Business

Coming Sunday Oct. 25: New Canaan Chamber of Commerce 34th Annual Halloween Parade

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The New Canaan Chamber of Commerce will put on its 34th annual Halloween Parade on Sunday, Oct. 25. The event kicks off at noon with families’ gathering in the Park Street parking lot to receive goodie bags (while supplies last!) with a 1 p.m. Parade kick off lead by Old Faithful, rain or shine. The “Party” at the Park Street lot will include fun for all. The School of Rock will serenade parade-goers with Halloween tunes such as the “Monster Mash,” “Werewolves of London” and “Ghostbusters” while Toddlertime Nursery School will host the Great Scirico, who will be creating balloon animals.

Around Town

Did You Hear … ?

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Scores of New Canaanites joined students of architecture and fans of the Midcentury Modern style at The Glass House on Saturday for the annual Summer Party, a fundraiser for the National Trust for Historic Preservation site. Sipping Taittinger champagne and bringing picnic baskets prepared by Campagna and The Bedford Post Inn, attendees roamed the 49-acre property on a bright, sunny day, entering buildings that include not just the famous Glass House but also Da Monsta and Philip Johnson’s painting gallery and library. Others lounged by a pond down the back of the property or by the pool near the main house. See photos above. ***

A woman who hurt herself after falling on the sidewalk in front of Dunkin Donuts on Elm Street in January has filed a letter of intent to sue New Canaan, according to a notice filed with the town. It happened at about 2:30 p.m. on Jan 12 at what the woman’s New Canaan-based lawyer is calling “a dangerous and unsafe pedestrian sidewalk which was improperly repaired, maintained, cleared of snow, sleet and/or ice and/or improperly treated with salt, sand or the like.” The woman hurt her “right fingers, right hand, right wrist, right arm, right elbow, right shoulder, neck back and buttocks,” according to the Notice of Intention to Commence Action Against Municipality.

Business

After 20 Years in New Canaan, Village Critter Outfitter To Close Thursday

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New Canaan’s independently owned pet store, for two decades a pillar of the business and animal rescue communities, will close for good this week, its owner said. Calling the coming “consolidation” a mutual decision between herself and Pet Pantry Warehouse, Village Critter Outfitter owner and New Canaan Dog Days founder Shirleen Dubuque said the Cherry Street store will close at 6 p.m. Thursday. “It is totally bittersweet,” Dubuque said as long-faced, longtime customers came into the shop downtown, many of them with their leashed dogs in tow. “The relationships that have grown through this business, you can’t buy. They have evolved, we have created really wonderful relationships here.”

Pet Pantry purchased Village Critter Outfitter and Dubuque said she will help with the transition and store fixture Abbey Schettino will make the move to the Grove Street business.