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Driftway Lane Colonial Sells for $2 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

July 19

61 Old Rock Lane (vacant land)

$165,000
Nelson Tavares to Michael Karacsony

July 17

21 Driftway Lane

$2,060,000
Adam L. Biren to Leonardo Salgado 

72 Woods Ends Road

$2.8 million
72 Woods End Road LLC to Elizabeth F. Keogh

July 16

100 Valley Road

$2,450,000
Bruce Rigione to Caroline Simons

56 Pequot Lane

$5.6 million
Mark Tinker to JSDS Holdings LLC

July 15

57 Gower Road

$2,895,000
Karl J. Nelson to Patricia Capone

428 Laurel Road

$2,235,000
Lois Charlene Klem to Jessica Stiles

311 Mill Road

$3,486,000
Raymond Ariola to Walshe Birney

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Donald Craig Gilbert, 91

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Donald Craig Gilbert of New Canaan, CT, passed away July 13, 2024, at home with his wife by his side. Don, whose working life started in the Marine Corps and ended on Madison Avenue, was 91. He flew fighter jets in the 1950s, worked for ad giant J. Walter Thompson in the 1960s, and ran his own Manhattan consulting and executive search firm for 40 years, specializing in advertising agencies and marketing companies. He was a pilot, sailor, skier, avid reader and a collector of art. Don was born in New York City on Jan.

New Canaan Police Deparmtent

Arrest Warrant: Local Man Harassed by Ex

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Police last week arrested a 34-year-old New Canaan woman by warrant and charged her with second-degree harassment. The woman, who is the ex-girlfriend of the victim, has repeatedly harassed the victim through social media platforms, emails, texts, and calls, court documents show. 

Early this June, the victim said his ex-fiancee and mother to their children notified him that his ex-girlfriend had commented under a photo of him on Facebook. The comment said, “Wondering if his ex-wife posted this – he’s a cocky jerk and i am vindictive/scheming a final vengeance! He’s also a rat.” The comment was dated two weeks before the date the victim was made aware of it, court documents show. 

Police confirmed that the account and profile picture from which the comment came matched that of the ex-girlfriend and that further investigation of the profile showed more pictures of her and descriptions of her educational history which matched the ex-girlfriend’s known education, according to a police affidavit. The following day, police responded to the front desk of NCPD to speak to the victim regarding harassment, according to the arrest warrant application filed by New Canaan Police and signed in July by the prosecuting attorney and state Superior Court Judge Robert.

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Raechelle Freeman, 80

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Raechelle Freeman—remembered locally as Shelley Dinan, a career speech pathologist and special education teacher for New Canaan Public Schools—died peacefully Sunday at Stamford Hospital, family by her side, following a courageous two-and-a-half year battle with myelofibrosis. She was 80. Born Raechelle Sandra Ashbaugh on Nov. 15, 1943 in Neptune, N.J., she was the daughter of Ivan and Bernice Blum Ashbaugh. 

Energetic, smart, irreverent and fun, she grew up on the Jersey Shore in Belmar with her little sister, Karen, graduating from Manasquan High School. Through her education and professional work, Shelley soon began migrating north toward New Canaan.