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New Canaan Police said Wednesday that the department has fielded just two calls related to youth parties in 2018, down from nine in 2017.
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The following letters of appreciation for New Canaan Police Department officers were made public during the Jan.
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Town finance officials said this week that since there’s no money in the current budget for a proposed survey of residents regarding spending priorities in the town—a survey estimated to cost $16,000 to $19,000—that it must wait for the fiscal year starting July 1 to get underway.
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The town’s highest elected official said this week that a new suitor has come forward with a proposal to use the main house in Irwin Park, a public building that’s been vacant since municipal offices moved back downtown more than three years ago.
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Though it’s not part of his $4.1 million capital request for next fiscal year, the superintendent of schools said last week that the district is planning in the future to ask for money to refurbish the planetarium at New Canaan High School.
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Fairfield police on Tuesday arrested a 31-year-old New Canaan woman by warrant and charged her with five counts of animal cruelty, two months after finding the remains of dogs in crates inside the Fairfield home where she had been residing.
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As an international food broker, J.R. Rooney had spent 20 years learning tristate area roads before launching the rapidly growing local business that’s seen him drive people all around them.
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Saying it’s sensible and that the communities around New Canaan are already making the change, a group of residents are asking the town’s legislative body to consider legislation that would ban single-use plastic bags in local shops.
The effort to rid New Canaan stores of the flimsy plastic checkout bags—those less than 12 mils thick (a “mil” is one-thousandth of an inch)—as well as non-recyclable paper bags, truly is an effort to change behavior so that people are bringing reusable bags with them when shopping, according to Amy Murphy Carroll.
Together with New Canaan’s Robin Bates-Mason, Lynn Canaan and Katie Owsley, Murphy Carroll about three months ago established a group calling itself “BYO New Canaan.” The group is seeking to eliminate the use of the thin "T-shirt" bags because they’re “very polluting to the environment,” with implications for waterways and wildlife, as well as costly for municipalities to get rid of, she said.
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Police on Monday night arrested a 24-year-old Greenwich man on a drug charge after stopping him for speeding on the Merritt Parkway.
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While the carols and the Christmas Eve gathering remained the same, this year marked a changing of the guard in terms of leadership for the annual God’s Acre Christmas Caroling.
A century ago, when John E. Hersam, then publisher of the New Canaan Advertiser, along with other members of the Town Band, invited friends and neighbors to God’s Acre for Christmas Eve Caroling, he likely had no idea he was helping to launch one of the quintessential New Canaan traditions.
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Town officials last week approved a $16,000 contract for survey and design services from a Bridgeport-based engineering firm for a new sidewalk to run up the hill from the exit of Mead Park toward Weed Street.
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The owner of the home directly opposite Park Street from the divisive and thus-far standalone retaining wall at the Merritt Village site is pushing back on criticism of its appearance.
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The estimated $2.2 million replacement of the roof at South School is driving the superintendent of schools’ overall $4.1 million capital request for next fiscal year.
The project had been scheduled three years ago, yet the Board of Finance at the time asked whether the district could defer it, “so we did,” according to the Dr. Bryan Luizzi.
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Police on Sunday evening arrested a 46-year-old Wilton man and charged him with driving under the influence.
At about 4:26 p.m. on Jan.
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Saying pipes will need to run to South Avenue from a planned power station behind New Canaan High School, the town’s highest elected official said he is in favor of laying that route by creating a new road through a wooded portion of Waveny Park.
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A divided Parking Commission last week upheld a $25 ticket for a motorist who said he didn’t pay for a space at Morse Court because he believed Dec.
