Government

Post Office Selects Locust Avenue for Permanent New Canaan Location

By |

A future New Canaan Post Office will be located on Locust Avenue, occupying contiguous .18- and .21-acre properties just below the municipal parking lot. Town officials said the United States Postal Service informed them Monday that it had selected 18-26 Locust Ave. over the other candidate (on Park Street, next to Mrs. Green’s). First Selectman Rob Mallozzi said in a press release that he looks forward “to the public dialogue and review of the plans for the new facility at that location.” “Like so many of you, I am most anxious to have a permanent home for our Post Office,” Mallozzi said. It isn’t clear just when the Post Office expects to make the move, how much capital work is required to prepare the site or just when or how, long-term, the plans will affect the commercial property at 26 Locust Ave.

News

Truck Fire on East Avenue: Too Much Damage to Determine Cause

By |

It isn’t clear what caused the fire in the “box” of a Salvation Army truck as it idled at a light on East Avenue just below Forest Street around noon Thursday. According to Fire Marshal Fred Baker, the drivers had picked up a load of household goods—clothing and furniture—in Weston earlier in the day, and had no idea how the fire started. “It appears to have started in the front of the ‘box,’ but there was too much destruction to determine a specific cause,” Baker said. No one was hurt in the blaze, officials say. New Canaan’s John Walsh said he was walking along East Avenue at 12 p.m. when the truck pulled up next to him and he glimpsed a flash of orange on top of it.

Around Town

In Demand: Three Sessions of Rec Department’s ‘Breakfast with Santa’ at Waveny Sell Out in One Hour

By |

When the Recreation Department launched its “Breakfast with Santa” event in 2007, about 50 participating kids—for the price of a new, unwrapped toy for the Toys for Tots program (more on that below)—in a single session, had breakfast with Mr. Claus himself and scored a photo with the big man. The event, a partnership for years with the Young Women’s League of New Canaan and now run by Rec with the support of generous sponsors, has grown so popular that this time around, three full sessions with 60 kids in each “sold out” (in truth, the event is free but requires advanced registration) in about one hour, Recreation Director Steve Benko said. “The kids, they just love it, and it’s great to have our sponsors on board,” Benko said of the event, which will run Saturday at Waveny House. This year’s sponsors are Lorenzo Colella of Joe’s Pizza and Mike Shullman of Russell Speeders (and Choose To Be Happy), Benko said. Among other perks for local Santa-seeking children, their contribution funds the purchase of goodie bags for the kids, including croissants, munchkins, cinnamon rolls and water.