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Police: Graffiti Investigation ‘Open and Ongoing’ 

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New Canaan Police say they’ve investigated 30 instances of vandalism so far in 2024, and that nearly half of them (14) are related to graffiti that appeared in recent weeks in the greater downtown area. Those instances include damage to a USPS mailbox, Bristow Park, dumpsters and public and private property, according to Lt. Marc DeFelice, the department’s public information officer. Citing information supplied by investigating Officer Nicole Vartuli, he said the graffiti is “consistent with some of the graffiti tags found in the downtown area [that] have been reported at the entrance fence of the land conservation on West Road.”

“There has also been graffiti reported at the entrance bridge of the Land Trust [property] on Weed Street,” he said. Asked whether the vandalism in the parks and downtown are believe to be linked or from a single perpetrator, DeFelice said, “There have been four different graffiti tags identified that may or may not be related. NCPD has not identified any suspects at this time.

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Interfering Charge for Man, 38

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Police on Saturday arrested a 38-year-old Bridgeport man and charged him with interfering with an officer. At about 4:32 p.m. on May 4, an officer on patrol spotted a vehicle on Ponus Ridge with an illegible license plate. During a subsequent stop near Bennington Place, the officer found that there was no record of the license plate and the registration for it had been surrendered and had expired, according to a police report. Police identified the man and brought the misdemeanor charge. They also charged him with motor vehicle-related offenses.

Government

Commission Approves New Parking Configuration for Morse Court

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Saying it’ll make parking easier for large vehicles and improve traffic flow, town officials voted last week in favor of re-striping the Morse Court lot. The change will create spaces nine feet wide and at 90 degrees from the travel lane, as opposed to the current configuration where stall widths range from 7.5 to 8.5 feet wide and many are angled, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. The new striping also will create wide enough traffic lanes within the lot to allow for two-way traffic all around, though it will bring a net loss of 10 spaces to Morse Court, officials said at the May 1 Parking Commission meeting. 

Though the town is “not being forced” to change the parking configuration when it re-stripes the lot, Mann said, the spaces as currently configured are not in compliance with the New Canaan Zoning Regulations or Village District Guidelines, Mann said. “The problem is you have spaces that are way undersized and the Commission was receiving complaints,” he said at the meeting, held in Town Hall and via videoconference. “The first selectman’s office was receiving complaints.

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Town Man, 78, Charged in Domestic Incident

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Police late on a recent Saturday night arrested a 79-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. At about 9 p.m. on April 27, a victim came to police headquarters to report a dispute with the man earlier in the evening, officials said. Through an investigation, authorities established probable cause to bring the misdemeanor charge, according to a police report. Police withheld details of the arrest, saying it’s a domestic matter. Under state law, a person is guilty of disorderly conduct when he or she, “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or by offensive or disorderly conduct, annoys or interferes with another person,” among other reasons.

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Marian Ruth Morton Brown, 97

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Marian Ruth Morton Brown, known to family and friends as Maru, passed away peacefully at her home in New Canaan on Monday, April 29, 2024. She was ninety-seven years old and had lived in New Canaan for sixty-four years. Born on March 23, 1927, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Maru was the daughter of the late Joseph Reece Morton, a chemical company owner and entrepreneur, and Ruth Balsam Morton, of New York City. An only child, she grew up in a wonderful country home surrounded by flower gardens and woods, which she explored with her dogs. After attending the Warrington School in Virginia for junior high, she matriculated to Connecticut’s Ethel Walker School, Class of 1944.