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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in iTunes), talk to Jack Winalski, a New Canaan resident and St. Luke’s School sophomore who has taken on a unique Eagle Scout project, installing beehives on New Canaan Land Trust preserves throughout town.
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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday signaled its support for a local nonprofit organization’s purchase of an antique house on Valley Road. Though the selectmen will wait for Conservation Commission approval before formally voting on the New Canaan Land Trust’s purchase of the ca. 1750-built home at 1124 Valley Road, the elected body voted 3-0 during its regular meeting to state its intent to support the purchase with a $150,000 town contribution. The money is expected come from the Land Acquisition Fund, established in 2017, and will require further approval from the Board of Finance and Town Council, officials said. The Land Trust plans to sign a purchase-and-sale agreement within about one week, and to complete the property transfer in September, according to the president of organization’s Board of Directors, Tom Cronin.
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There are few experiences that are more boring than someone yammering on about how successful their Dry January has been, so let me be the first to assure you that this column was written with a glass of my favorite Spanish white wine by my side. Txakoli is crisp, lightly effervescent, and dry. If dry wine isn’t the point of dry January, let’s at least call it thematically compliant and move along.
In the 1950s, France’s government launched a public service campaign to temper the wine-drinking habits of her citizens–albeit lightly. The recommended amount was one liter per day. And while that seems hilariously high (and hilariously French), it’s also worth noting that wine in the 1950s was weaker than it is now.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to John Winter, executive director of the New Canaan Land Trust. Here are recent episodes:
The New Canaan Land Trust invites its members and the community to its annual membership meeting on Tuesday, November 15th at 6:30 pm. The Land Trust’s annual meeting offers residents the opportunity to learn more about the 55-year organization and meet like-minded members of the community. Comprised of almost 400 acres, the conservation organization plays an important role in New Canaan in fulfilling its three-part mission of protecting open space, caring for and restoring habitat on its properties, and engaging the community. The meeting will feature guest-speaker Sarah Finnie Robinson, a New Canaan resident and the founding director of The 51 Percent Project, a climate communication initiative based at Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability. Robinson holds faculty appointments at Boston University’s College of Communication and at the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health.