Adam Jacobson

‘A Fantastic Day’: New Canaan Dog Days Draws Hundreds to the Nature Center

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Ryan Rossetter’s dog, a “double merle” border collie mix named Zero, was born blind and deaf. Sitting in the shade of a tent at the New Canaan Nature Center on Sunday afternoon, Rossetter said that he rescued Zero about three-and-a-half years ago from New York. 

“We’re taking a breather because he’s been so excited running around everywhere,” Rossetter said during the annual ‘New Canaan Dog Days’ event, organized by Pet Pantry and benefiting both the Nature Center and Adopt-A-Dog rescue in Armonk, N.Y.

It was the first time at Dog Days for both Rossetter and Zero. “This is awesome,” he said. “This is really cool. We haven’t been to an event like this when there are so many dogs and vendors all together.

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Logan Road Colonial Sells for $2,435,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

May 23

106 Logan Road

$2,435,000
William Timlen to Jacyln Berkley

May 22

51 Hawthorne Road

$2.3 million
51 Hawthorne LLC to JJC Holdings LLC

55 Jelliff Mill Road

$2.1 million
Margareta Slayton to Michael Ricciardellij

58 Greenley Road

$6,750,000
The Janet Mitchell Qualified Personal Residence Trust to David J. Rucci, trustee

May 21

84 Hoyt St. 

$715,000
Estate of Sydney Snell to Melissa Tropeano

May 20

311 South Bald Hill Road

$1,805,000
George Valchar Revocable Trust to 311 South Bald Hill LLC

14 Crystal St. $3.6 million
Brian Coughlin to Tracey Atlas 

44 Twin Pond Lane

$2,825,000
Robert S. Gelnaw to Frances Schultz

May 19

234 Park St.

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Monsignor William J. Scheyd, 85

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Monsignor William J. Scheyd, 85, died peacefully on May 28, surrounded by his family and friends at Catherine Dennis Keefe Queen of the Clergy Residence where he resided for the past nine years. A priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport for 60 years, Monsignor Scheyd was born and raised in Bridgeport and attended St. Ann’s Elementary School and Fairfield Prep. He completed his seminary studies at St. John Seminary in Boston, and later earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Boston Theological Institute. Monsignor Scheyd served in parishes throughout Fairfield County, including St.

New Canaan There & Then

There & Then: ‘Zion on Clapboard Hill’—The New Canaan Shakers, 1810-1812

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‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli, Dawn Sterner and Pam Stutz. Two-hundred-and-fifteen years ago, a pioneering Shaker community was erected on present-day Clapboard Hill. Two years later, it was gone. What happened? New Canaan was once home to the experimental Fairfield County colony of the communal-living, celibacy-practicing Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing), whose namesake derives from their ecstatic forms of worship.

Elliot Siderides

Property Developer Details Proposal for New Hotel on Locust Avenue

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Town officials on Tuesday night heard the pre-application presentation for a proposed new hotel on Locust Avenue, asking questions ranging from room pricing to the potential impact on traffic flow. Founder and president of New Canaan-based Windward Development, Inc. Elliot Siderides presented the plans for the hotel on behalf of Two Corners LLC., which Siderides called the “contract purchaser” of 49-51 and 39 Locust. Siderides presented to members of the Planning & Zoning Commission during their regular meeting alongside his two sons, John Siderides, Windward’s in-house architect, and Andrew Siderides, Windward’s head of development and construction management. Commissioner John Kriz voiced concerns about the potential impact of the hotel on the streetscape. He listed “issues with loom” and problems if a “building dominates the skyline.” Kriz requested “visuals of the as-built structure from various prominent places in town.”

Elliot Siderides responded to a Kriz question about parking by citing the 115 available spaces throughout the complex. 

“The requirement for a hotel is one [parking space] per room, so 40 of the spaces have to be for the hotel,” he said.