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Limit New Year's gatherings to prevent COVID spread, New Canaan first selectman warns Staff Report FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Waveny Park visitors were following social distancing in New Canaan on Sunday, May 4.Grace DuffieldShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Connecticut Biotech donated 1,000 N95 masks to front line senior care and skilled nursing staff at Waveny LifeCare Network on Dec. 9. The donation was the first of several planned during the month by the company, according to Managing Director Bruce Morris. On hand to accept the gift were Jessica Aleixo, RN, Admissions Coordinator; Claudia Katz, RN,...

New Canaan sees highest number of COVID cases last week, transmission within families Written by HH This evening, New Canaan First Selectman Kevin Moynihan provided a coronavirus update reporting that last Thursday night’s outcall we have had 40 new positive test results reported for New Canaan residents across all age demographics, although the majority of cases continue to be middle-age adults and very few are seniors over age 65.    "Last week, we had our highest positive case total thus far in the pandemic with 66 reported positive cases.  Our 6-days-a-week community te...

To the Editor, Volunteer Medicare counselors at Lapham Center just finished our sixteenth year of assisting residents in evaluating their Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plans. This year, like everything else in 2020, our counselors had to change all their procedures in order to work safely so nearly all appointments were done over the phone. Despite many challenges, during the seven week Open Enrollment period that began October 15, our counselors were able to “meet” with 363 New Canaan residents. Over 50% people found a less expensive drug plan saving, as a group, $315,398.89. In the ...

Written by Town of New Canaan Due to the upcoming Christmas holiday, we will continue our community testing in collaboration with Waveny LifeCare Network at Lapham Center only Monday through Wednesday, 7:00 am to 10:00 am.   The link for the upcoming Monday through Wednesday test dates (December 21 – 23) is sent by Everbridge email or you can find it in the red COVID-19 alert box on the town website at www.newcanaan.info. (The Sign-Up Genius link for testing this Monday through Thursday is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/COVIDWavenytestingDec21-23.)  Please note that we cannot ac...

Written by HH This evening, New Canaan First Selectman Kevin Moynihan provided a community COVID update reporting that since last Thursday night’s outcall we have had 41 new positive test results reported across all age demographics, although most of the cases are college-age young adults and middle-age adults. "We have been seeing very few seniors over the age of 65 test positive in the last few weeks," said Moynihan. For the same period, the State DPH reported a total of 882 tests for New Canaan residents, or a positivity rate of 4.65%.   By comparison, the State of Connecticut's ...