The New Canaan Police officers that responded to a crash on Route 106 last week saved a life, Chief John DiFederico said during Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting. “The officers that arrived on scene and applied the tourniquet, no question, saved that young man’s life,” DiFederico said. The newly promoted chief was responding to praise from Selectman Nick Williams. “Just want to thank you guys for saving a man’s life,” Williams said.
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Tigger and Piccola Murphy of New Canaan. Photo courtesy of Marian Murphy
Tigger and Piccola Murphy, kittens born to a stray cat and adopted last year by a New Canaan woman, are moving with her to Switzerland. Marian Murphy is preparing to move back to her hometown in Switzerland, near her large family, after living in New Canaan for 42 years. “The photo shows that the kittens are getting ready for the move and are guarding the many boxes, ready to jump on a plane soon,” Murphy said in an email. “As they were raised as indoor kittens, I know they will adapt easily to the apartment from having lived in a house surrounded by my wildlife habitat and watching the many birds on the feeder and spotting wildlife in the garden.”
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The selectmen on Tuesday approved the hiring of Stefano DiFederico as a full-time groundsman II with the Parks Department. The town received 63 applications for the posted position and interviewed 13 candidates prior to hiring DiFederico.
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Check it out: At 7 p.m. Saturday at Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny, New Canaan’s Bobby Troup, son of Addie and “Papa Blue” Bob Troup, is reading from his memoir about life in New Canaan in the 1960s and ‘70s. It’s part of the Town Players of New Canaan’s “Plays in Progress” series (suggested donation of $10).
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New Canaan’s first Major League Baseball player, Curt Casali, was recognized in a Tweet last week as Baseball Amore’s Italian-American player of the day.
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The New Canaan Preservation Alliance is appealing the Planning & Zoning Commission’s Dec. 13 approval of a modified Special Permit application for New Canaan Library, according to a complaint filed in state Superior Court and received Wednesday by the Town Clerk’s office. The application “sought to modify the library’s Special Permit approval to allow issuance of a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy without an as-built site plan, without compliance with the town’s drainage policy, and without a certified landscape plan or landscape maintenance plan,” said the complaint, filed by attorneys Patricia Sullivan and Wilson Carroll of Bridgeport-based Cohen and Wolf P.C. The owner of the Mobil station downtown is also listed as a plaintiff in the NCPA’s legal filing, and the library is listed as a defendant, along with P&Z.
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Recycle your Christmas tree by dropping it off from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Jan. 8 at the Steve Benko Pool parking lot, an effort led by Planet New Canaan.
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The selectmen on Tuesday approved requests for property tax abatement under a program that serves New Canaan’s emergency responders. “This is a good program,” Selectman Nick Williams said. “It’s the least we can do as a town.”
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Pre-registration for kindergarten in the New Canaan Public Schools is now open. Info here.
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Police at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 26 arrested a 19-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with second-degree failure to appear. He had been arrested by New Canaan Police in February on motor vehicle-related charges, Connecticut Judicial Branch records show.
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The New Canaan Garden Club’s members recently donated more than $2,400 to the town, which was earmarked for the Food Pantry and the Warm Up Fund.
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Finally, congratulations to New Canaan orthodontist Dr. Austin Feeney on his Dec. 22 retirement from Orthodontic Associates of New Canaan. We hear that Dr. Feeney was in practice here for 30 years.
My son and daughter both volunteered at the Vista FD because of proximity. Later on we realized that there were actual monetary benefits to volunteering, including scholarships. Also, there were no out of pocket expenses besides reimbursable driving and exam costs.