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Here’s a shout-out to a 2013 New Canaan High School graduate and major-league “Game of Thrones” fan. Charlie Freyre has 10,000 Twitter followers and writes a GOT blog that in this installment captured much of what we all loved about the epic Season Six finale that aired Sunday night. Listen to Freyre discuss the episode in the podcast embedded above (spoiler warning).

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An attorney for Grace Farms has told officials that the organization will come before the town in September with an application for a new or amended permit, the chairman of the Planning & Zoning Commission said Tuesday night at the group’s regular meeting in Town Hall. The development appears to amount to an acquiescence on Grace’s part to concerns long voiced by neighbors about activities on its property, which culminated in the New Canaan town planner putting the organization on notice that an investigation substantiated those same concerns.

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The New Canaan Police Department announced that it’s hiring a 23-year-old Norwalk man as a new officer. Omar Rivera, a Norwalk High School graduate, earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Connecticut. He was sworn in Friday at Lapham Community Center, and will begin his training at the Connecticut Police Academy this week.

 

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Congratulations to three standout New Canaan athletes: 24-year-old Andrew Campbell, a Harvard grad, and 30-year-old Charlie Cole (Yale, Oxford)—both of whom attended NCHS—each have made the U.S. Olympics team as rowers, in the lightweight men’s double sculls and men’s four, respectively, while the Nashville Predators selected New Canaanite Patrick Harper in the fifth round of the NHL draft. The center played at Avon Old Farms School and will enter Boston University this fall.

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Here’s a gallery of more news items throughout town:

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