Yesterday’s Roundup famous that the 4th agenda merchandise for Wednesday’s Board of Finance assembly is “Long Lots Building Project (Discussion only”).
Chair Lee Caney notes: “On all of our agendas for our common month-to-month conferences, we can have an update on LLS. The updates have been on prior agendas. We did the identical factor with the Coleytown Middle School updates.
“This month there’ll most likely be no dialogue, as we simply had a gathering. This shouldn’t be our second assembly on LLS, which is able to take place at a date to be decided.
“I would never try to sneak in an important meeting, as I welcome and encourage community participation.”
The Board of Finance is only one cease on the highway to approval of the Long Lots Elementary School undertaking.
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Today shall be a lot cooler than yesterday — like, 30 levels decrease.
So let’s take one look again on the “last day of summer” (aka October 28):
Longshore: The view from a Boston Whaler (Photo/Nancy Lewis)
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The view is all the time spectacular from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation sanctuary.
It’s notably inspiring on a beautiful fall day record yesterday.
The foliage framed the UU’s quiet and contemplative peace vigil yesterday. Rev. Alan Taylor and others led attendees by means of a meditative expertise. Cellist Gunnar Sahlin offered musical accompaniment.
“All of us are spiritual people, no matter our personal faith traditions or religious affiliations,” the UU says. “We can find solace in community … in peace, in meditation, and in reflection.”
Cellist Gunnar Sahlin. (Photo/Dayle Brownstein)
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The Westport Library celebrated Halloween final night time with a Westport and Weston Chamber of Commerce-sponsored get together.
“Bella’s Bartok” performed. The stage was embellished. Costumes have been worn.
It was, one of many 200 attendees stated, “outrageous.”
In, after all, one of the best ways attainable.
(Photo/Dinkin Fotografix)
There’s a brand new sheriff on the town. Matthew Mandell (left) — director of the Chamber of Commerce — and his spouse take pleasure in final night time’s get together.
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More conventional leisure was offered final night time on the Westport Country Playhouse.
There was a deserved standing ovation on the opening efficiency of “First Lady of Song: Cherise Coaches sings Ella Fitzgerald.”
The present continues Tuesday by means of Sunday, together with evenings and matinees. Special occasions embrace Pride Night (November 2) and Open Captions (November 5). Click right here for schedules, tickets, and extra info.
Cherise Coaches, ultimately night time’s curtain name. (Photo/Dave Matlow)
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“Billions” — the high-powered Showtime collection a couple of high-stakes hedge fund managed that morphed into an interesting exploration of individuals, energy, status, and (all the time) the function money performs in all of it — ended its 7-year run this month.
Bobby Axelrod’s “Axe Capital” — based mostly, greater than loosely, on each Westport’s Bridgewater Associates and Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital — was initially headquartered in Westport, the place the character lived. Midway by means of the collection, it (and he, following a divorce) moved to New York.
It was an exhilarating collection, with loads of excellent writing and appearing (together with the nice Damian Lewis). Click here to see.
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The Westport Book Sale hosted their first-ever fundraiser this previous week.
The occasion helps the following part of their employment and job coaching program for adults with differing skills. Scores of Westporters loved a video concerning the Book Shop, together with plans for increasing their employment program.
Click here to observe.
Some of the scenes on the Westport Book Sale fundraiser.
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Sure, it was 80 levels (or extra yesterday).
But it’s nonetheless autumn — and peak foliage time.
Claudia Sherwood Servidio snapped this why-we-love-New England “Westport … Naturally” shot yesterday at Vista Terrace. That’s the non-public highway that types a horseshoe, beginning and ending throughout from the first gap on the Longshore golf course.
(Photo/Claudia Sherwood Servidio)
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And lastly … at present is the 94th anniversary of Black Tuesday.
On this date in 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Investors traded a then-whopping 16 million shares in a single. $14 billion of inventory worth was misplaced, wiping out 1000’s of traders.
Some shares had no patrons at any value. The Dow misplaced 11.73% of its whole worth: a staggering 30.57 factors.
The Great Bull Market was over. The Great Depression had begun.
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