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New Canaan Police are investigating the theft of a package from a Scofield Lane mailbox, reported at 12:42 p.m. Tuesday. ***

Here are four weekend events from local organizations that foster and promote the arts:

“Rounding Third” is showing at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny, one-weekend-only: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 5 p.m. Sunday (tickets here). Here’s some background on the Town Players of New Canaan production. The 76th “A-One” show is on Silvermine Galleries. “The Bard at Bristow” from Summer Theatre of New Canaan is coming to Bristow Park on Sunday (there are still some tickets available, see here).

News

Town To Spend $150,000 on New Tasers for NCPD

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a $150,000 contract with a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company to replace the New Canaan Police Department’s tasers. The contract with Axon Technologies calls for 47 new tasers for use by the department’s patrol officers, according to Chief John DiFederico. “ We put this off for a couple of years because we purchased the new firearms,” DiFederico told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. 

He added: “The current tasers that we have reached end of life, are no longer supported by Axon, and this will equip all officers, all patrol officers with the new technology, the new version of the taser. It’s much more advanced, greater capabilities as far as distance. I suppose the old ones are 15 feet, these are 25 feet, so it’s a much safer distance.

News

Podcast: Town Players of New Canaan Opens ‘Rounding Third’ on Thursday

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Deborah Burke, the creative director at the Town Players of New Canaan on Thursday, about “Rounding Third” which opens Thursday at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny. The one-weekend-only show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 5 p.m. Sunday (tickets here). 

Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

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Warrant: New Canaan Woman, 53, Drove Drunk into Utility Pole

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Police last week arrested a 53-year-old New Canaan woman by warrant in connection with a car crash this summer where she tested at nearly three times the legal limit. At about 8:17 p.m. on Aug. 7 (a Friday), emergency responders were dispatched to East Avenue and Summer Street, where a Jeep had crashed into a utility pole, according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Officer Nolan Heintz that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Sept. 21 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. The front end of the vehicle itself “sustained heavy damage with multiple airbag deployments” while the driver, when approached by Heintz, “asked me something incoherently about going to Norwalk but could not explain with any additional context,” he said in the arrest warrant application, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. 

Asked if she was hurt and wanted to go to Norwalk Hospital, the woman “mumbled no” and then “did not acknowledge my statement” when advised about the severity of the crash, the application said.

Government

‘It’s a Cluster You-Know-What’: Route 106 Repaving at Silvermine-Canoe Hill To Start Wednesday

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Town officials on Tuesday warned residents to avoid the area of Route 106/Silvermine Road between Canoe Hill and Valley Roads as the frequently delayed repaving of that state road gets underway this week. The paving has already been “delayed twice,” according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “They’re going to start Wednesday,” he told the Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. Mann continued: “They say it’s four weeks. I’m saying it’s six weeks, because it’s a monster amount of work that has to be done, and I would tell the residents to just avoid the area.