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Adam Lee Fewster, 46

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ADAM LEE FEWSTER (October 6, 1977 – April 19, 2024)

Adam Lee Fewster, 46, passed away peacefully on April 19, 2024, surrounded by his loving family after a courageous battle with glioblastoma. Adam was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina on October 6, 1977, which is where he spent his childhood and teenage years before moving to Athens to attend to the University of Georgia in 1997. From an early age, Adam was known as a funny, kind and outgoing person with a smile that could melt hearts. He was easy to love. An exceptional and versatile athlete he was, and always a sharp dresser, especially proud to wear the Vineyard Vines brand so dear to him.

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Free ‘Pops In The Park’ Concert Set for June 9 in Waveny [Q&A]

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The third “Pops In The Park” concert from Norwalk Symphony is scheduled for June 9 in Waveny. A local nonprofit organization with two successful concerts under its belt, Pops In The Park is led by Doug Kerridge. We put some questions to Kerridge about the organization and the upcoming concert. Here’s our exchange. ***
New Canaanite: Before we talk about the upcoming June 9 concert, please give our readers some background on Pops in the Park.

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Five Property Owners Appeal Tax Assessments

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Five more property owners are seeking reductions to tax assessments following a revaluation that saw New Canaan’s Grand List increase 23.6%. The New Canaan Field Club on Smith Ridge Road and commercial property owners on Elm Street, Main Street and South Avenue in downtown New Canaan filed appeals this month in state Superior Court. An attorney representing the Field Club in an April 18 filing that the $4,226,110 assessment is “grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful.”

The Field Club appealed to the New Canaan Board of Assessment Appeals but “the Board elected not to conduct an appeal hearing relating to this commercial, industrial, utility or apartment property with assessed value in excessive of one million dollars,” attorney Michael D. Reiner of Farmington-based Greene Law, P.C. said in the complaint. “A tax was laid on the aforesaid property/properties which tax has been or will be computed on an assessment which, under all circumstances, is manifestly excessive, unlawful and could not have been arrived at except by disregarding the statutes for determining the taxation and valuation of the Premises,” the complaint said. The other appealing parties are (owner—address—assessment):

Cherry Street West LLC — 156 Cherry St.

Government

Town To Knock Down Gazebo Behind Lapham

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The Board of Selectmen last week voted 3-0 in favor of a contract with a Norwalk-based company to remove a gazebo behind the Lapham Community Center. Located near a planned baseball stadium, the structure is “past its useful life,” according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “The benches on the inside are rotted out,” Mann told the selectmen during their regular meeting, held April 16 at Town Hall and via videoconference. “We’ve got some other issues working on it. And it’ll either require some additional work to maintain or we should necessarily remove it.”

He added, “It is quite close to the work at Coppo Field and will probably be impacted by that work.

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‘A Better Chance for Me’: ABC Marks 50 Years in New Canaan

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Terry Trusty came to New Canaan late in the summer of 1974, a 15-year-old from Freeman, Va.—a small town in the segregated South dotted with tobacco farms.

He’d grown up proud that his father and grandfather purchased the family home using the G.I. Bill. “That was a wonderful thing,” he told NewCanaanite.com on a recent morning. “They had a 26-acre farm there. We had a nice house. Didn’t have any running water.