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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Lauren Patterson, president and CEO of the New Canaan Community Foundation, about the Behavioral Health Alliance’s 5-minute “Community Health & Well-Being Survey.” The confidential survey runs through Oct. 31—click here to participate. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
Police last week arrested a 27-year-old Stamford man and charged him with evading responsibility in connection with a car crash last month. At about 11:43 p.m. on Sept. 23 (a Wednesday), officers responded to the area of West and Hemlock Hill Roads on a report of a single-car crash, police said. There, officers found a car that had struck a utility pole, according to a police report. Its driver had left the scene, the report said.
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A venerable nonprofit organization is preparing to sell a vacant parcel near downtown New Canaan, officials say. Waveny LifeCare Network or ‘WLN’—a 1975-established provider of a continuum of care, including independent, assisted and memory care living, at-home and in-patient short-term physical rehabilitation, therapy and nursing care and hospice services—owns an undeveloped .74-acre property, located behind a house on Oenoke Ridge, roughly between the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church campuses.
According to an Oct. 7 letter sent to St. Mark’s parishioners, WLN last month notified the church “of their intent to sell” the parcel, under a right-of-first-opportunity clause included in the “extremely favorable terms” of Waveny’s 1993 acquisition of the land from the church.
Police late Saturday arrested a 60-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with driving under the influence. At about 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 10, an officer spotted a vehicle swerving on Pocconock Trail, with a tire rubbing against the front fender, according to a police report. During a subsequent stop, the officer found that the vehicle appeared to have been in a crash, the report said. Police could smell alcohol on her breath and found other signs of impairment, it said.