New Canaan News

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.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. The start of daylight-saving time came at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Eleven residents took to the podium at a Board of Finance public hearing Tuesday night to defend the proposed New Canaan Public Schools budget and to rally support for the Outback Teen Center.

The League of Women Voters of New Canaan recently published its "2014 Know Your Representativesi brochure.

The League of Women Voters of New Canaan recently published its "2014 Know Your Representativesi brochure.

State Rep. Tom OiDea , above, signed petitions filed last week by House Republicans that forced the chairmen of the General Assemblyis Education Committee to hold formal public hearings on two bills related to the Common Core curriculum and the new public school teacher evaluation process.

Bently Elliott, a 23-year resident of New Canaan, was the head speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

As it seems that this interminable winter will never end, we look for signs that better weather is approaching.

In a move to stay ahead of the ever-changing world of fitness trends, New Canaan's 360 Fitness recently added a Chocolate Cake station located between the Kettlebell free weights and one of the gym's two Power Plates.