Business

‘Kset’ Women’s Clothing Pops Up on South Avenue

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Kristen Setter, a 2016 Wilton High School graduate who earned a bachelor’s degree in photography from the University of Connecticut, was working as a temporary staffer for clothing manufacturers, flying out to trade shows, when she decided she’d “rather be on the other side” of the business, meaning retail. “I was doing pop-ups at colleges for the past couple years,” Setter said Monday afternoon from inside her brick-and-mortar business, Kset, which had opened earlier this year on Elm Street and has since moved into the former The Agency space at South Avenue and Morse Court. “So I’d bring everything in my car to Sacred Heart, UConn, Quinnipiac—everywhere really. I did that for a while, and then I wanted to try the brick-and-mortar… I wanted the flexibility of doing the pop-up shop. And I wanted to do an online business, and I discovered through doing the in-person that I really liked this, too.”

Setter travels to trade shows in New York and Las Vegas, picking everything out so that what’s on offer at Kset is “fully curated by me,” she said.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man, 49, ‘Using Coercive Control’ To Manipulate Estranged Wife

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Police last week arrested a 49-year-old man by warrant for violating conditions of a standing criminal protective order, court records show. He’d been arrested in May for disorderly conduct and threatening. According to that arrest warrant, the man threatened to kill his wife in her sleep. She filed for divorce the following month, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records. At the time of the initial arrest, the court imposed a full no-contact order, one condition is he’s allowed to communicate with the victim through a court-recommended coparenting app called “Our Family Wizard” or “OFW,” according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Sgt.

News

New Construction Planned for Old Kings Highway

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The New Canaan Building Department on Sept. 18 received an application for a 5,398-square-foot home on Old Kings Highway. The five-bedroom house at 118 Old Kings Highway will include six full bathrooms, one half-bath, one fireplace, a finished attic and basement and two-bay garage, according to the building permit application. It will cost an estimated $950,000 to build, the application said. The contractor on the job is Hybrid Construction Partners LLC of Stamford, the architect North Arrow Design & Contracting LLC of Stratford.

Around Town

‘Every Kid Deserves the Same Amount of Love’: Gracie Soap Box Derby Set for Oct. 18

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Isabella Falsetta, a New Canaan High School sophomore whose twin sister, Grace, was diagnosed with leukemia in middle school, spent much of the summer helping to organize and promote a free community event to raise awareness for pediatric cancer. The Gracie Fund for Pediatric Cancer is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of children facing life-threatening cancer by supporting the people, programs, and organizations that care for them. Working with family members—including Grace, who is now cancer-free, following 85 hospital stays and 20-plus surgeries—and a good friend, NCHS classmate Tate Salerno among others, Isabella helped promote the “Gracie Soap Box Derby.”

To be held at New Canaan Country School at 1 p.m. (get there 12:30 p.m.) on Sunday, Oct. 18, the Derby will feature a DJ, Blind Rhino food truck and kids’ zone with activities such as face painting and obstacle course, in addition to 15 races featuring 18 custom-built, authentic (non-motorized) soap box derby cars. “What made me want to become part of this effort is just I saw how hard my dad worked, how hard all my sister’s doctors and nurses worked to help her with this treatment, and I realized that every kid deserves the same amount of love and support that she did,” Isabella said on a recent afternoon during an interview at New Canaan Library.

Government

Town Approves Contracts for New Lampposts at Center School Lot

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The Board of Selectmen during its most recent meeting approved a $97,743 contract with a Norwalk-based company for 23 new lampposts and fixtures for the Center School Lot that serves New Canaan Library. The town will re-use existing footings for lampposts in the busy lot while switching to a softer LED light that uses less voltage, according to Bill Oestmann, superintendent of buildings in the Department of Public Works. “We’re not going to dig up the parking lot,” he said at the Board’s meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. Oestmann continued: “We’re going to actually go to the left and to the right of the entrance—so right across the library, where the lights end—we’re going continue from there and go right around the perimeter, put the new footings in, and then pull all the wiring.”

The wiring will go “through the grass,” Oestmann said, “so we’re not going to rip up any asphalt.”

The town also will be able to use existing conduits for the two “islands” in the lot. First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with F&M Electric Supply for 19 single and four twin lampposts.