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New Canaan Police Animal Control at 8:36 a.m. on Feb. 6 received a report of a hawk injured in the road at Hickory Drive and Carter Street. Officials brought the bird to donor-supported Wildlife In Crisis for rehabilitation. ***
The New Canaan Land Trust is hosting “Movie Night” at The Playhouse, showing “The Wild Robot” at 5 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 19.
A boutique beauty studio is planned for a vacant commercial space in downtown New Canaan. The new business at 21 South Ave. will offer “personal care and cosmetic services along with retail sales of beauty and grooming products,” according to documents filed with Planning & Zoning. “The front portion of the space, immediately accessible from the main entry, will be dedicated to retail merchandise, customer reception, waiting area, and two beauty service stations with integrated retail shelving,” according to a proposed business description.
It continued: “These retail functions will occupy the first portion of the premises in compliance with zoning requirements. The interior service areas will include a private full-size treatment room, an airbrush tanning room, and additional service rooms for appointment-based aesthetic services.”
The business’s operations will be “quiet in nature, with typical daytime and early-evening business hours, and customer visits will be primarily by appointment,” it said.
In this installment of 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Fred Noyes, son of Harvard Five architect Eliot Noyes, ahead of the upcoming screening of the documentary “Modernism Inc: The Eliot Noyes Design Story” at The Playhouse on Elm Street. The film will show at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, followed by a Q&A with Fred Noyes and Gordon Bruce (tickets here). Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
Town officials on Tuesday cited the chief of the New Canaan Fire Department in connection with a number of incidents and problems.
During the Fire Commission’s regular meeting, Chief Albe Bassett was notified that he will be “written up for creating a reasonable perception of unequal treatment, as well as for manner of communication with a firefighter that was inappropriate,” according to Fire Commission Chair Robert Fields. “You will post a public apology for the behavior and you will meet with [town Human Resources Director] Cheryl [Pickering Jones] regarding anti-harassment behavior training,” Fields said during the Commission’s regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “Additionally, because of the serious nature of Engine 4 being placed in service when it was not safe to be in service, we will set up a predisciplinary hearing regarding this issue… and lastly you will be written up for inappropriate use of insurance funds.”
Fields said that Bassett’s hearing regarding the vehicle violation will be held at 5 p.m. on Feb. 19. The specifics of each issue cited by the Commission weren’t immediately clear.
Municipal officials on Tuesday approved the 2026 season for what has rapidly grown into a downtown tradition in New Canaan. The New Canaan Farmers Market will run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays in the Lumberyard Lot next to the train station from April 11 to Dec. 19, following a unanimous vote by the Board of Selectmen. “The Farmers Market has been a nice addition,” Selectman Steve Karl said during the elected body’s regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
He continued: “It’s become a Saturday morning tradition in town and it attracts a lot of folks over there. Traffic has been flowing in and out of there fine.