There’s been a change to tonight’s (Thursday) Parks & Recreation Department forum on beach resiliency.
The 6:30 p.m. event — to discuss existing site conditions, potential beach profiles, and anticipated regulatory requirements — had been scheduled for Town Hall.
It’s now been changed to a Zoom meeting. Click here to log on.
Burying Hill Beach is rapidly eroding. (Photo/Seth Schachter)
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Sunny weather is predicted for this Saturday’s Slice of Saugatuck.
The event — postponed by last weekend’s nor’easter — runs from 2 to 5 p.m.
The family friendly event features food tastings, retail experiences, 7 bands, 4 bouncy houses, a balloon bender, face painter, antique fire truck as well 2 beer/wine gardens and more.
The price is $15 per adult, kids under 13 remains $5, with age 5 and under free. Only credit card or electronic payment will be accepted. All tickets are sold on site.
For more information on the Slice of Saugatuck, click here.
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If it’s October, it’s time for a … Halloween story.
The Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest is set for Saturday, October 24 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Merchants offer their windows for painting. Kids paint them. There are prizes (gift certificates), and everyone enjoys the kids’ work. There’s no trick — what a treat!
Youngsters can request a window, or have one assigned to them. Painters supply their own water-based paint, drop clothes and brushes (and clean up when they’re done).
There are different age groups, for elementary and middle schoolers. Prizes are awarded for:
- Scariest art work
- Best Halloween theme
- Most original
Click here to register, and for more information.
Halloween window art work.
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This amphibious vehicle sprayed for invasive plants yesterday, on behalf of Aspetuck Land Trust.
How they got there is interesting.
They came from north of the Post Road. They traveled down the east shoreline, past the Library and Levitt Pavilion, before making land at the park.
It must have been a very low tide, to get under the Ruth Steinkraus Coehn Bridge.
We’re not sure where they headed next — or how they got there.
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Two more great entertainers have been added to the lineup for Saturday’s Westport Country Playhouse gala.
Tamar Greene — Broadway’s longest-running George Washington in “Hamilton” — and Patty McCormack (“The Bad Seed”) join Santino Fontana, Dan Lauria, Wendie Malick, Javier Muñoz, James Naughton, Kelli O’Hara, and NaTasha Yvette Williams.
All will salute productions that have gone “from the page to the stage” at the Playhouse, since its founding in 1931.
There’s a 5:30 p.m. pre-show reception; 7 p.m. curtain with live auction, and a 9 p.m. after-party. Click here for tickets, and more information.
Tamar Greene
A free “PopShop Market” pops up Saturday (October 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Westport Museum for History & Culture).
Independent boutiques, makers, designers and artisans offer women’s fashion, jewelry, accessories, vintage finds, home goods, gifts and more. See below for a full vendors’ list.
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Westport Police made 1 custodial arrest between September 23 and 29.
A 38-year-old Brooklyn man was charged with larceny and identity theft, following an investigation into a 2025 complaint of a fraudulent wire transfer of $89,000.He was held on a $100,000 bond.
Westport Police also issued these citations:
- Traveling unreasonably fast: 9 citations
- Failure to obey state traffic commission regulations: 6
- Failure to renew registration: 5
- Texting while driving: 3
- Unreadable plates: 1
- Failure to obey stop sign: 1
- Operating a motor vehicle without minimum insurance: 1
- Failure to obey traffic control signals: 1
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There was plenty of food in the bird feeder.
But this guy couldn’t get it. So he’s looking elsewhere for a meal. Or to stock up for winter.
We’re impressed with 2 things, in today’s “Westport … Naturally” feature: His agility.
And his tail.
(Photo/Ellen Wentworth)
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And finally … we made it to October!
Either that, or we got here way too fast.
(There’s an old “06880” tradition every October 1: Readers click here to donate to their hyper-local blog. Okay, maybe we just started it today. But why not?! Thanks in advance to all …)
I walked the Grace Solomen park today and saw the tracks in the river muck. This photo is disturbing for a number of reasons: 1) Not their property 2) the use of chemical spray. Did the town permit the Land Trust to spray? Did they use the DEEP recommended protocol of cutting and spraying the phragmites with a toxic pesticide (sorry, can’t remember the name) to control growth. Pesticides and water don’t mix. Pesticides and the shellfish industry don’t mix. Pesticides the birds and the bees don’t mix. It’s time for the town to ban this practice and codify it by ordnance. The Sherwood Mill Pond Commission last year denied the spraying. What about the rest of the town? Hey RTM, how about it?
Just coming here to ask the same question. What type of spray was used in regard to “invasive plants” and what local town officials or department approved? Might someone from the Aspetuck Land Trust or from the Department of Parks and Rec respond.
They are supposed to notice when they are doing fragmite removal.
The Sherwood mill pond committee unanimously rejected their practices.
Originally, it was sprayed. Then, they hand applied with a rubber glove to the top of the plant individually.
Glyphosate is not a joke.