Around Town

Coffee’s on for Thursday

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Join fellow residents and NewCanaanite.com editor Michael Dinan for the monthly Community Coffee, to be held 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 4 in the Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium at New Canaan Library. The Coffee is presented in partnership with the library, and the brew is supplied by Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee (thank you, Doug). Salon Anastassia provides cookies and muffins. The free, public coffee is a group conversation about what’s happening around town, moderated by Dinan. Topics come from attendees and we spend no more than 10 minutes per subject. Those who would like to receive a friendly reminder email about the coffee—held the first Thursday of each month—should email Dinan at editor@newcanaanite.com.

News

South Avenue Split-Level Sells for $1.8 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

May 21

788 South Ave. $1.8 million
Evelyn M. Sultan to Evgeny Tarasov

30 Elm Place

$4 million 
Brian & Elizabeth Wilhelm to David & Sarah Andrias

May 20

48 Green Meadow Lane

$2,850,000
David Miller to Liya Gu

Opinion

Letter: Thank You, New Canaan

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I have been privileged to serve the residents of New Canaan for the past 25 years. I began in 2001 as a part-time employee with the New Canaan Fire Department, working as an administrative assistant to the volunteer fire chief. During those early years, while my children were young, I also volunteered for many sports and school programs in our community. Around 2005, I transitioned to full-time work with the town. Over the years, I’ve worked with several First Selectmen and across a few departments.

Opinion

Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com to have them published here. ***

Dear Editor,

As New Canaanites enjoy our backyards on this quiet Memorial Day afternoon, the town seems to be breathing a collective sigh of thanks to our Town Council, for passing by overwhelming majority one of the most important quality-of-life ordinances yet: a restriction on commercial gas-powered leaf blowers during the height of summer, from June 1 through Labor Day. Commercial electric-powered leaf blowers can of course still be used all summer. The ordinance enables homeowners to continue using gas-powered blowers on patios,  pool areas, tennis courts and driveways, and lets the town continue using gas-powered blowers for storm clean-up, emergencies, and other necessary situations, while overall creating quieter streets, cleaner air, and healthier working conditions during the months when people most want to enjoy being outside. 

To understand why the switch to electric leaf blowers will be such an improvement, it’s important to know about the type of sound and pollution gas-powered leaf blowers produce, compared to electric. 

Gas-powered leaf blowers spew out one-third of the contents of their gas tanks, aerosolizing the gas itself along with the burned fuel exhaust.

News

Dogwood Lane Colonial Sells for $3,750,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

May 15

76 Dogwood Lane

$3,750,000
John P. Holland to George A. Davala

May 14

757 Oenoke Ridge

$5.7 million
757 Oenoke Ridge LLC to Colin John Reid Smith & Anna Knowles Rogers

47 Bank St. $1.8 million
Paul Stein to Maureen Schwartz

2 Vitti St., Unit 304

$2,025,000
CH Vitti Street Associates, LLC to Paul Schilpp