Parks panel approves rocket launch, Little Free Library, Pops concert
Parks and Recreation · Meeting of February 11, 2026
New Canaan parks board approves rocket launch, Little Free Library and Pops concert, ends pond chlorination. The Parks and Recreation Commission unanimously approved Boy Scout Troop 70's sixth annual Model Rocket and Ice Cream Social at Waveny Park, a Girl Scout-built Little Free Library at Kuanas Park, and a bump in Pops in the Park's attendance cap to 2,000 for its "America 250"-themed fifth show on June 7. Nature Center executive director Bill Flynn reported about $2.3 million in revenue against $2.25 million in expenses last year and outlined a self-funded new greenhouse project.
The parks director announced Kuanas Park's swimming pond will no longer be chlorinated starting this summer, with expanded water testing after any half-inch rainfall, saying "we shouldn't be injecting chlorine into something that's in nature like that." The Board of Selectmen made no cuts to the department's operating budget but deferred a $1 million turf-infield capital request.
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Source: the Parks and Recreation meeting of February 11, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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