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Eagle Scout’s ‘Cornhole Area’ Installed at Mead Park

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A local park is now benefitting from an Eagle Scout project that town officials approved earlier this year. Troop 70 Life Scout Jason Generalis received unanimous approval from the Parks & Recreation Commission when he came before the appointed body in March seeking approval to install a cornhole area at Mead Park. At the Commission’s most recent meeting, Generalis reviewed the work that went into creating the new area, which on completion immediately began drawing passersby and players, he said. “I hope the town can get a lot of use out of it,” Generalis told Parks & Rec members during their Oct. 9 meeting, held at Lapham Community Center and via videoconference.

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Affordable Housing: New Canaan Housing Authority Purchases ‘Avalon’ Complex for $75 Million

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The New Canaan Housing Authority last week closed on the approximately $75 million acquisition of a 104-unit apartment complex on Lakeview Avenue. What locals have long known as the “Avalon” property, a 9.1-acre parcel whose closest neighbors include Lakeview Cemetery, Mill Pond and Canaan Parish, will be known in the future as “Riverwood at New Canaan,” according to Housing Authority Chair Scott Hobbs. The acquisition of 106 Lakeview Ave. is expected to help the town achieve relief in the future from a widely discussed state law that allows developers to skirt local planning decisions in municipalities such as New Canaan, where less than 10% of all housing stock is deemed “affordable” under the state’s definition. According to Hobbs, the “vast majority of the units will remain market based and will be managed by Greystar who is a premier property manager.”

“As units turn over, we will be converting 21 of the units to 80% Area Median Income units which will essentially become ‘workforce housing,’ ” Hobbs told NewCanaanite.com in an email.

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TABLE: Election 2024 Results [UPDATING]

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Electors returned four incumbents to New Canaan’s delegation to the state legislature Tuesday, while electing a Democrat to another open seat in the General Assembly. State Sens. Ceci Maher (D-26th) and Ryan Fazio (R-36th) and State Reps. Lucy Dathan (D-142nd) and Tom O’Dea (R-125th) retained their seats during the general election, while Savet Constantine narrowly defeated GOPer Kim Healy, according to the Wilton Bulletin, in a race called around midday Wednesday. Dathan ran unopposed, as did two Registrars of Voters candidates, Republican Joan McLaughlin and Democrat Liz Orteig.

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Selectmen Approve Contract for New ‘Bumpout,’ Expanded Brick Sidewalk in front of Playhouse

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Town officials this week approved an approximately $38,000 contract with a New Canaan-based company to create a new sidewalk “bumpout” in front of The Playhouse. The contract with Peter Lanni Inc. will also see bricks installed in the area in front of the movie theater where there’s a patchwork of asphalt and concrete at present, officials said during Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen. “What this will do is continue the granite curb past The Playhouse, and then it’ll come back into our existing curb in between The Playhouse and Solé,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann said at the meeting, held in Town Hall and via videoconference. He continued: “And then we’ll have brick sidewalk leading all the way from the platform out, at that point in time, to the granite curbing and a new pedestrian ramp associated with it. So it’ll give a nice, big, large platform area similar to what we have down the street.”

First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of the $38,450 contract. 

Lanni, who did the original sidewalk work in front of the movie theater, has held his brickwork pricing since 2020, Mann said.

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Election 2024: New Canaan Hub [UPDATED]

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[Please see election results here.]

Here’s a look at voter turnout in New Canaan on Election Day:

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In an election that’s seen a high number of early voters, New Canaan constituents on Nov. 5 will vote for candidates seeking offices including U.S. president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, state Senate and state House. In all, the town saw 5,371 ballots cast before Nov. 3 in the first year that early voting was made available in the state, according to the Registrars of Voters. There are 14,534 total eligible voters in the town.