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Olivia Flaherty-Lovy

Olivia Flaherty-Lovy is a senior at New Canaan High School and is thrilled to be interning with the New Canaanite as part of the NCHS Senior Internship program! At NCHS, she served as an Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, The Courant, and was a member of the varsity field hockey and track teams. Next year she will be studying English through the Dual BA Program between Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University. She is excited to continue to explore journalism and media through the senior internship program this month.

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Devereaux Asks Town to Include ‘Our Most Local Bank’ in Future Bidding Opportunities

By Olivia Flaherty-Lovy | June 9, 2019

Saying that Bankwell is a truly local bank, Selectman Kit Devereaux last week urged town officials to take greater efforts to include the company in soliciting bids for the municipality’s business. In reviewing a proposed $600,000 agreement between the town and a New Jersey-based bank, Devereaux asked New Canaan CFO Sandra Dennies whether local banks had an opportunity to bid on the project (an IT equipment lease-purchase agreement for the district). Told that banks who received an email on it included People’s United Bank, First County Bank and Chase—but that Dennies was “not certain” if Bankwell received the offer—Devereaux urged the town to include Bankwell and other local banks in the future. “I would like to request that when we make that list that, for instance, Bankwell—which is probably our most local bank—is included for the opportunity,” Devereaux said at the meeting, held in Town Hall. “It could be something that local banks can’t compete on unless they have the opportunity.”

Devereaux and First Selectman Kevin Moynihan voted 2-0 to approve the agreement, with Ringoes, N.J.-based U.S. Bancorp Government Leasing and Finance, Inc. Selectman Nick Williams was absent.

Don Smith

Town To Weigh Increase in Transfer Station Permit Fees

By Olivia Flaherty-Lovy | June 9, 2019

Municipal officials last week discussed charging residents more for a permit required to bring garbage, recyclable materials, household and yard waste to a town facility for processing. Right now, a Transfer Station sticker costs $40 per year, according to the Board of Selectmen. Under a proposal that came before the Board during its regular meeting June 4, the fee would increase to $45 per household with a private hauler or $75 without. Don Smith, assistant superintendent of solid waste in the New Canaan Department of Public Works, brought the proposal before the Board at the meeting, held in Town Hall. Selectman Kit Devereaux noted that some families in New Canaan may have difficulty paying the increased fee.

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Simon & Schuster Editor-in-Chief Marysue Rucci To Speak at New Canaan Library on Sunday

By Olivia Flaherty-Lovy | June 6, 2019

Marysue Rucci recalled the day her second-grade teacher told the class to write a story based on the idea that they were just six inches tall. Sitting in beloved teacher Babs Myers’s classroom at Center School—located across Maple Street from New Canaan Library, razed following the 1982-83 school year to become a parking lot—Rucci took the assignment to heart. “I just remember writing and writing, and she let us go as long as we wanted,” she said. Her story “Six Inches Tall” ended up 16 pages long. Her career in fiction didn’t stop there.

Hilary Ormond

New Petition to Install Surveillance Cameras in Waveny Follows Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos

By Olivia Flaherty-Lovy | June 5, 2019

Following the disappearance of a New Canaan woman nearly two weeks ago and subsequent searches of Waveny, where police found her car abandoned, a new petition to install cameras in the park is picking up hundreds of signatures online. New Canaan resident Hilary Ormond created the petition Tuesday through Change.org following the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, who hasn’t been seen since dropping her kids off at school May 24. Police launched an investigation and quickly found her black Suburban parked near Waveny’s Lapham Road entrance. New Canaan Police on Saturday arrested Dulos’s estranged husband, and his girlfriend, in connection with her disappearance, and local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have been seen searching through the heavily used park daily. “I was inspired to create the petition because I wanted to turn my feelings of helplessness arising from the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos into something constructive,” Ormond said in an email, responding to questions from NewCanaanite.com.

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Cosmetic Boutique on Elm Street Appears to Have Closed

By Olivia Flaherty-Lovy | June 5, 2019

A beauty shop in downtown New Canaan appears to have closed. Cosmetic Boutique at 86 Elm St. has been cleared out, its doors locked. A branch in Chappaqua, N.Y. remains open, according to a woman who answered the phone there. It wasn’t immediately clear why the New Canaan location was shut down or whether it’s closed permanently.

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