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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Tiger Mann, director of the New Canaan Department of Public Works, about current and upcoming infrastructure and utility projects that will bring partial or full road closures in the coming months. Here are recent episodes:

The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting approved a $32,120 contract with a Kearny, N.J.-based company to reline a failing stretch of sewer near God’s Acre. The elected body voted unanimously at its Feb. 19 meeting to approve the contract with National Water Main Cleaning Co. The 300-foot portion of sewer along Main […]

Town officials say residents seeking to use the recently launched Swap Shop at the Transfer Station can get help obtaining a permit for the facility in multiple ways. For New Canaanites unable to access or use the online system through the town’s website for a Transfer Station permit—a requirement to use the Swap Shop at […]

Town officials last week approved an approximately $24,000 contract with an East Otis, Mass.-based company to improve an area in front of Saxe Middle School that became a popular outdoor learning space amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board of Selectmen during its regular meeting Feb. 21 voted unanimously in favor of the $23,814.32 contract with […]

Town officials say they want to create at least two new trails within Waveny as well as a more formal pedestrian entrance to the southern portion of the park. The first new trail would cross from an existing one near the pedestrian crosswalk at the Saxe baseball field to the turf playing fields of New […]

The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting approved a $13,800 contract with a Danbury-based company for the emergency replacement of a boiler at the New Canaan Nature Center. The selectmen during its Feb. 7 meeting voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with Eastern Mechanical Services, which installed a new “Navien Combi Boiler” […]

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 […]

Town officials on Tuesday approved an approximately $20,000 contract to purchase the materials needed to finish the first phase of sidewalk “bump-outs” on Elm Street. As it is, the sidewalk has been widened on the north side of Elm Street from the Ralph Lauren store to Le Pain Quotidien. The project calls for that bump-out […]

Addressing one of dozens of Americans with Disabilities Act violations cited by federal authorities, town officials last week approved an approximately $12,000 contract with a Norwalk-based company to replace a railing at the paddle lodge in Waveny. The Board of Selectmen during a regular meeting Jan. 26 voted 3-0 to approve the $11,900 contract with […]

The Board of Selectmen last week approved an approximately $385,000 contract with a Ridgefield-based firm for demolition and abatement work at The Playhouse. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with Alden Bailey. The work will involve “selective construction, demolition and abatement services,” according […]