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New Canaan Police at 6:54 p.m. on Feb. 14 received a report of a smash-and-grab at Waveny. Nothing was taken from the vehicle, police said. ***
Registration is open for Camp LiveGirl, serving rising 5th- through 8th-graders. It runs July 6-10, 13-17 and 20-24 at St.
Neighbors of a planned 102-unit affordable housing complex at Weed and Elm Streets—including a man arrested in 2023 after getting physical with the project’s developers—last week lost their lawsuit seeking to halt that developers’ use of shared sewer and sanitary easements, court records show. The “preparatory activities for the work contemplated in the easement area”—which includes replacing 310 feet of 6-inch PVC drainage pipe with 8-inch PVC pipe—is “permitted” under both easements, state Superior Court Judge Edward Krumeich wrote in a Feb. 11 decision. “The unearthing and inspection of the sewer pipes and repair and replacement of any damaged or defective sewer pipes is permissible under the Sewer Easement,” Krumeich wrote in the 12-page decision. He continued: “Plaintiffs argued that the Sewer Easement was for a single-family home like the existing house and the homes in the Subdivision and did not envision the planned multi-unit use of Defendant’s Property.
New Canaan Police Animal Control at 8:36 a.m. on Feb. 6 received a report of a hawk injured in the road at Hickory Drive and Carter Street. Officials brought the bird to donor-supported Wildlife In Crisis for rehabilitation. ***
The New Canaan Land Trust is hosting “Movie Night” at The Playhouse, showing “The Wild Robot” at 5 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 19.
Municipal officials on Tuesday approved the 2026 season for what has rapidly grown into a downtown tradition in New Canaan. The New Canaan Farmers Market will run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays in the Lumberyard Lot next to the train station from April 11 to Dec. 19, following a unanimous vote by the Board of Selectmen. “The Farmers Market has been a nice addition,” Selectman Steve Karl said during the elected body’s regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
He continued: “It’s become a Saturday morning tradition in town and it attracts a lot of folks over there. Traffic has been flowing in and out of there fine.
Though New Canaan High School juniors Eva Alexander, Sienna de Kanter and Mairead Greiner all joined the NCHS Students Against Cancer Club last fall for individual reasons, they share a deeply important motivation: Each of the teens has loved ones whose lives have been altered by or lost to the disease. Eva Alexander’s father, Sloan Alexander, had surgery last March following discovery of a sarcoma, and is now undergoing chemotherapy. De Kanter’s grandmother, Linda Glenn, died last March following a battle with colon cancer. And Greiner, whose grandfather Joseph Casey is a two-time cancer survivor (colon and prostate), has two grandmothers currently fighting skin cancer. Through the club, the students found out about the “Student Visionaries of the Year” program run by Blood Cancer United, a nonprofit organization that seeks to rid the world of blood cancer.