- Community news: Westport’s Staples High School representing, more
![Staples High School junior students Natalie Bandura, Erin Durkin and Allison Schwartz are going to represent Westport's public high school, Staples High School, at the virtual HCI-APYLS 2021 Hwa Chong Asia Pacific Young Leaders Summit event in July 2021, with the Hwa Chong Institution in Singapore.]()
- Community news: Playhouse hosts in-person, three-show series
![The Westport Public School district has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the NAMM, (National Association of Music Merchants,) Foundation for the ninth year in a row. Recognized for its outstanding commitment to music education, Westport joins 623 school districts across the U.S. in receiving the award for the year, 2021.]()
- Community news: Westport Staples 2021 sal, val announced
![Marchesi Group at Compass (left to right), Maggie Marchesi, Bob Marchesi and Diane Farrell]()
- Community news: Successful collection of baby items in Westport and more
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- Community news: Beach parking emblems now required, and more
![This is one of the five whimsical sculptures recently donated to the Weston Historical Society by the Daniel E. Offutt, III Charitable Trust for the new Daniel E. Offutt, III Sculpture Garden at the Coley Homestead, localed at 104 Weston Road, in Weston. The sculptures were created by Daniel E. Offutt, III at his Weston studio, and were displayed at his former home on Kettle Creek Road in Weston. The public is invited to view the Daniel E. Offutt, III Sculpture Garden. The grounds are open every day from dawn until dusk. Offut was a Weston philanthropist.]()
- Community news: Household hazardous waste collection this weekend and more
![The art museum, MoCA Westport is pleased to announce its first Summer Open Call, a juried exhibition open to all emerging, mid career, and established visual artists over the age of 18-years-old. Max Teicher, and Emily White of Gagosian Gallery, NYC, (New York City,) will be the distinguished jurists and curators for this year's, 2021, exhibition, which is taking place June 25, 2021, through Aug. 25.]()
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![Online submissions are being accepted in the open call to artists for the "In the City," art exhibit at the Rowayton Arts Center, May 23, through June 20. Here is a piece of artwork titled: "Travel Arrangements" by Artist Eileen Carey, who was also Honorable Mention in the Rowayton Arts Center's Spring Juried Show 2021.]()
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![Connecticut based party planning company, Rock Paper Scissors Custom Events was recently looking to add something fresh, and philanthropic to add to their repertoire. That's when the founders Rachel Lampen, and Kirsten Mitrakis came up with the novel idea of creating car based scavenger hunts that would benefit local nonprofit organizations. They now have five local routes, with more to be released this month, the month of April. Each hunt costs $10 per vehicle with 50 percent going to the chosen charity.]()
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![Smash (video still), 2014, HD Digital Video, Running time: 7:55 minutes, Ratio 16:9. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, N.Y. © Marilyn Minter. (high heel image)]()
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![Student artwork, clockwise top left to right: Akira Maidique, digital art; Poppy Livingstone, painting; Alexandra Lam, painting; Kate Davitt, drawing & illustration; Matthew Genser, photography; Nate Kolek, drawing & Illustration]()
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![Julien Beresford, Westport Rotary Club foundation chair, recently presented a $1,075 check to Helen McAlinden, Homes with Hope president, in the presence of Lynn Abramson, (left), ASAP, (after school academic), Program director and Paris Looney, Homes with Hope vice president.]()
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![Shirley "Bubby" Montner, a longtime resident of Westport, Conn. turned 103-years-old Feb. 22, and is now clean beauty spokesmodel for Viking Beauty Secrets, the clean skincare brand. Montner is also the Grandmother of the Son-in-Law of the Founder of the brand, Eha Urbsalu. Montner was also born the same day that the Estonian Republic in Northern Europe declared its independence 103 years ago.]()
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![A representation of the Light Path]()
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![Joshua Nessen and Selina Cohen with Frosty February Nessen the Fourth, at their home in Weston on Feb. 4.]()
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![Wilton Fire Commission Chairperson Casey Healy has announced the hiring of former Westport Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief John Plofkin as the Wilton Fire Department's new Deputy Fire Chief, that was effective Feb. 1. Plofkin served for over 32 years, (1995-2017), as Westport's Assistant Fire Chief. Plofkin has also come out of retirement. Pictured is Plofkin as the Chief of the Nichols Fire Department in Trumbull, Conn., in a previous year.]()
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![Abigail E. Wixom, "Eggs and Drapery I," Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, N.Y., Grade 10, Age 16. The art museum, MoCA Westport, located at 19 Newtown Turnpike, in Westport, has a High School Student Art Exhibition titled: "Hindsight is 2020" that will be on view in the art museum's physical gallery location, and also in a digital gallery on the museum's website, mocawestport.org, from Saturday, January 23, until Saturday, March 13.]()
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![Researchers Dr. Elaine Soloway of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, (left), with Dr. Sarah Sallon of Hadassah Medical Center, are pictured moments after recently picking the first harvest of dates on a previous trip for doing so.]()
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![Westport Book Sale Ventures, Inc., (westportbooksaleventures.org), is opening soon in their own space at 23 Jesup Road in Westport, directly across the street from the Westport Library.]()
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![This month Greens Farms Academy (GFA) senior Bella Bohnsack of Darien became the third GFA student in the school's history - and the first female GFA student - to receive a prestigious YoungArts Award. Bohnsack received the Honorable Mention Award in Photography.]()
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![Local sculptor with a studio in Weston, Jesse Nusbaum, has been selected as a winner of the Artist of the Future award by the Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.]()
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![Bruno Guiduli, a junior at Staples High School and an honor student, has created a fundraiser that he calls "Scoring for TOPSoccer," to benefit special needs soccer players in Connecticut.]()
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![Westport biz owner & Fairfield resident, Russ Mitchell]()
