New Canaan Police are investigating a residential burglary on Douglas Road, reported at 1:26 p.m. Monday. A rear door of the house was forced open, police said.
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Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams (once again) on Tuesday had to force the “Selectmen’s Comments” item onto the Board of Selectmen agenda. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan has tried intermittently during the past year to leave the open-ended discussion item off of the Board’s regular meeting agenda. The following exchange took place near the start of the Feb. 7 selectmen meeting:
Corbet: Kevin, can we also add ‘Selectmen’s Comments’ to the agenda?
Moynihan: You can always talk, Kathleen.
Corbet: Sorry?
Moynihan: You can always talk.
Corbet: I’d like to amend the agenda to add ‘Selectmen’s Comments’ at the end.
Williams: I second the motion.
Moynihan did not call his fellow selectmen’s motion to a vote, but rapidly moved to the next agenda item.
Here’s the rather awkward exchange:
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The Parks & Recreation Commission on Wednesday night unanimously re-elected George Benington as chair and Francesca Segalas as secretary. Commissioners voting included Steve Haberstroh as well as Hank Green, Doug Murphy, Keith Richey, Timothy Klimpl, Gene Goodman and Jake Granito.
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Police at 4:04 p.m. on Feb. 4 arrested a 50-year-old Stamford man on four motor vehicle-related charges after stopping him on Main Street for driving with tinted windows without the required sticker. According to Connecticut Judicial Branch records, the man had pleaded guilty in 2013 to two counts of public indecency following an arrest by Stamford Police.
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NewCanaanite.com asked Metro-North Railroad about rumors spreading here that the MTA would shut down the New Canaan branch line out of Stamford in the spring, and received this reply: “We do no have information regarding that at this time, you can check Planned Service Changes page on our website. Starting Feb. 13 there will be changes to service at Stamford for work being done by CT DOT.”
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Congratulations to New Canaan’s Antonia Kolb, an eleventh-grader at King School, on winning U.S. Rep. Jim Himes’s (D-4) “2022 Congressional App Challenge.” Kolb developed “Detick It” as “a way to assess the risk posed by ticks and to raise awareness of tick-borne diseases,” she said in a press release. Read more here.
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Speaking of tick-borne illnesses, the Stamford Therapeutic Consortium is running a Lyme Disease vaccine study for kids and teens. Those interested in learning more and applying to participate in the study can find more information here.
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Parks & Recreation Director John Howe said during the Commission’s meeting Wednesday that the Summer Theatre of New Canaan planned to hold its 2023 season at New Canaan High School rather than in Waveny Park.
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During the Board of Selectmen’s added “Selectmen’s Comments” agenda item on Tuesday, Williams congratulated the town’s risk management team on receiving an award recently, and also thanked Town Councilman Tom Butterworth and fellow members of New Canaan’s legislative body for their work toward updating an ordinance regarding the to-be-reactivated Utilities Commission.
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New Canaan Chamber Music is holding a concert 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 in the Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium at the new New Canaan Library. Tickets here.
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The owner of a two-family home on East Avenue on Wednesday filed papers in state Superior Court to evict tenants from the $2,300-per-month residence, saying the lease expired last month.
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Police recently received several complaints of motorists passing stopped school buses, as follows:
- Feb. 7—Silvermine and Fable Farm Roads at 9:39 a.m., Silvermine and Rilling RIdge Roads at 9:46 a.m.
- Feb. 6—399 Old Stamford Road at 9:24 a.m.
- Feb. 2—289 New Norwalk Road at 9:13 a.m., 243 Smith Ridge Road at 9:15 a.m., 94 New Norwalk Road at 9:17 a.m.
- Feb. 1—Old Stamford and Summit Ridge Roads at 9:52 a.m., Ponus Ridge and Hawks Hill Road at 10:44 a.m.
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The New Canaan Building Department on Feb. 1 received an application from New Canaan Library for the “Relocation of 1,107 sf [square foot] existing 1913 portion of library building, with 2 rooms and 2 bathrooms.” The contractor on the job is Turner Construction, the architect Centerbrook Architects and Planners, the application said. It will cost an estimated $1,480,000, the application said.
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Shipman & Goodwin LLP announced Wednesday that New Canaan resident Timothy S. Klimpl has joined the firm as counsel in the Tax and Employee Benefits Practice Group. Klimpl, who sits on Parks & Rec in town, is a member of the Fairfield County Bar Association, where he chairs the Employment Law Committee and co-chairs the Business Law Committee. He is licensed to practice in Connecticut and New York.
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The Town Players of New Canaan presents “Ordinary People,” showing Feb. 17 to March 5 at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny. Ticket info here.
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Finally here are more events worth checking out (add your event to the Community Calendar here and we’ll share it with fellow residents):
- Men’s Club To Hear History of Plot To Kill Hitler (February 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am)
- Family Drop-In At Carriage Barn Arts Center (February 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm)
- Pathway Session on Collegiate Recovery Programs (February 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm)
- Extra-Ordinary People Dinner & Show (February 25 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm)
- New Canaan Beautification League March Zoom Event (March 1 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 pm)
- SoulFete: From Africa to America, A Culinary Tasting Immersion (March 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
I’ve got a great idea, why don’t you send the bill for moving the old library ( 1.480 million dollars ) to Mimi Findley and her band of treehuggers. Oh, that’s right, they only waste others people money. It’s still not to late, to knock that old library down.
I agree 100% with Mr. O’Keeffe. We don’t need a building that might have been glorious at one time, but is now old, tired and has outlived its usefulness. It is time to move on – that’s called progress.
P.S. I’m a senior citizen