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New Canaan Police are investigating a residential burglary on Douglas Road, reported at 1:26 p.m. Monday. A rear door of the house was forced open, police said. ***

Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams (once again) on Tuesday had to force the “Selectmen’s Comments” item onto the Board of Selectmen agenda. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan has tried intermittently during the past year to leave the open-ended discussion item off of the Board’s regular meeting agenda. The following exchange took place near the start of the Feb.

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New Canaan Police at 1:50 p.m. 3:50 p.m. Monday received a report of a bike stolen from the area of Main Street and Locust Avenue. ***

The Parking Commission on Wednesday unanimously elected Jennifer Donovan as chair. ***

The youth groups of First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan are holding a “Souper Bowl of Caring” lunch at 11:30 a.m. Sunday and invite the community to attend and/or donate. ***

Conservation Commission Chair Chris Schipper spotted the frost-lined heart-shaped puddle pictured here in Bristow Park on Wednesday walking along the main GreenLink trail. “A little in advance of Valentine’s Day, Mother Nature finds a way to say ‘I love you,’ ” Schipper said.

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New Canaan Police are investigating two smash-and-grabs from vehicles parked at the New Canaan YMCA parking lot, reported at 2:36 p.m. and 3:09 p.m. on Jan. 19. ***

The Board of Education on Monday adopted a proposed operating budget for next fiscal year of about $103.9 million, a 4.84% increase from current spending. Some highlights:

82%-plus of the proposed spending represents salaries and benefits for staff and faculty (primarily classroom teachers, teaching assistants and specials teachers);
The budget includes the addition of 3.1 classroom teachers and one campus monitor. The Board of Ed separately is making an approximately $4.3 million facilities capital request.

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New Canaan Police are investigating the theft of a purse with credit cards, reported stolen from a commercial building at 76 Elm St. at 6:50 p.m. on Jan. 11. ***

The Grove Street home that the Boards of Selectmen and Finance this week voted in favor of the town purchasing for $1 million last was appraised at $659,300, tax records show. The Town Council is scheduled to take up the bonding for the $1 million purchase during a meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan.

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New Canaan Police at 11:43 a.m. on Jan. 6 received a report of a purse that had been stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the Pride’s Crossing condo complex on Elm Street

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The Parks & Recreation Commission during its regular meeting Wednesday voted 10-0 in favor of a new sign to be installed at the Mead Park Playground. Monica Capela, who co-founded the Friends of Mead Park Playground with Allyson Mahoney, noted during the meeting that New Canaan’s late, longtime Recreation Director, Steve Benko, will receive special recognition on the sign as he was so helpful in their project to improve the popular playground, working on it “weekends, Saturdays, it didn’t really matter,” she said. “Steve Benko, of course, has a place in our hearts for all of the time that he put into this project.” The tribute on the sign itself will read: “A debt of gratitude for the late Steve Benko, whose tireless support for our mission was both meaningful and inspiring.”

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Police are investigating the theft of an unlocked vehicle reported stolen at 9:13 a.m. on Jan. 8 from a Woodridge Circle home. 

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There’s a GoFundMe page up for the victim in the near-fatal Dec.