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New Canaan Police are investigating reports received at 2:20 p.m. on Sept. 28 about two pieces of jewelry that appear to have been stolen from an Elm Place home. ***
Staying Put in New Canaan will hold its annual meeting from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10 at Lapham Community Center in Waveny. All are invited to the free event, and refreshments will be served.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Nancy Coughlin, CEO of Person to Person or “P2P,” a nonprofit organization known to many New Canaanites that supports families and individuals as they move toward stability with healthy food, clothing, housing assistance and a path to economic opportunity. Demand for meals from the donor-supported organization, which recently launched its second mobile food pantry, has grown by 2.5 times since the onset of the pandemic. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
The New Canaan Building Department has issued a permit for a 5,448-square-foot home on Douglas Road. The five-bedroom house at 121 Douglas Road will include five bathrooms and two half-baths, according to the permit issued Aug. 6. It will have a partially finished basement and attic, with a gym in the basement and an office in the attic. It will cost about $900,000 to build, the permit said.
Though the funds likely won’t be needed, officials say, the town is prepared to offer a $4 million loan to the New Canaan Housing Authority or ‘NCHA’ as that entity works to acquire a 9.1-acre apartment development located opposite Lakeview Cemetery. Following recent votes by municipal funding bodies, the town is ready to offer the loan so that the Housing Authority can cover expenses related to its hopeful purchase of 106 Lakeview Ave. The property includes 10 residential buildings with dozens of units of various sizes, 11 garages and one large pool, tax records show.
The acquisition is expected to help New Canaan remain exempt from a widely discussed state affordable housing law. The town faces the challenge of creating new affordable units in order to continue doing so. “Right now, it still remains that it’s likely that we will not need any funds from the town,” NCHA Chair Scott Hobbs told members of the Board of Finance during a special meeting held Sept. 16 at Town Hall and via videoconference.
Referring to the company that created the abutting Canaan Parish affordable housing development (and redeveloped it in partnership with the Housing Authority and town), Hobbs continued: “We’re still working a little bit with New Canaan [Neighborhoods] in order to try to boost our equity.
Born to Samuel Jackson Sproule and Alfreda Jones Sproule in Norfolk, Virginia on June 5, 1932, Susan Gerrish Sproule Slemp Gress passed away peacefully in her sleep on September 25, 2024. Sue, as she was known, had been a resident of New Canaan since 1964, was renowned among her large group of family and friends for her lengthy annual Christmas letters she used to bring her friends up-to-date with all of her exploits over the past year along with all the family comings and goings, births, marriages, careers and other adventures. Many looked forward to this “publication” as a spark and reminder to keep up with their broad scope of friends. Beyond being a very busy mother of four children, Sue had two career paths she pursued; one as an office manager, with New Horizons (a corporate relocation business), Wellington & Albrect (the first all female law firm in Connecticut) & Williams & Co (a graphic arts firm), the latter reignited her other career (or better said, passion) as an artist. Her early years as a painter transitioned into her second career as a sculptor in her later years.