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Recreation Department’s Inaugural ‘Labor Day Weekend Bash’ Planned for Sept. 4

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Town recreation officials are planning a new community event to be held just after school starts up again later this year. Tentatively titled the ‘Labor Day Weekend Bash,’ it will be a ticketed event held Sept. 4 at Waveny, similar to the town’s Family Fall Festival according to Assistant Recreation Director Zack Philippas. “People will be charged, we’ll get them wristbands so we know they’re able to attend the event, and that’s how we’ll be able to track registrations and cover the expenses,” Philippas told members of the Board of Selectmen at their March 17 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of allowing food trucks at the Bash (Philippas estimated three to five total).

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Selectman Corbet Calls for Town’s ‘Traffic Calming’ Group To Reconvene Public Meetings

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Citing an ongoing need for traffic improvements at Route 106 and Carter Street, Selectman Kathleen Corbet this month called for a group of public works, safety and parking officials to reconvene their regular meetings. 

The ‘Traffic Calming Work Group,’ whose members in the past have included the public works director, police deputy chief, fire chief and representatives from emergency response and parking, and “been in place for a number of years” before discontinuing its public meetings in the summer of 2020, Corbet said during the Board of Selectmen’s most recent regular meeting. “I think over COVID that sort of work has still been going on, but sort of the formal meetings that we’ve had on a monthly or every-other-month meeting, I’d like to recommend that we reinstitute so that there is more public participation,” Corbet said during the Oct. 5 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. She referred to a work group that last met July 13. During that meeting, as it intermittently for a number of years, the group discussed problems at the intersection where Canoe Hill Road and Carter Street come into Silvermine Road, which doubles at that stretch as state Route 106. 

New Canaan has petitioned the state in the past for a stop light or four-way intersection there three or four times, and those requests have been denied, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. 

Corbet flagged the problem at a selectmen meeting last month, and since then the intersection has seen two more crashes, she said.