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Did You Hear … ?

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One of the men brought up on misdemeanor charges by New York City police for climbing the Brooklyn Bridge in order to get a nice photo of Manhattan at sunrise Saturday was a 24-year-old New Canaanite, the New York Post reports. ***

Some of the New Canaan High School students who attended the boys varsity lacrosse game Saturday versus rival Darien misbehaved to the point where the principal of NCHS sent a letter that went to the wider school community to address the problem. The letter references “a number of incidents at the game” including alcohol consumption and profanity. It continues: “Consuming or possessing alcohol, threatening or harassing others, acting disrespectfully, and/or any behaviors that would not be tolerated in school will not be permitted at these contests. If it is witnessed, students will be removed from the game and may face significant disciplinary action in school, up to and including suspension.

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Saxe Friends, Both 12, To Launch Weather Balloon Into Outer Space on Saturday

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New Canaan’s Henry Benton and Peter Vigano together made a compressed gas Ping Pong ball launcher when they were in the third grade. As fourth-graders, the classmates created a computer game and as fifth-graders, a camera. Last year, as a sixth-grader, Henry built a computer. Then one day last summer he had an epiphany while watching a science TV show “where they were testing the durability of action cameras,” Henry recalled Thursday afternoon from a STEM room at Saxe Middle School during an Open Lab period, his pal Peter standing nearby and the pair of them wearing new, matching shirts. “There was one story where the action camera fell when someone was skydiving and I thought, ‘Why not a weather balloon if they’re that durable?