- Community news: Outdoor light festival to be in Westport and more
![A representation of the Light Path]()
- Community news: A chance to ask elected leaders questions and more
![Joshua Nessen and Selina Cohen with Frosty February Nessen the Fourth, at their home in Weston on Feb. 4.]()
- Community news: Teen essay prompt examines Black Lives Matter
![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.]()
- Community news: Westport Library reopening and more
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- Community news: Students’ work on display with new exhibit and more
![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.]()
- Community News: Westport celebrates MLK’s legacy with week of virtual...
![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]()
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![Skyrockets light up the sky over Long Island Sound at the Independence Day Fireworks Fundraising Show at Compo Beach, Monday, July 3, 2017 in Westport, Conn.]()
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![Visitors take adavantage of the nice weather Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, Conn.]()
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![On March 6, the the Staples Jazz Ensemble was awarded first place at the seventh annual Darien High School Jazz Jamboree. The SJE received consistently high marks in all captions, including perfect scores for Time as well as Presentation/Programming from both adjudicators.]()
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![The Black Feathers will perform on March 7 at 8 p.m. at Westport's Voices Café, 10 Lyons Plains Road, Westport. Tickets are $25-$30. For more information, visit voicescafe.org.]()
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![Westport residents and longtime patrons Rick and Ruth Edelson enjoy pizza and wine at the Fat Cat Pie Co. on Wall Street Wednesday, Feb. 12, in Norwalk. The pizza restaurant and wine bar has announced that it will be closing after 16 years in the Twin City Building on Wall Street.]()
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![St. Luke's Upper School students at rehearsals for Pippin. Leila Pearson '21 (New Canaan); Samantha Bauer '23 (Wilton); Cessa Lewis '23 (Westport); Henry Jodka '20 (New Canaan); Doron Loewenberg '21 (Stamford); Brody Menzies '20 (Bedford Corners); Sarah Bryant '20 (Bethel); Kayleigh Bowler '20 (Ridgefield); Sierra Taylor '20 (Norwalk).]()
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![Journalist/author Mitch Albom joins Circle of Care board and staff members. From left are Jeff Salguero ( WIlton), Heather Stabinsky (Monroe), Elizabeth Vega ( Westport), Tammi Small (Norwalk), Albom, Circle of Care founders: Liz Salguero and Dawn Ladenheim (Wilton), Bob Hinckley (Danbury) and Susan Kobylinski (Westport).]()
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![Leopold Riano, 6, of Westport, checks out a stuffed groundhog during an afternoon of Groundhog Day activities at the Ansonia Nature Center in Ansonia on Sunday, February 2.]()
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![Bedford Middle School Principal stands next to Reflections Program art contest winners, from left, Jonathan Costello, Ryder Levine, Scarlet Gerber and Courtlyn Crombie.]()
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![Westport Country Playhouse's Family Festivities Series will present "Charlotte's Web," produced by TheaterWorksUSA, on Feb. 23, at 1 and 4 p.m.]()
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![Westport Troop 100 announced the Eagle Scout Award will be presented to seven outstanding Scouts on Jan. 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The awards will be given to, from left, Jake McGillion-Moore, Matthew Griffin, Dylan Murray, Max Boyle, Daniel Syomichev, Miguel Gura and Whit Lupoli.]()
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![Staples High School juniors Arden Sherer, The Shoebox Project's club president, left, and Vice President Harley Bonn collected decorated shoeboxes filled with gifts for residents of Domestic Violence Crisis Center's two safe houses over the holidays. The students collect and distribute gifts in the form of decorated shoeboxes to women who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the area.]()
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![Left, Bedford seventh-grader Sofia Alarcon-Frias is the middle school division grand prize winner in the 2019 Altice USA Hispanic Heritage Month Essay Contest for her piece titled "An Unstoppable Dreamer."]()
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![Staples High School has announced its students of the month for December. Back row, from left, Niko Diaz, Philip De Munck, Tatiana Bicalho, Noah Salpeter, Zachary Hyatt and Alexander Laskin. Front row: Maisie Dembski, Sara Cukier, Parker Pretty and Lynnea Moskowitz. Missing from picture are Kyle Nelson, Etoile Blaquier, Nicole Holmes and Zoe Kaye.]()
