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‘Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market. A man, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, made a hilarious, profound rocketship of a movie about it, and I’m inviting you to come watch it with me at the New Canaan Playhouse on April 18th. André is an Idiot is the best movie about death I’ve ever seen. Not just me; pretty much anyone who sees it. It won the Audience Award at Sundance.
Antisemitism, hate speech and harassment have no place in New Canaan Public Schools or the community, district leaders said last week after an article appeared in The New York Times detailing how the NCHS boys hockey team had been targeted in social media posts.
The approximately 10 posts from accounts associated with Fairfield Prep students “are offensive, harmful, and wholly unacceptable,” Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi and NCHS Principal Bill Egan said in a district-wide email sent Friday afternoon. “We will never tolerate, condone, or accept hate speech of any kind, and we are taking appropriate steps to support the students and families affected,” they said in the email. According to the NYT story, posts that went up before and after New Canaan beat Fairfield Prep 3-1 in a CIAC Division One game on March 23—notching the Rams’ first state title in 54 years, an achievement celebrated by the Board of Education—hate speech targeting some NCHS student-athletes appeared on Instagram, such as invoking “Jew Canaan.”
“About 10 posts were shared, with some reposted by multiple accounts, and several with misspellings,” the article said. “One showed a hockey player wearing a yarmulke and an ‘Israel’ jersey with a Star of David emoji over his face; the caption read ‘Netanyahu Cannan,’ a reference to the Israeli prime minister, and the Hebrew song ‘Hava Nagila’ played in the background.”
There also was a video simulating a sexual assault, the NYT article said. A New Canaan hockey supporter screen-shotted some of the images and shared them with Fairfield Prep and the NYT, the article said.
It is with great sadness that we announce Susan Phillips Boston, 65, of New Canaan, Connecticut, passed away in her home on Thursday, March 26th, after a hard-fought battle against cancer.
She was a cherished mother, wife, sister, grandmother and friend, and her presence will be deeply missed.
Susan was a proud lifelong New Canaanite. She spent her childhood dancing & teaching Walter Schalk, cheerleading for the Rams, managing the boys’ soccer and lacrosse teams, volunteering as advertising editor for the school yearbook and secretary for the student council. During her high school years she was awarded the “Good Citizen Award” by the Hannah Benedict Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution – a chapter for which she would later become Regent.
Susan spent her summers at her parents’ house in Amagansett, Long Island, where she found one of her true loves, the beach. This was a love she carried with her the rest of her life – as she always said the water was her happy place.
Susan attended St. Agnes Scott College and later transferred to and graduated from Bucknell University.
Fanni Loosz, a native of Hungary who launched her career as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor about 10 years ago in New York City, had long envisioned having her own dedicated space for a strength training studio. Loosz, a competitive powerlifter who holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and criminology from St. Joseph’s College and two master’s degrees from the CUNY Graduate Center—in international migration studies and public health nutrition—had been renting out and sharing space with other trainers in the city, and then starting two years ago, in Stamford. “I was bringing my clients into someone else’s space,” Loosz recalled on Wednesday morning. “And I wanted to have space, not necessarily only to train people, but to educate.
The New Canaan Building Department received an application for a 7,100-square-foot home in western New Canaan home where a 1907-built house stands. The six-bedroom house planned for 1179 Ponus Ridge will include five full bathrooms, two half-baths, four fireplaces, a finished basement and three-car garage, according to a building permit application received March 17. It will cost $1.3 million to build, the application said. The contractor on the job is Setauket, N.Y.-based Woodcrest Homes LLC, the architect D. Peters Designs of Wilton. Purchased for $2.5 million in September by Woodcrest Homes LLC and then transferred to a new LLC, the 3.23-acre property (located in the two-acre zone) includes an antique 3,941-square-foot house, tax records show.