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Mead Park baseball field on July 6, 2021. Credit: Michael Dinan Eight months after parks officials voted in support of the move as part of a larger recommendation, the town on Tuesday added a section to the municipal website disclosing its use of pesticides on several athletic fields. Though state law prohibits the use of pesticides on school grounds through grade 8, New Canaan uses the chemicals in treating athletic grounds at Waveny, Conner Field and baseball fields at Mead Park. Selectman Kathleen Corbet last summer questioned why pesticides are still applied to some public fields used by young kids, and in September developed a set of recommendations for the town. Her findings included that “not very many people know about the use of pesticides in our Town,” and she said in her report that “[a]t a minimum, unless a pesticide free policy is adopted for all athletic fields, public disclosure about the use of pesticides on the natural grass athletic fields is ....
New Canaan High School senior Callum Wood, co-captain of the varsity boys’ lacrosse team, had already dislocated his knee once when the injury re-occurred the day before a game versus St. Joe’s during his sophomore year, in 2019. After Wood popped the knee back into place, NCHS Athletic Trainer Diane Murphy-Kivell helped him ice it […] ....
At the 2016 NCHS graduation ceremony. Credit: Michael Dinan District officials said this week that they’re hopeful New Canaan High School’s class of 2021 will be able to have a graduation ceremony at Dunning Field with at least parents in attendance and possibly others. The state issued guidance on end-of-year events and it includes many of the strategies long in place at New Canaan Public Schools, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi told members of the Board of Education during their regular meeting Monday night. Those strategies include wearing masks, social distancing, limiting the number of people in attendance, keeping track of who’s there, providing hand sanitizer and prohibiting anyone showing symptoms or who has tested positive for COVID-19 virus from attending, he said. ....
Officials investigating defacing of New Canaan school fence FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Graffiti seen on the corner of South Avenue and Farm Road in New Canaan has partially been removed.Grace Duffield Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 NEW CANAAN Officials are investigating an incident Sunday in which a fence was covered in blue spray paint, police said. Town police had gotten a report Sunday morning regarding the defaced fence, according to an email from Lt. Jason Ferraro. New Canaan High School Athletics Director Jay Egan said he took down posters that were defaced with the spray paint on a fence where posters are typically hung for the school at the corner of Farm Road and South Avenue. ....