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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, […]