As new residents flock to New Canaan at a blistering pace and set exciting new real estate sales records, there are some pressing matters in the animal control department that newcomers and former city-folk need to get up to speed on.
First, it should be obvious to new residents that there are many animals lurking about town. Since New Canaan is nestled in a heavily forested area, one should take proper precautions and remain aware, especially with small pets, or for people (like me) who have a propensity to attract wildlife. It’s a good reminder to be alert, as I have become increasingly too relaxed and tend to pooh-pooh those all too frequent neighborhood updates about roaming foxes, coyotes and the occasional escaped peacock.
Will stray animals in New Canaan be brought to local vets?
Grace Duffield
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The New Canaan Animal Shelter may not be fit for a dog or cat, some say, and Selectman Nick Williams called it a “dump in the dump.” The Board of Selectmen will be studying the issue on what to do to improve it. The picture was taken Nov. 4, 2019.Grace Duffield /Show MoreShow Less
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The New Canaan Animal Shelter may not be fit for a dog or cat, some say, and Selectman Nick Williams called it a “dump in the dump.” The Board of Selectmen will be studying the issue on what to do to improve it. The picture was taken Nov. 4, 2019.Grace Duffield /Show MoreShow Less
Michelle Troconis girlfriend of accused wife-killer
Fotis Dulos on Thursday filed a motion seeking to have charges of tampering dismissed. The motion, which doesn’t address a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, focuses on police evidence that Troconis accompanied Fotis Dulos in dumping bags of items, some of which were later found to have
Jennifer Dulos’s blood, at receptacles around Hartford. The body Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who went missing May 24, 2019, has never been found. In New Canaan, rocks painted in her memory with the message “Justice for Jennifer” continue to be placed around and inside the
Town Council.
Board of Ethics Chair
Tucker Clauss during a regular meeting Monday reported that the group received by mail a one-page anonymous ethics complaint with a photograph. In filing anonymously, the complainant was out of compliance with New Canaan’s ordinance, Clauss said, though he clearly had studied the
Code of Ethics because he cited a specific provision in it. Ultimately, the matter was resolved through an informal conversation with the subject of the complaint, Clauss said. Clauss aded that he later discovered the complainant had talked to other town officials about the matter, in violation of state and local confidentiality laws.