08/11/09 The New Canaan Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for New Canaan, CT.

• CT Gop state senator to challenge Himes
  posted on August 12, 2009 01:09:55 am
  ... by submitting documents to the secretary of the state's office. Debicella joins 24-year-old Will Gregory of New Canaan in the Republican field that will try to unseat Himes, who won his first term last year by beating longtime incumbent Republican ...
• RFE Investment buys $13M stake in iMedX
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... care software and services company with offices in Winter Springs, announced that RFE Investment Partners of New Canaan, Conn. Invested $13 million in the company. Based in Shelton, Conn., iMedX will use the proceeds to fund strategic acquisitions, ...
• Appeals court allows new trial for ex-Westar execs
  posted on August 12, 2009 12:00:45 am
  ... said Maxwell Carr-Howard, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney representing Lake. Wittig, from Topeka, and Lake, of New Canaan, Conn., Westar's former chief strategy officer, were forced out at the utility late in 2002. They face one count of conspiracy to ...
• Conn. GOP state senator to challenge Himes
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:36:43 pm
  ... by submitting documents to the secretary of the state's office. Debicella joins 24-year-old Will Gregory of New Canaan in the Republican field that will try to unseat Himes, who won his first term last year by beating longtime incumbent Republican ...
• Shelton state legislator announces run for Himes' seat
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:09:19 pm
  ... caucus against Democratic plans to raise taxes. Debicella, 34, joins political novice Will Gregory, 24, of New Canaan, in the GOP field angling for the right to unseat Himes, who in the Obama landslide last November, became the first Democrat to ...
• Exeter 12s fall in regional semifinals
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:45:00 am
  The Exeter 12-year old Cal Ripken team's run to the New England Championship was derailed Thursday nigh as it lost 8-7 in extra innings to New Canaan, Conn.
• Conn. medical software firm iMedX lands $13M
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... more than 500 health clinics. RFE Investment Partners is a 30-year-old private equity investment firm based in New Canaan, Conn. Chewing the brown fat at Joslin, Dana Farber The Globe takes a look at two research projects on Mission Hill studying ...
• Court allows trial for ex-Westar execs
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:59:02 pm
  ... said Maxwell Carr-Howard, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney representing Lake. Wittig, from Topeka, and Lake, of New Canaan, Conn., Westar's former chief strategy officer, were forced out at the utility late in 2002. They face one count of conspiracy to ...
• Appeals court allows new trial for ex-Westar ex ...
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:07:36 am
  ... said Maxwell Carr-Howard, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney representing Lake. Wittig, from Topeka, and Lake, of New Canaan, Conn., Westar's former chief strategy officer, were forced out at the utility late in 2002. They face one count of conspiracy to ...
• Natural Gas Futures Decline in New York, as Crude Oil, Equities Head Lower
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:53:29 am
  ... from the Dow and oil,a said Peter Beutel , president of Cameron Hanover Inc., an energy consulting company in New Canaan, Connecticut. a oeThe market is trying to figure out what it wants to follow, whether ita s the stock market, oil or the ...
• Autism race aims to improve fitness facilities
  posted on August 09, 2009 07:25:31 pm
  New Balance of New Canaan and SPED*NET New Canaan are reaching out to the community to help individuals with autism have a safe, sensory friendly place to build fitness and health.
• Congressional race: Resident makes bid official
  posted on August 09, 2009 01:38:07 am
  Vowing to "carry the torch for Yankee conservatives," 24-year-old New Canaan resident William Gregory officially entered the race Monday to challenge Connecticut's 4th District incumbent Congressman Jim Himes.
• Danbury 12-year-olds win New England title, get set for Cal Ripken World Series
  posted on August 08, 2009 11:51:04 am
  ... that game will be next week in the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Md., thanks to Danbury's 8-5 win over New Canaan Friday that clinched the New England Regional Tournament title at Lawrence Visconti Memorial Stadium in Rogers Park. "It's going ...
• New Stratford restaurant brings back Italian fare
  posted on August 08, 2009 10:07:16 am
  ... people will come," said Deanna Toohey, who co-owns the Italian eatery with her husband, Philip, an attorney in New Canaan, and Don and Kim Stanziale. "Even in a bad economy, people will go out for pizza." The restaurant, which has a 75-seat dining ...
• Convicted of sexual assault, man and woman attempt to have judge replaced
  posted on August 08, 2009 10:06:00 am
  NORWALKBy STEVE KOBAKHour Staff Writer A city man accused of participating in the 2007 gang rape of a New Canaan woman is seeking to remove the judge from his case in an effort to withdraw his guilty plea.Wilkens Placide, 25, formerly of Norwalk, appeared in Stamford Superior Court on .
• Family Centers
  posted on August 08, 2009 09:23:51 am
  ... is Family Centers' director of self-sufficiency services. With offices in Greenwich, Stamford, Darien and New Canaan, Family Centers is a United Way partner agency that offers counseling and support programs for children, adults and families. For ...
• Boya s invention awed: Rubika s robot brings victory
  posted on August 08, 2009 01:22:11 am
  ... complete with three sensory motors, a cube hand, a cube base and a pusher arm. He unveiled his invention at the New Canaan district's Tech Night 2009 in February. Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Abbey, who witnessed the robot in action at Tech ...
• Train station: Town makes tracks
  posted on August 08, 2009 01:21:11 am
  Crowded rail commuters will benefit from additional peak hour trains leaving New Canaan station - though at the cost of seven parking lot spaces - once a Connecticut Department of Transportation project to raise and extend a third rail track is completed by the end of next year.
• Fairfield students show above-average test scores
  posted on August 07, 2009 11:32:07 pm
  ... "As far as CMT is concerned, we've achieved 80 percent higher than the goal on all 20 subtests. I think New Canaan achieved this as well. We might be the only two districts in the state to do that." Scarice also mentioned that Weston has tracked ...
• New restaurant brings back Italian fare
  posted on August 07, 2009 11:00:27 pm
  ... people will come," said Deanna Toohey, who co-owns the Italian eatery with her husband, Philip, an attorney in New Canaan, and Don and Kim Stanziale. "Even in a bad economy, people will go out for pizza." The restaurant, which has a 75-seat dining ...