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‘A Wonderful New Canaan Tradition’: May Fair Delights Kids, Families [PHOTOS]

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New Canaanites and visitors to town descended on “the midway” at St. Mark’s Episcopalian Church on Friday and Saturday for the 75th annual May Fair. Peter Hanson of Marvin Ridge Road said he’s lived in the same house in New Canaan for 60 years and on Saturday morning attended his 60th May Fair. “The rides have gotten bigger,” Hanson said as he and his wife, Karen, prepared to dig into their strawberry shortcake. “Everything is getting smaller in my life—the school I went to, the house I grew up in.

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Letter: High Praise for NCPD ‘Civilian Police Academy’

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I’ve just completed the New Canaan Police Department’s Civilian Police Academy, which I learned about in a New Canaanite article. We toured the Police Department building, saw the Dispatch Center, the holding cell in the basement, and the Special Response Team weapons. We learned about fingerprints and DNA, about traffic control, accident investigation, youth interaction, domestic violence, drugs and alcohol, DUI field sobriety tests, animal control, arrest warrants, probable cause, body cameras, Tasers and weapons, and we participated in a simulated use-of-force exercise that was an eye opener. We learned who does what, how he or she does it and why, and we had plenty of time for questions. We rode in a patrol car for several hours.