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Also on today's calendar: Free College Admissions & Financial Aid Workshop and 13 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you know the moon is going broke? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Old Norwalk Road Home Sells for $1.5 Million (newcanaanite.com) — A 1953 three-bedroom ranch at 211 Old Norwalk Road in New Canaan just sold for $1.5 million, topping a short list of recent property transfers recorded at Town Hall. Several other local homes, including a Heritage Hill condo and a Middle Ridge Road property, also changed hands, offering a snapshot of current neighborhood sale prices and activity.
2. Eversource: 500+ New Canaan Customers without Power on Sunday Afternoon [PHOTOS, UPDATING] (newcanaanite.com) — Hundreds of New Canaan Eversource customers were still without power Sunday afternoon after a Nor'easter downed trees and wires across town, with outages scattered enough to slow restoration. Emergency officials are urging residents to treat all downed lines as live, avoid barricaded roads, and report remaining outages directly to Eversource as crews continue work.
3. Inside Week 3 of CIAC football: Breakthroughs, change-ups and defending champions fall (middletownpress.com) — New Canaan's football team continued its dominant start, posting a third straight shutout in a 49-0 win over McMahon and remaining undefeated atop the state rankings. The article recaps key Week 3 results statewide and looks ahead to big Week 4 matchups, including New Canaan's road trip to face No. 10 New Britain on Friday evening.
4. Kathleen A. Corbet Honored (greenwichsentinel.com) — New Canaan's Waveny LifeCare Network is celebrating former board chair Kathleen A. Corbet, just named LeadingAge Connecticut & Rhode Island's 2026 Trustee of the Year for her pandemic leadership and philanthropy. Her support helped launch Waveny's tuition-free nursing school and now fuels a major campaign to expand rehab rooms, grow training programs, and bolster charity care for local seniors.
5. Fact check: Does Connecticut have 'the best schools in America,' as Ned Lamont says? (ncadvertiser.com) — New Canaan is highlighted as having the strongest test scores in Connecticut for the 2024-25 school year, leading the state in English, math, and science. The broader piece examines how Connecticut ranks nationally in education while also acknowledging sharp inequities between wealthy suburbs and poorer cities like Bridgeport.
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