New Canaan Police at about 8:24 p.m. Monday impounded three dogs found roaming together at South Avenue and Brooks Road. They included a Labrador retriever mix and Samoyed, and all three dogs were known to each other, according to Animal Control Officer Allyson Halm. They’ve been reunited with their owner.
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The New Canaan Registrars of Voters released an updated voter count for the town ahead of next week’s primaries. Here’s a look at the numbers compared to the last midterm election in 2018:
New Canaan Voter Count 2022 vs. 2018
| Democrat | Republican | Unaffiliated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 1, 2022 | 3,615 | 5,086 | 4,814 |
| Nov. 1, 2018 | 2,986 | 6,285 | 4,376 |
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Carriage Barn Arts Center is hiring a program & event director — details here.
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Police on Wednesday morning shot and killed a sick raccoon on Valley Road. Residents there had set a “Havahart” live animal trap to try and catch a woodchuck that had burrowed under their garage, and the raccoon entered it. Halm said that Animal Control “discourages any Havahart trapping for any reason,” and gave the homeowners several humane deterrents for the woodchuck.
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The New Yorker magazine on Monday published an article that spotlights 2015 NCHS grad and comedian Charlie Sosnick.
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A 1934-built, 12,000-square-foot home at 707 West Road sold for $4.4 million, according to a property transfer recorded July 29, 2022 in the Town Clerk’s office. The property had last sold in 2001 for $4.7 million, tax records show.
Molly Cioffi graduates from college.
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Congratulations to 2018 NCHS grad and commencement speaker Molly Cioffi on her recent graduation from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. after successfully completing the Threshold Program for people with diverse learning, developmental, and intellectual disabilities. A part of STAR, Inc., Lighting the Way since birth, Molly said in a press release: “I am on the road to an amazing future and I look forward to living in an apartment in Cambridge with a good friend of mine from school. I have so much to look forward to in my life and I could not have gotten here without help from my amazing family. Thank you so much to everyone who has been with me on the road to making my future beautiful especially the hard work and dedication of staff at STAR, my friends and teachers at West, Saxe and New Canaan high school, Girl Scouts, New Canaan YMCA, and too many more to mention. I couldn’t be more grateful.” (Here’s a podcast from 2020 with Molly.)
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The town’s first major league baseball player, 2007 New Canaan High School graduate Curt Casali, was traded this week from the San Francisco Giants to the Seattle Mariners.
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Ceci Maher, the unanimously endorsed Democratic candidate for the 26th state Senate District, is a former executive director of Sandy Hook Promise.
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The owners of an Oak Street home on Monday filed eviction papers in state Superior Court, a tenant there failed to pay $3,300 in monthly rent starting May 1 under a one-year lease that started in March.
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Element Medical Aesthetics on Main Street offers wrinkle reducers and fillers, among other services. More info here.
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Albert Kokoth, the New Canaan man charged one year ago with his wife’s murder on Down River Road, is scheduled to appear Aug. 16 in state Superior Court, records show. He pleaded not guilty to murder, as well as second-degree assault and illegal discharge of a firearm.
Cameron Besaw
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Congratulations to New Canaan golfer Cameron Besaw on becoming the 20th Carter Cup champion at Baltusrol. He played 36-holes on Tuesday, scoring even par in the first round and 8 under par in the second round. Cameron won the tournament by a record 10 strokes, had 9 birdies in the second round, and 13 birdies for the day. His score of 64 for the 2nd round was the lowest in tournament history by two strokes.
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The town paid a consultant on New Canaan’s application for a moratorium from the state’s affordable housing law $8,520, according to a June 14 invoice received by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request.
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The NCHS Class of ’77 has a website up for its 45th reunion, to be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Shore & Country Club in Norwalk. The Class of ’77 now has its own endowed scholarship under the NCHS Scholarship Foundation. More details on the reunion here. Here’s the class’s Facebook group. Email info@nchsclassof77.com to get on a reminder list.
The legacy New Canaan Library.
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New Canaan Library (9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday) and Lapham Community Center (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday) are both open to residents as cooling centers this week as temperatures reach the mid-90s.
Not a good day for the poor racoon. The irony is rich. First he gets stuck in a
“Havaheart”trap, only to be let out and then shot in the head… I’m sure in a ‘
“humane manner”
A few years ago the relative of a famous WWII general was arrested to shooting a rabid raccoon in his back woods; a cautionary tale for those who take the law into their own hands.