Bruce Gluck

Former Food Services Director Arrested in Connection with Lunch Ladies’ Larceny Case

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Police on Monday arrested the district’s former director of food services by warrant in connection with the widely publicized theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from two public school cafeterias. Bruce Gluck, 61, of Middletown Springs, Vt., was charged with first-degree larceny-defrauding a public community, conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny and tampering with physical evidence. 

The arrest comes nine months after two sisters who ran food services at Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School each were charged with felony larceny in connection with the theft of nearly $500,000 from the school cafeterias between 2012 and 2017. An attorney for one of the sisters in the wake his client’s arrest pointed a finger at Gluck, saying the former food services director may have been involved in a fraud. According to a press release issued Wednesday by Lt. Jason Ferraro, the New Canaan Police Department’s public information officer, the investigation that police had launched in December 2017 when district officials first notified authorities about “financial discrepancies” discovered “with the handling of cash” at the cafeterias has continued. 

“Further examination of bank and other records, as well statements gathered in the first phase of the investigation, identified Food Services Director Bruce Gluck as another suspect,” Ferraro said in the press release. “Among other findings, banking records showed that Gluck made large cash deposits during the theft timeframe.

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New Canaan High School 3rd Quarter Honor Roll

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The following lists of honors and high honors students from New Canaan High School is supplied by the district. The high honors lists are first, sorted by grade. Congratulations to all. Grade 12 High Honors

Aurelio Alvarez     
Myles Baliotti     
Kelly Barker     
Erin Bean     
Lenore Belodeau     
Lauren Bisceglia     
Caitlin Blair     
Margaux Brennan     
Kevin Brunner     
Emily Bryant     
William Comyns     
Lucy Coutts    
Oliver Crookenden     
Luke Crowley     
Chase Crum     
Elizabeth Cuoco     
Katherine Cutler     
Reid Dahill     
Emily Dowdle     
Julianne Dunn     
Jessica Eccleston     
Lily Farriss     
Eileen Flynn     
Maxwell Fonss     
Spencer Frye     
Emily Gaeta     
Karan Gaikwad     
Cem Geray     
Layla Gonzalez     
Elizabeth Greer     
Charlotte Hamilton     
Katherine Jahns     
Meghan Kloud     
Dylan Koproski     
Samantha Kortekaas     
Tyler Kortekaas     
Ryan Kurtzman     
Sophie Lamaker     
Ross Lawrence     
Benjamin Levin     
Campbell Lewis     
Tyler Liffmann     
Maximilian Lindeis     
Jennifer Loomis     
Daniel Lu     
Theresa Marciano     
Solomeya Marynovych     
Caroline Mayock     
Jia Yao Mize     
Tucker Morley     
Kaitlyn Mulcahy     
Emily Murphy     
Ava Nichols     
Aditya Ogale     
Ana Julia Oliveira     
Liam Orr     
Ann Pakhayev     
Shane Pickering     
Max Plum     
Kathleen Reeves     
George Richardson     
Jonathan Richardson     
Jacob Ritz     
Stephen Rivas     
VeNae Rosdahl     
Kiera Russo     
Benjamin Sarda     
Dylan Shane     
Christian Sibbett     
Nathan Sibbett     
Michelle Siegel     
Halle Simms     
John Slattery     
Campbell Slazyk     
Alexis Smith     
Sarah Spadaccini     
Katelyn Sparks     
Erin Spiess     J
ulen Sprackling     
Chloe Stein     
Madeleine Sturcke     
Julia Tamburro     
Natasha Tchir     
Elizabeth Tedford     
Gwynneth Tenney     
Elaina Tiller     
Katherine Unger     
Gwenan Walker     
Julia Weitz     
Conor West     
Emma Wheeler    

Grade 11 High Honors

Riana Afshar     
Alexander Arnone     
Maria Estelle Asker     
Samuel Augustine     
Alexis Axon     
Claire Batchelor     
Ryan Benevento     
Audrey Bloom     
Claire Brunner     
Alexandra Budnick     
Alexandra Bussan     
Brian Campe     
Isabelle Carpenter     
Christopher Carratu     
Benjamin Castle     
Tara Chugh     
Naomi Cimino     
David Cochran     
Bartholomew Codd     
Patrick Colwell     
Helen Culpepper     
Elise Curren     
Adrian Davis     
Griffen Dayton     
Lauren Deligtisch     
Elizabeth DeMarino     
Henry DiCapua     
Vivian Ding     
Heather Doherty     
Elizabeth Dolan     
Benjamin Dooley     
Katherine Dunn     
Sophie Duplock     
Kristina Dyrvik     
Robert Evans     
Ryan Ferraro     
Kaitlyn Fico     
Aaron Fishman     
Taylor Frame     
Andrew Gallois     
Lauren Gilbert     
Paula Graham     
Isabella Grecco     
Liam Griffiths     
Drew Guida     
Amanda Hall     
Alexandra Harte     
Peter Heron     
William Hevesy     
Nicholas Hoge     
Steven Hoge     
Margaret Holahan     
Nash Hooper     
Sofia Ippolito     
Andrew Jameson     
Hollis Kammerer     
Theodore Kammerer     
Samuel Kend     
Alyssa Khoo     
Emily Knight     
Cella Kove     
Michelle LaBadie     
Alyssa Lee     
Allison Leopold     
Weston Link     
Katherine Lisecky     
Natalie Lopez     
Ryan Lytle     
Timothy Manzella     
Thomas Marshall     
Peter Mason     
Ryan McAleer     
Dylan McDonald     
Kearney McKiernan     
Anna Thérѐse Mehra     
Alexander Meintzer     
Andrew Mihailoff     
George Moore     
John Moore     
Theodore Nelson     
Teresa Oliveira     
Bennett Ong     
Isabella Orlando     
Sophia Palamenti     
Alexandra Pepe     
Dylan Pescatore     
Martina Pincione     
Henry Pohle     
Morgan Porter     
Sophie Potter     
Olivia Prazenka Moor     
Kristen Raffaele     
James Ragusa     
John Renda     
Charles Richardson     
Skyler Risom     
Thomas Roscoe     
Karoline Sauan Gregorian     
Riley Seelert     
Lily Shive     
Eva Spangler     
Charlotte St. Raymond     
Christine Stadnik-Poteroba     
Finneas Stanley     
Georgia Stewart     
Tyler Sung     
Hannah Suthons     
Thomas Suthons     
Isha Teredesai     
Benjamin Thorsheim     
Daniel Tierney     
Caroline Tuffy     
Emma Turner     
Ishan Tyagi     
Emma Uzgiris     
Sofia Vallejo Luna     
Colin Vetterli     
Pablo Villa     
Meredith Waldron     
Sarah Wells     
Justin Wietfeldt     
Eric Wills     
Sophia Yee     
Emma Youngman    

Grade 10 High Honors

Madeline Abbott     
Chloe Adams     
Saimanish Akavaramu     
Alexis Angermueller     
Harrison Appelt     
Thomas Bausman     
Julia Bazata     
Caroline Beecher     
Evan Beiles     
William Besgen     
Gabriella Bisesi     
Charles Borthwick     
William Bozzella     
Gavin Bramwit     
Lila Brennan     
Caroline Brooks     
Reid Brown     
Carissa Bruno     
Blaine Burke     
Nicolas Butler     
Emma Caione     
Ryan Caione     
Christopher Canet     
Henry Cannon     
Julia Carpi     
Christian Carson     
Annabelle Catlin     
John Catlin     
Alexandra Cioffi     
Benjamin Clay     
Wesley Cloud     
Sara Conroy     
Lydon Cooney     
Ryan Corbett     
Daisy Crystal     
Annabella Cuenca Goddard     
Morgan Daniel     
James Dathan     
Edmund DeClue     
Sarah DiCosmo     
Noah Dorfsman     
Demetria Dresser     
John Eccleston     
Carter Ellis     
Isabella Fernandez     
Marina Forni     
Sadie Frame     
Charlotte Gelhaus     
Eren Geray     
Emma Gibbens     
Riley Gibbons     
Alexandra Gillespie     
Ava Gjertsen     
John Goetz     
Benjamin Graham     
Andrea Gravereaux     
Lillian Gray     
Madison Grenauer     
Meghan Griffiths     
Elyssa Grogan     
William Haddad     
Maddie Haley     
Lindsay Hall     
Addison Hanrattie     
McKenna Harden     
Oliver Harris     
Sophie Havens     
Ethan Jones     
Shannon Jordan     
Neya Krishnan     
Dhiraj Kuttichirayil     
Garrett Ladley     
Julia Lamoreaux     
Jackson LaMorte     
Eleanor Lapin     
Dylan Lee     
Mark Levin     
Olivia Li     
Olivia Licata     
Henry Lindberg     
Olivia Lockhart     
Christopher Luchette     
Ellie Luciano     
Megan Lydon     
Amber Lynch     
Maren Lysenko     
Alexa Madrid     
Holly McGoldrick     
Quinn McKiernan     
Ryan McLallen     
Joseph McLaughlin     
Colin Mennitt     
Matilde Miranda     
Emily Moore     
Hannah Moore     
Denis Mulcahy     
Cameron Murphy     
John Murphy     
Molly Murphy     
Yubin Na     
Yasmin Navarro Gundersen     
Courtney O’Connell     
Jack O’Donnell     
Valerie O’Neill     
Emma Ognibene     
Luca Palamenti     
Matthew Panella     
Rebecca Panella     
Austin Platt     
John Plum     
Lily Plum     
Liam Power     
Oliver Power     
Winston Prescott     
George Radoslavov     
Clayton Reehl     
Vivian Reeves     
Gavin Reid     
Chloe Reidy     
Ian Rocha     
Sophia Rosano     
Oliver Russell     
Ashley Ruth     
Sophie Salmini     
Yukta Sant     
Sadie Schoonmaker     
Emma Schuh     
Caroline Sibbett     
Imogen Smith     
Elle Sneddon     
Kyle Sneddon     
Kendall Somma     
Elizabeth St.

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.

Amy Murphy Carroll

Board of Finance Approves Bonding for Estimated $2 Million Roof Replacement at South School

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The Board of Finance on Tuesday voted unanimously in support of nearly $2.2 in bonding for the replacement of the roof at South School—a project that’s expected to take place this summer and to be completed by the start of next academic year. As Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi had outlined during the budget season just passed, the 20-year-old roof has reached the end of its useful life and has started to fail, with water coming in through the ceiling in places following heavy rain. The project, which is expected to come in at about $2 million, went out to bid in January and will be completed by North Haven-based Greenwood Industries Inc., New Canaan Public Schools Director of Finance and Operations Dr. Jo-Ann Keating said. The overall $2,046,000 figure is less than the nearly $2.2 million that town funding bodies approved in the capital budget for fiscal year 2020—it represents $1.6 million with a 20% contingency and $100,000 in soft costs, according to Keating. The town will only bond what is spent, officials said.

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New Access Road Connecting NCHS To Waveny Proposed, Including Parking Expansion

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Saying New Canaan High School students already park in the area, town officials are proposing a new access road that will be flanked by parking, connecting the southernmost NCHS lot with an unpaved lot that will be improved and expanded to offer even more spaces. The new access road would run along the same line laid out by the pedestrian path that led to the former Summer Theatre of New Canaan site in Waveny Park and could be gated at either end for specific hours to control vehicular access to the high school, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. 

As it is, the unmilled parking area closest to the water towers yields about 25 parking spaces, or 40 when motorists pull onto the grass and in among trees that flank it, Mann told members of the Parks & Recreation Commission at their most recent meeting. “So the thought was to try and basically make the parking a little bit more uniform and maximize the amount of space that we have and maximize the amount of parking,” he said during the Commission’s March 13 meeting, held at Town Hall. “It’s not going to draw more cars—they are already here in the park—we want them not to park so haphazardly, on the grass and the canopy not under trees, compacting the soil and preventing air and water from getting to the trees and killing the trees.”

The plan would yield about 75 new spaces, he said. In addition, the expanded parking and improved ingress and egress to the the high school would improve emergency vehicle access to the campus, and would help serve new turf athletic fields that town officials envision using as a revenue source by hosting regional sports events, Mann said.