COVID-19 New Canaan

Local Businesses and COVID-19: New Canaan Toy Store

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For today’s Q&A with a local business owner navigating the COVID-19 public health emergency and related restrictions, we hear from Nathan Shapiro of the New Canaan Toy Store. Here’s our exchange. New Canaanite: What are New Canaan Toy Store’s hours of operation and services you are offering at this point in terms of ordering/delivery? Nathan Shapiro: We are open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. We are offering curbside service and free same day home delivery. My sister Annie, our store manager, and I are staffing the store ourselves. We are helping customers over the phone during store hours, texting photos and even FaceTiming to get as close to an in-store experience as possible.

Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve Request To Spend $7,500 on Non-Refundable Deposit for Ice Rink Materials

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Though they haven’t yet recommended a specific trial site, those pursuing an open-air ice rink in New Canaan are readying to purchase used equipment for the facility that will save hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a request to put $7,500 in privately raised funds held in a town account toward a 60-by-120-foot ice rink and accessory equipment. The non-refundable deposit is for a rink that the Fairfield County Hunt Club is selling for $75,000, according to Gene Goodman, who has spent more than one year as a member of the Parks & Recreation Commission spearheading efforts to study what would be needed to create an outdoor rink facility and where it may go. “Having looked at every site in this town, every site has its plusses and minuses,” Goodman told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held in Town Hall. “No one is an absolute clear hands-down winner.

Heritage Hill Road

Turtle Back Road Colonial Sells for $1.8 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. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

July 1o

652 Ponus Ridge

$2,130,000
Deborah A Eagan, Trustee to Jink LLC

July 9

245 Turtle Back Road

$1,800,000
Mark Allsteadt and Elizabet Allsteadt to Romeo Alexander Sacripanti

46 Whiffle Tree Lane

$,1650,000
John J Greco Jr and Annamaria Greco to Lorraine McLaughlin

Garage Unit 75, Heritage Hill Road

$25,000
Paula L Halloran to Linda Carnevale

108 Weed Street

$755,000
108 Weed Street LLC to Martha Lee Civitillo

July 8

84 Heritage Hill Road

$375,000
Victoria L. Kroll and Lisa K. Farrell to John W McGorty

July 5th 

64 Lake Wind Road

$960,000
Robertson Holdings LLC to Derek Snell

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‘Father’s Day Special’ at NCHS Track Field

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I am learning to appreciate Father’s Day more each year, especially as I strive to become a better dad. 

I have to say, there are some great role models here in this amazing town. Men who support, love and encourage their kids. Guys who lead by example and help their children become, as we hear so often these days, “the best version of themselves.” 

But gosh, that’s a real challenge. 

I just read that the Pew Research Center now finds 57% of fathers in the United States find being a dad rewarding all of the time, right there with Moms at 58%. But here’s the rub, 63% of Dads still believe that they spend too little time with their kids, way more than the Moms at 35%. I am no PhD in child psychology and I haven’t written a best-seller (yet?), but I do know that cheering my kids on with some really cool dads on the weekends while watching the boys revel in playing team sports sure goes a long way in the ‘Be a Better Dad and Quality Time’ camp.

New Construction on West Hills Road Sells for $3.6 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. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

May 6

289 New Norwalk Road #9

$942,500
Frances Emery, trustee to Karen Wells

May 3

198 West Hills Road

$3,625,000
198 West Hills LLC to Kevin Dunn

March 2

12 Field Crest Road

$1,060,000
Craig Wunderlich to Michael Barron

83B Heritage Hill Road

$232,000
MTGLQ Investors LP to Meifang Li

148 Forest St. #B

$365,000
Audrey Paglialunga to Christopher Decicco