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NewCanaanite.com is hosting its community coffee 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18 in the Lamb Room at New Canaan Library. Held the first and third Thursday mornings of each month, the coffee is presented in partnership with the library. It’s free and open to the public. We serve locally brewed Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee (thanks, Doug).
Following well-attended gatherings in June and October—and with your feedback in mind—NewCanaanite.com in partnership with New Canaan Library, is setting a regular monthly schedule in 2016 for community-wide coffees open to anyone who would like to hear or be heard: Please join founding editors Michael and Terry Dinan on the first Thursday morning of each month for a “Community Coffee.”
All coffees will be held 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Lamb Room at the library, and the 2016 schedule is:
Feb. 4
March 3
April 7
May 5
June 9 (this one is the second Thursday of the month)
July 7
Aug. 4
Sept. 1
Oct. 6
Nov.
It’s Election Day, and the League of Women Voters of New Canaan created this one-page Web guide for local constituents, including a Voters’ Guide to the Candidates, New Canaan 2015 Sample Ballot, Voting District Map and Absentee Ballot Information. ***
We’re hearing the Gridiron Club made another outstanding choice for this year’s “Fall Guy.” It’s New Canaan’s own Keith Simpson, noted local landscape architect and civic-minded volunteer, who currently serves with the New Canaan Beautification League, Waveny Park Conservancy, Pop Up Park Committee and Plan of Conservation & Development Implementation Committee, among other groups. ***
Police received a report last week of a distressed animal at Whiffle Tree Lane. At about 10:13 a.m. on Oct. 27, the police department’s Animal Control section arrived at the residence to find a small animal caught in an elbow of a gutter.