New Canaan News

Aquarion Water Co. issued a reminder to customers throughout Fairfield County to use caution when allowing anyone into their homes or businesses for water maintenance projects, especially when no appointment has been scheduled.

Tax collection has been "strong" in New Canaan, Budget Director Jennifer Charneski told the Board of Finance during its meeting Tuesday.

Authorities responding to reports of a familial dispute charged an. Osborn Lane man with a number of related offenses, New Canaan Police said this week.

New Canaan police arrested a local man after he threatened to kill his wife during a domestic dispute on Tuesday, Dec. 3, police told the New Canaan Advertiser.

New Canaan Police announced Wednesday that a sobriety checkpoint would be conducted in the town at some undisclosed location and time within the next two weeks in December.

The collection of homes and designs on this year's Homes for the Holidays House Tour, hosted by the Newcomers Club of New Canaan, varied from Traditional to Contemporary to Historic, on December 6-7, 2013.

Theater of STARS performers practice for the show. Pictured are Elvira, Jessica Foltz, Nancy Armstrong , Zee Benn, Terry LePage and Ariel Levy.

After John Michael Farren failed to show up for his civil damages trial two days in a row, a Stamford judge on Tuesday granted a motion finding the former White House attorney culpable for the horrifying injuries his wife suffered when Farren attacked her in their New Canaan mansion nearly four years ago.

Jeffery B. Fager, of New Canaan, has joined the board of directors of the Trustees of Reservations, one of Massachusetts' largest statewide land conservation organizations.

Continuing with the theme of keeping it local this holiday season, New Canaan's Ten Thousand Villages is making the idea more enticing by hosting a holiday shopping event next week that will benefit the New Canaan Library.

A Norwalk man was charged in an incident in which he was alleged to have been yelling obscenities near youths in the parking lot of the New Canaan YMCA, police said this week.

This is the day that many people have been waiting for since March 8, when the last measurable snowfall fell over the region.

Stamford and New Canaan Police were searching for a man who robbed the First County Bank at 1110 Hope St. in the Springdale neighborhood of Stamford on Tuesday morning in the snow, according to the New Canaan Advertiser.

With the closure of New Canaan Public Schools this morning , the snow is still coming down.

A Stamford landscaping crew conducting work on Middle Ridge Road in New Canaan reported a theft of equipment to police while the crew was in a backyard working, police said this week.

New Canaan's Waveny LifeCare Network will host a caregiver's support group beginning in December and going through February.

Town Council member Kathleen Corbet was hit by a pickup truck in downtown New Canaan Friday, Dec. 6, police said.

The Darien Arts Center's Children's Chorus charmed the crowd with holiday favorites at Darien's Holiday Magic at Grove Street Plaza on Saturday.

An Osborn Lane resident was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 3, on several charges following a family dispute that police said turned physical.

New Canaan Town Councilwoman Kathleen Corbet was struck by a truck in town Friday, Dec. 6, suffering head injuries, according to the New Canaan Advertiser.