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‘The Ticks Are Back’: Three New Canaan Ticks Test Positive for Lyme

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Three ticks submitted last month to a state facility via the New Canaan Health Department tested positive for Lyme disease, officials say. In all, 13 ticks were submitted in March to the New Haven-based Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, according to New Canaan Health Director Amy Lehaney. “The ticks are back,” Lehaney told members of the Health & Human Services Commission during their regular meeting, held Tuesday at Town Hall and via videoconference. “So make sure you’re doing your tick check. It was a long cold winter and apparently it has ended.

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New Construction Planned for St. John Place

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The New Canaan Building Department on March 16 received an application for a 4,586-square-foot home on St. John Place. The five-bedroom house planned for 50 St. John Place will include four full bathrooms, one half-bath, one fireplace, an unfinished basement and attic and two-car garage, according to the building permit application. It will cost $1 million to build, the application said.

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‘New Canaan Korean School’ Marks Two Years

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It was 2023, the year that pandemic-related restrictions finally lifted, when Dr. Nara Jeong, New Canaan mom to two girls, began looking for a Korean language school for her kids. Her younger daughter was having “some difficulty with speaking in both languages, English and Korean,” Jeong recalled on a recent afternoon. Yet the closest Korean language schools were about 40 minutes away—in Scarsdale, N.Y. and New Haven, she recalled, and were operated under the auspices of churches. Jeong enrolled her kids in the latter school but “it was still too far for me, with my kids’ schedules getting busier on the weekends, especially with sports.”

After talking to the former principal of a Korean school in Hartford, Neong and some of her friends within New Canaan’s small Korean population —including fellow parents at the United Methodist Preschool—decided to launch their own. “They really want their kids to learn Korean,” she said.

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New Canaan Woman, 36, Charged with Interfering with an Emergency Call

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Police on Saturday arrested a 36-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with interfering with an emergency call and disorderly conduct. At about 5:57 p.m. on April 4, officers responded to a Huckleberry Hill Road home on a report of a dispute between the victim and woman, police said. There, officers conducted an investigation and brought the two misdemeanor-level charges, the report said. It isn’t clear what the woman did, how she interfered with a 9-1-1 call or whether she’s related to the victim. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter. 

Under state law, people are guilty of disorderly conduct if they “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk … [e]ngages in … threatening behavior; or … annoys or interferes with another person,” among other reasons.

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Summer Street Colonial Sells for $1,450,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

March 30

180 Summer St. $1,450,000
Estate of Richard A. Franco Jr. to Marianne Dolan