Police at about 3:07 p.m. Monday responded to a report of a suspicious person watching kids at New Canaan High School. The New Canaan Police Department’s school resource officer at NCHS advised the individual to leave school property, officials said.
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New Canaan Library is offering a limited number of Hard Hat Tours of the new building (to those 18-and-older). Book here.
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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved the hiring of two groundsmen for the town, Jeffrey Molgano and Justin McNamara, as well as Gene Gagnon as a registered sanitarian in the New Canaan Health Department. Gagnon succeeds Chris Wegrzyn in the position. He took a job in Redding, officials said.
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Get your tickets now: New Canaan Chamber Music’s concert—featuring pianists Andrew Armstrong and Orion Weiss—will be held Oct. 21 at First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan. Details here.
L-R: Rohan Shenoy, Ben Kim, Mason Park, Brandon Ma, Thomas Pisant, Ryan Boulanger at Mill Pond.
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Planet New Canaan led volunteers from New Canaan High School’s Service League of Boys last weekend in a fall clean-up of Mill Pond. A group of nine SLOBs members, along with six of their parents, SLOBS Parent Liaison Julie Kim and Planet New Canaan’s Heather Boulanger, worked in two shifts to gather trash from the town’s pond. To their surprise, the four-hour project filled six large yard bags with trash and yielded a bonus of a purple shopping cart.
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The New Canaan Building Department on Tuesday received an application to demolish the house at 683 Ponus Ridge, a 1960-built, 4,100-square-foot Colonial on the 1.54-acre lot.
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Walter Stewart’s Market is celebrating 115 years in New Canaan. The store’s two-week anniversary sale features “a special T-Bill Donation Days drive to benefit your favorite local charities, double T-Bill Rewards, Double Senior Discount Wednesdays, and very special T-Bill offers.” More details here.
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Members of the New Canaan Police Department said at the Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday that NCPD will have a contingent of officers at Rentschler Field in East Hartford on Friday at the combined funeral services for the two Bristol Police Department members—Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy—shot and killed Oct. 13 while responding to a call of possible domestic violence.
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By popular demand, the Town Players of New Canaan has added a third performance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Thursday, Oct. 27 (the Oct. 28 and 29 shows sold out). The troupe is also putting on Handel’s “Messiah” Nov. 18 to Dec. 4. All shows are at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny.
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A lawyer representing the owner of a 1911-built White Oak Shade Road home on Oct. 13 filed papers in state Superior Court to evict four tenants from the residence, saying $7,000 in monthly rent hasn’t been paid since June.
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New Canaan Mounted Troop‘s “Hocus Pocus” will be held 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29. It includes a Halloween Horse Parade, carnival, food, drinks and silent auction. Details here.
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Police at about 1:51 a.m. on Oct. 14 received a report of three men cutting a catalytic converter out of a parked vehicle on Park Street. Officers checking the area were unable to locate the suspects, and the converter was stolen.
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“Art, Design & The Automobile,” a new exhibit in partnership with Caffeine & Carburetors, is opening this Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Carriage Barn. Check it out during Opening Day Festivities from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to take part in activities for art and car enthusiasts of all ages. Also note that Caffeine & Carburetors will be held Sunday, Oct. 23 in Waveny. All event vehicles must be registered—do so here. (Also note that a free, special exhibit event and conversation with Jay Fielden, Hilary Lewis and Scott Gilbert—“On Collecting: Art & Autos”— will be held 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. next Wednesday, Oct. 26 at the Carriage Barn. It will include a bespoke bourbon tasting by Larry Klem of Stewart’s Wine & Spirits, followed by a panel discussion on building and curating collections of some of today’s most valuable and unique items — including fine art, classic and exotic cars, and other rare and vintage objects.
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First Selectman Kevin Moynihan during Tuesday’s Board meeting again bemoaned local news coverage.
More than 600 flags were planted near the top of God’s Acre for Veterans Day, representing more than 2,200 New Canaan veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. At right stands the New Canaan Police Department Color Guard, Officer Chris Dewey and Sgt. Aaron LaTourette. Nov. 11, 2021. Credit: Michael Dinan
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VFW Post 653 will hold its annual Veterans Day ceremony on God’s Acre on the morning of Friday, Nov. 11. Attendees gather at about 10:30 a.m. (ICYMI: Congregational Church, Town Find Contractor To Repair ‘Wayside Cross’ at God’s Acre).
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Tickets to the popular Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party with New England Dance Theater—a nonprofit arm of the New England Academy of Dance on Main Street—will go on sale at 12 p.m. Monday.
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Here are some more worthwhile local events (upload your event to the Community Calendar here and we’ll share it):
- Environmental Sustainability Topic of Men’s Club (October 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am)
- Sculpture Trail Artist Talk & Walk (October 21 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm)
- East School Fall Fair Spooktacular (October 22 @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm)
- Design and Paint Your Pumpkin at the Carriage Barn (October 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
- Halloween Cup Cake Decorating Fun at the Carriage Barn (October 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm)
- New Canaan High School ‘Take Her She’s Mine’ (October 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
- Arthur Sjögren Memorial Concert (October 29 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm)
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Finally, this in from the League of Women Voters of New Canaan:
“The League of Women Voters of New Canaan now has an online Voters Guide, courtesy of vote411. Coming soon – additional online, nonpartisan voter information which will be fully online in the coming days in our ‘hub.’ The LWVNC has utilized the vote411 platform by participating in its online Voters Guide and by sharing available graphics, resources, and social media posts in the creation of our materials. Voter information will also be available via our partnership with NCTV Channel 79 as they promote and stream our districts’ debates. NOTE: This year has a few differences from years’ past requiring detailed education: the referendum ballot question on Early Voting; the addition of House District 42 and redrawing of Senate Districts 26 and 36 and House Districts 125 and 142; and the changes in existing polling locations as well as addition of a new polling location at East School. Voters can learn all about these changes as well as what’s on their ballot and what the candidates have to tell us in our Voters Guide, on our socials, and on our website, LWVNewCanaan.org. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as well. As always, our Candidates Debate will be streamed on NCTV Channel 79, NCTV Channel 79’s YouTube, and our Facebook page — tune in live on Thursday, October 20th at 6:30 pm, or catch the recordings in those same spots as well as on our website directly following the debate. We are accepting questions for the candidates on our website via this form.”