This summer, it’s your air conditioner.
Six months from now, it will be your heater.
Both cost big bucks.
Both could also cost a little — or a lot — less.
Sustainable Westport, in partnership with the town of Westport and People’s Action for Clean Energy, has just launched HeatSmart Westport.
The program helps residents in 3 ways:
- Improve home energy efficiency by getting a Home Energy Solutions audit from a certified technician. The typical cost is $75. But for everyone who signs up by August 31, and schedules and appointment between now and October, it’s free.
- Insulate your home. and make other improvements to its envelope.
- Consider switching your heating and cooling source to an energy efficient heat pump.
A typical HES visit includes about $800 worth of services and materials, and can result in over $180 in annual energy savings,
Each resident receives a personalized report outlining recommended improvements, such as insulation upgrades or more efficient equipment, along with rebates.
The program is open to all Westport homeowners and renters. If youve had an HES audit before 2019, you can have another now.
Click here for more information, and to schedule a free home energy audit.
An energy analysis unearths plenty of information about heat loss.
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There was a local face in the White House yesterday, as President Trump announced the return of the Presidential Fitness Test to public schools.
Weston’s Paul Levesque — better known as professional wrestler Triple H — stood on one side of Trump. Vice President Vance was on the other.
The gathering included Secretuary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and other famous athletes, including golfer Bryson DeChambeau, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, and former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor.
Triple H — who once coached softball here — currently serves as WWE’s chief operating officer. He is married to Stephanie McMahon — a retired wrestler, WWE executive, and daughter of WWE co-founder Vince McMahon and his wife Linda, Trump’s Secretary of Education.
A news story last fall described Triple H’s opulent lifestyle, including a Weston “mansion,” luxury car collection, and Bombardier Global 5000 private jet. (Hat tip: David Loffredo)
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From 1972-75, Longtime Westport resident Ron Schooler spent time in a Cuban prison.
Next Friday (August 8, 1:30 p.m., Westport Senior Center), he and Jim Evans will share their personal stories of that ordeal.
The event is part of the Senior Center’s “This is Your Life” series, presented through the Legacy Project.
Ron and Jim were on a sailing trip, delivering a boat from Rhode Island to Jamaica. But boat damage and bad weathe led them into Cuba waters, where they were arrested as “enemies of the state.”
Fifty years later, they’ll offer their perspectives on survival in a Cuban prison, during a time of political and social transformation.
Ron Schooler and Jim Evans
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Speaking of the Senior Center: They just received a $1,000 grant from the Southwestern Connecticut Transit Equity Foundation.
The funds — part of the organization’s first-ever golf event — will help subsidize transportation for members. They’ll be able purchase trips on Wheels2U, which offers service Tuesdays through Thursdays (9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), from anywhere in Westport to the Senior Center.
Wheels2U ride service. (Photo/Rick Jaffe)
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The Westport Democtratic Town Committee needs one Planning & Zoning Commission candidate, to fill its slate for the November election.
The application deadline is August 15. Interested registered Democrats should send a statement and bio or resume to mgordon906@gmail.com.
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We get more deer photos than any other type of “Westport … Naturally” submission.
There’s no room for most of them, unfortunately. (There’s also no room for any of them in our gardens, but that’s a different post.)
Here is one that made the cut:
Greens Farms wetlands (Photo/John Fanuko)
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And finally … on this date in 1981, MTV began broadcasting in the US. The very first video was:
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Fitness really, fotus? LOL.
TERMINATE the Public Benefits charge Lamont. That will help more then the energy audit which we have done.