Community Corner

Week in Review: Sizzling Summer

Town Hall is all but shuttered while town debates simmer, but local athletes keep things exciting.

With all the scheduled board and commission meetings cancelled this week, and the weekly concert at Waveny rained out, much of the excitement for New Canaan was on the out-of-town score boards.

It was an outstanding week for New Canaan's athletes. Sixteen-year-old Christian Higgins made a splash—or should I say he barely did, which is how he broke the meet record—at the Speedo Junior National Championships, winning the 100-meter breaststroke. The All-Star 11s made it to the final game in the Cal Ripken Northeast Regional tournament. And Brian Tohir, who golfs at the New Canaan Country Club, was selected for Connecticut's New England Junior team.

There was smoke, but no fire, when lightning zipped down the chimney of a house on White Oak Shade during a stormy Monday night. The firehouse got new fire doors to keep the flames back and keep the Fire Marshal away (that made the Picture of the Week). But perhaps there were a few memories sparked by our look back 40 years after the band Mountain hit Woodstock a few months before performing at New Canaan High School in 1969.

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But in a few weeks when the Nantucket beaches empty out, things are likely to heat up again here in New Canaan.

There's a debate stirring—reminiscent of the fight over the Avalon development a decade ago—over proposed changes to the zoning in the area west of Grove Street downtown. Again, some merchants are worried that a new commercial hub could be built and draw consumers away from the town center. Gramophone owner Jack Trifero sounded a "Town Alert" over Zone D hoping to draw residents to public forums on the subject in the fall.

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And that's to say nothing of Waveny Care firming up its plans for a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in place of the old mulch pile on Lapham Road.


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