Massimo Tullio has spent more than 25 years in hospitality.
He grew up in New Canaan, in a family with southern Italian roots. After working with wineries, and making Norwalk’s Fat Cat Pie Company a destination, he helped open The Whelk in 2012. Connecticut Magazine named it the Best New Restaurant, and it earned many other honors. He also helped open Kawa Ni nearby.
In early 2025 Massimo took over The Whelk completely, and turned the fomrer Don Memo downtown into Massi Co.
It was no whim. He spent the spring training in Italy, learning all about Neapolitan pizza. It’s been one of Westport’s hottest restaurants for the past year.
The other day, Massimo walked a few yards over to the Westport Library. We chatted about all things food-related. Click here or below, for our mouth-watering conversation.
In January 2024, a thunderclap headache in Los Angeles — 3,000 miles from home — sent John Duffield, a 43-year-old healthcare marketing executive and former triathlete, to the hospital with a brain bleed.
He’s a Southport resident; his children went to Christ & Holy Trinity Preschool, where his wife Janet teaches.
Within 6 months John went from “the healthiest person I knew, to a man recording goodbye videos for my wife and children, set to send automatically. Just in case.”
John spent his career helping global brands innovate, most recently with artificial intelligence. When his life came apart, he used those tools to survive.
“What it did astonished me,” he says.
“It answered at 2 a.m. when the fear was loudest, and covered the hours no clinician could. I was living inside a preview of what care will look like for all of us.”
The workup uncovered a heart defect he had been born with: a bicuspid aortic valve, a severe leak, and an aortic aneurysm.
John Duffield
Six months later, a valve-sparing procedure, repairing John’s own valve instead of replacing it. Twenty days later, a leaking mitral valve put him back on the operating table for a second open-heart surgery.
What followed was 43 nights across 3 health systems: atrial fibrillation and a cardioversion, fluid drained from his lungs 4 times, a staph infection in his chest incision, a debridement, and 6 weeks on a wound vac.
Janet slept on fold-out benches and recliners, tracked every medication, and caught errors in his transfer paperwork. She was his caregiving lifeline.
John used AI to decode reports, prepare questions for his doctors, weigh whether to risk a 3rd open-heart surgery, and explain his condition to his children. He filmed it all as it happened.
Recovery brought discoveries of its own. AI surfaced a possible link between his brain bleed and his heart disease. Genetic testing at Yale found an inherited variant associated with elevated cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk.
In June 2025, a dangerously slow heart rhythm caught on stage in Chicago led to a pacemaker.
Now, John is releasing “The Future Patient.” It tells the full story, with a foreword by his surgeon, nd dozens of QR-linked videos recorded from the ICU bed to the hospital rooftop.
The book’s launch takes place in New York City tonight (Tuesday), 5:30 p.m.), near Grand Central. It includes fellow heart patients and colleagues from health, life sciences, advertising and technology. The conversation will focus on where patient care is heading, and how to make the patient experience clearer for everyone who comes after us. Click here for details.
Timing is everything. Last week I suffered a major email hack — and a harrowing identity theft.
Which are 2 great reasons why this podcast with Sam Disraelly is so timely.
Not to mention, vitally important.
After careers in the military, and working with firefighters and 911 dispatchers, Sam found another way to help people.
He founded Your Tech — a 1-stop cybersecurity firm that is the gold standard in the field.
Sam is creative, passionate, and whip smart. He knows how to stalk and beat the bad guys. And he did it all without making me feel like I was the dumbest creature on the planet.
If you use the internet at all — and by reading this, you do — you need to learn as much as you can about cybersecurity.
This podcast is a fantastic way to start. Click here or below to begin.
When Stella DiGeronimo’s grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the Westport teenager spent a lot of time with him at his Southport facility.
She wanted to know more, about him and the other residents. That sent her down a rabbit hole of information.
Stella realized the importance of talking to senior citizens. The more she did, the more she understoo how much “nuance and depth” they had.
And the more she recognized the need to write down those stories.
Stella already had a lot on her plate. A senior 3-sport athlete — field hockey, and captain of both the ski and softball teams, as well as president of the Democratic Women of Staples — she nonetheless encouraged her friends Sammy Stevenson and Alex Price to join the new venture.
They found the Legacy Project. The national non-profit, which began at Tufts University, connects younger and older adults for multigenerational friendship and storytelling. Together they combat social isolation and loneliness, and document life stories.
There are about 70 chapters nationwide. Nearly all are at colleges; a few are in high schools.
The girls reached out to the Westport Center for Senior Activities. Nine Staples students — Stella, Alex, Sammy, Addison Dennett, Hayley Epstein, Mehmet Madigan, Emerson Menoni, Piper Salik and Ella White — were paired with older men and women.
Then the fun — the conversations — began.
Some students used scripts. Some asked about “themes” love, hardship, etc.) They met often, in a variety of settings.
Stella — paired with Penny Pearlman — just started asking questions about the older woman’s life. Things flowed freely from there.
When Penny’s husband died, she felt as if she’d lost her identity. So, she told Stella, she picked up flamenco dancing.
The idea came on a whim. She spent a month in Spain with a group of much younger women. And Penny does not speak Spanish.
“That was so inspiring!” Stella says.
From left: Stella DiGeronimo (center) with Penny Pearlman and Maggie DiGeronimo.
Each interview was recorded. Stella transcribed them all into a large Google doc. Every teen turned their interview into a story.
Another woman described her many years abroad, as the wife of a NATO diplomat. She had no official title, but she organized refugee operations at dozens of sites across Europe.
Other interviewees told other stories about their long, remarkable — and often untold — lives.
The result is a book: “The Art of Flying Anyway.” The Legacy Project takes care of all publication details, as it does for several books a year.
The title comes from something one of the interviewees said: a bumblebee should not be able to fly, but it does.
The cover — complete with bees — was created by the teens and seniors together.
“This is really important,” Stella says. “Social media shows current information. But so much history is being lost or forgotten.”
It’s important to her personally, too.
“I got such a better grasp on life,” Stella says about the project.
“We’re taught that things are always linear, from point A to B.
“I realize now things don’t always go the way they’re planned. It’s more about how you react to things, that really makes up a life.”
(Stella thanks several key players who helped along the way, including the communities at The Residence, Maplewood at Southport, and the Westport Senior Center, including director Wendy Petty; The Legacy Project and co-founder and CEO, Arielle Galinsky, and Rozanne Gates, founder of The Legacy Project USA, an independent organization.)
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The Westport Farmers’ Market is 20 years old this year.
Beyond providing hundreds of shoppers with fresh produce and herbs, meats, seafood, breads, ice cream, lunch, Thai food, pet food and knife sharpening each week, they feed over 50,000 people a year through partnerships with the Gillespie Center, Homes for the Brave, Norwalk Arts Space and Cardinal Shehan Center.
To celebrate — and raise funds — they’ve planned a special, intimate event. “Fork It Over” (September 17, 6 p.m., Terrain) features several Big Names (and friends of the Market): Jen Bengtson (Terrain Café), Dan Kardos (Café Melba), Hoodoo Brown Team, John Nealon and Christian Wiki (Crust Issues) and Piereluigi Mazzella (Fatto a Mano).
They visited Tirop’s Angels, a non-profit created after elite runner Agnes Tirop was murdered by her domestic partner. The Simmelkjaers spoke with many victims of gender-based violence, an importand issue in the country.
This week Julia — a rising Staples High School senior — announced a “Back to School 5K.” The virtual race will benefit Tirop’s Angels.
Julia is getting many Staples cross country teammates to run, and invites anyone else interested — anywhere in the world — to join them, for a $25 donation.
The race is open through September 13. Runners can race individually, or as part of a team.
Need more incentive than helping a great cause? Runners with the fastest men’s and women’s times get complimentary entry into New York Road Runners’ United Airlines NYC Half Marathon in March.
In Kenya, Tirop’s Angels is building a safe house for abused women. Above (left to right): Annika, Rob and Julia Simmelkjaer, with Viola Cheptoo. She founded the Angels, and is an elite runner who will compete in the New York Marathon this November.
Last December, “06880” reported that the building next to Five Guys — which old-timers still think of as IHOP, and newer-comers know as the Westport Pancake Shop and/or one of many nail salons — would have a new tenant.
JetSet Pilates — the Miami-based “market leader in Reformer Pilates.” with 100 locations open, or in development — would open there.
“In mid-summer,” we said.
Well, that’s come and gone. And here was the scene yesterday:
(Photo/Colin Livingston)
We have no clue whether it’s still the future site of JetSet Pilates.
The Westport Country Playhouse has just added 2 new — and very different — shows.
Coming up next in their Barnstormer Series: “The History of a Brief Time” (September 8, 7 p.m.).
Written and performed by Bill Williams, it tells the very personal story of the loss of his son to opioid addiction. Called a “vividly, beautifully and painfully described experience,” it’s one family’s journey through struggle, grief and, ultimately, healing.
On September 19 (1 and 4 p.m.), the big red dog Clifford–bounds onto the stage. The new musical comedy adventure (named for him) celebrates friendship, imagination, and the magic of unconditional love.
Matthew Mandell reports: “The crowd was Comfortably Numb as The Machine — the internationally touring Pink Floyd tribute band — returned to Westport for an exceptional show at the Levitt Pavilion last night.
“They first played here during COVID at the drive-in concerts hosted by the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce and the Westport Library on the Imperial Avenue parking lot.”
This weekend at the Levitt:
Tonight (Saturday): Frank Mastrone & Friends (7:30 p.m.; free)
Sunday, August 22: Andy Frasco & the UN, and Kitchen Dwellers with special guests Magoo (5 p.m.; tickets).
Recently, while visiting the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum in Boston, Staples High School Class of 1967 graduate Ron Berler bought a copy of a book he had last read in high school: “Profiles in Courage.”
He was struck, he said, by its currency. “The same issues that tempered brave acts in some members of Congress when Kennedy published his book in 1956 apply today: The fear of losing their next election. Of being tarred as traitors by their party. Of submitting to power. Of forfeiting pride and honor.”
It made him appreciate all the more “those few in Congress who have demonstrated true courage – even if just once.”
As he thought about the type of person he’d like to see in municipal, state and national offices, he wrote an essay. It was just published in Washington Monthly, under the headline “What is Political Courage?” Click here to read Berler’s piece.
Ron Berler
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Congratulations to winners of the Longshore Women’s Golf Association’s Invitational: Sarah Kim, Sally Rogol, Debbie Thron and MarthaLee Taylor.
Lnnch followed the competition, in the newly (and beautifully renovated) Inn at Longshore ballroom.
Members and guests donated food and money to Homes with Hope, this year’s designated charity.
The LWGA — going strong since 1960 — is open to all women golfers from Westport and surrounding towns.
From left: Sarah Kim, Sally Rogol, Debbie Thron, MarthaLee Taylor, and Longshore head professional Jon Janik.
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Next Saturday’s “Movie Under the Stars” — a Weston tradition — is a double feature.
Local band Good Godfrey open the show (August 29, 6 p.m.; free) at the Weston Middle School Field.
The 8 p.m. film is “National Treasure,” starring Nicholas Cage. It is an apt choice, as the country celebrates its semiquincentennial.
Tony’s Pizza Truck will be on hand, at the Weston Commission for the Arts and 250th Advisory Committee event.
And finally … on this date in 1902, the Cadillac Motor Company was founded.
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Westporters love Jamie Camche’s jewelry — at her JL Rocks store, and Bungalow.
Jamie is one of a number of successful women business owners here. Theother day, we chatted at the Westport Library about her work, her life in Westport, and much more.
Click here and below for an interesting look into Westport’s small — in name only — business community.
Tom Karrel grew up in Westport, and is a 2012 graduate of Staples High School. His new book, “The Lost Art of Random Conversations,” has just been published. Tom writes:
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The other day, my partner Taylor and I stopped by the Organic Market. After a month full of eating all the sugar and bread we could find, we decided it was time to reset with a juice cleanse.
Tom Karrel
While waiting, a woman overheard us chatting and introduced herself. Within minutes, we discovered she is living in my hometown of Westport, but had grown up in the same neighborhood in Santa Barbara, California, where Taylor and I are moving this fall.
What started as a spontaneous moment turned into a genuinely meaningful conversation. We skipped the standard “What do you do?” scripts, and talked instead about how each of us has learned (or struggled) to make friends in new places.
We talked too about what makes a community feel welcoming enough to lower your guard, offer a compliment, or check in on a deeper level with a stranger.
Returning to Westport this summer, I’ve spent time driving around the Staples campus to see what looks different and what has stayed exactly the same. I’ve taken slow drives through the neighborhoods of old friends, grabbed a greasy sandwich at Fortuna’s and a toasted bagel at Village Bagels, and walked the familiar shores of Compo, Burying Hill and Sherwood Island.
While marveling at everything that looks fancy and new in town, what stands out most are those childhood memory spots that have not aged at all, in the absolute best way.
However, alongside that beautiful nostalgia is a louder realization: We’re all glued to our phones. Walking along the Saugatuck River, sitting on the wall at Compo or waiting for a table near the Black Duck or Kawa Ni, I notice heads constantly tilted down toward glowing rectangles.
We live in one of the most beautiful, idyllic towns in America. Yet so often we stare at our phone screens instead of actually looking up, or stopping to take in all the beauty and diverse people around us.
Sitting on the Compo Beach cannons — with cell phones. (Photo/Fred Cantor)
We all know it. But if nothing changes, nothing changes.
Whenever I come back to town, I get caught in this too. So this time, I’ve made a point to reach out to fellow Staples grads now spread across the globe.
As we catch up on where life has taken us, the conversation inevitably drifts toward the same realization: No matter how impressive our careers or titles may look on paper, everyone is hungry for a genuine sense of community and belonging, wherever they are.
Few have truly found it — myself included.
At Staples we were taught to strive, lead, and make our mark on the world. Westport excels at raising high achievers. But in a world where artificial intelligence automates routine tasks and screens consume our attention, shouldn’t our definition of success evolve?
Are we teaching our young people to be leaders who know how to build real human connection, or are we just training them to chase status and wealth?
True leadership is not just about financial success; it’s about having the courage and capacity to bring people together, lower social barriers, and make the places we live feel like tight-knit communities again.
In my new book, “The Lost Art of Random Conversations,” I advocate for LARC: the daily practice of starting spontaneous, face-to-face interactions in an increasingly lonely, anxious and phone-addicted world.
“Random” doesn’t mean aimless, though. It means being open to unscripted moments of human connection with anyone, from complete strangers to neighbors, colleagues, and our closest friends and family.
Prolonged loneliness carries health risks comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. One in 4 adults worldwide report feeling profoundly isolated. We are the most digitally connected generation in history, yet statistically we feel the most alone.
The true measure of a strong community isn’t found in real estate values or pristine beach passes. It comes down to one question: If you disappeared for a month, how many people in town would notice?
Maintaining Westport’s strong, welcoming community doesn’t require a complex Town Hall initiative or new non-profit. It starts with simple micro-choices made by each of us individual Westporters every day. For example:
Unplug in local lines. Put your phone in your pocket while waiting at Gold’s, CVS or the Farmers’ Market. Look up, make eye contact, and ask about something interesting you notice about the place and the person behind the counter.
The other, while printing labels at the UPS Store opposite Fresh Market, Tom Karrel (right) and Taylor had a great conversation with 2014 Staples grad Gene Tsai.
Go beyond the usual script. The next time you’re chatting with a shop owner or parent at a baseball game, ask one question beyond “How’s your week going?” Try: “What’s been a standout part of your summer so far?” Genuinely listen to what they say. Follow up, and show you’re actually curious to hear more.
Acknowledge familiar strangers.If you pass the same person walking their dog along the road every morning, smile and say hello. Say the thing you’re both thinking: “Hey, we walk by each other all the time but I’ve never said hello. I’m [your name]!”
Westport’s community sustains and grows when we decide to look up, take a breath, and risk having an honest, spontaneous conversation with the person standing right in front of us. Making one another feel truly welcome and at home in this place, rather than just another busy adult running around from place to place.
The next time you feel a small nudge to reach out to someone in town, go for it. You never know when a simple conversation might remind both of you what it really means to belong to this beautiful place.
(For more information about Tom Karrel’s new book, “The Lost Art of Random Conversations,” click here.)
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East Town Prophets bring their high-energy rock sound to VFW Post 399 tonight (Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; $10 cover).
Doors open at 6 p.m. Light bar food is available, plus drink specials.
East Town Prophets
Also tonight, at the Levitt Pavilion : Anthem Reggae Band (7:30 p.m.). Tomorrow (Sunday, 7 p.m.) it’s Danny Lipsitz & the Brass Tacks. Both shows are free. Click here for more information.
Last night’s show featured Residual Groove. The local band that played 2 Slice of Saugatuck festivals, many nights at Dunville’s and opened last year for Mahali made the first of what may be many headline performances at the outdoor theater.
Residual Groove (Photo/Matthew Mandell)
And one more: Vinnie Ferrone plays outdoors on Church Lane tonight (6 to 9 p.m.).
Jay Schadler’s “Turning Point” podcast is one of the Westport Library’s most popular series.
The journalist/photographer/artist is a superb interviewer, zeroing in on key moments in a guest’s life and career.
And I’m not just saying that because his interview with me kicks off his 2nd season,
Our chat ranged widely, from writing to soccer to LGBT activism. The through line was “community” — and the turning points that shaped me and my work. Click here to listen.
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Channeling Westport circa 1965, and inspired by hilarious Instagram posts from Rita Gigante daughter of mob boss Vincent “The Chin” Gigante and author of “The Godfathers Daughter”), a group of longtime Westport friends donned housecoats, pink foam rollers and their mother’s pearls.
Dubbing themselves “The Real Housewives of Westport,” they gathered for an afternoon potluck lunch of Ritz cracker chicken casserole, corn soufflé, Jell-O mold, tuna pasta and pineapple upside down cake.
Ellen Bowen hosted the event. As you can see in the photo below, she and Yvonne Claveloux, Stacey Tagen, Marci Gordon, Lilia Temple, Cathy Colgan, Sara Kempner, Lois Backon and Cathy Circle were looking very, um, mid-’60s-Westport-ish.
Yesterday’s Roundup noted that a large sign at the Compo Road/Bridge Street intersection, touting a new sidewalk project, identified Ned Lamont as “govenor.”
We neglected to mention — because, truthfully, we did not notice — 2 other misspellings.
The Department of Transportation — which presumably is responsible for the sign — forgot a “t” in their own name.
They even screwed up the name of their commissioner. It’s “Garrett” — not “Garret” — Eucalitto.
But hey, the DOT had a swift solution yesterday:
To be fair, “06880” makes a fair share of spelling errors.
But we don’t post them on large, taxpayer-funded signs.
PS: Every word in this particular item has been checked and re-checked. At least 12 times.
But we just learned that 5 Staples High School students have been named state winners in the annual PTA Reflections competition. The theme was “I Belong.”
Congratulations to Isabella Mariani (music composition, 1st place), Noah Bruno (film production, 1st place), Jessica DiPrato (visual arts, 1st place), Dylan Marks (photography, 2nd place) and Archie Kobetitsch (literature, 3rd place).
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Today’s “Westport … Naturally” photo is a first: a clearwing hummingbird moth.
In addition to sending a superb image, Jay Ludy quotes Google: “The hummingbird moth is a fascinating day-flying insect known for hovering in midair, making a buzzing sound, and using a long proboscis to drink nectar from flowers.”
The last time we mentioned Josh Suggs, the 2021 Staples High School graduate had just been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Yesterday, the 23-year-old was seen by an even bigger audience: NBC’s “Today” show.
Brian Cheung interviewed him about Street Talk. That’s the company he formed, after dropping out of Syracuse University. It is “disrupting advertising,” Cheung said.
Josh’s route to social entrepreneurship started in Westport, he told “Today.” As a 14-year-old, he got free haircuts for social media posts.
When a Syracuse friend paid Josh $2,000 for 30 street interviews, a light bulb went off. Today, Street Talk earns 8 figures in revenue by conducting authentic, unscripted street interviews that companies large and small can use as brand ads.
“I bet on myself, and the future fo social media,” Josh said.
RERUN: Last fall’s story was not the first to feature Josh Suggs. Click here to read this one, from 2016. It features Josh and his great Bedford Middle School friend, Jamie Mann. A fellow SHS grad, Jamie has also made a name for himself in New York: on Broadway.
Congratulations to Russell Greenberg and Gadi Slade!
The Chabad of Westport friends recently participated in the Maccabi Games in Israel (aka “the Jewish Olympics”). Over 5,000 athletes attended, including 900 from the US.
Greenberg swam in the Masters division, and captained his team. He captured gold in the 65-69 age group in the 100 meter freestyle, then added silver medals in the 50 free, 50 butterfly and 200 free. He was also part of 3 silver medal relays. Greenberg called the competition “the highlight of my swimming career.”
Slade’s story starts in 1932. A blonde, blue-eyed Jew from Frankfurt traveled to Tel Aviv where, by chance, the 1st Maccabi Games were being held. She met a doctor from Galilee. They exchanged phone numbers and addresses. But she returned to Germany and did not think about him.
Six months later, Hitler came to power. Nine months after that, the German woman and her parents fled to Haifa, where she knew just one person: the doctor from the Maccabi Games. They got together, fell in love, and were married. Slade is their grandson.
He planned to gain citizenship in Ecuador, make the national basketball team, and play in the Atlanta Olympics — all to get into Harvard Business School.
When that failed, he tried out in 1997 (also unsuccessfully) for the inaugural Maccabi USA field hockey team. Finally, this year he make the Games for masters table tennis. He won a gold medal in the team competition.
94 years after his grandparents met, Gadi marched in the opening ceremony with his son Leo (who also participated in table tennis, for 16 and under).
“The medal was a nice surprise, but for me just being there and wearing the Team USA shirt was my definition of victory,” Slade says.
Gadi Slade (left) and Russell Greenberg, with Maccabi medals.
Between email, texts and now AI, we’ve forgotten how to have conversations with actual human beings we don’t know.
Help is near.
Staples High School Class of 2012 graduate Tom Karrel has just published “The Lost Art of Random Conversations: How One Conversation with a Stranger Will Change the Way You Connect with Everyone.”
Drawing on over 10,000 hours of group facilitation experience across nearly 50 countries, Karrel offers practical tools and honest stories to help readers break through phone addiction, overcome social anxiety and loneliness, and create real world connections.
Every Thursday for several years, VFW Post 399 has hosted 2 jazz shows. They kick off at 7:30 and 8:45.
Now, every other Thursday, the Dave Kardas Band plays original jazz, blues and rock, right before (5:30 to 7:15 p.m.). Upcoming dates are tonight (July 31), August 13 and 27, and September 10.
The music is free. There’s happy hour food and drink prices too.
Westport Police made 2 custodial arrests between July 22 and 28.
A 50-year-old Fairfield man was charged with evading responsibility, traveling too fast for conditions, failure to drive right and reckless endangerment, following 2 notifications on Sturges Highway from iPhone crash detection. Two calls were made, and the man denied being involved in an accident. However, a witness reported a damaged and disabled Tesla unoccupied in the middle of the road, and a man walking away. An investigation determined that the vehicle left the road twice, striking several large rocks. He was released on a $5,000 bond.
A 68-year-old Westport woman was charged with driving the wrong way on a 1-way street, interfering with an officer and failure to appear, following an investigation into an April incident on Franklin Street. The woman approached an officer driving the wrong way. After being signaled to stop, she rolled up her window and attempted to change direction multiple times. When she stopped she was argumentative with officers. She refused to exit the vehicle, and engaged in a physical struggle. She was released on $3,500 bonds.
Westport Police also issued these citations:
Texting while driving: 21 citations
Traveling unreasonably fast: 9
Failure to obey stop sign: 8
Failure to comply with state traffic commission regulations 8
Failure to renew registration: 4
Failure to obey traffic control signals: 4
Operating a motor vehicle under suspension: 2
Operating a motor vehicle without a license: 2
Failure to insure motor vehicle: 2
Distracted driving: 2
Following too closely: 2
Improper use of markers: 2
Operating an unregistered motor vehicle: 1
Speeding: 1
School zone violation: 1
Disorderly conduct: 1
Criminal mischief: 1
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A crepe myrtle tree makes its first-ever “Westport … Naturally” appearance today. This beauty is on Compo Road South.
And finally … in honor of Tom Karrel, and his book on how to have a conversation (story above):
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Jay Babina is the second youngest guest ever on our “06880” podcast.
He’s also got one of the most intriguing stories. Jay is the founder, curator and driving force behind one of the most unique places in town: the Westport Tech Museum.
Click here or below to learn more about Jay’s passion, and his remarkable creation.
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