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Frogtown Road Woman a Victim of ID Theft

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. At about 3:25 p.m. on July 27 at  a 38-year-old woman on Frogtown Road told police that she’d been the victim of identity theft. According to according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc, NCPD’s public information officer, the woman received several pieces of mail on the same day from different retail stores showing that someone had opened up, or attempted to open up, lines of credit at the stores in her name and using her personal information. Police reports showed that credit had been opened in the following stores: $3,000 from Lowe’s, $5,936.74 from hhgregg (Gregg Appliances), $5,445 from Helzberg Diamonds, and $0 from Littman Jewelers, which rejected a request for a credit increase.

Faces of New Canaan

Faces of New Canaan: Cynthia Gorey

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. In this installment of “Faces of New Canaan,” we sat down with Cynthia Gorey, executive director of the New Canaan Community Foundation (which has some “I [Heart] New Canaan” magnets left), to learn a little more about everything from how she got to be where she is today to a trip to Spain with her sons that affirmed her beliefs about soccer’s popularity in Europe. Read all of this and more in our transcribed interview below:

NewCanaanite.com: So, where are you from originally? Cynthia Gorey: Originally I’m from Massachusetts. I’m from a town called Marblehead which is kind of similar to this area.

Around Town

New Canaan Artist Ed Eberman’s Work Showing Now at New Canaan Library

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. The late Edwin Eberman—a man known to New Canaanites as a local artist whose influence can be felt throughout our town—was born in 1905 in the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. There, Mr. Eberman worked a number of odd jobs—from construction project cost accountant to type setter of the local newspaper, before graduating from Roxboro High School where he was the editor and illustrator of the yearbook. Through all those years, Mr. Eberman nurtured and developed what became an abiding, lifelong passion for art. In fact, his daughter, New Canaan resident Alice Jennings, recalled on a recent afternoon, he was known to say that he could not remember a time when he was not “always drawing.”

“Every Halloween my parents would not give out candy but my Dad would paint everybody in their costumes,” Ms. Jennings recalled.

Around Town

Songs of Summer: What Are Locals Listening to?

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. On a humid afternoon this week, NewCanaanite.com took a walk downtown to get an idea of what songs people are listening to this summer. Here’s what a few of them had to say:

Alyssa Malner, Calli Wadsworth, Katie Conner

Here are the top picks that these three girls came up with while relaxing on the patio outside of Starbucks:

Habits(Stay High) – Tove Lo
Sunshine – Matisyahu
Fancy – Iggy Azalea

“I like Sunshine because it makes me happy and it’s easy to dance to in the car,” Calli Wadsworth said. Wynn Hollis, Mackenzie Hollis

These two sisters from Darien chose these two songs with a footnote that they enjoy “pretty much anything by Beyoncé.”

Part II (On The Run) – Beyoncé and Jay-Z
Summer – Calvin Harris

Cam Hutchins

Finally we talked with the chair of the Conservation Commission, Cam Hutchins, to see what his favorite song is. That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman

“I like how it’s evocative of summer memories,” he said.

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Staying Safe: New Canaan Experts Address Sexual Assault on College Campuses

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. Here are three tips that New Canaan’s Margie Hahn, a Villanova University student, says every rising college freshman from town should keep in his or her back pocket:

Find and familiarize yourself with on-campus resources. Identify someone whom you feel comfortable talking to. Surround yourself with people that you respect and rely on who will be there for you and help you out. Margie also noted how much pride she feels seeing New Canaan’s adamant support for giving students the tools and knowledge they need before going off to college.