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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.

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Field Club Seeks Permission To Forgo Planting Plan for New Pickleball Courts

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Saying a neighbor has made a planting plan designed to screen four new pickleball courts impractical if not impossible, an attorney representing the New Canaan Field Club is asking that town officials remove the requirement for plantings. 

The Planning & Zoning Commission 18 months ago unanimously approved the Field Club’s application to install one illuminated paddle tennis court, relocate an existing paddle tennis court and build four new pickleball courts on its Smith Ridge Road property. At that April 2023 meeting, the club’s direct neighbors—Tim and Martina O’Sullivan, voiced concerns about noise, lights, screening and safety. In approving the club’s application, P&Z issued a handful of requirements, including that 50% more trees be planted along the northern side of the proposed pickleball courts. In July, an attorney representing the club—Todd Lampert of New Canaan-based Lampert, Toohey & Rucci LLC—notified the town that the club was in a property dispute with the same neighbors. Specifically, the neighbors were using part of club-owned property for their own driveway, Lampert said.

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State Agency Dismisses Municipal Worker’s Complaint Against Town [CORRECTION]

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[This article has been corrected to identify the single complaint among three filed that the state dismissed.]

State officials on Monday dismissed a complaint lodged this past summer by a longtime municipal employee who also has claimed discrimination based on race, age and gender. 

Filed on behalf of an African American woman, 59, the complaint—which claimed retaliation on the part of the town—failed to meet “minimum requirements” for a claim, including establishing a connection between “actionable conduct ascribed to the respondent [town] and the complainant’s protected classes,” according to an Oct. 21 Case Assessment Review from the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. “The present complaint does not satisfy this requirement,” according to the state agency’s review. “There are no facts alleged in the complaint that would tie the actions ascribed to the Respondent to the Complainant’s race, color, age or sex. The complaint therefore fails to state a viable claim of discrimination on these bases.”

The employee has filed three CHRO complaints against the town.