The head of Animal Control in New Canaan for the past eight years, Officer Allyson Halm, is set to retire this summer, officials say. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved the hiring of Sean Godejohn as her successor in the New Canaan Police Department position. A graduate of Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Godejohn […]
Debbie McQuilkin on a recent morning stepped into the paddock she had built last summer on this historic, prominent Oenoke Ridge Road property.
Debbie McQuilkin feeds her alpacas on a recent morning at ‘Crajah House,’ a prominent, historic home and property on Oenoke Ridge Road. Credit: Michael Dinan
She scooped a bucket of grain from the shed and then turned to face the huge brown eyes and serene, slow-moving heads of her newest, most voluminous pets, explaining how all of this started, while in a habit that animal-lovers often share interspersing her human-to-human sentences by addressing the beasts directly, and in a higher-pitched voice.