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(Editor’s note: To mark Westmoreland County’s 250th birthday this year, we’ve come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a

The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Carriage Barn Arts Center. After facing a few difficult years, the wildflower meadow over on Route 123 has graced the town with one of its most spectacular blooms in years. Mose Saccary, highway superintendent in the Department of Public Works, and his team are the green-thumbed masterminds […]

Showing remarkable optimism, city officials are calling the next phase of the much-troubled transit system the “HART 2022 Recovery Plan.”

Members of New Canaan’s legislative body say they will not support a plan to erect a cell tower about 900 feet behind West School (and 600 feet from its playing fields), though they’re expecting the town’s highest elected official to come forward with an alternative proposal in the area. Town Council Chair Steve Karl noted […]

NewCanaaanite.com recently received the following letter(s) to the editor. Please email letters to editor@newcanaanite.com for publication here. *** Dear Editor, It is disappointing that the Board of Selectmen will be discussing a new, taller, cell tower behind West School at their 8:30 a.m. meeting on Tuesday (3/21). The proposal this past fall/winter was for a […]

“New Canaan Now & Then” is presented in partnership with the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society. Broad Brook Farm, or 82 Ponus Ridge, as it was named by Edward Plaut in the 1930s, is now a group of houses that make up Broad Brook Drive (which runs directly through the former estate) and surrounding […]

Town officials this month approved a $12,000 contract with an Avon-based firm to design a proposed new boardwalk in Irwin Park. The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with Richter & Cegan at its Feb. 7 meeting.  The company had done “the original master plan and did the original Flexi-pave trail […]

Irwin officials are planning to spend about $350,000 to improve Irwin Park and its facilities, including paving a gravel and partial-asphalt parking lot. The borough wants to pave both parking lots — a large one off Pennsylvania Avenue and a smaller one off 10th Street, replace stormwater inlets on the

Laurel: To a local leader. Westmoreland County is really having a heyday in the state Capitol at the moment. In addition to all people elected to represent the county’s constituents in the General Assembly, there is the fact that Republican Kim Ward of Hempfield is the first female Senate majority

‘Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market.  There are few experiences that are more boring than someone yammering on about how successful their Dry January has been, so let me be the first to assure you that this column was written with a glass of my favorite Spanish white wine by my side. Txakoli is crisp, […]