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Town: Fourth Of July Fireworks Attendance Drops Sharply Amid Heat, Storm Forecast

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The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by the New Canaan Racquet Club. Attendance at New Canaan’s annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Waveny Park fell dramatically from last year, with town officials estimating only 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the event, according to Parks & Recreation Commission member David Shea. Speaking during the commission’s July 8 meeting at Lapham Center, Shea said unofficial attendance figures were far below the nearly 8,000 people who attended the 2025 celebration. “The unofficial attendance was really down from 2025,” Shea said. “The estimates that we have from parking cars, somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000, which is really well off the almost 8,000 of 2025.”

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letters. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com. (We will publish referendum-related letters through July 22.)

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A good law is one that folks can follow. Recently, the Town Council passed, in a bi-partisan vote, an ordinance to ban gas-powered leaf blowers from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I know this because I was not only one of the yes votes on Town Council for the ban, but I also sit on the sub-committee that helped write the ordinance.

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George B. Harvey, 95

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George B. Harvey, a longtime resident of New Canaan, CT, passed away on July 2, 2026 at Stamford Hospital surrounded by his loving family. George was born in New Haven, CT on April 7, 1931 to the late Burton and Evelyn Harvey. George was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth “Beth”, who passed away on June 29, 2023. George spent his childhood in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of Bridgeport before obtaining a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, George moved to Stamford, CT, where he began his distinguished career at Pitney Bowes Inc. George joined St.

News

Warrant: Unlicensed Contractor Arrested After Botched $28,000 New Canaan Heating Job

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The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. New Canaan Police last week arrested a 27-year-old Waterbury man by warrant after he performed heating and cooling work without a license, following a monthslong investigation into a stalled home heating installation that a local woman said cost her tens of thousands of dollars. Police on July 6 charged the man with acting as and offering services to perform heating and cooling work unlicensed, according to the affidavit of Officer Austin Malizia that forms the basis of an arrest warrant application signed June 18 by a state Superior Court judge. The investigation began Dec. 11, 2025, when Malizia was dispatched to New Canaan Police headquarters on a report of fraud and met with the complainant, according to the warrant application.

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Op-Ed: Big Feelings in Little New Canaan

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Let me be perfectly transparent: I love a lawn. I love my lawn. During my Manhattan-commuting years, pulling into the driveway and seeing that velvety green expanse was a balm, an antidote to the day’s air-conditioned banality. Lawns signify more than just grass; they’re a Norman Rockwell-coded page in the visual language of the American Dream. Dads mowing in shirtsleeves, a dog named Fido, cartwheels, catch, daisychains, a Rocket Pop. 

In New Canaan, where a competitive, Town & Country version of that dream prevails at all times, lawns matter.