The website msnbc.com has profiled Westport Fire Department dispatcher Ken Gilbertie and the dilemma Westport faces in meeting increased pension and health care costs for its municipal employees. “My ...

Westport Town Clerk Patricia Strauss today swore in Leonard Ances as the new Democratic registrar of voters. Ances takes over from longtime Democrat Nita Cohen who resigned her post because of health ...

The Bridge Market in Saugatuck’s Bridge Square—long known as Peter’s Bridge Market—has closed and the deli and salad bar have moved into the nearby Felton’s Fish Market. Westporter Felton Weller had ...

Gone from Westport’s Saugatuck area are many of the backyards teeming with mint, basil, tomatoes and fig trees. Gone too are many of the wood-framed homes where Italians who built the railroad decided ...

These youngsters quickly got into the swing of things following Saturday’s opening of the new playground at Westport’s Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com ...

Firefighters today douse a late afternoon brushfire engulfing a section of the Longshore Golf Course. According to Deputy Fire Chief Michael Kronick the cause had not been confirmed. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ...

Michelle Schmerzler, one of many longtime loyal customers of Crossroads Hardware, 345 Main St., makes a final purchase of compactor bags today on a goodbye visit to A.J. and Jimmy Izzo, co-owner of ...

Westport property transfers as reported by the Town Clerk’s office for the period July 16 – 20, 2012: Daniel A. Levinson to Edward and Flora Levin, 10 Blind Brook Road, $1,737,500 ...

The art of belly dancing was on display on Westport’s Main Street tonight in the Art About Town street fair. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com ...

UPDATE Westport police early today arrested three persons and sought a fourth following a chase on I-95 and Fairfield crash that began after a suspicious vehicle was observed in a Westport residential ...

As Jeff H. Northrop’s motorized raft leaves the shore of Westport’s Sherwood Mill Pond, it heads out into an 83-acre expanse of tidal waters that while shallow, runs deep in Northrop family history.

A federal judge in New Haven today sentenced retired Westport middle school teacher Paul Held to 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges. Paul Held: collected photos of former students ...