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New Canaan, a wealthy town in Connecticut, is a town of lawns.Lawns, green and rolling. Lawns, trim and bug-free, lined with sculpted shrubs. Lawns, like so many lawns across suburban

Bill and Mary-Ellen McDonald host firefly viewing parties, hoping to inspire their neighbors to stop using pesticides and consider rewilding their lawns.

“Fireflies are like most other wildlife: They need things a little wild,” said Candace Fallon, a conservation biologist and one of the creators of the Firefly Atlas from the Xerces Society, an international invertebrate conservation group.

Vandals hit an increasingly popular park in New Canaan this past weekend, officials say. The ruts of dirt bikes could be seen in multiple places of new trails in Bristow Park, according to Conservation Commission Chair Chris Schipper, who has led a town-supported revitalization of the Old Stamford Road wooded area for the last several […]

The organizers of the New Canaan Swap Shop say a name like ‘Take It or Leave It’ may have fit the facility better, since the Transfer Station passholders who can use it are free to either drop off items as donations, pick up free stuff or both. But the “Swap Shop” name has stuck and, […]

Members of the New Canaan High School Science Team identified unusually high levels of phosphorus in Bristow Bird Sanctuary based on samples collected this past summer, according to a presentation the students gave last week. Natural levels of the chemical element should come in around .1 mg/L for streams with no reservoirs, yet tests conducted […]

More than 75 vendors and organizations participated in Saturday’s event, which filled...

Town officials this week approved an approximately $65,000 contract with a New Canaan-based company to continue making improvements to a public bird sanctuary restored in recent years. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday voted 3-0 in favor of the $$64,679.04 contract with Peter Lanni Inc. for improvemtenis at Bristow Bird Sanctuary ahead of its planned […]

Officials say a mother deer became agitated after hikers approached near where a fawn was born near the green link trail between the Nature Center and Irwin Park.

A recent string of reports involving an aggressive deer have been reported on the green link trail between the Nature Center and Irwin Park, Animal Control said.