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Heartwarming Holidays
“06880″ reader Christy Colasurdo sent this important note along. She says it perfectly — I wouldn’t add a word: On Thursday I made the last of several trips to Toquet Hall. Local volunteers were...
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House Hunting With Haberstroh And Horelik
The Haberstroh family is well known in Westport — Charlie’s on the Board of the Finance, Patty does yeowoman’s work for Human Services, and they and their kids were long involved in town athletics. The...
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Yes, Back To School
Ah, July. The beach. Barbecues. Back to school. No buzzkill, but shopping season is right around the corner. And in these tough economic times, Westport is ready to help those who find it tough to...
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A Good Time For Charlie
Good things happen to good people. Charlie Haberstroh Charlie Haberstroh is one of the genuinely good people in Westport. The 60-year-old, 2-decade Westporter — a 2-term Board of Finance member,...
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Human Services’ Holiday Help
Westport’s Human Services Department‘s work is never done. Just a few days after caring for hundreds of Hurricane Sandy victims, the agency turns its attention to the holidays. As always, this is its...
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Human Services’ Holiday Help
If you’re like me, you’re excited by the holiday season — and annoyed at the rampant commercialism that accompanies it. But if you’re like dozens of Westport households here, you wonder how you can...
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What Will You Give Westport This Holiday Season?
If you’re like me, you’re excited by the holiday season — and annoyed at the rampant commercialism that accompanies it. But if you’re like dozens of Westport households here, you wonder how you can...
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Graduation Ceremony, Summer Camp Help For Kids In Need
Westport is a town with plenty. And a town that never hesitates to help those who don’t have as much. Right now, our wonderful Department of Human Services is running two programs that touch lives we...
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Haberstrohs’ Hot Pepper Challenge Picks Up Steam
Everyone in Westport knows Patty Haberstroh. The energetic, creative and deeply committed family programs specialist for the town’s Human Services Department ensures that our neediest neighbors get the...
View ArticleLook Who’s Taking The Haberstrohs’ Hot Pepper Challenge!
When word got out that Patty Haberstroh’s family was promoting a hot pepper challenge to raise funds for ALS research, some big names responded: Shaquille O’Neal. Charles Barkley. Domonique Foxworth....
View ArticleBoard Of Ed Takes ALS Hot Pepper Challenge
The other day, Jim Marpe took the ALS Hot Pepper Challenge. Last night — rising to the 1st selectman’s challenge — it was the Board of Education’s turn. Superintendent of Schools Colleen Palmer and the...
View ArticleGreens Farms Dares Other Elementary School: Take The ALS Pepper Challenge!
Every holiday season for years, Greens Farms Elementary School students, staff and parents have raised money to purchase gifts and necessities for needy Westport families. One of their major...
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How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm? ALS Pepper Challenge Spreads To WTF
The Haberstroh family’s #ALSPepperChallenge has spread all over the country. But right here in Westport, it’s bearing particular fruit. The latest group to raise money for research into the devastating...
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Hot Times At Viva’s
Hot peppers and spicy margaritas are on the menu this Sunday (October 21, 1 to 5 p.m.) at Viva Zapata’s. That’s not unusual. But the popular Mexican restaurant has added another attraction: 30% of...
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Patty And Paul Ring The NASDAQ Bell
It’s been a year since Patty Haberstroh’s family started the Hot Pepper Challenge, to raise funds for ALS. Three months earlier, she’d been diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease. It’s been 3...
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Dylan Gleicher Was Always Prepared For Success
When Patty Haberstroh heard that Staples High School graduates Dylan Gleicher and Neil Soni teamed up with 2 Yale University classmates to create Prepared, an app that lets educators respond instantly...
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Haberstrohs Help ALS Take Over Times Square
Two years ago, Patty Haberstroh was diagnosed with ALS. She did not take the news lying down. Neither did her family. Together they embarked on the #ALSPepperChallenge. Across the country, people —...
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MLB’s Lou Gehrig Day: The Local Connection
June 4 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Lou Gehrig. The legendary New York Yankees’ 1st baseman — “The Iron Horse” — died 17 days before his 38th birthday, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis....
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CMS Giving Assembly: Important Tradition Continues
If it’s November, it must be time for the Giving Assembly. For several decades, Coleytown Middle School celebrated Thanksgiving with a month-long, school-wide project. Each grade selected one or two...
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Remembering Patty Haberstroh
Patty Haberstroh — a longtime beloved Westporter, who in decades of service touched the lives of countless residents, and whose courageous 6-year battle against ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) inspired many...
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Roundup: Harvest Fest, Justin Paul, Patty Haberstroh …
Two major events last night drew hundreds of people each — and showed Westport at its best. Wakeman Town Farm’s annual Harvest Fest featured fantastic food and music, a great raffle, and the very cool...
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Roundup: “06880” App Update, Patty Haberstroh, LobsterFest …
The “06880” app continues to improve. A couple of readers thought the type size on the new app was difficult to read. So developer Joshua Jordan went to work. He added the ability to increase type size...
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Roundup: Scholar-Athletes, Brendan Donohoe, Patty Haberstroh …
39 Staples High School scholar-athletes were honored last night, at a unique dinner. The coach of each varsity sport nominates one candidate, for his or her combined academic and athletic achievements....
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Roundup: OKA, Young Shoots, Safe Guns …
For decades, Klein’s Department Store was a fixture at 44 Main Street. Banana Republic lasted a couple of decades. OKA didn’t even make their 2nd anniversary. The British furniture and home accessories...
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