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PHOTOS: New Canaan Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony

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For U.S. Marines Major Charles Paksi—a decorated veteran with three combat deployments to Somalia and Afghanistan—there’s one word that captures what motivated his friend Domingo Arroyo Jr. on Jan. 12th, 1993. The men were part of an 11-member patrol near the Mogadishu airport in Somalia as part of an effort to feed the hungry there, and Arroyo, a 21-year-old private and already a veteran of The Gulf War, had about four months left before his discharge. 

“An hour into the patrol, the children and civilians dispersed, creating an uneasy silence,” Paksi told about 250 people gathered Monday in Lakeview Cemetery on a sunny and comfortable morning. He continued: “The enemy subsequently executed a textbook ambush—gunfire erupted from the buildings to our left and right and our rear. We were being baited into the obvious action: Move through the intersection to the front.

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Frogtown Road House Sells for $950,000

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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. ***

May 16

200 Frogtown Road

$950,000
Marianne K. Dolan to Peter E. McMahon

May 14

9 Twin Pond Lane

$2,650,000
Edward J. Sebold to Timothy A. Baker

258 Main St. Unit 5

$1,035,000
Pamela Tenney Simpson Revocable Living Trust to Steven Tomasic

May 12

18 Lantern Ridge Road

$2,895,000
Brian Otero to Eric Elise, trustee 

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Barbara White, 1925-2025

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Barbara White passed away at her home in New Canaan, Conn., on May 16, 2025, of natural causes. She was 99. Born in Camden, New Jersey, on June 25, 1925, to Robert E. and Ella O’Donovan, Barbara, known to friends and family as Babs, grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where she attended Montclair Kimberley Academy. Her mother, a successful visual artist, no doubt sowed the seeds for Babs’ own passion for painting, design and fashion. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Smith College in 1946 and subsequently landed a job as a fashion illustrator at Women’s Wear Daily. 

In 1948, Babs married Robert O. White, a commercial banker with Chemical Bank, who predeceased her in 2000.

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New Canaan There & Then: The Poor House

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‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli, Dawn Sterner and Pam Stutz. The idea of a poor house preceded the establishment of the town of New Canaan in 1801. A Colonial Connecticut law mandated that “For the poor, it is ordered that they be relieved by the town where they live, every town providing for its own poor and so for important persons.” So when New Canaan was incorporated, it had to enter into agreements with Stamford and Norwalk to assume responsibility for two paupers from each who now lived within the newly-constituted town lines. In 1805, it built a house for Molly Hayes, a childless spinster, on what is now the corner of Locust and Summer Street. Her home had burned to the ground and she had no funds to replace it.

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Warrant: Man, 49, Arrested for Larceny and Forgery

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New Canaan Police on May 8 arrested a 49-year-old Bridgeport man accused of signing checks made out to a local nonprofit organization and depositing them into his personal bank account. 

On Jan. 21, officers became aware of two checks belonging to the South Avenue Cottage that had been fraudulently deposited on Dec. 13. The two checks, one for $100 and the other for $200 were deposited by an employee of the Cottage (who resigned in early January), according to an arrest warrant application written by NCPD Officer Kelly Coughlin. South Avenue Cottage provides housing and care for adults with developmental disabilities, and the two checks were written in response to an annual appeal starting in November 2024, according to the police affidavit, signed by a prosecuting attorney and state Superior Court judge.