Fawns — not so much.
But they’re everywhere these days. Diane Johnson spotted this pair, off Imperial Avenue.
(Photo/Diane Johnson)
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And finally … on this date in 1901, actor/singer/saxohphonist Rudy Vallee was born. He died in 1986.
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I knew someone named Hayden in the 1950s. Did Richard have a brother or sister? The name is familiar.
You may be thinking of the author and editor Hiram Haydn who lived on Wake Robin quite a while ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Haydn
He was my professor at UPenn Annenberg School of Communications.
Thanks Werner.. There was a Haydn, and also a female named Haydu that lived on Bauer Place. Her first name might have been Maureen Haydu who could have been in the 1961 Staples class.
“There is so much uncontrolled wild life on our properties. I’m not sure what we can do about it.”
Well, the first thing we can do is not develop every square inch of land in Connecticut. These animals have nowhere else to go. They were here first!
Or, we could develop EVERY square inch of land in Connecticut. NY, RI and MA coudl take them all in. Doesn’t that seem like the current strategy?
It does, in fact, seem like the current strategy.
Actually not. Coyotes are an invasive species having migrated from the western US and Great Plains apparently not showing up in Connecticut until the 1950’s. Maybe they predated some of us newcomers but at least Jack Backiel was here before coyotes arrived.
Similarly, black bears had been pretty much wiped out in Connecticut by the mid 1800’s apparently not returning until the 1980’s.
Lack of hunting and apex predators is as much the cause of seeing these animals as is development.
Thanks, Tracy.
Hhhmm. Deer, fawns. Hhhmm. Coyote. Me thinks there’s a connection.
Time for a new version of former neighbor John Hersey’s 1976 novel The Marmot Drive about a CT town acting to rid itself of an over-populating rodent? [The bleakest premise is: the coyote will go away if the deer aren’t here.]
Thanks to Werner for the wiki link on Hiram Hayden. I knew I knew the name but fully realized why only when I saw the book title The Hands of Esau. Here’s the Amazon link with book description: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Esau-Hiram-Haydn/dp/B000ANCGNG. SIGNED COPY: Here –> https://www.commoncrowbooks.com/pages/books/C000024478/hiram-haydn/the-hands-of-esau-inscibed. There’s got to be more signed & dedicated copies out there, perhaps still in Westport homes.
That blue book cover art really brought it home. All over the front displays of W’s bookstores with multiple copies on the New Books Shelves at the library during January 1962. From the description, plot sounds filmable. Have not read it. Main character a “younger brother type” of The Man in the Grey Flannels Suit”?
those little fawns better look out for that coyote.
liking how you made the effort to translate ‘Huge’ correctly into BKLYN’ese 😉
The fear of wildlife in Westport is weird.
(It’s probably been twenty years now, but when someone wrote a letter to the Minuteman decrying wild turkeys as a threat to his children, I was pretty sure that all hope for common sense was lost.)
We need to protect and preserve green space, especially habitat like that found along the river, Baron’s South, at Earthplace, the Winslow, anywhere we can find it. As a town, we surely can acquire land, not to develop but to preserve.