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New Canaan Library Working Toward Proposed Uses for 1913 Building

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New Canaan Library has started planning for a new use or uses of the 1913 building, a sealed structure on the western edge of the organization’s campus. Preserved and moved 115 feet from its original location as part of a Planning & Zoning Commission requirement as the “new” library building project that wrapped up three years ago, the legacy building has been used — on its exterior — as the site of a “Changemakers” art installation since 2024. (The building’s 115-foot relocation cost about $2.4 million.)

“We have formed some committees,” library CEO Ellen Sullivan Crovatto told members of the Board of Selectmen during a Jan. 20 budget presentation, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. She continued: “We have begun a lot of work around how we see using the space.

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‘Super Fun’: Local Families ‘Hit the Slopes’ for Sledding at Waveny

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New Canaan’s Norton family on Monday morning made its first-ever journey to an iconic local spot for the day after a major snowstorm. One of Darren Norton’s brothers told him that Waveny’s sledding hill “was the place to be,” he told NewCanaanite.com from an area cleared by the donor-supported Waveny Park Conservancy, overlooking Anderson Pond west of the main house. “It’s our first time here,” Darren Norton said as his daughter, Sloane, wrapped up warmly, prepared for another downhill run on her orange saucer. “We love it. It’s great, super fun.”

The Nortons were among the first families to “hit the slopes” at New Canaan’s favorite park on a chilly morning after an estimated 10-plus inches of snow dropped on the town.

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Winter Storm Wallops New Canaan [PHOTOS, UPDATED]

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Update 9 p.m. Sunday

Town Hall, New Canaan Library and New Canaan Public Schools will be closed Monday, as the town digs out of a winter storm where snowfall was followed by sleet and rain, causing dangerous road conditions. An estimated 10-plus inches of snow fell on the town. Original Article 12 p.m. Sunday

New Canaanites awoke Sunday to a blanket of white amid a widely anticipated winter storm that’s expected to continue walloping the town and much of the northeast and nation overnight. The National Weather Service is calling for up to 16 inches of snowfall as New Canaan, and all of southern Fairfield County, remain under a Winter Storm Warning through 1 p.m. Monday. “Sleet may mix in with the snow late this evening,” according to the NWS.

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Former NCPS Employee Claims Age and Race Discrimination in Lawsuit

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A former employee of New Canaan Public Schools on Tuesday sued the Board of Education, saying age and race played a role in her demotion and dismissal about two years ago. Employed by NCPS since 2004, the plaintiff, Giovanna Cicirello, is white and was 57 at the time of her dismissal in January 2024, according to a complaint filed in state Superior Court by attorney John T. Bochanis of Bridgeport-based Daly, Weihing & Bochanis LLC. She worked as kitchen manager at South School, and her supervisor was younger and Hispanic, the complaint said. 

“During Plaintiff’s employment with the Defendant, Plaintiff supervised two employees which two employees were younger than the Plaintiff and Hispanic,” the complaint said. It continued: “The two employees raised complaints about Plaintiff’s supervision of them. Such complaints were unfounded.