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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. ***
Oct. 8
12 Gerdes Road
$1,175,000
Laura William, deceased, to South Ave NC LLC
Oct.
New Canaan Police are investigating the theft of a vehicle from a Thurton Drive, reported at 10:25 a.m. Sunday. It was recovered in Wallingford. ***
Early voting starts Monday. Info here. ***
The Town Players of New Canaan presents “Pen Pals,” running this weekend at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny.
New Canaan’s buildings superintendent, a 31-year employee of the Department of Public Works, is retiring next year. In his highly visible role for the past dozen years, Bill Oestmann has been responsible for the safety and integrity of all town-owned buildings and structures in New Canaan, scheduling, planning and overseeing their maintenance.
“Time has gone by so fast, but I enjoyed my work and the people here in New Canaan,” said Oestmann, who added that when his March 31 retirement date takes effect he will have worked for the town for 31 years and four months. He started with the town in 1995 as assistant superintendent of the Highway Department, responsible for town vehicles and equipment. Asked about highlights of his career here, Oestmann said he “modernized the fleet and added much needed equipment” during that period.
“I was also involved with relocating the Highway [Department] to its new and current location,” he said. “I assisted with building repairs and upgrades, and managed FEMA Storm recovery costs.”
In 2012, he took the position of buildings superintendent and soon took on the renovation and expansion of Town Hall during the administration of then-First Selectman Rob Mallozzi.
Police last week arrested a 27-year-old Stamford man and charged him with evading responsibility in connection with a car crash last month. At about 11:43 p.m. on Sept. 23 (a Wednesday), officers responded to the area of West and Hemlock Hill Roads on a report of a single-car crash, police said. There, officers found a car that had struck a utility pole, according to a police report. Its driver had left the scene, the report said.
A venerable nonprofit organization is preparing to sell a vacant parcel near downtown New Canaan, officials say. Waveny LifeCare Network or ‘WLN’—a 1975-established provider of a continuum of care, including independent, assisted and memory care living, at-home and in-patient short-term physical rehabilitation, therapy and nursing care and hospice services—owns an undeveloped .74-acre property, located behind a house on Oenoke Ridge, roughly between the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church campuses.
According to an Oct. 7 letter sent to St. Mark’s parishioners, WLN last month notified the church “of their intent to sell” the parcel, under a right-of-first-opportunity clause included in the “extremely favorable terms” of Waveny’s 1993 acquisition of the land from the church.