News

Disorderly, Assault Charges for New Canaan Man, 32

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Police last week arrested a 32-year-old Michigan Road man and charged him with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. At about 6:31 p.m. on April 20, officers were dispatched to the lobby of police headquarters on a report of a family dispute earlier in the day, authorities said. Following an investigation, police brought the misdemeanor charges. 

It isn’t clear what the dispute involved or where it occurred, how it turned physical, whether or how the man is related to the victim or what was the extent of the victim’s injuries. Police declined to provide details, saying the incident was a domestic matter. Under state law, a person is guilty of disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or by offensive or disorderly conduct, annoys or interferes with another person, among other reasons.

Election 2019

Moynihan, Williams To Seek Re-Election [UPDATED]

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New Canaan First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectman Nick Williams announced Thursday that they’ll seek re-election to the Board of Selectmen this year. Reading from a prepared statement he’d sent to local media prior to a biweekly press briefing in his Town Hall office, Moynihan said he’s been “honored and privileged to serve as first selectman of New Canaan.”

“I enjoy coming to work every day to help make New Canaan an even better place to live and raise a family,” he said. “I am very pleased with the success that we have had in our first 17 months. I would like to continue to serve the town that my wife Mim and I have called home for the last 38 years. I especially enjoy working with our talented and dedicated team of Town employees and collaboratively with our volunteers on the many boards and commissions that make New Canaan run.”

Both Republicans, Williams joined Moynihan at the press briefing, which was also attended by Patch and Hearst Connecticut reporters.

Allyson Halm

0684-Radi0: Wild Springtime in New Canaan

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free weekly podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section, about what residents should expect from local wildlife, now that spring has arrived in earnest. This installment of 0684-Radi0 is sponsored by the New Canaan Land Trust, a nationally accredited land trust working to protect and steward open space in our community. Join the New Canaan Land Trust at its upcoming Arbor Day Celebration at the Silvermine-Fowler Preserve, from 1 to p.m. on Sunday, April 28, for a native plant workshop, guided walk, and family-friendly scavenger hunt. Here are some recent past episodes of 0684-Radi0:

Board of Education

School Start Times: Board of Ed Debates Whether To Include Expensive ‘Two-Tiered’ Busing System in Survey

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Board of Education members on Monday night debated whether to remove an expensive option to start school times later from a survey of the school and wider community that is to go out next week. It would cost an estimated $1.2 million to $1.4 million annually beyond what New Canaan currently pays for its “three-tiered” busing system (about $3.2 million per year) to switch to a “two-tiered” option that would require more buses to get kids to school. 

Whereas the public schools currently start between 7:30 and 9 a.m., the two-tiered option—the most expensive presented by a consultant in November—would see all of Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School start at 8:15 a.m. while all three elementary schools would start at 9:10 a.m.

Noting that the district doesn’t yet know what its spending request for fiscal year 2021 will be, Board of Ed Chairman Brendan Hayes said that if “we think we are going to reallocate $1 million of our budget into a two-tier system and we decide that it’s in the best interests of students to remove that $1 million from two or three programs—and we think because of all the work that we have done, with the administration, that that is the absolute best thing that we can do for all of the students in New Canaan—then that is what it is.”

“That is what we should bring forward,” he said during the meeting, held in the Wagner Room at New Canaan High School. “We may decide that we want to increase the budget by that incremental $1.3 million and we can explain to everybody in town why we are doing that, why it is the absolute best thing for all the kids in town,” Hayes added. “And it may be the Town Council and Board of Finance disagree with us and say, ‘You’ve to cut $1.3 million.’ OK, then we are not making that change.

News

Bronx Man Arrested After Attempted Fraudulent Purchase of $1,100 iPhone at Elm Street Store

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Police on Tuesday night arrested a 65-year-old Bronx, N.Y. man suspected of trying to make fraudulent purchases at an Elm Street store. At about 7:31 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Verizon store, where the man was trying to buy an $1,100 iPhone using another person’s account, according to a police report. The man had in his possession a fraudulent New Jersey driver’s license and a credit card with the same name as that license, the report said. Following an investigation, police charged the man with second-degree forgery, third-degree identity theft, credit card theft and criminal attempt to fourth-degree larceny. He was held on $10,000 bond and scheduled to appear Wednesday in state Superior Court in Norwalk.