Glen Drive Cape Sells for $500,000

The following property transfers were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

April 8

634 Silvermine Road

$626,768.40
Ann & Carolyn Rider to Martin Purcell

8 Glen Drive

$500,000
8 Glen Drive LLC to Elena Sycheva

April 2

24 Comstock Hill Road

$1,242,875
James M. Holec Jr. & Patricia Muldowney to Erin P. Andrews

137 Bowery Road

$675,000
Letty-Lee Williams to Chapin & Tammie Garner

1122 Smith Ridge Road

$891,000
Ian & Diana Spier to Christopher Tamm & Drew Bishop

Local Businesses and COVID-19: Pesca Peruvian Bistro

For today’s Q&A with a local business, we speak to Wilson Rodriguez, co-owner of Pesca Peruvian Bistro. Located at 70 Main St., the popular restaurant opened about 18 months ago. It’s open 4 to 8 p.m. daily and offers curbside pickup (turn off of Locust Avenue at Joe’s Pizza and drive past the pizzeria to the white fence in back). 

Here’s our interview. New Canaanite: How are you doing there? Wilson Rodriguez: Well we are doing an average of 10 orders per day.

PHOTOS: NCHS Recognizes Class of ’20 Student-Athletes Recruited to D-3 Colleges

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New Canaan High School is recognizing members of the class of 2020 who were recruited athletes to Division 3 colleges. District officials for a number of years “have been thinking about trying to do something” similar to a formal signing ceremony held annually for student-athletes heading to D-1 schools, according to NCHS Athletic Director Jay Egan. “For Division 3 athletes, they put a lot of time and effort into what they do and they are legitimately recruited athletes, though they are not receiving any financial aid like those other kids,” Egan told NewCanaanite.com. “So we have thought about it for a while and were planning to do a separate signing day because a Division 3 day was developed, but we could not do it because the date has passed.”

The commitments from D-3 schools typically come in April, so Egan and the Athletic Department has created and is sharing profiles of the student-athletes through social media and other online means (see gallery above). “Kids make decisions based on what is the best fit for them, and a lot of these kids are taking the best fit of athletics and academics and marrying that together rather than just looking at the teams that recruit them but don’t meet all of their needs,” Egan said.

Police: Man, 28, Arrested After Leaving Scene of Car Crash Downtown

Police on Saturday arrested a 28-year-old Bridgeport man in connection with a car crash downtown. At about 3:02 p.m., officers were dispatched to 181 Elm St.—near the train station—on a report of an evading motor vehicle crash, officials said. The crash involved an unoccupied parked car struck by another vehicle where the operator left the scene, according to a police report

Following an investigation, police identified the driver, the report said. He turned himself in to police the same day on charges of evading responsibility, failure to drive right and driving while under suspension. Police released the man after he promised to appear June 1 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.