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Fork-Cleaning Sponge Invented by Former New Canaan Resident Debuts at Walter Stewart’s

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Germaphobes rejoice: Forks have finally met their match with a sponge that cleans between the tines. Former New Canaan resident Philip Bambino, 80, has turned his obsession with cleanliness into a patented product that is making its debut at Walter Stewart’s Market. The “Tine Out Scrubbing Pad” looks like a regular scrubbing pad but with a cutout in the center that has flexible comb-like teeth for catching food caught  between fork tines. Folks who typically resort to using a knife to clean between tines of a fork, soaking them, or hoping the dishwasher will do the dirty work can now slide forks through the unique cleaning mechanism to reach stuck-on food. On the Tine Out website, a video of the scrubbing pad in action shows it tackling a fork with crusted-on food—four-day-old egg, cheese, and oatmeal, according to Bambino.

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Town Upholds $30 Ticket Issued to Woman Claiming To Do Good Deed

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The Parking Commission at its most recent meeting upheld a $30 ticket issued to a woman who claimed that she was actually doing a good deed when she failed to pay for parking in downtown New Canaan. Anne Nesbitt told members of the appointed body during her Oct. 7 appeal hearing that didn’t understand the free three-hour “upper lot” behind Elm Street was the one at the highest grade, known locally as the “Park Street Lot.”

Instead, Nesbitt—a Weston resident—parked in the Playhouse Lot (facing a payment kiosk) thinking it was free. What’s more, according to Nesbitt, she only parked there because she could see someone with a cane—described at other points during her hearing as multiple people with canes—walking in the Park Street Lot, and believed that she would be doing a good deed by leaving those spaces to people with mobility challenges, because there was a stairway there down to Elm Street. (Note: There’s also a stairway and ADA-compliant ramp for disabled people next to the Playhouse Lot.)

“I saw people with a cane walking down those stairs and so I really just thought you know, I’m a senior but I have really good mobility and what the heck it’s a nice day, I’ll park in the one that’s farthest from the stops because then that will make it easier for somebody else,” Nesbitt said during the Commission’s meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.

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Weed Street Colonial Sells for $1.4 Million

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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. ***

Oct. 21

145 Weed St.

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Did You Hear … ?

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A woodpecker that flew into a plate glass window at a Laurel Road  home just north of Soundview Lane, reported to police at 1:12 p.m. on Oct. 23, was brought to donor-supported nonprofit Wildlife In Crisis with its injury. The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is expected to make a full recovery, according to New Canaan Police Animal Officer Sean Godejohn. ***

The Artisan Market Fine Art & Craft Fair will be held Nov. 7 and 8 at Silvermine Galleries. 

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As of Thursday afternoon, 15% of New Canaan electors had voted early, according to Democratic Registrar of Voters Liz Orteig.

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Norwalk Woman To Sue Town After Parking Lot Collision

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Municipal officials on Sept. 29 received notice of a Norwalk woman’s plans to sue the town following a car crash in Stamford. According to a notice of claim filed on behalf of Mariana Deenihan, at about 1:52 p.m. on Sept. 3 (a Thursday) a man driving a town-owned vehicle struck her car as she pulled into a space in the Ace Hardware on Hope Street in Stamford. The town-owned vehicle “suddenly and without warning pulled out of its parking space and drove into the space occupied by the claimant’s vehicle, striking the claimant’s vehicle and resulting in injuries and damages to the claimant,” according to the notice, filed with the Town Clerk’s office by Guilford-based lawyer Jason G. DeGenaro.