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SLOBs All Member Meeting
Saturday, September, 25, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
The New Canaan High School Service League of Boys (SLOBs) will hold its first General Meeting on Saturday, September 25 at 2:30 pm in the school cafeteria. SLOBs is the high school’s largest club. All members, and any NCHS boys interested in becoming a member, should attend this meeting with a parent as they kick off the new year. The guest speaker will be Clif McFeely, founder of Future 5, a non-profit dedicated to helping low-income high school students in Stamford develop their potential for post-secondary educations and careers. To join SLOBs, renew your membership, or to learn more, please go to www.newcanaanslobs.org.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to New Canaan High School seniors Will Galvan and Payton Welch, co-presidents of the Service League of Boys or ‘SLOBs.’ The largest club at NCHS is finding new ways to do its volunteer work amid the pandemic. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:
The Board of Selectmen said this week that New Canaan has paid about $5,390 in legal fees this fiscal year and nearly $19,000 overall for advice regarding the sober house on West Road. ***
Straight Outta Maple: We received the photo at right—depicting Jack Trifero and Terry Spring, arrested last week after refusing to leave the burial ground alongside the Merritt Village condo-and-apartment development on Maple and Park Streets—with a caption reading that the pair were “carrying the ONLY weapon they had at their unlawful arrest, a zoning map of the Maple Street Cemetery.” Trifero also supplied his statement to police in which he said an owner of the property threw rocks at him and one hit his leg. “I feel he was also throwing them at Terry—so I was concerned. After about 5 or 6 stones, he stopped. I felt it was an unprovoked violent act.”
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New Canaan Police at about 6 p.m. on Sept.
The gallery for this week’s “Did You Hear … ?” features interior photos from rental units at the newly built mixed-use building at 16 Cross St. in New Canaan, “The Crossing.”
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The Town Council on Wednesday night voted 12-0 in favor of an operating budget of $148,136,106 for fiscal year 2018. The overall figure and amount allocated to the Board of Education ($87,618,405) are the same as had been approved by the Board of Finance. The schools are seeing an approximately 1.6 percent year-over-year increase, while the overall operating budget is going up 2.6 percent.