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Administrators Formalize New NCHS Student Requirements for Popular ‘Ramstock’ Music Festival

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The New Canaan High School Student Coalition and administrators this year formalized a rule requiring that at least one-half of the players in bands participating in an annual music festival be current NCHS students. The rule, now appearing on flyers and informational emails for Ramstock, existed on an ad hoc basis for years. It has opened a rift between some students and teachers, according to NCHS Student Coalition leader Priscilla Schulz. “The participants should go to New Canaan High School,” Schulz said. “I’m sure that those students that are in bands with others not going to the high school don’t like the rule, but I definitely understand why the rule was put in place.”

Advocates for the policy say that Ramstock is meant to showcase the talents and passions of NCHS students only.

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NCHS Pura Vida Club to Host Food Packing Event This Weekend

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Ian Knechtle, a 2010 NCHS graduate, came across a helpless boy nicknamed Zorro in his sophomore year, during a mission trip in Costa Rica that had been organized by a nonprofit that his mother had founded, Pura Vida for Children. Lacking food and shelter, the boy saw Knechtle and others in the organization build him a home and provide the basic necessities that he lacked—items many would take for granted. “We really saved his life,” recalled Knechtle, who would go on that year, 2007, to found the Pura Vida Club at New Canaan High School. Since then, the organization has become a NCHS fixture and popular option among Club Fair sign-ups each fall. Starting Friday and through the weekend, Pura Vida is teaming up with the nonprofit organization Feed My Starving Children for a food packing event at the NCHS cafeteria (sign up here to help).

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PHOTOS: Senior ‘Prom-Posal’ Scavenger Hunt Wins NewCanaanite.com Contest

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NewCanaanite.com is happy to announce the winner of its first annual “Prom-posal” Photo Contest for the Senior Prom. New Canaan High School senior Chase Jansen asked out his date, sophomore Freia Mierendorf, through an involved scavenger hunt that started at a Burtis Avenue business and finished at Irwin park—see photos. Jansen wins a $50 gift certificate that’s good at dozens of New Canaan businesses. His entry was deemed best based on the criteria of creativity, humor and originality, as per a panel of judges convened by the New Canaanite editors that included representatives from the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce. We’ve included honorable mention finalists for this year’s Senior Prom-posal contest in the gallery, too.

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School Cafeterias Easily Pass Health Inspections; ‘Risk Factor’ Violations at East and NCHS

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All five of New Canaan’s public school cafeterias aced recent unannounced inspections by the New Canaan Health Department. Each school received a score of at least a 97 out of a possible 100 points. Two of the cafeterias were cited for “risk factor” violations- one at East School and one at the high school. Their violations were only worth two points, but a four point “risk factor” violation would result in an automatic inspection failure.  South School and West School both earned perfect scores on their inspections.

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PHOTOS: ‘Prom-Posal’ By Cappuccino Wins Inaugural Junior Prom Contest; Senior Prom Entries Due Friday

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NewCanaanite.com is happy to announce the winner of its first annual “Prom-posal” Photo Contest. New Canaan High School junior Trevor Konspore asked out his date, sophomore Danielle MacKimm, via Zumbach’s cappuccino (see photo above). Konspore has won a $50 gift certificate that’s good at dozens of New Canaan businesses. His entry was deemed best based on the criteria of creativity, humor and originality, as per a panel of judges convened by the New Canaanite editors that included representatives from the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce. We’ve included honorable mention finalists for this year’s Junior Prom-posal contest in the gallery, too. Thanks for your submissions, everyone!