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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. ***
Jan. 7
4 Elm St.
Richard Lane Ahern, a New Canaan resident since 1972, passed away on January 2, 2025. Richard, an entrepreneur in the paper industry, lived a full, vibrant and vigorous life. He loved his family, Catholic faith, friendships locally and those forged in his extensive business trips to the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and the Caribbean.
Born in New York City on June 5, 1929, Richard was the eldest of three to Katherine Sullivan Ahern and James Michael Ahern. Educated in Scarsdale, NY and Pittsfield, MA public schools followed by three Jesuit prep schools, Cranwell in Lenox, Mass, Loyola in Chicago and graduating from Fordham Prep in the Bronx. The multiple schools were the result of his father‘s untimely death shortly after the family moved to Chicago when he was sixteen.
New Canaan Police at 9:37 a.m. on Dec. 31 arrested a 43-year-old Bridgeport man and charged him with second-degree failure to appear. An officer using radar to conduct speed enforcement stopped him on Carter Street and found that a paperless re-arrest warrant that had been issued for the man. According to Connecticut Judicial Branch records, he had been arrested by Bridgeport Police in March 2009 on motor vehicle-related charges, including operating a motor vehicle while under suspension. ***
Silvermine Galleries presents its New Members 2025 exhibition, running Jan.
The New Canaan Building Department on Nov 28 received an application for an approximately 5,500-square-foot home on Brooks Road. The four-bedroom house planned for 68 Brooks Road will include five full bathrooms, two half-baths, a fireplace, two-car garage and 996-square-foot finished basement (with a playroom that has a half-bath), according to the building permit application. In all, the first and second floors will include about 4,087 square feet of living space, it said. The house will cost about $1.6 million to build, the application said. The contractor on the job is New Canaan-based Gardiner and Larson Homes LLC, the architect Judith Larson Associates, LLC.
Joseph Henry Haas, 88, of New Canaan, CT passed away peacefully on December 31st, 2024, after a lengthy illness. Joseph was born on July 23rd, 1936, in Bronx, New York to Henry Haas and Mary (Fragale) Haas. Joe is predeceased by his wife of 59 years, Dolores Haas. Joe served in the US Navy on the Battleship New Jersey BB-62 as a damage controlman during peacetime in the 1950s. He started his metal fabricating business, New Canaan Forge, in 1965 and remained an active part of the business until his retirement at 83 years old.