Did You Hear … ?

First Selectman Rob Mallozzi on Saturday night ventured forth on his first fire call in some six years.

A volunteer firefighter from 2004 to 2009 who also had served as secretary of New Canaan Fire Company No.1, Mallozzi responded Saturday night to a report of an alarm at Saxe Middle School as a severe storm moved through New Canaan, bringing down wires on Jelliff Mill Road and causing outages. Asked about the call, Mallozzi said he radioed in, went to Saxe, walked around the property, met a key holder there and went in.

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The New Canaan Chamber of Commerce‘s annual Taste of the Town Stroll is coming Thursday, Aug. 25—details here.

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The Fairfield man who has sued the Fairfield County Football League and Fairfield Wildcats Youth Football program following an incident involving a New Canaan team during a scrimmage last summer has reached an agreement with the defendants whereby his son will be able to play on the Wildcats’ seventh-grade team, according to a recent court order. Robert O’Connell will be able to drop his son off and pick him up, under the agreement, and may attend practices and games, but he’s not allowed into stadium seating, fields or sidelines, and must stay at least 40 yards from the field, the Aug. 8 order states. The lawsuit appears to remain active and a status conference is scheduled for Sept. 19.

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A Gower Road dog is under a 14-day home quarantine after biting a houseguest in the face late Sunday, police said. At about 9:13 p.m., police learned that a Shih Tzu had bitten a teenage girl under her eye and across her nose, according to Officer Allyson Halm of the NCPD Animal Control section. The girl was treated at an emergency medical center, Halm said. The dog is up-to-date on its shots, she said.

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Downtown New Canaan antique furniture, home décor and accessories store The Summer House has moved from its longtime home on Forest Street to 107 Cherry St.—known to many locals as the former Village Critter Outfitter space. The shop’s owner, Margaret Schwartz, said the new space means all-new antiques, with an emphasis on Gustavian, Rococo and Scandinavian pieces. “Along with the classical French antiques which are also in stock, these pieces of the past provide the one-of-a-kind note to mix a more traditional look seamlessly into today’s modern aesthetic and turn a house into a home,” she said. Here are a few photos spotlighting the newly located store (“Did You Hear” continues below):

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Police received an unusual call at about 12 p.m. Monday: Someone reported seeing three to five dead puppies at the front entrance to a condo complex on Elm Street. Halm said she investigated and found the animals in question—turned out they were baby squirrels, not dogs. They likely had been tossed out of a nest during Saturday night’s strong winds.

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Finally, two New Canaanites, Peter Krieger and Brian Lavigne, are joining Stonington’s Scott Bates as new members of a locally based nonprofit organization that helps families and communities heal after tragedy.

The trio will serve on the Voices of September 11^th Board of Directors, founded by Mary Fetchet.

Krieger, a Regional Leadership Gifts Officer for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, went to Bucknell University and is married to Anne Krieger, a Realtor with William Pitt Sotheby’s in New Canaan. They have three sons.

Lavigne is a Financial Advisor and member of the Bermont/Carlin Group at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and lives in New Canaan with his wife and three children.