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Today we’re launching a series talking to New Canaan retailers about this holiday shopping season. Our first Q&A is with Heather Satin, owner of WAVE, a jewelry, clothing, accessories and home furnishings shop at 86 Elm St. Here’s our exchange. ***
New Canaanite: How is the holiday shopping season going so far? Heather Satin: It’s definitely picking up.
Two New Canaan dogs are undergoing quarantine after biting a delivery man on Cheese Spring Road last week. On the morning of Dec. 2, New Canaan Police received a call from a Yonkers, N.Y. man saying that at about 4:45 p.m. the prior day (a Sunday) he’d been bit on Cheese Spring at Knollwood Lane. He was making a delivery when “two dogs bit him on both his legs,” according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. The delivery man went to the Norwalk Hospital ER for treatment, according to the report, written by Animal Control Officer Sean Godejohn.
The following letters of appreciation for New Canaan Police Department officers were presented to the Police Commission at the appointed body’s two most recent meetings, Oct. 16 and Nov. 20. ***
Officers Clinton Jarvis and Bryan Connolly
“Chief DiFederico,
I am writing to express our deep gratitude for the professionalism and dedication shown by your officers during their recent response to our home for the birth of our son. Their swift action, calm demeanor and overall professionalism made a difficult situation much more manageable for us, and we truly appreciate the care they took in handling everything.
The town’s highest elected official last week honored a local physician and community leader during the COVID-19 pandemic known to generations of New Canaan families. First Selectman Dionna Carlson recalled during last week’s Health & Human Services Commission meeting that the appointed body’s chair, Dr. Harrison Pierce, dropped into her office following Carlson’s one year ago to say it may be time to step down from the role, she recalled. “And I said, ‘Please don’t leave me’ ” and “Please give me a year at least,’ ” Carlson recalled during the Commission’s Dec. 4 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “So he was gracious as he always is, in being willing to serve an additional year to help me get on my feet,” she continued.
A quasi-public affordable housing lender appears to be “very interested” in loaning the New Canaan Housing Authority money as the local agency moves toward converting some units at a newly acquired Lakeview Avenue apartment complex into “affordable,” as per the state’s definition, officials say. The Housing Authority last month closed on the former ‘Avalon’ complex—renamed Riverwood at New Canaan—for about $75 million. According to Housing Authority Chair Scott Hobbs, the head of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or ‘CHFA’ is said to be “very interested in loaning us money at very favorable rates to convert some units.”
“We’ll see what they’re offering because it’s possible we could cut some of our debt service,” Hobbs said during the Housing Authority’s Dec. 4 meeting, held via videoconference. “It’s possible also if they’re doing this 1% type money or something, it may make sense to make some 8-30g qualified units now.