The Board of Selectmen during its most recent meeting approved an approximately $225,000 contract to purchase 40 lampposts for Waveny from a Norwalk-based company.
The lampposts in the park now are “smaller,” “not as well made” and are manufactured by a company that’s no longer in business, according to Department of Public Works Buildings Superintendent Bill Oestmann.
The purchase represents the first part of a two-phase project that will see a total of 70 new lampposts installed at the park that match those in downtown New Canaan, Oestmann told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference…