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New Canaan Police are investigating the theft of jewelry from a Smith Ridge Road home recently occupied by new owners, reported at 7:41 a.m. on Aug. 6. ***
The fall session at Silvermine Art School opens Sept. 14, see classes and workshops here. ***
Police at 9:32 a.m. on Aug.
Police on July 31 arrested an 18-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with evading responsibility following a car crash. At about 9:32 p.m. on July 30 (a Thursday), officers responded to the intersection of South Avenue and Bank Street on a report of a two-car crash where one vehicle left the scene, police said. Through an investigation, authorities learned that one car had stopped for a light while a second vehicle rear-ended it, causing damage and then making a U-turn and driving off, according to a police report. Police identified the evading vehicle through an investigation and charged the teen with the misdemeanor offense. He also was cited for following too closely.
The teen was released after promising to appear Aug.
New Canaan firefighters late Friday responded to a blaze in the attic of a 2005-built home on Old Stamford Road, officials say. No one was home or injured during the incident at 27 Old Stamford Road, according to a press release issued by Fire Chief William Perritt. An automatic fire alarm alerted NCFD at about 7:53 p.m. on Aug. 7, while the home’s occupants were out to dinner, the press release said. Led by Lt. VJ Belletto, firefighters arrived on scene two minutes after dispatch “and reported heavy fire from the attic of a 2 ½ story private dwelling.”
A second alarm brought fire companies from Norwalk, Stamford and Wilton to the scene while Darien and Noroton Heights covered NCFD and local firefighters “forced the front door, located the attic access, and advanced a hose line to the attic,” Perritt said in the release.
“Within six minutes of arrival, members had advanced a hose line into the attic via the interior stairs extinguishing the fire and completing a search of the structure,” it said.
Firefighters “performed overhaul to ensure there was no fire extension and also performed extensive salvage operations to protect the residents’ possessions on the lower floors,” Perritt said.
New Canaan Police at 7:14 a.m. on July 26 received a report of a vehicle stolen from a Brinckerhoff Avenue driveway. The investigation is ongoing, police said. ***
Police are investigating a report of jewelry missing from a Middle Ridge Road home, received at 12:53 p.m. on July 24. ***
New Canaan Public Schools has appointed Kasey Diotte as the district’s director of finance and operations, effective Aug. 17.
In this installment of 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to New Canaan Police Chief John DiFederico about the department’s plans for enforcing the town’s newly adopted summertime ban on gas-powered leaf blowers (its full text can be read here under “Exhibit A”—scroll down). Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0: