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Police Investigate Two Daytime MV Thefts in Downtown New Canaan

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New Canaan Police Department detectives are investigating two daytime thefts of motor vehicles downtown, officials say. The thefts occurred “while one victim was attempting to pump gas at the Mobil station and the other was shopping at the Acme,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by NCPD. “The majority of the cars are stolen in the overnight hours from residential driveways where the keys or key fob is left inside the unlocked vehicle,” the release said. In the two most recent incidents, “cars left unlocked or unattended have been stolen from the downtown area,” it said. It wasn’t clear from the press release whether police believe the same suspects were involved in the two recent thefts.

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Elisa M. Pavia, 87

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Elisa M. Pavia (Prizio), age 87, passed away on January 1, 2026. 

She was born in Stamford on February 15, 1938, to the late John Prizio and Elisa (Conforti) Prizio. She spent most of her life calling Stamford home, moving to New Canaan in 2004. Elisa graduated from Stamford High School (class of 1956). She returned to school in her forties and graduated from Norwalk Community College and was initiated into the National Honor Society Phi Theta Kappa. Always hard working and ambitious Elisa worked a good part of her life, from office assistant in her first years of marriage, running an in-home nursery school when her children were small, a lucrative real estate business, a personnel agency for home aids, and finally managing a cleaning service.

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Warrant: Stamford Man, 20, Exposed Himself to Girls in New Canaan

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Police last week arrested a 20-year-old Stamford man by warrant in connection with two incidents in downtown New Canaan where he exposed himself to juvenile girls, court documents show. The first incident occurred after school on May 23 (a Friday), when the man exposed himself to three 12-year-old girls while lingering in a feminine products area at CVS, according to an arrest warrant application filed by New Canaan Police Sgt. Peter Condos, a 38-year veteran of the department, and signed Dec. 24 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. After encountering the man at Starbucks around 4 p.m. that day, the girls entered CVS and one of them “noticed the same person in the furthest aisle to the left from the main entrance” and “noticed him ‘looking at products’ in the aisle which she described as tampons,” the arrest warrant application said.

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Ann Marie Palladino, 53

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Ann Marie Palladino, 53, passed away peacefully on Sunday December 28th, 2025. She was born in Norwich, CT on September 18th, 1972. Throughout her life, Ann Marie maintained her kindness, grace, compassion, appreciation of beauty, love of family and friends, and gratitude for all the wonderful varied experiences in her life. She was the daughter of Joseph and Donna Alfieri of Preston CT, sister of Mark Alfieri (Jennifer) of Preston CT, wife of Anthony Palladino, and mother of Jane (17) and Anthony (14 ) Palladino of New Canaan, CT and Brody Mackin (30) of Griswold CT. Ann Marie spent her early years in Norwich and graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, CT in 1990.

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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, Jan. 8 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.