Board of Selectmen

Town To Replace Southwood Drive Sidewalks

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a contract with a Rocky Hill-based company to replace the sidewalk on Southwood Drive. Together with Southwood, neighborhoods scheduled for new sidewalks include Heritage Hill, East Avenue and South Avenue, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “We’ll be looking for a grant on East Avenue,” Mann told the selectmen during their meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “That’s really where we’re dialing it in.”
The sidewalks will be fully concrete, apart from the downtown area, and won’t require granite curbing, he said. Selectman Amy Murphy Carroll said, “Sidewalks are expensive.

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New Canaan Woman, 62, Charged with Interfering with a 911 Call

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Police on Sunday night arrested a 62-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with interfering with a 911 call and disorderly conduct. 

At about 7:20 p.m. on May 31, officers responded to Betsy’s Lane on a report of a dispute, police said. There, officers conducted an investigation and established probable cause for the misdemeanor charges. 

It isn’t clear what the woman did 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. Police released the woman after she promised to appear June 1 in state Superior Court. 

The Domestic Violence Crisis Center in Stamford provides services, support and education for the prevention and elimination of domestic violence.

Amy Murphy Carroll

Selectman: Town Should Plant Screening Trees on Rights-of-Way at Weed and Elm

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One of New Canaan’s top elected officials said Tuesday that the town should prioritize the planting of trees at Weed and Elm Streets to screen the building project that emerges there. Last week, the Planning & Zoning Commission, following a state Superior Court judge’s order, approved a four-story, 102-unit affordable housing complex at 751 Weed St. The property’s owner, New Canaan developer Arnold Karp, has said he plans to begin construction in the fourth quarter. “One way, shape, or form there’s going to be something built at that place,” Selectman Amy Murphy Carroll said during the Board of Selectmen’s regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. She continued: “It could take a couple of years.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man Arrested After Threatening Kill His Wife in Her Sleep

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Police last week arrested a 48-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after receiving a report earlier in the day that he’d threatened to kill his wife in her sleep. At about 12:04 p.m. on May 28, a Thursday, Officer John Barlosky was dispatched to a Parade Hill Road home “on a mandated report from a therapist, reporting ongoing abuse,” according to an affidavit from Barlosky that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed the same day by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. According to the reporting therapist, working out of a Westport office, a patient had come into a session that day “with numerous bruises on her arms” and told the therapist that her husband had “threatened to kill her in her sleep with a knife,” the affidavit said. The therapist told police that the victim had been in their care for several months “and that she is the subject of both verbal and physical abuse regularly and it’s becoming increasingly worse,” Barlosky said in the affidavit. The husband also is “beginning to be verbally abusive in front of other people in public,” the arrest warrant application said.

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Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com to have them published here. ***

On May 27th, the New Canaan Land Trust honored Chris Schipper with the Jack Gunther Legacy Award at the sold-out Legacy of the Land Celebration, held at the Roger Sherman Inn. The event welcomed 182 guests who gathered to recognize Chris’s extraordinary leadership and lasting contributions to open space protection and conservation in New Canaan. Both Jack Gunther, co-founder of the New Canaan Land Trust, and Chris Schipper served as Chairs of the Conservation Commission and shared a deep commitment to preserving open space.