Westport News

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Registration is open for the 2012 Connecticut Challenge, and in its efforts to have participation from every community in the state, organizers are inviting New Canaan and Darien residents to ride.

As per a report in The Hour of Norwalk, the spa's floating tanks are filled with warm water and about 950 pounds of Epsom salt - allowing customers to float effortlessly and completely relax.

Shannon Fales and her dachshund Ashley share a smooch Saturday at the Dachshunds Reunion in Westport.

Gov. Dannel Malloy addresses the Westport Democratic Town Committee at the Tavern on Main restaurant on Main Street.

This driver of this Porsche lost control of the vehicle and smashed into the entryway of a Post Road West condominium complex Friday afternoon.

The incident took place about 8:45 p.m. Friday when Officer Thomas Casimiro spotted a vehicle in the parking lot at Cumberland Farms on Post Road East matching the description issued in a bulletin issued 15 minutes earlier by Fairfield police.

Overnight rain and gusty winds are expected to gradually ease this morning and skies will later become partly sunny, according to the National Weather Service .

Eleven Mallard ducklings A following the sound of their mother's quacks accidentally fell into a storm drain on Main Street in Monroe on May 24.

Eleven Mallard ducklings following the sound of their mother's quacks accidentally fell into a storm drain on Main Street in Monroe on May 24.

The Westport Sunrise Rotary Club today honored five Westport residents and one in memoriam with Paul Harris Fellowship awards representing the Rotary creed of "Service Above Self." The award recipients were Bill Mitchell, Andy Boas, Barbara Pearson-Rac, Dan Kail, and Paul Spiekermann.

Kaitlyn Heisler, 23, roasts Kona beans from Hawaii in the small-batch roaster at Redding Roasters Coffee Co., which her father, Bob O'Keefe, started eight years ago, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Salit Sela and Justin Kulla were legally married March 25 at Beit Chaverim Synagogue in Westport, where Rabbi Yossi Pollack officiated and led a Jewish cultural ceremony that incorporated blessings.

Westport police arrested a 36-year old West Haven man on a warrant at Norwalk Superior Court Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than $1,100 worth of dental products and allergy medicine at Walgreens earlier this month.

The 21st annual Hidden Garden Tour sponsored Sunday by the Westport Historical Society also features a Garden Marketplace on Veterans Green and Toast the Tour After Party.

Weather over the next few days offers a mixed bag, but here's a mix of events that promises to brighten the weekend in Westport: The "Art About Town" public arts celebration continues throughout the weekend -- and until June 17 -- all over downtown Westport.

Westport police will carry the Connecticut Special Olympics torch through town on Friday, June 8, as the flame makes its way to New Haven for opening ceremonies that night at Southern Connecticut State University .

Staples High School 's Class of 1987 is plannning its 25-year reunion for Friday evening, Aug.

In fact, there's so many sets of multiples at the school that on Thursday they gathered together in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for having the highest number of twins or triplets in a single academic year.

It doesn't matter if you're a sailor or landlubber, a beachcomber or woodland hiker, a clam digger or garden-variety vegan.