Week In Review: August 22-August 28, 2010

The final days of August 2010 have been anything but slow and lazy.

Police are continuing their investigation into the fatal hit and run accident on Oenoke Ridge, a process they say could take "months or years".  The holdup? Waiting for results of tests on evidence collected from the Infiniti QX56 on Monday afternoon. 

Fire Captain Russell Kimes III asked Patch to share a video of a Saturday barn fire submitted by a reader.  The footage will be used for training and investigative purposes.  The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

The Board of Education entertained a proposal from a security company to participate in an NSF-sponsored pilot project into possible applications for radio frequency identification tags in a school setting.

Championship dreams of Fairfield American, New England's representatives at the Little League World Series, were dashed on Tuesday night when the team lost to Auburn Washington, 9-5.  But in New Canaan, the field hockey and football teams are looking ahead and hoping for their own championship seasons.

And, in a commercial case of closet creep, the women's department at J. Crew has overtaken space formerly occupied by the downstairs men's department that closed two weeks ago.