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The worst in the town’s A-B-C ratings system — a ‘C’ — went to one Darien food-serving establishment in the seven food health inspection reports released on Thursday by Darien Health Department. The most recent batch of reports are from inspections that took place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6. Three establishments received a rating of “B,” and another three were rated “A.”
These properties recently were sold in Darien, according to records in the Town Clerk’s Office:
1921 Post Road — No. 1921 Post Road LLC of 110 Post Road, Darien to 1921 Boston Post Road LLC of its namesake address, sold Jan. 29, filed Feb. 1, $587,000 — PICTURED
18 Charles St. — The Bank of New York Mellon Trust of Salt Lake City, Utah to Miller River Financial LLC of 175 Peters Lane, Stratford, sold Feb.
Here’s Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate for Jan. 31 to Feb. 7, 2019:
This week’s Darien highlights:
16 New to Market Listings in Darien
10 Price Reductions in Darien
8 Accepted Offers in Darien
0 Closed Sales in Darien
26 Open Houses in Darien
This week’s Rowayton highlights:
6 New to Market Listings in Rowayton
0 Price Reductions in Rowayton
0 Accepted Offers in Rowayton
1 Closed Sales in Rowayton
2 Open Houses in Rowayton
New Listings
Address
Town
Sq Feet
Price
31 Harbor Road
Darien
5000
$2,800,000
14 Thomas Place, #14
Rowayton
3309
$2,600,000
388 Middlesex Road
Darien
7757
$2,595,000
207 Hollow Tree Ridge Road
Darien
6400
$2,495,000
29 Tulip Tree Lane
Darien
4451
$2,275,000
6 Shadbush Lane
Darien
4370
$2,149,000
58 Locust Hil Road
Darien
4869
$1,975,000
14 Chasmars Pond Road
Darien
4214
$1,599,000
19 Walmsley Road
Darien
3251
$1,595,000
80 1/2 Highland Avenue
Rowayton
5533
$1,595,000
36 Witch Lane
Rowayton
2460
$1,495,000
28 Yarmouth Road
Rowayton
2374
$1,425,000
3 Concord Lane
Darien
3220
$1,400,000
4 Oak Crest
Darien
2166
$1,295,000
17 Abbey Road
Darien
2039
$1,139,000
55 Phillips Lane
Darien
2595
$879,000
373 West Avenue
Darien
1424
$839,000
374 Rowayton Avenue
Rowayton
1900
$785,000
4 Catherine Street
Darien
1505
$749,000
72 Crooked Trail Road
Rowayton
1360
$736,000
9 Miles Road
Darien
1684
$699,000
36 Sedgewick Village
Darien
920
$590,000
Price Changes
Address
Town
Original Price
Previous Price
Current Price
8 North Road
Darien
$13,995,000
$13,995,000
$9,995,000
76 Arrowhead Way
Darien
$5,695,000
$5,695,000
$4,699,995
1 Wheat Lane
Darien
$3,450,000
$3,450,000
$2,895,000
88 Nearwater Lane
Darien
$2,950,000
$2,950,000
$2,850,000
9 Sunswyck Road
Darien
$1,995,000
$1,995,000
$1,895,000
2 Talmadge Hill Road
Darien
$1,749,000
$1,749,000
$1,699,000
320 West Avenue
Darien
$869,000
$869,000
$885,000
4 Moore Avenue
Darien
$865,000
$865,000
$815,000
19 Oak Park Avenue
Darien
$929,000
$929,000
$795,000
26 Fairfield Avenue
Darien
$379,000
$379,000
$299,000
Accepted Offers
Address
Town
Latest Asking Price
52 Dorchester Road
Darien
$3,475,000
600 Hollow Tree Ridge Road
Darien
$3,395,000
8 Echo Drive
Darien
$1,495,000
3 Settlers Trail
Darien
$1,395,000
1 Heather Lane
Darien
$1,149,000
2 Phillips Place
Darien
$945,000
8 Rebel Lane
Darien
$915,000
8 Clocks Lane
Darien
$699,000
Title Passed
Address
Town
Listed Price
Sold Price
24 Woodbine Street
Rowayton
$1,075,000
$1,020,000
Open Houses
Address
Town
Price
Date & Time
33 Beverly Place
Darien
$3,795,000
Sunday, 1-4
1 Rockwell Lane
Darien
$3,395,000
Sunday, 1-3
19 Pembroke
Darien
$3,250,000
Sunday, 1-3
29 Swifts Lane
Darien
$2,995,000
Sunday, 2:30-4:30
33 Crooked Mile Road
Darien
$2,975,000
Sunday, 2-4
445 Hollow Tree Ridge Road
Darien
$2,950,000
Sunday, 1-3
861 Hollow Tree Ridge Road
Darien
$2,895,000
Sunday, 1-3
106 Stephen Mather Road
Darien
$2,695,000
Sunday, 1-4
9 Plymouth Road
Darien
$2,685,000
Sunday, 1-3
9 Sylvan Road
Darien
$2,495,000
Sunday, 1-3
197 Rowayton Avenue
Rowayton
$2,395,000
Sunday, 2-4
16 Linda Lane
Darien
$2,250,000
Sunday, 1-4
7 Indian Trail
Darien
$2,195,000
Sunday, 12-2
10 Dogwood Lane
Darien
$2,195,000
Sunday, 1-3
11 Lighthouse
Darien
$1,999,000
Sunday, 1-3
74 Stanton Road
Darien
$1,995,000
Sunday, 1-3
6 Runkenhage Road
Darien
$1,995,000
Sunday, 1-3
67 Buttonwood Lane
Darien
$1,875,000
Sunday, 1-3
3 Bishops Gate Road
Darien
$1,849,000
Sunday, 1-3
16 Stonewall Lane
Darien
$1,799,000
Sunday, 1-3
58 Greenleaf Avenue
Darien
$1,799,000
Sunday, 1-3
17 Lake Drive
Darien
$1,795,000
Sunday, 1-3
1 Tulip Tree Lane
Darien
$1,795,000
Sunday, 1-3
45 Delafield Island Road
Darien
$1,775,000
Sunday, 1-3
38 Dubois Street
Darien
$1,695,000
Sunday, 1-3
37.5 Witch Lane
Rowayton
$1,649,000
Sunday, 2-4
14 Chasmars Pond Road
Darien
$1,599,000
Saturday, 1-4
3 Walmsley
Darien
$849,000
Sunday, 1-3
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Deirdre McGovern is a real estate agent who has called Darien home for more than 25 years. She has been involved in many local organizations. She can be reached at 203-554-0897or deirdre.mcgovern@raveis.com
More about Deirdre McGovern here.
Would you like a faster ride on Metro-North? Who wouldn’t? How about a 30-minute ride from Hartford to New Haven, from New Haven to Stamford or from Stamford to Grand Central? That’s the vision announced by Gov. Ned Lamont in his inaugural address. It’s known as the 30-30-30 plan and sounds good compared to current running times (52 minutes, 55 minutes and 48 minutes, respectively).
Back on Nov. 16, a female paid for filling up her vehicle with a $100 check from a business, and an employee at the station gave her change from the unused amount, police said. The check was worthless. Darien police gave this account of what happened:
It wasn’t until Jan. 31 that the owner of the gas station, BP Vernal’s at 498 Post Road, was contacted by the business and told that the check hadn’t been signed by the business owner, so it was fraudulent.
Stamford Symphony will be performing Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess program which also includes selections of beloved Italian operas.
— an announcement from the Stamford Symphony
Two performances take place this weekend; On Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. at Stamford’s Palace Theatre. In recognition of Black History Month in February, Stamford Symphony is proud to present the Concert Version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which depicts African American culture of the early 1900s. Featuring vocal soloists, Donita Volkwijn and John Fulton and the Greenwich Choral Society, the program will allow you to hear, live, the sounds of the blues and spirituals that became the standards of the Great American Songbook, including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’Nuttin,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.”This concert opens with popular selections of choruses and duets from beloved Italian operas including Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture, Puccini’s Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and Verdi’s Triumphal March from Aida to name a few.
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation encourages students and parents to visit their high school’s websites or contact their guidance department for information about the foundation’s many scholarships and instructions on how to apply. The foundation needs qualified applicants to apply so that the scholarships can be awarded. — an announcement from Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
There also is an online application at FCCFoundation.org. In addition to the numerous scholarships listed at FCCFoundation.org, FCCF offers a wide selection of scholarships directly through most high schools in Fairfield County. Darien High School students can find out more at the school’s Guidance Department.
Unlocked motor vehicles were entered outside five Darien homes on Richmond Drive, Mansfield Place and Woods End Road (all within a mile of each other on the west side of town) overnight Wednesday to Thursday, Jan. 30 to 31. It seems not much loot resulted from the effort: Apparently only the keys to one of the vehicles was taken, but not the vehicle itself. Police described these incidents:
Richmond Drive
A 33 Richmond Dr. resident was woken just before 3:08 a.m. (when police were called) by the sound of his car alarm. The resident looked outside to see two males near one of the vehicles in the driveway.
Richard Koproski, a 58-year-0ld Woodford, Vermont resident, told a family member on Facebook that he would shoot him in the head, and that he has plenty of guns to do it with, among other, similar threats, police said. A Darien resident came to Police Headquarters and provided officers with printouts of threats Koproski allegedly made against him. The man said Koproski, who lives near the Darien man’s Vermont home, “had been becoming more unpredictable over the years,” and he knew Koproski had a collection of firearms, police said. Those threats led Darien police to get an arrest warrant and notify Vermont state police about it, police said. Vermont state police said they received word on Jan.
In light of the Town of Darien considering a ban on plastic carry out bags, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk celebrates such municipal efforts and encourages other communities to take up the cause. — an announcement from the Maritime Aquarium
A public hearing is planned for Wednesday, Feb. 6 to gain Darien residents’ input on a proposal to ban plastic bags. If such an ordinance is drafted and eventually approved, Darien would join Westport, Greenwich and Norwalk in Connecticut, and Larchmont and Rye Brook in Westchester County, New York, in prohibiting retail stores from offering plastic bags for purchases. Many other municipalities in Connecticut and New York are considering similar legislations.
Eighty five students from Darien High School were inducted as new members of the National Honor Society in a ceremony held Tuesday Jan. 29 in the DHS Auditorium. Members were selected by the chapter’s Faculty Council for meeting high standards of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. — an announcement from Darien High School
The newest members are:
Jack Armstrong, Alexa Barrett, Jackson Bell, Skyler Bennett, Emma Blenke, Nicholas Branca, Margaret Brooks, Thomas Brown, Charles Callery, Charlotte Campbell, Caitlin Chan, Emma Chase, Christopher Conte, Samuel Cragin, Eva Criscuolo,
Matthew Daileader, Kieran Daly, Austin Dehmel, Shriya Desai, Eilanna Dolan, Erin Edgar, Kimberley Ekern, Shannon Flaherty, Skylar Ford, Jacob Grimm, Alexander Gu,
Ethan Haas, Katherine Hackett, Grace Hand, Will Harmon, Cailin Henry, Jack Holly, Sean Huffert, Benjamin Huffman, Sarah Jaques, Lila Karl, Juliette Kiernan, Riya Krishnan,
Katherine Lane, Peter Lattimer, Hudson Lazzara, Jackson Leone, Amanda Loura, Thomas MacLehose, Kerry McDermott, Payton Miller, Maggie Moffatt, Ryan Mulliken,
Maya Nalawade, Nisha Nalawade, Caeleigh O’Connor, Catherine O’Connor, Taryn Pardo, Ashwini Patel, Samantha Pensiero, Julia Pfrommer, Kaitlyn Popson,
Nadejda Radoulov, Aleevelu Raparti, Jackson Roberson, Tyler Roland, Arushi Samal, Anika Satish, Isabelle Seeman, Maxwell Sharp, Meghan Shaughnessy, John Slonieski, Calvin Smith, Isabelle Smith, Halle Spataro, Lillian Spengler, Henry Steinthal, Katherine Stevens, Megan Streeter, Lauren Sulger,
Sophia Talwalkar, Evan Tong, Perrin Trask, Emma Williams, Samuel Wilson, Cecilia Winegar, Nicholas Witkowski, Meghan Wood, Kai Zhou and Alexis Zitzmann. Each year, the Darien High School chapter sponsors several service projects for the school and community, which in the last few years have included tutoring students, assisting during Open House and volunteering in the community.
An impaired man was behind the wheel of an impaired BMW speeding south on Hoyt Street just after 9 p.m. last Friday when, as it passed a patrol car, one of its headlights fell off, Darien police said. Police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:
The dark-colored BMW was being driven by Robert Dockham, 33, of Woodway Road in Stamford when the police officer saw the headlight fall off the car onto the roadway. (Police didn’t say where on Hoyt Street the officer first found the vehicle or stopped it; Woodway Road intersects with Hoyt Street in Darien, just south of Woodway Country Club). As the officer followed the car, it reached speeds of 55 mph in a 30 mph zone. An officer on patrol observed a dark BMW traveling South on Hoyt St.
Conway MacLean Day (Connie), a lover of the arts and travel, passed away Dec 20, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California. A long-time resident of Montecito, her style, whit and humor will be deeply missed by all. She was 85. Connie was born Feb. 1, 1933 in Baltimore, the daughter of Dr. Angus Lloyd MacLean and Eleanore Ihmson Hodges.
A total of 61 items of stolen mail were found on three men stopped in a car at about 3 a.m., Thursday by a police officer near the Darien Post Office, police said. All three were arrested. Police also found that the mailbox outside the Post Office had been forcibly opened and entered. Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:
The officer was patrolling the area around Corbin Drive and was on “heightened alert” because of recent thefts of mail from the box outside the Post Office. So when a black Toyota Corolla with New Jersey license plates drove extremely slowly on Corbin Drive, then stop suddenly near the marked police car and put its blinker on the officer viewed that behavior as especially suspicious and conducted a motor vehicle stop.
J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions. will be the featured speaker at Darien Library’s “Novel Tea” lunch fundraiser on March 27, and tickets are now on sale. — an announcement from Darien Library
“We are thrilled to welcome J. Courtney Sullivan,” said Alex Eising, development chair for the Board of Trustees. “She has written one bestseller after another, and we can’t wait to hear about her latest and greatest!”
Saints for All Occasions was a national bestseller, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book, Washington Post 10 Best Books, and a Harper’s Bazaar Best Book.