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New Canaan readers voted by a 7-to-2 margin in favor of a proposal that would see the Pop Up Park in the final block of South Avenue in place continuously from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

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Four longtime New Canaan friends and NCHS grads gathered to cheer on the Rams last Monday during the varsity boys basketball team’s Senior Night game vs. St. Joe’s. Pictured at left—standing in front local legend Wilky Gilmore’s jersey—are Tad Keating, Monroe Trout, Rob Lenihan and Matt Ready. Trout is believed to be New Canaan’s last 1,000-point scorer. He would go on to play at Harvard prior to making a big name for himself in finance.

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The evergreen tree that since the holidays has graced the wide area outside of Baskin Robbins may be coming down soon—to feed a goat. We’re hearing that a local woman put in a request to take the tree off for a goat that’s expected to eat it.

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A woman is poised to lead New Canaan Youth Football for the first time in the nonprofit organization’s history. Wendy Cunney recently was elected president of the Board of Directors, succeeding Mike Cognetta. Also coming onto the board are Suzanne Harrison, Michael Benevento, and Kevin Brown. Other board members include Dave Koch, Meghan Finnigan, Denis LaPolice, Lou Garcia, Dave Cannon, John Marinelli, Courtenay Brown and Matt Russo.

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New Canaan Olive Oil’s Heidi Burrows is donating 200 bottles of oil and vinegar for an April 16 fundraiser supporting New Covenant House in Stamford, a soup kitchen. “Someone brought it to my attention and being a Stamford resident in Fairfield County, I thought it would be beneficial.”

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We hear that last week, a few New Canaan Ski Club families escaped to Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado. The club, formed in 2013 and part of the CT Ski Council, includes 130 members and has trips scheduled to Okemo this coming weekend and Sugarbush at the end of the month (and non-members are invited to go on that trip at no fee). Not a bad deal, as the club has locked in lift ticket rates up to 55 percent off window prices.

Here’s a video from this latest trip:

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Elizabeth Weed of Ponus Ridge has withdrawn her civil lawsuit whose defendants had been the New Canaan Zoning Board of Appeals and her neighbors. Weed had objected to her neighbors’ plans to expand out the back on a well-preserved antique home, and sought to undo a variance granted by the ZBA.

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First Selectman Rob Mallozzi is meeting with officials from Eversource—which includes the former Yankee Gas—on Wednesday as the town seeks to hammer out a contract with the utility to bring natural gas into town. Once an agreement is reached, plans will be made public through the Utilities Commission.

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Congratulations to Saxe Middle School seventh-grader Lucy Potter, whose Skyliners Juvenile team earned a National Silver medal at the Synchronised Skating Nationals Championship in Rhode Island last weekend. Lucy skates on the Skyliners Juvenile line. The team had won the Easterns Competition in Lake Placid in January, breaking a record.

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The Carriage Barn Arts Center on Saturday night held its Opening Reception for the 26th Annual Spectrum Art Exhibition. Sponsored by Club Sandwich, HTG Investment Advisors, Karl Chevrolet, William Pitt Sotheby’s, South End, and Vista Wine and Spirits, the exhibition’s theme, “Elemental Energies,” focuses on the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. New York artist Henry Richardson (more on him here) created a series of glass sculptures inspired by ice caves, say Carriage Barn co-directors Arianne Kolb and Eleanor Flatow: “His unique technique consists of combining traditional tools of stone sculpting with recent technological innovations in bonding glass. Richardson creates primal organic forms and ambiguous anthropomorphic elements, in which a fierce sensual energy inhabits the glassy surround.” Here are some photos of Richardson’s work and scenes from Saturday: