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Meet Our NewCanaanite.com Summer Interns

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We’re very pleased and proud to introduce six aspiring journalists who are joining NewCanaanite.com this summer as interns. These six young women and men are graduates and students at high schools in New Canaan as well as Norwalk and Greenwich, and four of them are in college now. Our readers for a few weeks have been reading summer intern Sarah Maddox’s articles on the site, and soon will see stories appearing from Brian Bodick, Kim Devine, Griffin Golden, Maura Kelley and Emma Nolan. What follows is some basic information about each of them. The NewCanaanite.com Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins.

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‘She Was the Best Soul I Knew’: Friends, Colleagues, Students and Parents Remember Kelly Devine

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A few years ago, Kelly Devine learned that her good friend and fellow New Canaan Public Schools teacher, Katherine Munson, was training for a half-marathon that would take place in Norwalk. Munson didn’t ask anyone to come support her, including Devine, though the pair saw each other every day at New Canaan High School, on many weekends and had coached together at Norwalk’s Shore and Country Swim Club. As she was nearing the finish line, Munson recalled Monday afternoon, “I heard ‘Kat, Kat!’ ”

“It was Kelly,” Munson recalled through tears. “She just showed up by herself—that is what she did: She just showed up. Nobody asked.