Fairfield County Business Journal

Westfair Business Publications, a privately owned company based in White Plains, N.Y., produces weekly business newspapers, including the Westchester County Business Journal alongside HV Biz (Hudson Valley Business) in New York and the Fairfield County Business Journal in Connecticut. All of the Business Journals, except HV Biz, have been in circulation for almost 50 years and are the only weekly local business newspapers that cover entire counties. They were established by David Moore, a former resident of Westchester and grandson of the renowned New York publisher Joseph Pulitzer, along with John Smith, a former editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Young Westchester, Fairfield county business people honored

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

SOUTH NORWALK – When Casarra Cover was asked what her past self would think of herself now, without blinking, she responded, “I’m pretty sure she would say, ‘Girl, you made it.’”And why not, at the age of 24 and the mother of four kids she was left in charge of the family business – Whitaker’s Garage Door Store in Peekskill, New York. Cover, the president, and her husband, Jonathan, have run the business since acquiring it from Cover’s grandfather Henry B. Whitaker in 2008.
Online reporting tool to capture state impact of Trump actions

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

HARTFORD – Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration today launched an online tool for state businesses, nonprofits, and municipalities to report how they have been affected by recent Trump administration federal actions. Users will need to create a login and then will be prompted with a series of questions to report any impact they may be experiencing. Examples of items that are encouraged to be reported include pauses, cancelations, and reductions in federal funding, reductions in employment, and tariffs.
Poll: Adults mixed about impact of AI on society

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

HAMDEN – A Quinnipiac University national poll of adults finds Americans have mixed feelings about how artificial intelligence is affecting society. The poll, done in collaboration with the Quinnipiac University School of Computing & Engineering and the Quinnipiac University School of Business, also found they have conflicting views on AI’s impact on the job market. But they are in sync when it comes to concerns about AI’s impact on the youngest generation.
What’s left and gone at the Trumbull Mall

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

Canadian university teachers warned about travel to the U.S. The Canadian Association of University Teachers has warned its members to...
Westchester, Fairfield county luxury homebuyers highly active in Q1 2025

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

RYE BROOK, N.Y. – The luxury residential market in Westchester and Fairfield counties remained highly active in the first quarter of 2025, according to the Houlihan Lawrence Q1 2025 Luxury Market report. “From the $2 million entry point in Westchester to the $10 million-plus estates of Greenwich, the luxury segment continued to outperform broader market trends in both pricing and pace” said Liz Nunan, president and CEO of Houlihan Lawrence.
Tariff time is time to stock up on wines and spirits

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Doug Paulding

So it’s tariff time in the United States and if it’s prolonged, it will have a devastating effect on wine and spirit production and sales worldwide. Much of the wine and spirit production is orchestrated by major corporate producers with deep pockets. But in every wine region I have visited, there are always many smaller mom-and-pop operations, or self-funded folks who have cashed out of some business and followed a dream to create something.
Remaking historic mall into a neighborhood?

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

TRUMBULL – A former patron of Trumbull Shopping Park in the 1960s recalls going to Woolworths as a kid to look at the pets downstairs and his grandmother treating him to a patty melt and ice cream at the lunch counter. “I remember back-to-school shopping at D.M. Reads. And I remember Waldbaums (supermarket) out back,” @NYCJohnnyLES commented on a recent YouTube video posted by Fleabitten Adventures.
ARKA Group custodians in Danbury get $70K total backpay, but no jobs

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

DANBURY – The former cleaning contractor for ARKA Group has agreed to pay each of the 14 former custodians it terminated last year $5,000 in backpay, according to 32BJ SEIU, the union representing the displaced workers. Horizon Services, a non-union cleaning contractor, was hired by the engineering and technological solutions defense and space manufacturer in July 2024. Horizon terminated the employment of the 14 workers immediately after ARKA replaced SMG, a union contractor, with Horizon.
Tong backs challenge to Trump’s students’ visas revocation

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Gary Larkin

HARTFORD – On the day it came to light that the Trump administration revoked more than 1,000 visas for international students at American colleges and universities, including at least 50 in the state, Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in fighting the administration’s so-called ideological deportation policy.
New York's Schumer joins others seeking help for small businesses hurt by tariffs

1 week ago | westfaironline.com | Peter Katz

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has joined with other senators to urge the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Kelly Loeffler, to take action to protect the nation’s 34 million small businesses from the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war tariffs. “The situation is dire,” the senators wrote in their letter asking for action by Loeffler.