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'STATE OF THE TOWN' Meeting
First Selectman, Jim Marpe, will discuss the 'State of the Town' on Sunday, January 26th at the Westport Library, 2:00 PM.
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February Meeting
The February meeting is Tuesday, February 18 at 8:00 PM in Room 201/201A at Town Hall.
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WESTPORT, July 18, 2019 – The members of the Westport Republican Town Committee met Wednesday night to officially endorse Republican candidates for this November's municipal elections. Read More
WestportNow.com May 15, 2019 – Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe said today that he has asked the town’s legislative delegation to oppose the proposed shift of a portion of the cost of funding the teachers’ retirement system (TRS) from the state to municipalities. Read More
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I am very happy to be with you today to report on the state of our town, because Westport is strong and well-positioned to deal with the challenges of the future. And there are challenges, as I’ll discuss later in my ever-popular “What Keeps Me Awake” summary, but I remain optimistic because we have worked to prepare ourselves for the future...
WESTPORT, January 29, 2019 – The Westport RTC’s Executive Committee and prominent Westport Republican officials announced today their strong opposition to the CT State Senate’s bill 454, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, Democrat from New Haven, which proposes the forced regionalization of school districts for towns with a population of less than 40,000. Westport currently has a population of approximately 28,000, and would therefore fall under the bill’s mandate...
HARTFORD, December 19, 2018 – On Tuesday, State Representative Gail Lavielle (R-Wilton, Norwalk, Westport) was appointed by House Republican Leader Rep. Themis Klarides as Ranking Member of the General Assembly’s joint Appropriations Committee, a role she will assume when the 2019 session opens on January 9. Rep. Lavielle will maintain her memberships on the Education and Transportation Committees...
Connecticut Senate Republicans announced their legislative committee assignments for the 2019 and 2020 legislative sessions.
Senator Tony Hwang was appointed as Ranking Member of the Senate's Higher Education & Employment, Housing , and Public Safety & Security Committees, as well as a member of the Transportation Committee.
Senator Tony Hwang represents Connecticut’s 28th Senatorial District, which includes the towns of Easton, Fairfield, Newtown, Weston and Westport.