Letter on Library: ‘Dismiss the Noise of Naysayers’

Who could blame New Canaan residents for being confused about the status of the new Library? In the past few months there have been repeated letters to the editor from a handful of vocal opponents. Many of the “Friends of the 1913 Library” have espoused vague proposals for the old building without endeavoring to find a specific end user and a means to pay for it. Saving an obsolete structure without a defined purpose would only add one more to the town’s current inventory of 56 buildings. The town fathers have already voted 10-2 not to make the retention of the obsolete 1913 structure a condition of the town’s contribution of $10 million, making further discussion redundant and essentially a moot point.