Published January 13. 2021 7:11PM | Updated January 13. 2021 7:45PM Mark Pazniokas, The Connecticut Mirror Gov. Ned Lamont delivered the keynote speech at a virtual conference of municipal officials Wednesday, then he cheerily signed off: “Take care everybody. Appreciate the chance to be with you. I gotta go get a new hip.” Then he did. After addressing the Council of Small Towns from his office at the state Capitol in Hartford, he was driven to the Stamford affiliate of the Hospital for Special Surgery for a scheduled hip replacement he’d been considering since before taking office in January 2019. Lamont, who turned 67 this month, was recovering at his home in Greenwich by nightfall.