New Canaan News

Four 16-year-old New Canaan boys were issued infractions for possession of alcohol by a minor March 8, police said.

Dressed in black yoga pants and a tank top that shows off her enviously toned arms, New Canaan's Cindy Sites doesn't look like your typical CEO.

The youngest volunteer at New Canaan's Waveny LifeCare Network', Henry Benton, provides technology mentorship to Waveny resident, Harvey Chandler, who was born in 1929.

Skis, a bicycle and credit cards were stolen from different homes on and around Meadow Lane sometime overnight from Sunday to Monday, March 2-3, according to New Canaan police reports.

From left, Ralph Farris, Tema Watstein, Kip Jones and Dorothy Lawson are the members of ETHEL, which is set to perform in New Canaan, Conn., on Friday, March 14, 2014.

After a 10-year career in New Canaan, Superintendent of Schools Mary Kolek announced Tuesday she is set to retire at the end of the current academic year.

Spring begins in a week and a half, but a new winter storm is headed toward Fairfield County and the Northeast.

New Canaan Police have charged a 17-year-old New Canaan girl with sending inappropriate text messages to a 13-year-old boy, according to Patch.com.

WILTON, Conn. State Sen. Toni Boucher , who has been exploring a run for governor, announced Tuesday she is running for re-election to the state Senate instead and will not become a candidate for governor.

The New Canaan Historical Society is presenting a Civil War lecture series, "The Civil War: A Feminine View," coinciding with Women's History Month.

The evening included New Orleans-style food and drinks. Those who attended the annual Mardi Gras-themed Winter Blues party in the Common Room listened to jazz and wore purple, gold and green beads.

Darienite Stephanie O'Malley hired True North Cabinets, of New Canaan, to redesign her kitchen last year.

Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks within two hours for a man, and four or more drinks within two hours for a woman.

New Canaan police are searching for a suspect who they believe was involved with several overnight burglaries and burglary attempts in the same neighborhood March 3. The first call to police came in at 3:30 a.m. when a Meadow Lane woman said she saw a suspicious person walking in her driveway and toward her garage, according to the report.

A 17-year-old girl was arrested March 4 on a charge of risk of injury to a minor/impairing the morals of a minor weeks after the parents of a 13-year-old boy found explicit texts and photos from her on their son's cell phone, New Canaan police said.

More than 215 mothers and daughters from the New Canaan chapter of National Charity League gathered for their annual tea March 2 at Wee Burn Country Club in Darien.

Jill Correnty, former principal of New Canaan's West Elementary School, is officially the district's assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction after "interim" was dropped from her title Friday, the district announced.

Brickell, who has owned a home in New Canaan, turns 48 on Monday. The singer-songwriter was born March 10, 1966, in Oak Cliff, Texas.

From his second-floor office here on Steamboat Road, Keith Gertsen can gaze out across Greenwich Harbor at one of the world's most-exclusive neighborhoods: Belle Haven, a mansion-filled peninsula that's home to three of Connecticut's 15 billionaires.

Beer recipe book authors Tess and Mark Szamatulski give a home brewing workshop at New Canaan Library Friday, Feb. 28, 2014.