"5 Things I'm Obsessed With"

Phones and Netflix: Obsessions for Two New Canaan Teens

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. For the first entry of “5 Things I’m Obsessed With” this summer, NewCanaanite.com talked with rising New Canaan High School senior Casey Begoon and his friend Mitchell O’Connor, who attends The New Hampton School in Vermont as they were walking out of Radio Shack on Park Street. Here’s what they said:

Casey Begoon, 17

My iPhone
Netflix
Hockey
Swimming
Going to the beach

 

Mitchell O’Connor, 17

Netflix
TV(in general)
The gym (“at one point at least”)
The pool
My phone

Around Town

Pop Up Park: New Canaanites Gather to Cheer on U.S. Soccer Team

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The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. To pause the slideshow below for captions, just move your cursor over it, article continues below. [acx_slideshow name=”Pop Up Park World Cup 2014″]

 

As the sun set on New Canaan’s Pop Up Park (set up between Morse Court and Elm on South Avenue), hundreds of New Canaanites gathered around three flat-screen TVs beneath and around a white party tent early Sunday evening to cheer on the United States Men’s National Soccer Team as they took on a strong Portuguese team (ranked #4 in the world) in a thrilling group showdown of the 2014 World Cup. (New Canaan Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tucker Murphy estimated that more than 500 residents were at the park at its height.)

Prior to kickoff, activities such as a raffle for a custom-designed USA blazer and other prizes were in full swing as piles of pizza boxes were devoured by hungry soccer fans. The event was a joint effort of the New Canaan Soccer Association with support from the Local First Fund of the New Canaan Community Foundation, Town of New Canaan, the chamber, Realty Guild and ESPN.

Faces of New Canaan

New Canaan Legend 2-5-0 Leaves for Another ‘NC,’ Friends Gather to Say Farewell

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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 beginning of Mark ‘2-5-0’ Rearick’s journey to receiving the nickname that would stick with him for the next 50 years was, of all places, a hospital bed in the Rearick household where the man would spend 10 weeks reviving an injured back from shoveling snow after his freshman football season in 1963. It was during this period of rest when the former 6’ 3’’, 180 pound wide-receiver would become a 240 pound lineman. And it was this surprise transformation that would lead then head coach Joe Sikorski to give Rearick the name ‘2-5-0’ when he returned to football the following season. After teammates Milt Word and Dr. Timothy Empkie eventually started calling him the name, Mr. Rearick would be known from then on to everyone simply as ‘2-5-0.’