New Canaan Fire Department and NCPD Animal Control officials at 10:51 a.m. Saturday responded to a report of a dog who’d wandered into a storm drain in the area of Country Club and Lambert Roads. They arrived to discover that a young Newfoundland had crawled back out, to reunite with its owner.
Barolo on Main Street closed on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. Spiga is slated to open this spring.
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The Building Department on April 20 received an application from the 136 Main St. to do some $50,000 of interior renovations at the former Barolo space, slated to open this spring as Spiga Café, an Italian restaurant. Work in the 4,100-square-foot space includes installation of a new bar and equipment, pizza oven and lighting.
Caroline Kaplan of New Canaan Olive Oil. Credit: Mackenzie Lewis
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If you’re like me and enjoy calling in on both Heidi Burrows and Caroline Kaplan when visiting New Canaan Olive Oil on Elm Street, you’ll be half as happy as usual this week: Caroline is away in Florida. She’s reuniting with five other France-born nannies who arrived in the United States some 30 years ago and ended up together in Westfield, N.J. Though Caroline is friends with all of them (one of the nannies was her maid of honor), this Boca Raton trip is the first time in these three decades that they’ve all gotten together.
Close-up look at a landscaping plan for 335 Jelliff Mill Road.
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The Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday night granted a variance for the construction of a new, 2-story home on the exceptionally narrow lot (the side yard setbacks actually overlap) at 335 Jelliff Mill Road. The variance comes with several conditions that revolve around screening from neighboring homes (see rendering at right).
Bankwell Branch Manager Elizabeth Buzzeo with Karen Nisenson, Founder/Clinical Director, Arts for Healing. Contributed
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Nice bit of community news: Bankwell donated to the Arts for Healing Scholarship Fund. The nonprofit organization right there on Grove Street (by Tom Throop’s workshop) provides integrated music and art therapy for people with emotional, physical, developmental and social needs.
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Police at 1:09 a.m. last Thursday received a barking dog complaint on Whiffle Tree Lane. It turns out a house sitter accidentally had left a doggie door open and had trouble luring two dogs back inside (she did, eventually).
Downtown New Canaan on Jan. 23, 2016. Credit: Terry Dinan
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Though a few warm days have melted much of the snow dumped Jan. 23 on New Canaan, Department of Public Works officials are reminding commercial property owners downtown that the Town Code makes them responsible for removing the snow, sleet and ice from the sidewalk in front of them “as soon as reasonably practical, but no later than six hours of daylight after the same shall have stopped falling, been deposited or formed.”
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Happy birthday to lifelong New Canaan resident Mario Lopez. The 1984 NCHS grad was a member of Lou Marinelli‘s first state championship team back in 1982. This past year his son Zach, a sophomore defensive lineman at NCHS, won a ring as the Rams took the Class L state title, the 10th in Marinelli’s storied career as New Canaan’s head coach. Mario celebrated the big “5-oh” at Cava with family and friends.
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Rabies tests came back negative on a bat that a dog was found “playing” with inside a Mill Road home on the evening of Jan. 26, Animal Control Officer Allyson Halm said. The dog is a 7-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback and the bat may have been injured, officials said.
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Meet The Wyeths of Other Desert Cities
Larry D. Gabbard, Will Jeffries, Julie Theater-Gourlay, Nancy Sinacori and Maureen Cummings play the Wyeths of Other Desert Cities. Video by rpotheatrics.com
New Canaanites: Meet the Wyeth family (video above). The wealthy GOPers are the focus of the Town Players of New Canaan’s next production, “Other Desert Cities,” which opens this Friday at Powerhouse Performing Arts Center in Waveny and runs for three weekends.
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Littlejohn Contemporary art gallery at 21 South Ave. on Friday is launching a New Canaan artist’s solo exhibition of large-scale, square landscape photographs. Torrance York’s “Near & Far” includes new work from Connecticut as well as Paris, and more:
Julie Pryor (L) & co. at the open house for Pryority Sky and Pryority Earth in Halo Studios. Contributed
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New Canaanite and wellness guru Julie Pryor at Halo Studios on Grove Street last Wednesday held an open house to launch Pryority Sky (same location with a private entrance, offering wellness assessments and Far infrared sauna therapy) and Pryority Earth (functional training, Power Plate, BioMat Professional and Kinesiology taping). This month, Pryority is offering two specials: “Best Foot Forward” is a 60-minute reflexology session for $75 (normally $100) and “Melt Away Massage” is a 60-minute massage therapy session that includes a complimentary 15-minute scalp massage or foot scrub.
Kerry Connell. Contributed
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Finally, congratulations to Northwestern and Tufts alumnus Kerry Connell of Locust Avenue’s HTG Investment Advisors, who earned her designation as a certified financial planner. HTG says: “CFP certificants must pass the comprehensive CFP Certification Examination, meet work experience requirements, and agree to put clients’ interests first by adhering to the CFP Board’s Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility.”