Start your day in Wilton with GOOD To Go, GMW‘s highlight of quick stories, local announcements and events, things worth knowing and anything that helps make your Wilton day better. Have a news tip, item or something Wilton should know? Fill out this form to tell GMW.
GOOD To Watch/Attend: This Week’s Town Board Meetings
- Board of Selectmen: Monday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. at Comstock Community Center, Room 31, and on Zoom [agenda] [Zoom link]
- Fire Commission: Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 5 p.m., on Zoom [agenda] [Zoom link]
- Inland Wetlands Commission Meeting: Thursday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Comstock Community Center, Room 31, and on Zoom [agenda] [Zoom link]
GOOD To Hear: Wilton’s Newest Police Sergeant
Congratulations to Matthew Cisewski of the Wilton Police Department, who was promoted from detective to sergeant on Tuesday, Dec. 30. Cisewski is a member of the Southwest Regional Emergency Response Team and has received numerous awards, including a Life Saving Award and multiple letters of commendation.
GOOD To Know: GOOD Dirt at Town Hall
No, we’re not talking gossip. Rather it’s GOOD dirt — sand, mixed in with a bit of salt and dirt to help residents with icy winter roadways and walkways. The Town of Wilton provides it for free to Wilton residents — you just need to bring your own container and shovel. The dirt pile is located just up the main driveway onto Town Hall Campus, on the left. Residents can take what they need at no charge.
GOOD To Do: “Eco-Cycle” Your Christmas Tree for “Trees for Trout”
Help make the Norwalk River a healthier home for trout, turtles, heron and other aquatic animals by donating your Christmas tree to Trout Unlimited’s annual “Trees for Trout” collection! Drop off trees — natural trees only! — at Merwin Meadows Park (52 Lovers Ln.) on Saturday, Jan. 10 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
This summer, the Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited will anchor hundreds of donated trees in the river to make a “conifer revetment” that will stabilize stream banks, reduce erosion and create refuge habitat for wildlife. By trapping silt in the river these trees help rebuild eroded banks and develop a narrower, deeper and cooler river that’s better for fish and wildlife living along the river.
A $10 donation is suggested to help cover the costs of installation.
GOOD To See: Wilton Library’s January Art Exhibition, “Terra-Forming”
Wilton Library presents the works of Wilton resident and England native Mathew Tucker in its January art exhibition “Terra-Forming,” opening on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, with a reception from 6-7:30 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
In this solo exhibition, Tucker’s paintings reimagine landscapes not as direct depictions of nature, but as reflections on our relationship with the natural world. Tucker constructs imagined landscapes that explore the “otherness” of nature and the gap between external reality and internal experience. Using windows, portals and rectangular framing devices, he interrupts traditional pictorial space, inviting viewers to see the landscape as something both familiar and unreachable.
Tucker was born in England and brought up and educated in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain, St. Lucia and England. He studied Art and Design at West Surrey College of Art and later at London Institute. Tucker lived and worked in London for 10 years before moving to Ireland in 2006 to study for a BA (Honors) degree in Fine Art at The Atlantic Technological University in Sligo. In 2016 he earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York City specializing in painting. His work has been shown at numerous galleries, art spaces and exhibitions worldwide and published in a number of international art magazines and online publications. His work is in public and private collections in the U.S., the U.K., and around the world. Tucker moved to Wilton with his family five years ago.
The exhibition runs through Friday, Jan. 30. A majority of the works will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the library.