Chowdafest, a regional chowder and soup competition that has drawn participants from across the country, will hold its tenth annual festival Sunday at Westport’s Sherwood Island State Park from 11 a.m ...

A book donation annex was installed today at the Westport Library. Comprised of two 9,000-pound modules created from converted shipping containers, according to Marc Laibe, library construction ...

A walking tour of Westport’s downtown area today kicked off weekend charrette planning sessions to aid development of a downtown master plan. The Saturday and Sunday event involves Town Hall meetings, ...

Westport’s unemployment rate in August was 5.8 percent, down from 6.2 percent in July, the Connecticut Department of Labor said today. The department said the number of Westport unemployed in August ...

Betty L. Corwin of Weston, a former Westport resident and pioneering theater archivist in preserving New York off-Broadway and Broadway performances on film and tape, died Sept. 10. She was 98. For ...

Developers of Bedford Square today unveiled their latest design for transforming the Westport Weston Family Y building and much of Church Lane into a retail, office and residential complex redefining ...

The Westport Board of Education said today it will meet in person on Monday for the first time since March but members of the public will not be allowed to attend. “Unfortunately, we cannot predict or ...

Former Westporter Alan Abel, a self-described “professional hoaxer” who conned The New York Times into erroneously running his obituary in 1980, died Sept. 14 at his home in Southbury, the newspaper ...

Eva Popowich of Westport died Sept. 15. She was 91. A lifelong resident of Westport, she was the daughter of the late Bazil and Katie Popowich. She is survived by her brothers Basil Popowich of ...

Veteran stage and screen star Christopher Plummer played to a full house tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse. A rapt audience hung on every word as he performed “Remembering Archie,” a one-man ...

Every now and then it’s great to see a transportation system that works really well. Case in point, the Bridgeport to Port Jefferson ferry. I’ve written in the past about some folks’ crazy idea that ...

Brett Somers at a Westport Historical Society exhibit in November 2003 in front of a picture of herself upper right. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo ©WestportNow.com Brett Somers, an actress ...