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Biz on Biz: Weed & Duryea on Favorite New Canaan Foods

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In this installment of Biz on Biz, we traveled to Weed & Duryea on Grove Street to ask about a favorite product or service of another business in New Canaan. The hardware store, which has been running as long as our town’s railroad system, was founded soon after Francis E. Weed returned from the Civil War in 1865, historians say. Inside, we asked retail manager Barry Coleman about local favorites and he responded by reviewing New Canaan eateries he likes most. The first place he mentioned was Chinese restaurant Ching’s Table, right on Main Street. “I’ve been going there for years,” said Coleman, a Trumbull resident.

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Did You Hear … ?

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New Canaan Police on Monday investigated a residential, daytime burglary on Birchwood Avenue. Police Chief Leon Krolikowski said that force was used to enter the house, no alarm was set and it’s not yet clear if anything was taken. On Tuesday, police began investigating a similar burglary on Old Stamford Road. The incidents are promoting Krolikowski to urge residents to always set their home and vehicle alarms, lock up, secure all valuables and report suspicious people and vehicles to the police via 9-1-1. Here’s a full list of ways to “Beat the Burglars,” from the chief.

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PHOTOS: ‘Absolut Kuba!’ Opens at Carriage Barn Arts Center

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Steve Certilman of Greenwich has spent more than 15 years visiting Cuba at least annually, forging long-term relationships with artists whose work he admires and scouring Havana and environs for emerging painters, sculptors, assemblage artists and others. On Saturday, about 80 of the pieces that Certilman has amassed—roughly one-third of his private collection—went on display in “Absolut Kuba!” at Carriage Barn Arts Center. Featuring about 50 artists’ work, the free exhibition marks the first-ever public showing of the diverse collection. According to Arianne Kolb, co-director of the Carriage Barn Arts Center and, with Certilman, curator of the exhibition, “Absolut Kuba!” is a chance to experience about 20 years’ in Cuban art in person without physically going there. “Unless you are planning on going to Cuba regularly or planning to go in the near future, this is a rare opportunity to see an incredible, really well-chosen assemblage of contemporary art that has been produced over the last 20 years,” Kolb said as dozens of appreciators moved through the roomy gallery in Waveny for the opening reception.

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School Board’s Decision Timely with Snow Expected

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It’s early yet, but March is proving the old adage true here in New Canaan: “In like a lion and out like a lamb.”

The National Weather Service is calling for snow after 4 p.m. today and overnight, up to six inches by the time is stops around 1 p.m. Monday. For parents, the Board of Education’s decision at its Feb. 24 meeting to allow New Canaan Public Schools to reduce its total planned classroom days, if needed, from 182 to 180 (the state minimum requirement) is a blessing. The move was designed to provide more cushion to the district, which only has two days left in June before snow days would cut into April break. For residents seeking salt to handle the storm’s icy aftermath, Weed & Duryea has been a steady provider already 2014.

Business

Weed & Duryea: ‘What We Have Left, We Have Left’

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By Michael Dinan

The pet-friendly rock salt is flying off of the shelves at Weed & Duryea, a manager of the downtown New Canaan mainstay said Saturday afternoon. On Thursday, Weed & Duryea brought in seven additional pallets of salt—various mixtures as well as pure rock salt—and then seven more on Friday, Barry Coleman told NewCanaanite.com. “But now we’re winding down,” Coleman said as customers hustled into and out of the store before the snow arrived on Saturday afternoon. “What we have left, we have left.”
The Mobil Station also is selling rock salt. Credit: Michael Dinan

The store closes at 5 p.m. Saturday and is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The National Weather Service is calling for up to four inches of snow in New Canaan by night’s end.