The winter weather has kept many artists indoors, creating seasonal art.
And it’s sent photographers outdoors, to do their thing there.
That’s the magic of our weekly online art gallery. Whether you’re looking at this with your morning coffee, or on a phone during a walk: Enjoy!
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No matter your age; the style or subject you choose — and whether you’re a first-timer or old-timer — we welcome your submissions. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, mixed media, digital, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — we want whatever you’ve got.
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Untitled — mixed media collage (June Rose Whittaker — Available for purchase; click here)
Untitled (Duane Cohen — Available for purchase; click here)
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How did the Westport Arts Center splinter into what is now MoCA\CT and the Artists Collective of Westport?
In part 2 of this 4-part series, “06880” culture correspondent Robin Moyer Chung explores some of the important reasons. Click here to read her first story.
Around 2018, the Westport Arts Center (WAC) board and executive director decided to expand, in space and scope.
They searched for larger properties, beyond their cramped Riverside Avenue space, to accommodate their new vision: to become the Museum of Contemporary Art Westport.
WAC member sources for this article say they were not made aware of the search, the new name, or the new mission. Instead, they learned of it from the press release announcing its opening in early fall of that year.
Westport Arts Center, on Riverside Avenue. (Photo/Lynn Untermeyer Miller)
Many members opposed this new Arts Center, and bristled at the announcement’s tone of inclusivity and enthusiasm. Artists accused the WAC board of chasing personal collateral achievement in founding a prestigious “cultural destination,” when they should be supporting WAC’s “founding mission of being a home for local artists.”
According to one WAC member — all of whom requested anonymity, to discuss sensitive details — “In 2019 they abandoned that mission, and essentially kicked its member artists to the curb. The president of its new board told me to my face that he didn’t see the benefit of showing the work of local artists anymore.”
Then-WAC board members I spoke with, who supported MoCA at that time, had a different perspective. They remained committed to the arts, but believed the organization needed to grow in scope to remain financially viable. The existing model, they felt, no longer attracted sufficient audiences or donor support.
Staff members at that time recall the tension. WAC employees were told the organization needed more money. They were asked to work unpaid overtime, and were promised rewards for raising revenue. Those rewards rarely, if ever, materialized, they say.
“Everybody who was there was there because they love art,” said someone familiar with the situation. Yet they felt that love and appreciation no longer mattered.
Despite the tensions, MoCA opened in Martha Stewart’s former television production facility at 19 Newtown Turnpike — on the Norwalk border — in September of 2019.
MoCA\CT, on Newtown Turnpike.
A few rumors rippled through town about the controversy. But only those truly involved knew the details.
Many people were excited to see the new MoCA. I was one of those. We now had a cosmopolitan museum right in our backyard. Whether it was Norwalk or Westport hardly mattered to museum-goers.
The first exhibit at MoCA Westport was by acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. One of her Infinity Mirror Houses was praised as her 1965 artistic “breakthrough” in 1965, and had become Instagram-famous. The exhibit also included Narcissus Gardens, an installation of pristine mirrored orbs.
It was a stunning, high-profile show. Scores of visitors lined up to witness her work. I recall standing in her mirrored room, door closed, light reflecting and winking off every surface, thinking, “This is in my town?!”
Yet even the savviest among us would have difficulty convincing anyone she was “local” or even “regional.”
Still …
Today — 7 years later — MoCA\CT (as it is now known) is a significant regional museum and tremendous cultural resource. It hosts exhibits from world-class as well as regional artists, and is home to the Heida Hermanns International Music Competition.
2025 Heida Hermanns Piano Competition winner Zhu Wang, at MoCA\CT.
Hermanns — perhaps ironically — was one of the WAC’s greatest benefactors in the ‘80s and ‘90s. A pianist, teacher and philanthropist, and founder of the Connecticut Alliance for Music, she endowed the competition (which began in Westport) in 1972.
Today, the entire staff and most MoCA board members are different from those in 2019.
Much else has changed too. More on that will come in part 3 of this series.
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As Balducci’s prepares to close — leaving behind many devoted customers, and other Westporters who think the store just randomly put laughably high prices on every item — it’s time to look back at its predecessor.
Balducci’s began as Hay Day. Westport’s first “gourmet grocery store” was located where the Maserati dealer is now.
The “country farm market” was stocked with fresh produce, baked goods, prepared food and the like. Paul Newman was a regular customer.
Longtime Westporters still have — and use — the very well-done “Hay Day Country Market Cookbook.”
(“250 recipes from the celebrated New England farm stand that helped bring authentic flavorful food back to America’s table,” the cover gushed.)
Hay Day expanded a couple of times, then moved to bigger digs in its present location a few hundred yards east. The site was occupied in the 1980s by Georgie Peorgie’s, Arnie Kaye’s ice cream parlor adjacent to his Arnie’s Place video game arcade.
Balducci’s — a small specialty chain, now owned by the much larger Albertson’s group — eventually bought Hay Day.
There is no word yet on a new tenant.
Let’s hope it’s an interesting one. A bank or nail salon would not do this place justice.
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Online registration for Westport Parks & Recreation Department spring and summer programs begins March 10 (9 a.m.; Camp Compo and RECing Crew only) and March 11 (9 a.m.; all others). Click here to see all activities.
To update your profile, select “Manage Family Member.” Be sure each child’s grade is correct (as of September 2025).
Questions? Email recreation@westportct.gov, or call 203-341-5152.
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On January 26 (6 p.m., Zoom), the Planning & Zoning Commission hears a request for a special permit/site plan approval for 785 Post Road East. That’s where a commercial building will replace several small apartments, between Splash car wash and New Country Toyota.
The goal is to allow offsite “superior” affordable housing, on George Street.
Redniss & Mead — land use consultants who do extensive work in Westport — are asking the P&Z to allow conversion of the 2nd and 3rd floors of the approved commercial building to house 2 residential units.
Including housing already approved behind the office/retail building fronting the Post Road, that would bring the total count of housing units to 15.
Meanwhile, the owner — 785 Post Road E LLC — would deed restrict one 2-bedroom townhouse onsite to Homes with Hope, for use as affordable housing.
In addition, the developer would donate a 3,500-square foot 2-family home at 3 George Street to Abilis, a non-profit that provides services and support to people with special needs. It would operate as a family home, similar to 136 Riverside Avenue.
785 Post Road East. New Country Toyota is at left; Splash Car wash is directly to the right, next to the new commercial and residential buildings at the foot of Long Lots Road that house, among others, Lyfe Cafe.
Seeing Janine Scotti’s photo of damage to the free bicycle-driven public library, Larry Roberts wondered if he could help.
When no one claimed “ownership” in the Comments section — the unique contraption was commissioned several years ago by author Jane Green, who no longer lives here — he took matters into his own (literal) hands.
Larry hauled it away, to repair himself.
And — this is where the story gets very Twilight Zone-ish — along the way on Taylor Place, he was spotted by none other than Janine (the source of the photo) herself.
The Remarkable Bookcycle, in the back of Larry Roberts’ truck.
“Are you Larry Roberts?” she asked.
“Yes!” he replied, surprised.
Soon, the Remarkable Bookcycle will be back at Compo Beach.
If you take — or donate — a book, you’ll have Janine and Larry to thank.
Larry Roberts (Photos/Janine Scotti)
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Feeling unconfident about how to give your child — or a child you care for — confidence?
Parents and caregivers are invited to a relaxed morning conversation and light breakfast, focused on helping children build lasting confidence.
Jennie Monness — a parenting educator, and co-founder of Union Square Play — will explore the difference between praise and encouragement; how routines and responsibilities support competence, and how to respond when children struggle, feel unsure or doubt themselves.
On Sunday (January 18, 11:15 a.m.), Triple Threat Academy‘s short film “Straight Laced” screens at Dances With Films — the independent film festival — at Regal Cinema in New York’s Union Square.
Like 2 other of Triple Threat’s 6 previous films, this was directed by its founder: Staples High School graduate and “Fame” star Cynthia Gibb.
Triple Threat offers classes in the performing arts for all ages. Cast members — children through adults — come to Westport from as far as Los Angeles and the UK to shoot with a professional crew each summer. Triple Threat co-director Jill Mann writes the scripts.
Speaking of Jill Johnson Mann: Her son — 2021 Staples grad Jamie Mann — goes on as Hopper Jr., a lead role in Broadway’s “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” tomorrow through Tuesday (January 17 to 20).
Mann — who graduated from the University of Michigan last spring — continues playing airheaded singing-and-dancing jock Ted Wheeler in 8 shows a week, until late March.
Beginning next month, ChaChanna Simpson — past president of Northeast Storytelling — will hosts “Storytelling Sundays” at The Westport Library.
One Sunday afternoon every other month, seasoned and first-time storytellers are invited to share 5-minute tales — preferably without notes — on a selected theme.
The February 15 theme — the day after Valentine’s Day — is (of course) “love.”
It’s a welcoming space for connection and inspiration. Everyone is invited to share or listen — or do both.
“Absolutely no experience is necessary,” ChaChanna says. “We all have stories, and all our stories matter!”
Speaking of the Library: Richard Hurowitz discusses his book “In the Garden of the Righteous” — profiles of the “Righteous Among the Nations,” little-known heroes who saved countless lives during the Holocaust — there on January 22 (7 p.m.).
He’ll chat with Reverend Vanessa Rose. She’s the first female senior pastor at First Church Congregational of Fairfield since its founding in 1639. The open and affirming church is focused on racial, social and environmental justice, and immigration and refugees.
The 2006 Staples High School graduate, now a US Department of Justice fraud unit attorney, was hailed in a DOJ press release for his work on one of the largest whistleblower-related settlements in department history.
Thrope helped negotiate a $556 million payment by Kaiser Permanente affiliates, to resolve allegations of widespread fraud in Medicare billings.
The New York Times explained, “Kaiser overstated how sick its patients were to receive higher government payments.”
CNBC called it “a record-breaking settlement in a Medicare Advantage case.”
Rach’s Hope has an important mission: supporting families with critically ill children
The non-profit honors Rachel Doran. The Staples High School graduate and rising Cornell University senior died after developing a rare reaction to common medications.
Their 7th annual PJ Gala is March 28 (7 to 11 p.m., FTC, Fairfield).
Why “PJ”s? Rachel was a talented Staples Players costume designer, and founded a pajama company.
And finally … in honor of the upcoming “Storytelling Sundays” at the Westport Library (story above):
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Richard “Deej” Webb, Jr. — a Westport native, teacher and historian who grew up near Longshore, then turned a fascination with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s summer here into a book and documentary that claimed this area inspired “The Great Gatsby” — died on December 21. He was 63.
Deej was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but moved with his family to Westport at 6. He attended Saugatuck Elementary, Bedford Junior High and Staples High Schools, and Pomfret Academy.
After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he taught social studies — and then headed the department — at New Canaan High School.
Richard “Deej” Webb
Though the Westport of Deej’s youth looked quite a bit different from that of the several months that F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spent in Westport, the area around Longshore and Long Island Sound were recognizable.
The couple rented a home — still standing — on Compo Road South, just north of what is now the Longshore entrance drive.
Deej meticulously researched the real estate and topography of the town-owned club, which in 1920 was the personal estate of the very wealthy Frederick E. Lewis.
Believing that Fitzgerald’s view of the estate, and the Sound beyond it, influenced the author’s view of protagonist Jay Gatsby, and his lifestyle — not, as traditionalists believed, Long Island — Deej pored over newspaper and magazine stories, other historical documents, and Fitzgerald’s own writing, to prove his point.
Deej then collaborated with Robert Steven Williams. They co-produced a documentary: “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story.” It used Deej’s findings — and archival photos — to make the same claim about Westport’s role.
The pair also published a companion book: “Boats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda.”
Celebrating “Gatsby Day” in Westport in 2019 at the Fitzgerald house on Compo Road South are (from left) Robert Steven Williams, 1st Selectman Jim Marpe, Deej Webb, and Westport Museum of History & Culture executive director Ramin Ganeshram. (Photo/Dave Matlow)
After retiring from teaching, Deej served as a docent and volunteer at the Westport Museum for History & Culture, Fairfield Museum & History Center, the Sasquanaug Association and Lockwood-Mathews Mansion.
He gave walking tours of Longshore and Southport Harbor. He also served on nonprofit boards, including the Pequot Library.
Deej was also an avid New York Mets, Jets and Giants fan.
He is survived by his former wife, Deborah Webb; his sister Christy Webb Gibson; twin nieces in Canada, as well as the Webb and Payne families in the US and Canada. Deej’s infectious enthusiasm for history, life and sport (Mets, Giants and Jets) touched many. He will be remembered as the life of the party, very often the smartest man in the room and certainly the funniest.
Information on services will announced soon.
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In 2018, “06880” profiled Deej Webb’s work on F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Great Gatsby.” We wrote:
When Richard “Deej” Webb was 14, he read “The Great Gatsby.”
Through his bedroom window across from the Minute Man monument, he could see the house that — decades earlier — F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald once rented.
In between was Longshore. Deej caddied, biked and ran there. He knew every inch of the property well.
In 1996, when Barbara Probst Solomon wrote a New Yorker story claiming that Westport — not Great Neck, Long Island — was the inspiration for Gatsby’s “West Egg,” Webb was fascinated.
By then he was teaching US history at New Canaan High School. But the 1980 Staples graduate’s heart — and home — remained here.
Webb studied Solomon’s theories. He researched Longshore, and environs. Convinced she was right — and that Westport, in fact, influenced both Fitzgerald and his wife far more than anyone realized — Webb spoke to whomever he could.
Many Fitzgerald scholars and fans were interested. Most Westporters, he says, were not.
In 2013 Webb participated in a Westport Historical Society roundtable examining the town’s literary past. Organizer Robert Steven Williams — a novelist — asked Webb if he’d like to collaborate on a documentary about Fitzgerald’s time here.
The film will be shown on public television this fall. A companion coffee table book — “Boats Against the Current” (taken from a famous “Gatsby” line) — will be published next month.
The book cover shows the iconic photo of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, in front of their South Compo house.
“Boats” is thoroughly researched, lavishly illustrated, and immensely educational. It should be required reading for every Westporter.
Webb and Williams took Solomon’s original thesis — that Fitzgerald’s home next to the 175-acre estate of reclusive millionaire Frederick E. Lewis (now Longshore) informed not only the author’s physical description of Jay Gatsby’s mansion, but also much of the novel’s emotional power — and expanded it to encompass nearly the entire Fitzgerald ouevre.
In 1920, his first book — “This Side of Paradise” — had just been published. Fitzgerald was making great money. He and Zelda were newly married — and kicked out of New York’s finest hotels, for debauchery.
Westport was their honeymoon. It was also their first home. Here — especially at Lewis’ next-door estate — they enjoyed celebrity-filled orgies. And they skinny-dipped at Compo Beach.
Zelda at Compo Beach — before (or after) skinny-dipping. (Photo courtesy of “Boats Against the Current”)
Their experiences and memories — along with the town’s sights and smells — all became part of “Gatbsy”; of “The Beautiful and the Damned”; even of Zelda’s paintings, Webb says.
In fact, he adds, “Westport shows up in their works more than any other place they lived.”
The back story of Lewis — a descendant of one of the wealthiest families in American history — is particularly fascinating. He’s not a familiar name. But his parties at what later became Longshore — which the Fitzgeralds surely must have attended — were beyond legendary. One even featured Harry Houdini. (Yes, he performed an escape trick right there.)
His and Williams’ painstaking work has been accepted by many Fitzgerald scholars, as well descendants like granddaughter Bobbie Lanahan.
Robert Steven Williams (left) and Richard “Deej” Webb flank the Fritzgeralds’ granddaughter Bobbie Lanahan.
The New York Times recently published a story on Webb and Williams’ project. The international attention was gratifying.
But the duo have a more local concern too.
All around town — including Webb’s boyhood Compo Beach neighborhood — homes are being torn down. Big new houses are replacing older ones with important histories.
Webb and Williams worry the same fate may befall Fitzgerald’s house. And, they fear, few people will care.
The current owners, Webb says, “are fantastic. They’re well aware of the significance, and treat it with great respect.”
But there’s no assurance a future owner will not tear the 1758 structure down.
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald slept — and partied — here, on South Compo Road.
There is only one museum in the world dedicated to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It’s in Montgomery, Alabama, where he wrote portions of 2 novels.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful, Webb and Williams ask, if at some point the town could buy the house, and turn it into a “Fitzgerald Center”?
“Sometimes Westport has amnesia about its history,” Webb says. “It’s an incredible past. It’s hard to find an American town that has more. But it’s disappearing in front of our eyes.”
Of course, as a history teacher — and amateur historian – Webb knows the one thing that never changes is change.
When the Fitzgeralds arrived in 1920, he says, “farmers in Westport worried about all the New Yorkers coming in.”
With their lavish parties and skinny-dipping orgies, those newcomers had a new way of doing things.
One hundred years later — thanks to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald — those Westport days live on.
And — thanks to Deej Webb and Robert Steven Williams — they’re memorialized forever.
Westport’s favorite — well, organic market — is healthier than ever.
The new owners — longtime chef Talin Bozuklu and her partner Mary Tas — share the same values, and commitment to quality and wellness, as Maggie and Charles Vosgueritchian, who retired after 38 years.
And of the owners before that — Sally Simmons and Beverly Marshall — who founded the Playhouse Square institution nearly half a century ago.
Organic Market owners Talin Bozuklu and Mary Tas.
Yesterday, manager Yeraz Bozuklu — Talin’s daughter — showed off some of the updates.
The front of the market has been opened up. They’ve gotten rid of plastic in the produce section, and are reducing — on the way to eliminating — aluminum in the hot foods section.
The new owners gave the market a deep scrubbing last weekend. They reorganized certain sections. The juice bar board will be updated, to “fit the vibe.” Other small touches are on the way.
But, Yeraz emphasizes, all the food — and the staff — remain the same.
“The Organic Market has been special to customers, and the community, for so long,” Yeraz says. “We know how important that is, and we look forward to seeing everyone soon.”
PS: The Organic Market is the first retail outlet in the country selling House of Yes, the protein bars for youngsters (and everyone else) created by Westporters Sarit and Michael Lewis (profiled earlier this month on “06880”). Until now, all sales have been online only.
Yeraz Bozuklu, with a photo of the 3 sets of Organic Market owners.
The close cooperation between Westport’s Police Department and Department of Human Services is about to get even closer.
A new Community Care Unit has been created. It’s led by Lieutenant Sereniti Dobson and Officer Ruta Pratt.
Since the fall, the pair have tracked the increasing volume and complexity of calls involving people experiencing mental health and behavioral health crises.
The new CCY aligns police responses with established Human Services referrals, follow-up, and care coordination processes.
It enhances the WPD’s ability to identify people who may benefit from additional support, and helps connect them to Human Services and community resources. They include mental health care, addiction services, and other social service interventions.
While Police and Human Services have collaborated for decades, the CCU formalizes and expands this partnership by clarifying roles and strengthening follow-through.
Police officers remain focused on managing immediate safety concerns, while Human Services leads resource navigation, referral and ongoing engagement.
Former 1st Selectwoman Jennifer Tooker has dropped her campaign to become Connecticut’s governor.
But the newest Republican candidate also has Westport ties.
Former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey — now a Greenwich resident — told the Stamford Town Committee last night that she’s in the race, CT Mirror reports. She has not yet registered officially.
McCaughey was born in Pittsburgh but grew up in Westport, Wikipedia says. She is 77 years old.
Her father Albert was “a factory janitor (who) did maintenance and later engineering work at a nail clipper factory.
Wikipedia adds: “McCaughey attended public schools in Westport through the 10th grade. After receiving a scholarship, she transferred to a private Massachusetts boarding school, the Mary A. Burnham School, for her last two years of high school, rarely visiting home, then or during her college years.”
Westporters already know and love Faith Sargent for her high tea parties, her Wreathing for Community (through which donated florals are transformed into wreaths, given away to spread cheer). and Faith’s Cottage Kitchen (a licensed home bakery offering small-batch breads, brownies, marshmallows and seasonal treats).
Now she’s launched “Treat Tuesday”: a community initiative to spread sweetness around town.
Each Tuesday, she brings homemade treats to a town office or local nonprofit. “It’s a simple way to say thank you,” Faith says.
Last week she delivered Neapolitan marshmallow brownies to Town Hall. This week she brought homemade marshmallows to the fire station.
Do you have a place to recommend? Text Faith: 603-219-2773.
She may be overwhelmed with requests. So: Keep the faith!
(And thank you!)
Town Hall treats!
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For more than 4 decades, The Susan Fund has provided college scholarships to Fairfield Country residents who have been diagnosed with cancer at some time in their life, and attend (or plan to) enroll in an institution of higher learning.
The Fund was established in 1980 in memory of her Susan Lloyd, a Staples High School graduate who lost her battle with cancer. Since its founding, the organization has provided over $2 million in scholarships to more than 300 students.
Applications for the 2026 school year are open now, through April 1. To apply or to learn more about the Susan Fund, click here.
The 2025 Susan Fund awardees.
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Westport Police made 3 custodial arrests, between January 7 and 13.
A 25-year-old Brooklyn man was charged with the illegal sale/manufacture of cannabis. His arrest followed multiple complaints about illegal marijuana sales at Savvy Smoker. In April, Westport Police and the state Department of Consumer Protection Drug Control Division executed a search warrant, and seized various types of illegal marijuana and THC-containing products. He was held on a $150,000 bond.
A 51-year-old Stamford man was charged with larceny, following a complaint that he was paid $3,250 as a contractor for work that was never performed. He attempted to make restitution with a check that was returned due to insufficient funds. He was released on a $7,500 bond.
A 25-year-old Bronx man was charged with failure to appear. He was released on a $15,000 bond.
Westport Police also issued these citations:
Traveling unreasonably fast: 9 citations
Failure to comply with state traffic commission regulations: 6
And finally … in honor of the end of a not-great chapter in beach concession history:
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The dogs are gone from the Connecticut Humane Society.
So is the organization itself. After decades in Westport, they relocated to Wilton last year.
Planned in their place: humans.
A holding company controlled by Westport developer Joseph Feinleib — the founder of Coastal Luxury Homes — hopes to build 30 units of residential housing on the site of the former facility, and a building behind it.
Plans filed with the Planning & Zoning Commission show two 2 structures, on the 1.76-acre property.
One building would include 25 apartments. The other would be 5 townhouses. There would be a mix of 1-, 2- and 3- bedroom units.
Artists’ rendering of 455 Post Road East …
Six of the units — 2 each of 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms — would be designated as affordable, under state formulas.
The Planning & Zoning Commission looked favorably on the project, in a pre-approval meeting.
… and another view. (Courtesy of Beinfield Architecture)
Rick Redniss — principal of Redniss & Mead land use consultants, who is working on the project with Coastal and Beinfield Architecture, designers most recently of the Westport Delamar — is providing neighbors with details on landscaping, screening, lighting, traffic and noise.
The project is part of the continuing residential redevelopment of the Post Road. In recent years, new construction at the old Rogers Septic site, 1177 Post Road (opposite Greens Farms Elementary School), The Residence nearby, the foot of Long Lots Road, and Post Road West have opened up additional options, at a time when housing is tight.
On January 20 (7:30 p.m., Town Hall Room 309), the Architectural Review Board will consider parking, patios and landscaping.
Left: The existing Humane Society property, just east of Compo Shopping Center (white, left is Cohen Fashion Optical). Right: Proposed 30 residential units, landscaping and parking.
Connecticut Humane Society (now vacant).
This building behind the Humane Society will also be demolished.
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