Winter arrived this week with authority, laying down a steady snowfall across New Canaan and much of southern New England and reminding everyone who is in charge.
Roads narrowed. Driveways disappeared. Snowplows became the most admired vehicles in town. Children measured inches with rulers; adults measured them with the weight in their shovels. According to the National Weather Service, the storm system swept through Connecticut and into Massachusetts and Rhode Island, creating hazardous travel conditions across the region hovering over southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
That regional sweep is significant for us. The New Canaan Sentinel is printed at a facility located at the crossroads of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. When snow binds together three states at once, it also binds the presses. This week, the weather made printing and transportation impracticable. Trucks could not move safely. Production schedules could not hold.
So there will be no print edition delivered to your doorstep this week.
Our edition is necessarily limited due to the storm. Reporters worked around road conditions and shortened timelines. Many stories will wait their turn.
We expect to return to full print publication next week, as the skies cooperate and the roads clear from that tri-state corner where our pages first take shape.
Until then, stay warm, read us online, and wave to the plow drivers. They earned it.
