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Ken Merrill spoke at the Couch-Pipa VFW before the gun salute and the playing of taps. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
NORTH CANAAN — This year, there was roadwork ongoing around the Doughboy statue in the center of town. And so the Couch-Pipa VFW held a Veterans Day ceremony at the hall on Route 7.
NORTH CANAAN — The Geer Village Senior Community appears to be emerging from an outbreak of COVID-19 that had involved 67 residents and 22 staff since Sept. 30.
However, eight residents of the 82-bed nursing facility with serious underlying health issues died from the coronavirus during that recent wave of infections.
A small plane with a single occupant crashed after take-off from the airport in North Canaan on Thursday evening. Photo by Jonathan Barbagallo
NORTH CANAAN — The investigation into the crash of a small airplane in North Canaan on Thursday evening, Oct. 14, is now in the hands of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport in North Canaan, near West Main Street and the town’s transfer station.
WSS Executive Director Betsey Mauro, at right in photo, listened as the names of lives lost to abuse in Connecticut were read aloud at a community vigil on Oct. 14. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
NORTH CANAAN — The annual vigil in honor of lives lost to domestic violence was held this year in North Canaan at the Lawrence Field Pavilion. The vigil is held in different area towns each year because domestic violence isn’t specific to one place, it is everywhere.
Gerry Routhier brought his collection of Northwest Connecticut Rod and Gun Club membership pins to the 75th anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 19. Photo by Hunter O. Lyle
NORTH CANAAN —When the Northwest Connecticut Rod and Gun Club in North Canaan was founded, Gerry Routhier was barely a toddler. Seventy-five years later, he has seen it evolve from a plot of land encompassed by woods into a community service organization with hundreds of members.
Pavement at North Canaan Elementary School provided an ideal surface for students to interpret some of their favorite local scenes in chalk on Friday, Oct. 1. Photo by Leila Hawken
NORTH CANAAN — As an activity of the Community Connections initiative at North Canaan Elementary School (NCES), students in all grades came together to create images in sidewalk chalk all around the school grounds on Friday, Oct. 1.
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.
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