Business

Women’s Fashion Boutique ‘Scout & Molly’s’ on Elm Street To Close

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Scout & Molly’s, a women’s fashion boutique that two women who have since moved to New Canaan opened on Elm Street two summers ago, is to close, according to a worker at the store. Located at 108 Elm St. with a signature pink bicycle standing outside, the store served fashion-minded, active women seeking a wide variety of styles and price points. It isn’t clear just why or when Scout & Molly’s is closing, though it’s listed on the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce website among the scores of participating stores for this year’s Sidewalk Sale, scheduled for July 15. Its owners, Olivia Huvane and Amy Gray, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Around Town

Did You Hear … ?

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Scroll through the gallery above to view five new signs and awnings that soon will appear in downtown New Canaan, following approval Tuesday night by the Planning & Zoning Commission. ***

“I’m for toilet equality.”—That’s what Town Hall Building Committee member Kathleen Corbet had to say about a matter that came to the forefront in the weeks after Town Hall reopened following an $18 million renovation and expansion. The architects on the project created two water closets but no urinals in the men’s rooms, citing space and compliance issues. For the record, fellow committee member Neil Budnick said: “I don’t see what the big deal is.”

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A mixed-breed dog struck by a car near the intersection of Oenoke Ridge and Country Club Roads last Wednesday around 2:15 p.m. appears to be faring OK after the animal was brought to Cornell Veterinary Hospital in Stamford. ***

This week, 31 New Canaan kids attended a basketball camp in Stroudsburg, Pa.

Business

Fast Friends To Open Women’s Fashion Boutique Scout & Molly’s on Elm Street

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Olivia Huvane and Amy Gray hit it off as soon as they met six years ago, as young professional women starting their families while commuting to Manhattan from Bronxville, N.Y.

The fast friends supported each other through childcare and career—Huvane raising two young boys while working in fashion, Gray with two girls, a hedge fund’s accountant manager. In December, months after Huvane lost her husband to cancer (“It was a turning point, a shift in priorities,” she said), the women began exploring the possibility of launching a business together, something neither had ever done. They researched online and discovered Scout & Molly’s, a unique woman’s fashion boutique franchising model that launched in 2002. “There is really no other boutique for women that is of this caliber, the quality and that we can select all of the clothes we carry,” Huvane said on a recent morning. “I worked in fashion for almost 15 years and I was really impressed and loved that we had a lot of creative control.