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New Canaan Police at 4:02 p.m. on Sept. 24 received a report of a wallet missing from a South Avenue home. ***
The Fall Fair—food, games, music—is coming Oct. 9 to 11 at the New Canaan Nature Center. Details here.
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‘We Are Going To Build It’: Developer Plans Q4 Groundbreaking on 102-Unit Affordable Complex at Weed and Elm
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The local developer planning to build a 102-unit apartment complex at Weed and Elm Streets—with 30% of those units designated as “affordable” rentals, under the state’s definition—says he is planning to break ground in the fourth quarter. Arnold Karp of New Canaan-based Karp Associates and principal of the limited liability company that owns a 3.1 acre lot at 751 Weed St., said his team is “working with plans with the architect who is based in Vienna, Va. and we are hoping to have buildable plans and groundbreaking in the fourth quarter of this year.”
“If everything goes well, we are hoping to break ground and dig through the winter and to be framing by springtime,” Karp said when asked during an interview about the project’s timeline. Denied by the New Canaan Planning & Zoning Commission, the affordable housing project at Weed and Elm takes advantage of a state law widely known by its statute number. Under 8-30g, in towns where less than 10% of all housing stock qualifies as affordable, developers who propose projects where a certain number of units are set aside to rent at affordable rates may appeal to the state after a local P&Z Commission denies their applications.
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District Worker Sues NCPS and Town, Claiming Discrimination
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A New Canaan Public Schools building manager is suing the district and town, saying he was discriminated against when placed on administrative leave following a confrontation at work two-plus years ago. The plaintiff, David Reyes, also has been discriminated against by being prevented from working overtime, according to the complaint, filed July 7 by attorney John T. Bochanis of Bridgeport-based Daly, Weihing & Bochanis, LLC. He is Hispanic and Brown, the complaint said. Reyes, who is Hispanic and Brown, according to the lawsuit, has been employed by the public schools since 2013 and has served as a building manager for five years. His direct supervisor is the director of facilities, it said.
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Warrant: Woman, 45, Stole $6,000 Leather Jacket from Ralph Lauren
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Police last week arrested a 45-year-old Hamden woman by warrant in connection with the theft of a $5,990 leather jacket and $848 Polo ID handbag from the Ralph Lauren store in January, court records show.
Employees at the Elm Street business didn’t realize at first that the items had been stolen on Jan. 7, but they came up missing nearly two months later during a review of inventory, according to an affidavit from Officer Bryan Connolly that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed July 27 by state Superior Court judge Gary White.
Security footage from the day in question “showed a white female with a slim build standing behind a table and stealing the aforementioned jacket by concealing it in her large bag after she had tried it on,” Connolly said in the arrest warrant application, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The arrest warrant application continued: “Concurrently, there were two males (one black/one white) inside the store, as well, who appeared to be distracting store associates. The female suspect then walked toward the front of the store and grabbed the Polo ID bag before exiting quickly at 1505 hours.”
She had entered the store just four minutes earlier, the application said.
The woman was “wearing a long, brown coat, jeans and dark boots,” it said. “When she took off her coat inside the store, she could be seen wearing a white top, black cardigan and she had a lanyard with what appeared to be an ID card around her neck,” the arrest warrant application said.
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Podcast: ‘The Beatles: A Magical Musical History Tour’ Coming to New Canaan
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In this installment of 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to musician Eliot Goldberg, host of the Sonic Impact podcast, about a two-part exploration and celebration of The Beatles coming next month to New Canaan. Presented by the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society, the first installment of “The Beatles: A Magical Musical History Tour” will be held 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 at St. Michael’s Church (tickets here). The second installment will be held Sunday, Nov.