Board of Selectmen

Pickleball Courts at Mead To Get New Bluestone Patio Area

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Town officials last week approved an approximately $70,000 contract to install a new patio area outside the hugely popular pickleball courts at Mead Park. It wasn’t immediately clear when the new bluestone patio will be installed in the northwest area of the park, though funds for the project are available in the current budget year, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann, meaning they could be released quickly. When the town installed five pickleball courts two years ago where a single public hard-surface tennis had been located, the footprint of the new playing area created some leftover room, Mann told members of the Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting, held June 6 at Town Hall and via videoconference. “So now we have a large area of unused space that right now is gravel,” Mann said. “When we met with the DOJ they felt that the gravel is not a suitable material.

Government

Selectmen OK Contract To Repair Main Street Sidewalk 

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Town officials voted last week to repair a stretch of sidewalk opposite the fire station that’s been damaged, in part, from large emergency vehicles pulling up onto it while turning in order to back into their bays at the Main Street building. 

The repair will involve about 156 feet of sidewalk in front of the Vine Cottage, according to Walker Blair, a New Canaan High School senior intern with the town Department of Public Works. “The fire trucks as they have come out of the firehouse, they have hit the granite curbing and caused it to shift outwards, allowing water to permeate between the concrete sidewalk and the curb which has caused major cracking and even, in one place, sinking under the concrete,” Blair, who plans to attend Lehigh University next year to study mechanical engineering, told members of the Board of Selectmen at their June 6 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of a $27,036 contract with New Canaan-based Peter Lanni Inc. The project had gone out to bid to six contractors and two returned with quotes, Blair said. Public Works Director Tiger Mann said that the deterioration has happened over time and was exacerbated when a natural gas line was run through the area. “It just so happens they drove over it and punched through, which then allowed us to go out there and take a look,” Mann said.

Allison Rees

Local Couple Gifts $3 Million to New Canaan Library; Children’s Room Renamed

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New Canaan Library announced Monday that a local couple has donated $3 million toward the organization’s capital campaign. The library’s Children’s Room has been renamed The Rees Family Children’s Library after Michael and Allison Rees, according to a press release. Lisa Oldham, executive director of the library, said in a statement, “Michael and Allison’s generosity accompanies an exemplary fidelity to culture and civic life in New Canaan and reflects their sincere desire to make a difference. The Rees Family Children’s Library will forever reflect their exceptional vision.”

The new 42,000-square-foot library opened four months ago, about three years after officials unveiled a dramatic new plan for the organization’s block at the edge of downtown New Canaan. Awash in natural light and featuring the new Jim and Dede Bartlett Auditorium, multiple meeting rooms, an instantly popular café, heavily used teen area and spacious children’s room, the facility replaced an aging facility with a failing, costly physical plant that hadn’t seen a significant renovation in four decades.

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Smash-and-Grab Suspect at Waveny Flees Through Downtown New Canaan Saturday Evening

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Police are investigating a reported smash-and-grab in Waveny on Saturday evening. At about 5:51 p.m. on June 10, officers were dispatched to the parking lot of the Steve Benko Pool on a report of a smashed window and items taken from a parked vehicle, according to a New Canaan Police Department press release. An officer who had been in the park assisting New Canaan Emergency Medical Services on an unrelated call spotted a white SUV driving slowly through the lot, the press release said. When the officer tried to get behind the vehicle to get license plate information, the driver sped up and exited onto Lapham Road, it said. Other responding officers saw the vehicle traveling northbound on Old Stamford Road, toward downtown New Canaan, it said.

News

Betsy’s Lane Home Sells for $1,530,000

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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. ***

June 2

83 Locust Ave., Unit 414

$360,000
MAJ Properties I, LLC to Mark Shattan

6 Betsy’s Lane

$1,530,000
Wendy Sloane to Lucas Ballet

June 1

102 South Ave., Unit 11

$1,076,000
Susan Kniffen to Daniel James Castelline

May 31

10 Green Ave. $1.1 million
John Bryan Starr to Richard Rance Coyle

May 30

57 Strawberry Hill Road

$879,000
Frederick Ryon to Jake Berg