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Lee Collins, above, offered a bagpipe salute during the 9/11 memorial, accompanied by a cannon blast. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
NORTH CANAAN — At 8:46 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, a cannon boomed and bagpipe music began at the Church of St. Joseph on Route 44.
It was part of a ceremony remembering the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
NORTH CANAAN — Concerns about COVID-19 and its impact on businesses have created an odd dynamic tension. Community members and business owners are eager to have life return to normal; but at the same time, the infection rate is climbing back up, nationally and even locally.
NORTH CANAAN — The annual Patriot Day observances will be held on Sept. 11 outside St. Joseph’s Church in North Canaan, beginning with quiet prayer at midnight on Friday, Sept. 10, and ending shortly after midnight on Sept. 11.
NORTH CANAAN — Geer Village Senior Community sponsored a talk on advances in detection, treatment and current Alzheimer’s disease research on Tuesday, Aug. 24, on Zoom.
The talk precedes the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 19, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Lime Rock Park.
NORTH CANAAN — On Thursday evening, Aug. 12, the Canaan Northwest Lions Club hosted an awards ceremony dinner at the Pilgrim House in North Canaan, to honor three community members. The program was led by John Mahoney, club president.
NORTH CANAAN —Increased volume of usage of the North Canaan transfer station and the resulting pressures on the crew’s time has created some aesthetic challenges.
They were discussed by the Board of Selectmen at their regular meeting on Tuesday, July 13.
NORTH CANAAN — The newest arrival at Union Station depot in North Canaan isn’t a train. It’s 374 accordions and a jukebox.
Paul Ramunni has been running the New England Accordion Connection and Museum Company out of his home in North Canaan for several years.
NORTH CANAAN — Sometimes fate takes the upper hand, as it did with Railroad Days this year. The 2021 celebration was intended to be somewhat shorter than normal, a little bit less than a week as opposed to the traditional multiweek schedule.
Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
The rain stopped, just for a day, just long enough for the organizers of North Canaan’s annual Railroad Days celebration to end the 2021 festivities with a parade and a bang (literally, as fireworks were set off at dusk) on July 24.
Railroad Days visitors attended the summer carnival in North Canaan, where a weekend of game booths and the Ferris wheel are a mark of passage of the season. Photo by Sadie Leite
NORTH CANAAN — It’s been an extremely wet Railroad Days, but that doesn’t seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of visitors who have been coming out for store events and for the carnival anytime there’s been even a bit of sun.
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