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“06880” Podcast: Lisa Wexler

Longtime Westporter Lisa Wexler wears 2 hats.

Every weekday mornings since 2006, she hosts a very popular talk radio show on WICC. She’s won 5 Connecticut Press Awards, and has interviewed everyone who is anyone in the state. Plus, nearly everyone else too.

In the afternoons, she is the Westport and Weston probate judge. She’s been elected 4 times, as both a Democrat and Republican.  She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with honors, and the New York University School of Law. After practicing on Wall Street, she hung out her shingle here. She’s served on Westport’s Planning & Zoning Commission, and Zoning Board of Appeals.

The other day — moving between her 2 jobs — Lisa sat down on the Westport Library stage for the “06880” podcast.

Click below for our wide-ranging conversation about radio, the media, the justice system, Westport, and much, much more.

Photo Challenge #462

last week’s Photo Challenge was posted 2 days before UN Day.

The image showed United Nations headquarters, taken decades ago. (Click here to see.)

That was easy. The hard part was figuring out where in Westport it hangs.

I did not give credit to the reader who sent it in: Lisa Wexler.

That might have given the answer away. She’s Westport and Weston’s probate judge. She’s also host of a popular daily interview show on WICC.

You can see the UN photo not in her radio studio. But it is very visible to anyone entering Room 102 at Town Hall: The Probate Court hearing room.

Susan Iseman knew exactly where. Barbara Sherburne guessed “somewhere in Town Hall.”

I also noted that the photo was personally autographed. Susan nailed it: U Thant,

The third secretary-general of the United Nations signed it on June 28, 1969, in honor of jUNe Day. It was a gift to the town of Westport.

We’re back to 2023 for this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Ellen Wentworth)

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