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New Canaan Week in Review: Fighting Irish, Lost District & New Business Opportunities

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As it’s nearly St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a shout-out to a pair of Notre Dame Fighting Irish standouts who went on to exceptional careers as pro athletes: Terry Hanratty and Pat Garrity make New Canaan home, and they’re both coaching our kids in youth sports here. Quick, effective investigative techniques by New Canaan police in November led this past week to the first arrest in the brazen larceny of a downtown business, while a fondly remembered South School-area home went on the to-be-demolished list and the municipal budget process churned on, with a push for placing a police officer at our middle school appearing to gain support. (Can’t help but say: NewCanaanite.com itself had a big week in our own field, participating in interviews and appearing in both the American Journalism Review and Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University.)

 

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A sense of looking back—to our town’s history and in some cases, even nostalgia—pervaded New Canaan this week. First, Terry met up with a descendant of the family that gives Dan’s Highway its name, in capturing what we know of the “Atlantis of New Canaan”: Dantown.

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New Canaan Week in Review: New Park in Town, Singular Obsessions, Hockey Title

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We began the week by jack-hammering at the frozen snow and finished by besting our rivals and neighbors on the ice. Town Talker

Many of us learned a new word this week: ‘coywolf.’ Also known as a ‘red wolf’ and spotted up in the Tobys Lane area in December, it’s a cross between an eastern wolf and western coyote that turned up in town again, this time at Proprietors Crossing. After we reported the Sunday sighting, we heard from another resident, in the area between Kiwanis and Route 123, who saw what appears to be the same species on her own property on Thursday morning (hers are the photos you see in this article). We’re told that the species is about 100 years old and came down to this area from Canada about 50 years ago. Quality of Life

New Canaan Library is planning a pocket park for the corner of Maple Street and South Avenue, and it could include not only benches and landscaping, but the ability to download e-Books to mobile devices.

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New Canaan Week in Review: Post Office Parking, Our ‘Classic’ Style

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While the town braces for yet another snowstorm, we’re taking a look back at the week that was in New Canaan. Town Talker
Readers are contacting us to say that there’s wide concern over the Post Office’s new location at 90 Main St. and what is perceived as a lack of effort to find a better space. Parking officials in town, following a decision to introduce three 15-minute parking spaces in front of the building (which at times also is a loading zone), say they’re seeing frequent double-parking. NewCanaanite.com will follow up with the post office next week for an update on the status of their search for a permanent location in town.