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Did You Hear … ?

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New Canaan Police at 12:55 p.m. on April 2 received a report from a Ferris Hill Road homeowner of a duplicate check for services at the house being cashed by a contractor. The investigation is ongoing. ***

Coming next week: New Canaan Chamber Music’s next concerts. Titled “Clarinet Meets Classical Accordion!” concerts will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 and 7 p.m. on Friday, April 17 at First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan. They will feature Yoonah Kim (clarinet), Ryan Corbett (accordion) and Andrew Armstrong (piano), the organization’s founder and artistic director.

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‘The Ticks Are Back’: Three New Canaan Ticks Test Positive for Lyme

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Three ticks submitted last month to a state facility via the New Canaan Health Department tested positive for Lyme disease, officials say. In all, 13 ticks were submitted in March to the New Haven-based Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, according to New Canaan Health Director Amy Lehaney. “The ticks are back,” Lehaney told members of the Health & Human Services Commission during their regular meeting, held Tuesday at Town Hall and via videoconference. “So make sure you’re doing your tick check. It was a long cold winter and apparently it has ended.

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‘New Canaan Korean School’ Marks Two Years

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It was 2023, the year that pandemic-related restrictions finally lifted, when Dr. Nara Jeong, New Canaan mom to two girls, began looking for a Korean language school for her kids. Her younger daughter was having “some difficulty with speaking in both languages, English and Korean,” Jeong recalled on a recent afternoon. Yet the closest Korean language schools were about 40 minutes away—in Scarsdale, N.Y. and New Haven, she recalled, and were operated under the auspices of churches. Jeong enrolled her kids in the latter school but “it was still too far for me, with my kids’ schedules getting busier on the weekends, especially with sports.”

After talking to the former principal of a Korean school in Hartford, Neong and some of her friends within New Canaan’s small Korean population —including fellow parents at the United Methodist Preschool—decided to launch their own. “They really want their kids to learn Korean,” she said.

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Coffee’s on for Thursday

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Join fellow residents and NewCanaanite.com editor Michael Dinan for the monthly Community Coffee, to be held 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 2 in the Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium at New Canaan Library. The Coffee is presented in partnership with the library, and the brew is supplied by Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee (thank you, Doug). Salon Anastassia provides donuts, muffins and other baked goods. The free, public coffee is a group conversation about what’s happening around town, moderated by Dinan. Topics come from attendees and we spend no more than 10 minutes per subject. Those who would like to receive a friendly reminder email about the coffee—held the first Thursday of each month—should email Dinan at editor@newcanaanite.com.

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NCHS Junior Launches ‘New Canaan Dance Academy Foundation’ [UPDATED]

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Scarlett Stewart, a junior at New Canaan High School, has been involved in competitive dance since she was 11. As part of the New Canaan Dance Academy company, the sport and art form has seen Stewart and fellow dancers practice and rehearse 20-plus hours per week for four major annual events as far away as Boston, New Jersey, Orlando and even abroad. Yet as she progressed, Stewart also noticed something that she found unsettling when competing with companies from some city programs such as those in Bridgeport and Hartford—namely, those dancers were unable to travel as far for competitions or access the same training, classes and costumes. “I just felt if they had more resources, they’d be striving for more in the dance world,” Stewart said. So last fall, she brought an idea to Elaine Young, studio director and founder of NCDA: Launch a nonprofit arm to raise money for gifted dancers who need the help.