The owners of the Roger Sherman Inn said late Wednesday that the restaurant isn’t closed for good after all. After announcing last month that Jan. 2 would be the Oenoke Ridge Road restaurant’s final day, an email blast shared on social media and signed by Nes Jaffre said “we’re extending our stay.” It isn’t clear how long it will be open or what’s the reason for the extension—the property is to be redeveloped by a Norwalk man, pending approval from the town. The Roger Sherman will serve in its bar and on its heated porch, and the dining room is available by request, according to the bulletin.
Chevy Chase peers in at the squirrel in his Christmas tree in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
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New Canaan Police at 8:53 p.m. on Christmas Day were called to Ponus Ridge to remove a squirrel from inside a house.
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The insurance company Progressive has filed a $5,603.61 claim against the town after a municipal vehicle backed into a 2015 BMW X5 on Country Club Road. It happened at about 12:55 p.m. on Sept. 19, a Monday, according to a police report. The operator of the town vehicle said he was traveling eastbound when he came to a stop, check rearview mirrors and began backing up when he struck the insured’s SUV. The driver of the car that was struck said he came to a stop behind the town vehicle and started blowing his horn when it began backing up.
Scenes from Waveny House on April 3, 2016, for the launch of “Waveny: New Canaan’s Treasure,” a children’s book by Arianne Kolb with illustrations by Nicole Johnson Murphy. The event was attended by the actor Christopher Lloyd, who grew up at Waveny from a very young age until he was in his late-20s, when in 1967 his mother Ruth Lapham Lloyd gifted the buildings and grounds that now form Wavey Park to the town. Credit: Eden Lucien Photography (edenlucienphotography.com)
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This year, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of the transfer of the Waveny property from the Lapham family—specifically, from Ruth Lapham Lloyd, mother of the actor Christopher Lloyd (a former resident of Waveny House)—to the town of New Canaan.
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The hobbled coyote that’s dragging around a leg hold trap in northern New Canaan was sighted on Dec. 27 and again on Dec. 30, officials said, crossing Oenoke Ridge Road back toward Jonathan Road.
Paul Devlin. (Photo: Contributed)
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1982 New Canaan High School graduate Paul Devlin, a recent honoree of the New Canaan Old Timers Association for his outstanding accomplishments as an athlete, is running in the Boston Marathon to raise money for a nonprofit organization that supports the families of those who have lost their lives in service since Sept. 11, 2001. The organization is the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial Fund, which supports veterans.
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Police at 11:09 on Dec. 23 were called to East School on a report of a dog running off-leash there. They eventually caught up with the man running the dog and spoke to him, though no tickets were issued.
Photo of a truck traveling the wrong way on the Merritt Parkway during Tuesday’s evening rush. Contributed
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A reader forwarded us the photo, at right, of a truck traveling the wrong way on the Merritt Parkway in Norwalk during the evening rush on Tuesday, bringing traffic in both directions to a standstill.
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There’s a rather interesting history behind ‘Cheese Spring Road,’ site of a structure fire last week. According to our Street Name Database, no one knows for sure just how or where Cheese Spring connected with Valley Road, but in 1891, a newcomer who inherited one of the only houses on it, Susan Anderson, complained that the road was so poorly managed that she could not traverse it to shop in New Canaan (and so was forced toward Wilton). She complained to the Connecticut Superior Court of Pleas and won, prompting an appeal from the town. Seven years later, in 1898, the selectmen finally lost their case and were forced to repair the road. Anderson herself was murdered on Oct. 30 of that same year by her hired man, according to historians, found buried in her pigsty.
The New Canaan Police Department Animal Control van. Credit: Michael Dinan
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A German shepherd dog on Dec. 22 got out of his house on Main Street when an oil company worker left a gate open, then ran up the road toward a couple walking near Oak Street. Barking loudly and appearing vicious, according to a police report, the animal menaced the man and woman sufficiently that they jumped over a fence to avoid it. No tickets were issued.
Newly renovated and expanded parts of the New Canaan YMCA opened on Jan. 2. Contributed
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Finally, the New Canaan YMCA on Monday opened new wellness and fitness facilities, as well as new adult locker rooms, in the first part of its extensive renovation, still underway. The Y is adding 8,000 square feet of new fitness areas including a spinning studio, studio for group elliptical classes, expanded Zone training center and an expanded and renovated Mind Body Center.