Animal 411

Elm Street Woman Threatens To Kill Neighbor’s Poodle

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An Elm Street woman last week told authorities she would “pepper spray” or “kill” a neighbor’s dog following an apparently false complaint that the animal had bitten her aide, police records show. At about 2:42 p.m. on Sept. 20 (a Sunday), police were called to a Prides Crossing condominium on a report of a dog bite, according to a case report filed by Officer Austin Malizia and obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. There, the complainant said she’d seen a woman bit outside the condo complex by her neighbor’s dog, the report said. 

The aide told police she was outside “when a black poodle came up to her and bit her in her leg,” the report said. The aide said “she was so startled, she fell over into the bushes,” it said.

Around Town

Coffee’s on for Thursday

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Join fellow residents and NewCanaanite.com editor Michael Dinan for the monthly Community Coffee, to be held 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1 in the Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium at New Canaan Library. The Coffee is presented in partnership with the library, and the brew is supplied by Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee (thank you, Doug). Salon Anastassia provides cookies and muffins. The free, public coffee is a group conversation about what’s happening around town, moderated by Dinan. Topics come from attendees and we spend no more than 10 minutes per subject.

Around Town

Eversource: New Canaan 99% Restored Late Sunday [PHOTOS, UPDATED]

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Updated 11:30 p.m. Sunday

As of 11:30 p.m. Sunday, all but about 1% of New Canaan customers of Eversource had power restored, according to the utility company. Original Article

More than 500 New Canaan customers of Eversource remained without power at 1:45 p.m. Sunday as a Nor’Easter that pounded the shoreline starting Friday also brought down branches and utility lines in town. The figure—about 5.9% of all customers—is an improvement over the 940 Eversource customers that were without power as of 9:30 a.m. In a townwide outcall on Sunday morning, Emergency Management Director Russ Kimes III reported that most of those 940 customers were along South Avenue. 

Some businesses downtown, including the New Canaan Racquet Club, also reported power outages. “The remaining outages, per Eversource’s website, appear widely scattered which may result in a prolonged restoration period,” Kimes said. Emergency responders oversaw downed trees, branches and wires on Marshall Ridge, Country Club, Cascade and Toquam Roads, as well as Wahackme Lane, Kimes said.

News

Old Norwalk Road Home Sells for $1.5 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

Sept. 18

211 Old Norwalk Road

$1.5 million
John Gesualdi to Michael Dimitriou

113 Heritage Hill Road, Unit 113

$975,000
Karen Bodick to Nataliya Melnyk

Sept.

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Gretchen Schafer Scott, 86

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Gretchen Schafer Scott—dear wife, loving mother, devoted grandmother, and caring friend to many—passed away in Savannah, Georgia, on September 12, 2026. She was 86. Gretchen loved her family and friends wholeheartedly and spent her life nurturing these relationships with tender kindness. Those fortunate enough to call her a friend knew her loyalty, generosity, warmth, and gift for making others feel special. The daughter of Agnes Ball Schafer and Erwin August Schafer, Gretchen was born on July 19, 1940, in Indianapolis, Indiana, grew up on the city’s Northside, and was in the first graduating class of North Central High School.