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New Canaan’s 10-and-under Cal Ripken baseball team is headed to the league’s World Series. The special group is said to be just the fifth New Canaan team in 75 years to go to the World Series. We caught up with head coach Jeff Perconte ahead of the tournament, which starts Aug. 10 in Indiana. Here’s our exchange.
Police last week arrested a 45-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after receiving multiple reports of violent abuse, court records show. The victim told authorities that he threatened her with a gun at her while she was at the man’s Parade Hill Road home last October following an event in New York City, according to an arrest warrant application filed by New Canaan Police and signed July 22 by a state Superior Court judge. While being chauffeured home that night, the pair—a couple for about two years—had an argument about the man’s ex-girlfriend, the application said. As it unfolded, he “swung his phone and hit Victim in her face” and then “wrapped his arm around her neck in order to restrain her,” she told authorities in an interview last month, according to the warrant application, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. At about 3 a.m. the following morning, “Victim was attempting to remove her luggage from [the man’s] residence when he pointed a gun at her,” the police affidavit said.
Town officials will consider a settlement offer made on behalf of a Rilling Ridge woman who sued the Planning & Zoning Commission last year after the appointed body denied her application to build a tennis court. Under a proposal filed by Amy Tucci’s lawyer, Joel Green of Bridgeport-based Law Offices of Green and Gross, P.C., the tennis court would move two feet closer to an existing swimming pool than originally proposed, would include more robust landscape screening and would have a four-millimeter-thick pad “applied to the entire surface of the court” to “significantly reduce the noise level associated” with its use. The proposed settlement also calls for no lighting, use from 6 a.m. to sundown and no commercial use (Tucci originally had filed an application to operate a boutique commercial gym at home, later withdrawn). P&Z denied the application one year ago. At the time, Tucci applied to P&Z for a Special Permit that would allow a tennis court to be located within a 150 feet of the street (see page 55 here), and for a second permit allowing for soil disturbance of more than 10,000 square feet of area in order to (page 149).
Police this month arrested an area teen by warrant and charged him with carrying a dangerous weapon. The warrant stems from an incident that New Canaan Police responded to on June 22, officials say. The 19-year-old Redding man arrested by police has a lengthy criminal record, according to court records. He already faces charges of second-degree threatening and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault (charged October 2023 by Stamford Police), first-degree threatening, illegal use a facsimile firearm, carrying a dangerous weapon and carrying a pistol without a permit (February 2024, Bridgeport), possession of a controlled substance and evading responsibility (March 2023, New Canaan), risk of injury to a child, possession of a controlled substance and use of drug paraphernalia (April 2024, Norwalk) and second-degree burglary, fifth-degree larceny and third-degree criminal trespass (June 2024, Norwalk).
It wasn’t clear what type of weapon the teen was arrested for carrying in New Canaan. Under state law, it’s a felony to carry a “BB.
The Carriage Barn Arts Center’s 2024 Annual Member Show is set to run Sept. 7 to Oct. 5. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 4.