Craig Donovan

Election 2019 Podcast: First Selectman Candidate Craig Donovan

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free weekly podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Craig Donovan, a New Canaan Democrat running for first selectman. He’s challenging Republican incumbent Kevin Moynihan on Nov. 5. New Canaanite is one proud co-sponsor of the League of Women Voters of New Canaan Candidates Debate, to be held Wednesday, October 23rd at Town Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the debate starts at 7.

Allyson Halm

New Canaan Man Fined After Dogs Bite Neighbor’s Backside

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Police fined a Benedict Hill Road man more than $300 after two dogs in his care bit a next-door neighbor in the buttocks on a Sunday morning last month, records show. At about 9 a.m. on Sept. 15, a woman was walking down her driveway to pick up newspapers when she saw her neighbor’s two dogs barking and running toward her, according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. The woman told police later that afternoon that she’d been “very afraid” and beginning running toward her neighbor’s house “and she fell as the dogs began to bite her buttocks several times,” according to the incident report. She began “screaming as loud as she could” and then got back up and started running again toward her neighbor’s door, which he opened “to assist her as the dogs were still attempting to bite her,” the report said.

Government

Town To Net $14,400 for Selling Excess Composted Leaf Mulch

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Town officials last week approve the sale of New Canaan’s surplus composted leaf mulch to a local construction company. Selling 1,600 cubic yards of the mulch to Lanni Construction at $9 per yard will net the town $14,400 in revenue, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. Since putting its program of selling extra mulch into place in 2009, New Canaan has received about $128,000, Mann told members of the Board of Selectmen at at their Oct. 8 meeting. “It’s that time of year again to clear out our leaf mulch area,” Mann said during the meeting, held in Town Hall. 

Lanni Construction’s price is the same as last year, he said.

Election 2019

Election 2019 Podcast: First Selectman Kevin Moynihan

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free weekly podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to the incumbent Republican first selectman of New Canaan, Kevin Moynihan. He’s seeking re-election on Nov. 5. Moynihan is being challenged by Democrat Craig Donovan. New Canaanite is one proud co-sponsor of the League of Women Voters of New Canaan Candidates Debate, to be held Wednesday, October 23rd at Town Hall.

News

New Construction Planned for Bickford Lane 

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The town on Oct. 7 received an application to build a new two-story home on a Bickford Lane parcel where a 1963-built ranch-style house had stood. The new construction planned for 36 Bickford Lane will include four bedrooms and seven bathrooms in a 3,984-square-foot living space on the first and second floors, with a 1,557-square-foot finished basement, according to the building permit application. 

The contractor on the job will be Paul Hertz of Darien and the architect is La Vigra Associates of Ridgefield, the application said. The house will cost about $1,095,600 to build, it said. The property was purchased one year ago for $724,900, tax records show.