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To the Editor:
I urge my neighbors to re-elect State Representative Tom O’Dea in the 125th District. I know Tom personally.
‘Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market. The only hardship about eating at Crust Issues in Norwalk is parking. One recent evening, the woman from Naughty Nancy’s, the adult bookstore two doors down from our intended destination, angrily shooed us away from a parking spot reserved for her customers. Nancy was NOT playing, and I had questions. How could she tell we didn’t plan to shop in her store?
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To the Editor:
Although I am strongly in favor of more senior housing, I think that the public space of our Waveny Park is the wrong place to put it, and trying to cleverly redefine “health” to break deed restrictions and circumvent the donor’s wishes would be terrible precedent for gaining donor trust for future land donations. I also feel that encouraging a sense that the mulch pile area is not really part of the “park” in order to support development is misleading, disingenuous and short-sighted. Parcel E isn’t just empty space, and using land for mulch piles isn’t just good for gardeners.The value of open, undeveloped space to our physical and mental health, not to mention our property values, is well-documented, but the mulch piles themselves provide benefits to all our citizens.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Lauren Patterson, president and CEO of the New Canaan Community Foundation, about the Behavioral Health Alliance’s 5-minute “Community Health & Well-Being Survey.” The confidential survey runs through Oct. 31—click here to participate. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
NewCanaanite.com recently received the following endorsement letter(s). We will publish them through Oct. 26. ***
To the Editor:
As I open my mailbox in the midst of this campaign season, I find materials with a tone unlike we in New Canaan are accustomed to receiving. Biting, sensational, unbecoming ad hominem attacks instead of open exchanges about the important issues of the day.