Danielle Dobin News Today

The Board of Finance passed the Board of Education’s spending plan for the 2024-2025 school year on March 19. The budget will now go to the Representative Town Meeting to be officially approved.  The $147.3 million budget the town is looking to pass is about $11 million more than the budget for the current fiscal...

The local Democratic party and Board of Education (BOE) write-in candidate Jill Dillon, won a resounding victory in Westport on Nov. 7, 2023. The Democratic party won a majority of the available seats on the town’s major boards and commissions. “It was a fantastic night for Democrats,” Westport Board of Finance chairman Danielle Dobin said...

Several Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members proposed a new ban to eliminate new smoke shops and signage being built in Westport, according to their discussion on Oct. 16.  Most commissioners, including Commission Board Chair Danielle Dobin, requested that an amendment be passed to prohibit new smoke shops in all zoning districts. This amendment would...

The Planning and Zoning Commission made a change to prevent too many properties from being developed, which officials said could have changed the grand list.

In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it.

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Westport announced its paving schedule for the spring, one of the items in this weeks community news.

About 270 applications were filed in the past few years to demolish homes at least 50 years old in town, prompting questions about saving Westports history.

Officials say the change could encourage more people to save their barns and make it easier to become an ADU, helping with preservation and below-market housing

Bluepoint Wellness presented a text amendment to switch to a hybrid cannabis retail model, but officials say it is unlikely to get approved.