Yesterday’s “06880” Roundup gave an incorrect date for the next trash clean-up, at the Sherwood Island Connector I-95 Exit 18 commuter parking lot.
It’s this Sunday — not Saturday — at 11 a.m.
Bring trash bags and work gloves. There’s plenty to do!
Westporters picked up tons of trash last weekend at the Greens Farms train station. This Sunday at 11 a.m.: the commuter parking lot on the Sherwood Island connector.
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The Westport Transit District and Steam again team up to offer free coffee to people who take Wheels2U to the Saugatuck train station. The offer is good this Friday (January 13) and next Tuesday, (January 17).
Just ride Wheels2U to the station between 6 and 10:30 a.m., and show proof of the ride at the Steam counter.
For more information on Wheels2U — the home-to-the-station ride service — click here.
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David Pogue got a note from his neighborhood association treasurer. It said:
As many of you know, the cost of electricity spiked at the beginning of this year. If you look at your utility bill, it will be divided into two sections: (1) supplier costs and (2) delivery costs.
Supplier costs are the cost to generate the electricity, which has been ~12 cents per kWh. Starting in January, this rate doubled for Eversource —to 24 cents per kWh. Since supply is about half your bill, and this has doubled, your bill went up about 50% in total starting January 1.
You have the option in CT to choose a third-party supplier, which often come at hefty discounts to Eversource.
(For more details, click here.)
David adds: “He pointed out that customers can compare rates at EnergizeCT.com. At the moment, Town Square Energy’s rates are about 38% less expensive. I switched today!”
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You can go home again.
Will Haskell recently “retired” at age 26, after 2 terms as state senator. (He won’t play shuffleboard — he’s at NYU Law School.)
But the other day he headed to his alma mater — Greens Farms Elementary School — to talk to 3rd grade students about local and state government.
Students asked plenty of questions. Perhaps he inspired one of them to follow in his footsteps.
If so, then in just 20 years he or she will return to GFS, as an already former state legislator — on to a new adventure.
Will Haskell inspires 3rd graders.
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A return of another sort: Kyle Martino, to the airwaves.
The Staples High School Class of 1999 graduate — and former Staples soccer star, who was named Gatorade High School Player of the Year — has just been named to the TNT and HBO Max broadcast team for US men’s and women’s national team matches.
Martino spent 8 years as a Premier League analyst with NBC Sports. He is also a soccer entrepreneur. He founded the Goalpher system for turning basketball courts into small soccer fields, and also developed the OverUnder Initiative, to bring soccer to under-resourced communities.
Martino was MLS Rookie of the Year with the Columbus Crew in 2002. He also played with the Los Angeles Galaxy, and has 8 caps with the US men’s national team.
His announcing partner on TNT and HBO Max is former women’s national team star Julie Foudy.
Kyle Martino
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There were 3 custodial arrests last week, by Westport Police.
One person was arrested for shoplifting, conspiracy to commit a crime, and failure to appear.
Another person was arrested for shoplifting.
The shoplifting incidents occurred at Whole Foods (over $300 worth of items), Walgreens (over $1250) and Stop & Shop (over $1350).
A third person was arrested for reckless driving, failure to carry a license, and failure to drive in the proper lane. That happened when a jogger said he was struck by a vehicle turning left from Greens Farms Road onto Hillspoint Road. The driver allegedly left the scene. A witness then told police that the suspected offender was inside Cumberland Farms, making statements about “hitting a jogger.”
The following citations were issued:
- Traveling unreasonably fast: 9
- Failure to obey control signal: 2
- Following too closely: 1
- Operating an unregistered motor vehicle: 1
- Operating a motor vehicle under suspension: 1
- Driving with out of state plates: 1
- Violation of traffic commission regulation: 1
- Breach of peace: 1
- Assault 3rd degree, risk of injury to a minor: 1
When you move to Connecticut, you must register your car here.
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It’s mid-winter. Time to get a jump on spring – and attract pollinators to your garden this summer.
University of Connecticut advanced master gardener Alice Ely leads a Wakeman Town Farm “Winter Sowing Demonstration” on January 23 (7 p.m.).
Attendees will learn how to make mini-greenhouses (in bottles) to start seedlings. Left outside until spring, they’ll turn into milkweed plants that attract hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.
Click here for more information, and registration.
Milkweed seedlings
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There may not be many boats at Ned Dimes Marina.
But — as Patricia Auber’s “Westport … Naturally” photo shows — there is plenty of action there anyway.
(Photo/Patricia Auber)
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And finally … on this date in 1964, the Surgeon General of the US published a landmark report. It said: “Smoking may be hazardous to your health.”
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