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For the third consecutive year hundreds gathered at the corner of South Avenue and Elm Street on Thursday evening to attend New Canaan’s third annual Addiction Awareness Vigil, hosted by the New Canaan Parent Support Group and the New Canaan Community Foundation.
September 5, 2019 | https://newcanaanite.com/3rd-annual-addiction-awareness-vigil-draws-hundreds-to-downtown-new-canaan-1721691[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Greenwich Free Press.]
Outside state Superior Court in Bridgeport Wednesday morning, protesters waved signs honoring “the Fairfield Five,” a reference to five dogs who died in the care of New Canaan resident Heidi Lueders while she was living in Fairfield last year.
February 13, 2019 | https://newcanaanite.com/new-canaan-womans-animal-cruelty-charges-upgraded-to-felonies-707893The chief of police said Tuesday that officials plan to re-start their efforts to work with the district on a plan to allow a trained drug-sniffing dog into New Canaan schools as part of a wider effort to prevent use and abuse of narcotics.
Responding to a question from Selectman Kit Devereaux while presenting the New Canaan Police Department’s proposed budget, Chief Leon Krolikowski said effort had “stalled” though “we are going to try and restart that movement, to try to do something reasonable and balanced.”
“Because I don’t think anyone wants drugs in school and we want to do our best to try to prevent it from happening and use every tool we have to stop that,” Krolikowski said during a regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held at Town Hall.
January 22, 2019 | https://newcanaanite.com/police-chief-we-will-restart-effort-to-allow-k-9-drug-sniffing-dog-in-new-canaan-schools-605406Nearly 500 people gathered at the corner of South Avenue and Elm Street on Thursday evening to attend New Canaan’s second annual Overdose Awareness Vigil, hosted by the New Canaan Parent Support Group and the New Canaan Community Foundation.
August 30, 2018 | https://newcanaanite.com/2nd-annual-overdose-awareness-vigil-draws-hundreds-to-downtown-new-canaan-73498Saying they need more information and time to reflect on what would follow from allowing a police K-9 dog to search for narcotics in New Canaan schools, members of the Board of Education on Monday night decided to forgo voting on a new policy that would introduce the practice.
August 21, 2018 | https://newcanaanite.com/we-do-not-want-to-permanently-damage-kids-that-make-mistakes-board-of-ed-balks-at-allowing-k-9-police-dogs-in-schools-73092