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Congratulations to New Canaan’s Mitch and Erin Hoffman on the birth Monday of twins Brody Merrill and Cole Francis Hoffman. See the slideshow above, where the newborns are pictured on their own as well as with big brother Maddox. Son of the New Canaan High School varsity baseball coach, Maddox autographed baseballs for his new siblings. ***

“Everybody asks me, ‘How do you sleep at night, chief?’ And I say, ‘Like a baby: I sleep for two hours, wake up crying, then sleep some more.’ ”—That’s what New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski told the Town Council on the subject of overtime spending, during the legislative body’s March 25 meeting. ***

Congratulations to the New Canaan High School Debate Team, which sent three pairs of students to Saturday’s state finals at Wilton High School, and senior co-captains Casey Manzella and Steven Singer won the state championship varsity division.

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Sister Act: New Canaan Siblings Launch Tutoring Business

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While many native New Canaanites move out of town, never to return, there seems to be a high percentage of residents who somehow found their way back. Perhaps no family better represents this group than the O’Connell family. Five of six grown siblings, all of whom grew up and graduated from New Canaan High School, have returned to their roots, raising families of their own. For the two youngest O’Connell siblings–Colleen Bailey and Erin O’Connell–the return to native soil has led to a newly launched business that ties into their roots in New Canaan and professional experience. Clearview Educational Enrichment is a multi-dimensional tutoring service, individually tailored to help each student fully realize his or her potential. The company developed out of an informal brainstorming session this spring between the sisters, both of whom are currently elementary school teachers–Bailey at West School here in New Canaan, and O’Connell at Horace Mann in the Bronx.