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Canoe Hill Road Home Sells for $3.1 Million 

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

Dec. 3

38 Canoe Hill Road

$3,110,000
Carl Gardiner to Conor Manley

42 Forest St., Unit A (retail)

$721,000
42 Forest Street LLC to Shivji LLC

180 Park St., Unit 205

$1,725,000
M2 Partners LLC to Patricia Dunning

145 Thurton Drive

$1,450,000
Estate of Joseph R. Palmer Jr. to Brian McGuire

Dec.

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Police: Boy, 12, Suffers Minor Injuries After Being Struck by Vehicle at South and Farm

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A 12-year-old boy suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning after he was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of South Avenue and Farm Road, police say. At about 8:17 a.m., officers were dispatched to the busy intersection on a report of the collision, according to a press release issued by New Canaan Police Lt. Jason Ferraro, the department’s public information officer. Early findings show that the vehicle had a green signal and was turning left from Farm Road into the northbound lane of South Avenue at the time of the collision, the press release said. An investigation is ongoing. “The pedestrian had exited a vehicle that was stopped in traffic on South Avenue and entered the roadway to cross the street to get onto the sidewalk,” it said.

Government

Ca.-1900 Greenhouse at New Canaan Nature Center Demolished

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More than one year after demolition plans entered the public realm, a dilapidated ca.-1900 greenhouse at the New Canaan Nature Center has been razed, town officials said Monday. The contaminant-laden town-owned structure “is down,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann said during a regular meeting of the Selectmen’s Advisory Committee on Buildings and Infrastructure. “We had some residents coming and asking for materials even after we told them that they couldn’t,” Mann said during the meeting, held via videoconference. “We had exhausted all possibilities as to re-using any of the materials themselves. But it’s down.

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Dunning Road Colonial Sells for $2,550,000

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

Jan. 8

124 Dunning Road

$2,550,000
Anthony Cieszko to Michael Canoro

81 Hemlock Hill Road

$4,050,000
Matthew LeBaron to Katherine McGee

Jan.

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New Canaan Land Trust Challenges Plan To Alter Grupes Dam, Bank

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Saying the changes will harm the environment, officials with a prominent New Canaan nonprofit organization are voicing concerns about a proposal to raise the height of a dam in the Silvermine River and construct berms and walls along its bank. The First Taxing District of Norwalk’s plans for the Grupes Reservoir Dam off of upper Valley Road will result in the permanent clearing of more than 400 native trees and shrubs that comprise important riverbank habitat, according to the New Canaan Land Trust. 

The proposed barrier of berms and walls also will disconnect wetlands and streams from the reservoir at the Land Trust’s abutting 10.3-acre Browne Sanctuary, Land Trust Executive Director Aaron Lefland said. The Land Trust is joining the Norwalk River Watershed Association in petitioning the application and urging the public to participate in a Sept. 29 hearing. “We feel pretty strongly that the application the Norwalk Taxing District submitted to DEEP [state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection] is incomplete and does not address any impacts of the project,” Lefland told NewCanaanite.com. 

“Of the 600-page application, two [pages] talk about impacts on vegetation and all they talk about is vegetation downstream of the dam, whereas all we are concerned about is upstream,” he said.