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Sketching The Sea
Artist/illustrator/author Elaine Clayton went down to the Sound today. The harsh weather moved her to poetry. On her Illuminara blog she wrote: We live near the beach and my favorite thing to say to...
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A Missing Woman Is Found
Many Westporters received reverse-911 calls on their cell or home phones — or both — today. They said an elderly woman had wandered away from home. Elaine Clayton got the call too. Unlike most of us...
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Downtown Scenes
Uh-oh. Be careful what you wish for. Westporters who feared mob scenes downtown yesterday needn’t have worried. Black Friday — the negative-sounding name given to the day after Thanksgiving, when...
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Farewell Travels
Farewell Travels seems like an odd name for a website. Perhaps it is filled with tips on trips to take if you are dumping a partner? Terminally ill? Or even your final destination, after you’re...
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Oscar’s Is A Sketch
Elaine Clayton is a Westport artist whose sketches of neighborly people and places often appear on WestportNow.com (and, occasionally, “06880“). Now they’re on view at a quintessentially neighborhood...
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Sketching Roots
Elaine Clayton is a longtime Westport. She’s been an “06880” reader from the start, 11 years ago. She’s an artist too, with a passion for sketching her home town. But despite her many years here,...
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Roundup: Ambulance, Chickens, Girls Who Code …
===================================================== It’s hard to believe, but Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Service — the men and women who save lives, patch wounds and do everything in...
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Roundup: Clocks Ahead, CHEF Fund, Verso University …
Tonight is the night we love to hate. We lose an hour’s sleep — but we gain an hour of sunlight for the next 8 months. Set your clocks ahead for Daylight Saving Time.* If you’re one of those who...
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Roundup: Cribari Bridge Lighting Tonight; EMS Raises All Their $$$ …
If you needed any more proof that Westport is racing headlong into the holiday season: Tonight (Saturday) at 5 p.m., the William F. Cribari Bridge gets lit. As always, Al’s Angels do the honors. Also...
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