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New Canaan Police at 6:54 p.m. on Feb. 14 received a report of a smash-and-grab at Waveny. Nothing was taken from the vehicle, police said. ***
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John Rogers Fulkerson, age 84, of New Canaan, CT, beloved husband of Mary Ann B. Meils, passed away peacefully after struggling for several months following a brain injury. Born in Goose Creek, Texas on November 23, 1943, he was the younger of two brothers born to Roy and Mildred Fulkerson. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School where he was a star track athlete. His love of running continued into college, where he competed in cross country at Texas A & M University. After which he earned a PhD in Psychology at Baylor University.
Neighbors of a planned 102-unit affordable housing complex at Weed and Elm Streets—including a man arrested in 2023 after getting physical with the project’s developers—last week lost their lawsuit seeking to halt that developers’ use of shared sewer and sanitary easements, court records show. The “preparatory activities for the work contemplated in the easement area”—which includes replacing 310 feet of 6-inch PVC drainage pipe with 8-inch PVC pipe—is “permitted” under both easements, state Superior Court Judge Edward Krumeich wrote in a Feb. 11 decision. “The unearthing and inspection of the sewer pipes and repair and replacement of any damaged or defective sewer pipes is permissible under the Sewer Easement,” Krumeich wrote in the 12-page decision. He continued: “Plaintiffs argued that the Sewer Easement was for a single-family home like the existing house and the homes in the Subdivision and did not envision the planned multi-unit use of Defendant’s Property.
New Canaan Police on Feb. 6 arrested a 45-year-old Corona, N.Y. man by warrant and charged him with fourth-degree larceny.
Already held at state Superior Court in Stamford, officers traveled there to serve the warrant, which stemmed from a larceny investigation launched last June, according to a police report.
Under state law, a person is guilty of the misdemeanor offense if they steal property whose value exceeds $1,000. The man is facing felony-level charges from area police departments:
Fifth-degree larceny, March 2025 offense (Greenwich Police)
Third-degree larceny, May 2025 offense (Darien Police)
Third-degree larceny, May 2025 offense (Greenwich Police)
Third-degree larceny, August 2025 offense (Darien Police)
He is scheduled for arraignment on March 23, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records.
The town is changing how out-of-town families acquire passes to the Steve Benko Pool, officials say. Nonresident families are charged far more (up to $1,450 per season this year) for passes to the popular Waveny facility than New Canaan families (at $455 as of 2020), and the number of passes issued to out-of-town families has always been capped. In the past, nonresident families also have had to reapply for a pass each year through a lottery system. This year, “we’re giving the people that were members last year first refusal,” according to Parks & Recreation Director John Howe.
“Just so that the family comes, they have a great time, they don’t have to go back into the lottery,” Howe told members of the Parks & Recreation Commission during their Feb. 11 meeting, held at Lapham Center and via videoconference.