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Election 2024: Endorsement Letters

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter(s) of endorsement for the 2024 election. Please send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com through Oct. 21 for publication here. ***

Dear Editor,

With a Big Four accounting background, proven local leadership including Wilton’s Board of Selectmen and years of community and volunteer service, I enthusiastically support Kim Healey for State Representative. She is a proven problem solver who would work on our behalf in a bi-partisan manner and has been endorsed by the state’s Independent Party.

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Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com for publication here. ***

How many movies are fun, feel-good and deeply meaningful all at once?  

That rare trifecta comes to the newly renovated Playhouse Theatre in “Empire Waist” on September 27, running through October 3. New Canaan’s Claire Ayoub wrote and directed the film, which follows a group of teens who learn to love their bodies through friendship and inclusive fashion design. We’re told that attendance next week can influence how widely the film is distributed nationally.  This is incredibly important because all teens (and their families and people of all ages!) who struggle with body image need to see this inspiring work.  

Thanks to Cinema Lab who hosted an advance screening of Empire Waist including an insightful live interview of Ms. Ayoub by Sheri West.

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Letter: ToddlerTime Nursery School Needs a New Home

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Dear New Canaan Community, 

We need your help. 

ToddlerTime needs a new home. ToddlerTime Nursery School has proudly served the New Canaan community for more than 44 years. We have graduated thousands of students, employ 30 women and foster the early education of 125 young students each year. 

After decades at the Congregational Church of New Canaan (CCNC), our lease will come to an end on July 31, 2025. Over the past year, ToddlerTime and CCNC have held several discussions in the hope of remaining in the same space we’ve occupied for decades. Despite our best efforts, we were unable to reach an agreement.

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Election 2024: Endorsement Letters

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter(s) of endorsement for the 2024 election. Please send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com through Oct. 21 for publication here. No letters will be published after the Oct. 22 newsletter goes out (two weeks before Election Day on Nov.

Who Knew: Long Live the Playhouse

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‘Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market. * * *

Shared experience is powerful stuff. 

Where, once upon a time, all the world lined up to see Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, or E.T., we now sit in separate little rooms on separate little screens watching algorithmically programmed little dances performed by strangers and their cats and then read torturous think-pieces that ask when we all stopped getting along. Movies often get made now for focus-grouped market segmentations for maximum merch sales, not for all of us, and as a result, there are, at my last count, several thousand installments of the Transformers franchise. Movie palaces around the country (and as nearby as Darien) have been razed to become mixed-use buildings, providing more little rooms for more little screens. I’m sure I sound like a nostalgic old-timer here, but I’ve missed those golden late 80’s afternoons at the Orinda theater (a classic movie palace of the highest order) where le tout 7th grade would also be in attendance, and also, since I’m leaning into my new persona, would you please get off my lawn?