‘A Shining Light Where Every Person Is Seen’: New Inclusive Playground Opens at Waveny

More than 50 New Canaan parents, kids, municipal government officials and parks and public works employees on Friday attended the formal opening of the new Waveny Playground. Gathered outside the roomy, inclusive play space near the Orchard Field on a clear, warm morning, the crowd heard from Parks & Recreation Director John Howe, Superintendent of ...

Canoe Hill Road Colonial Sells for $3 Million

The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here.

June 4 202 Weed St. $2,075,000 Jeffrey Norman to Maria Farani de Azevedo
June 3 35 ...

Letter to the Editor

NewCanaanite.com received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com.

Dear Editor: It’s difficult to imagine that any young teenager would be given a motorcycle or allowed to ride in a car without a seatbelt. And yet, they are being given electric bikes and sent, with developing prefrontal cortexes, into a world of distracted drivers, ...

New Canaan There & Then: Before ‘Johnny,’ There Was ‘Jack’

‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli and Dawn Sterner.
On Feb. 11, 1960, Jack Paar, America’s first late-night television king and the second host of NBC’s Tonight Show, on the cover of both Life and Time magazines and at the height of his fame and ...

Did You Hear … ?

New Canaan Police at 12:32 p.m. Sunday received a report of a vehicle stolen from Ponus Ridge. The investigation is active.

Happy Pride Month. Show your support for our LGBT+ friends and neighbors with a New Canaan Pride sign. Email New Canaan’s Hilary Ormond for purchase and pickup details: hritter@gmail.com.

On May 5, ...