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In New Canaan, local merchants aren’t just people who sell us things: They’re our neighbors, our high school classmates, our kids’ youth sports coaches, our friends and often they’re the first people in town to give of their time, expertise, products and services to support human services organizations here.
For this installment of our local holiday shopping series, we spoke on Thursday afternoon to Stephen Shin and Christopher English, co-owners of The Adirondack Store at 39 Elm St. Here’s our interview. ***
New Canaanite: How has the holiday shopping season been for you so far? Stephen Shin: It’s extremely busy. This town is pumping.
For the third installment of our local holiday shopping series, we spoke on Wednesday afternoon to Elm Street Books owner Susan Rein and manager Manda Riggs.
Here’s our interview. ***
New Canaanite: I know it’s early in the holiday shopping season, but how’s it going so far?
Susan Rein: It’s going. We had a great Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Getting lots of people in. My hope is it continues that way.
For today’s installment of our local holiday shopping series, we talked on Tuesday afternoon to Carl Franco of Franco’s Wine Merchants at 130 Elm St. Here’s a transcription of our interview. ***
New Canaanite: The shopping season officially kicked off on Black Friday. How’s it going in the early days here?
Carl Franco: Usually people are a little slow right after Thanksgiving, and they always take a few days, or sometimes a week. But with Thanksgiving so late this year, I think people just realized it’s 30 days for Christmas.
[This is the first installment of our annual guide to local shopping. Please note the Holiday Stroll will be held this Friday and Saturday.]
New Canaan Music, located at 90 Main St., offers not only instruments for rental and purchase, but also lessons for all levels. We stopped in to talk to owner Phil Williams and store manager Gaby Beecher about what’s on offer for this holiday season. Here’s a transcription of our interview. ***
New Canaanite: It’s early, but how are things going at the start of the holiday shopping so far?
Phil Williams: There seems to be a lot of traffic in town.
One of Dr. Elle de Moll’s goals in launching her medical dermatology practice in New Canaan one year ago was changing patients’ lives by detecting skin cancer early, as well as using medicines to treat debilitating conditions. And in the past year—as her staff at Elite Dermatology Physicians (here on Instagram, where has grown from three to 10 women—de Moll has diagnosed more than 140 basal cells and 60 squamous cells, both non-melanoma skin cancers, 13 invasive melanomas and 40 dysplastic nevi or skin lesions that require treatment. “So these are big, measurable milestones in terms of our ability to find patients and screen them here,” de Moll said on a recent afternoon from her office at the corner of Cherry Street and East Avenue. “Those are the patients we’ve seen here. We’ve also been doing skin cancer screenings at the Schoolhouse Apartments, and I work closely with the Norwalk Fire Department doing their skin cancer screenings biannually.