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Mar. 22, 2024, 12:19 AM ET (CBS)
Questions abound after Westport, Conn., rowing club boats capsize in frigid waters of Long Island Sound

Westport, urban town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies along Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Saugatuck River just east of Norwalk. The area, which the local Indians called Saugatuck, was settled about 1648; it was renamed and detached from Fairfield, Norwalk, and Weston and incorporated as a separate town in 1835. It includes Saugatuck (the old shipping port) and the village of Greens Farms and has many 18th-century houses. Since the 1920s and ’30s Westport has been known for its artists’ and writers’ colony; the town is now also the home of many successful actors ...(100 of 136 words)

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