Ron Bentley and Chris Silvestri.
This week on NewCanaanite.com, we spotlighted public schools students past and present—including a pair of New Canaan High School varsity baseball coaches who had grown up here, playing the game together—while also giving nods to a rare example of widely appreciated new home construction and to a beloved community event that some feel marks the unofficial start of spring, the May Fair.
Town Talker
Another major local event is the annual Christmas Eve caroling at God’s Acre. This week, we saw the town—thanks to some forward-thinking and community-oriented holiday party planning—plant a new fir tree that one day will serve as the centerpiece for that caroling.
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This week’s most widely read article was a history of “The Rockery”—a largely vanished, 52-acre estate up on Brushy Ridge that was developed in the 19th Century by a Beirut-born physician who had come to settle in New Canaan—the traces of which can still be seen in the forms of a stone arch and Stonehenge-like structure familiar to many locals.
The lot behind the top of Elm Street, off of Park. Credit: Michael Dinan
Traffic
Just as parking officials in New Canaan put forward a largely new slate of fines for violators, concern arose surrounding space availability at the Locust Avenue lot as well as safety issues for pedestrians with double-parking delivery trucks at difficult intersections.
Public Safety
New Canaan’s fire marshal issued grilling safety tips to New Canaan residents while police charged one man with sexual assault after his neighbor accused him of groping her in her own car (which she drove, seemingly with him in it, to police headquarters on South Avenue). Police arrested another town man who tried to return and get reimbursed for an empty box of Nicorette Gum to Walgreens.
Laurel Kohl, Energy Education Specialist. Contributed photo
Coming Up
New Canaan Library at 12 p.m. Wednesday will host “Steps to Being Greener: From Baby Steps to Giant Leaps.” The event, to be held in the Adrian Lamb Room, will feature Energy Education Specialist Laurel Kohl of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University. She’s co-chair of the Connecticut Green LEAF Schools program.
The library also, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, will host Jim Rickards, author of “Currency Wars,” to talk about a new book—“Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System.” Rickards’ talk in the Adrian Lamb Room is part of the “Distinguished Authors Series on Economics” series from the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce, Alliance of Business Professionals and Elm Street Books. More information is available here.
The League of Women Voters at 1 p.m. on Friday are hosting a talk at Country Club of New Canaan that will feature U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-5). RSVP is required (Kate Hurlock, league president, 203-972-3558). Anyone interested in lunch beforehand ($40) at 12:15 p.m. can bet more details at the league’s website here.