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New Canaan Police at 9:56 a.m. on Feb. 5 were notified by the state Department of Transportation about a dead cat found on the Merritt Parkway near the northbound service plaza by Exit 37.

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There’s an opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Silvermine Galleries of the “Color Me…” exhibition. More info here.

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Bottom Row, (L-R): Scarlett Stewart, Sophie Olesen, Tatum Kazlauskas, Giuliana Gianatasio, Chloe Perkins Top Row (L-R): Addie O’Reilly, Valentina Baldini, Victoria Greer, Natalie Hamilton, Lindsay Hanlon, Addie Tauber. (Please note, not all members of the organization are pictured.)

New Canaan High School’s student-based club Charity Link joined efforts with Walter Stewart’s Market to raise more than $400 for groceries donated to New Canaan’s local food pantry. The initiative included a partnership with the local grocery market to raise awareness within the community about the food insecurities faced in the students’ hometown and its surrounding towns. The students reviewed the needs of the New Canaan Food Pantry and shopped for more than 100 items including canned foods, cleaning products, toiletries, condiments & dressings, and more which were delivered to the pantry Jan. 21. Charity Link’s mission is to give back on a local level where all work is done by the students in and out of school hours. It was founded more than five years ago as a way for young students to give back to the community, and currently has members and representatives from all grade levels.

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L-R: Addie O’Reilly, Lindsay Hanlon, and Chloe Perkins drop off five full grocery bags of food and other essentials to the Local Food Pantry located at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and overseen by the Department of Human Services.

Here is the full summary of the 2024 Community Health and Well Being Survey from the New Canaan Behavioral Health Alliance.

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Golf balls are now on sale for the 2025 Color Drop—the March 22 fundraiser for the New Canaan High School Scholarship Foundation. At 10 a.m. that Saturday, a helicopter will release 2,000 individually numbered golf balls over a target at Waveny, and the participant with the one that lands closest to the bullseye will win a grand prize (they include a 2025 Chevy Colorado truck, from Karl Chevrolet). All proceeds go to need-based scholarships for NCHS grads.

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Here are the Valentine’s Day specials from Fred Astaire Dance Studios on Main Street.

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The Y is denying a Norwalk woman’s claim that the organization was negligent when she fell in the parking lot around 6:20 p.m. on a Friday last January.

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Congratulations to town Revenue Collector Rose DiPanni on her imminent retirement from the town after 17-plus years with the Tax Collector’s Office. 

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved the appointment of Pavla Levin to the Utilities Commission. She is taking the seat that had been held by Jill Guzzetti, the selectmen said.

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The New Canaan Land Trust has posted the job of executive director. Here’s the job description. Compensation is $90,000 to $110,000, with benefits, and the deadline for applications is March 15. 

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Now showing at the Playhouse movie theater on Elm Street: “Paddington in Peru,” “Dog Man” and “Captain America: Brave New World.”

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The selectmen on Tuesday voted 3-0 in favor of hiring Alex J. Davis as a groundsman II in the Parks Department.

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Get tickets while you can for the Town Players of New Canaan’s next show. “Terra Nova” runs Feb. 21 to March 9. Info here.

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Finally—courtesy of event section sponsor April Kaynor & Kelly DeFrancesco of William Raveis—here are more local happenings worth checking out (add your event to the Community Calendar here and we’ll share it with fellow residents):

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