Canaan House Closing Next Week

Newtown residents and anyone doing business with town officials or the public health clinic in Canaan House should make note. All offices in the Fairfield Hills facility are closing next week and relocating to new quarters on Peck’s Lane.

The Board of Education, Planning and Zoning, Health District, Kevin’s Community Center, and the Newtown Fire Marshal’s office are all scheduled to open for business Monday, January 31, in leased commercial space at the Kendro Laboratory Products facility at 31 Peck’s Lane.

While the location is somewhat south of the town center, it can be directly and safely accessed via Main Street South.

Anyone planning to attend meetings of departments formerly held at Canaan House on the Fairfield Hills campus should watch for meeting notices in The Newtown Bee, or contact the town clerk’s office during weekday business hours. Not all meetings formerly held at Canaan House will be conducted at the Peck’s Lane facility, according to First Selectman Herb Rosenthal.

“Some of those meetings will be relocated to the Senior Center in Sandy Hook, to the library, at Edmond Town Hall, or in the basement of Town Hall South in the Police Station facility,” Mr Rosenthal said.

At press time, all town offices at Canaan House were scheduled to have their phone numbers and extensions reset at the new Peck’s Lane facility. Kevin’s Community Center plans to reopen for business at the Peck’s Lane location Wednesday, February 2.