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If all goes as planned, Newtown will have its first set of office condominiums on the corner of Mile Hill Road and Queen Street as early as next year. Called Queens Row Professional Office Park, the 30,000 square foot structure will feature narrow blue clapboard siding, pitched roofs and paned windows, all in colonial style.

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The town’s personnel consultant, Catherine Thompson, on October 31 gave the Board of Selectmen a long-awaited report in which she recommended upgrading the job classifications for five non-union town employees, and downgrading seven non-union positions. Miss Thompson’s recommendations mean higher salary scales for the five persons whose jobs would be upgraded. Downgrading the seven jobs would not affect the salaries for the persons now holding those jobs.

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First Selectman Jack Rosenthal vowed that Bridgeport industrialist F. Francis D’Addario will not “get off the hook” in his negotiations with the Conservation Commission over alleged discharges of heavy metals and hydrocarbons into a brook located near Mr D’Addario’s Button Shop Road landfill. Mr Rosenthal predicted the town would come to a “successful agreement.”

 

November 6, 1959

In order to forestall any possibility that Harvey Hubbell, Inc, of Bridgeport, may cancel its plans to build a new plant on land which it recently acquired in the industrial zone in South Center District, town officials, the Chamber of Commerce, and a number of individuals have been busy this week conveying to Harvey Hubbell that the town of Newtown and a large majority of townspeople are anxious to have the company proceed with its plans.

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The Connecticut Safety Commission in Hartford has awarded the town of Newtown a safety merit certificate. The award reads, “Certificate of Merit: For completing an entire year without a traffic fatality, this award is presented to the Town of Newtown, in grateful recognition of interest and cooperation in the field of safety.”

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Coach Harold S. DeGroat, director of town and school recreation, has circulated to townspeople this week a questionnaire form, which, when all the answers come in, may give some answer to what the people of the town of Newtown prefer by way of spring and winter recreation.

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The court test of the constitutionality of the Connecticut law on school bus transportation for private schools brought by the Citizens for the Connecticut Constitution will have a hearing before the Supreme Court of Errors, Connecticut’s highest tribunal, it has been announced by Francis A. Snyder of Newtown, president of the citizen group.

November 2, 1934

Allison Parish Smith, editor of The Newtown Bee for the past 42 years, entered his eternal rest last Friday afternoon, October 26, at 3:06 o’clock in the Danbury hospital. Death came suddenly, for he had been ill for only a few days and in the hospital but since Tuesday evening, though for some time he had been feeling not quite himself because of bronchial asthma and an ailing heart condition. Born in Burlington, Connecticut, October 27, 1866, Editor Smith would have observed his 88th birthday if he had but lived another day. He was the son of Rev Henry Bagg Smith, who was pastor of the Newtown Congregational Church from 1867 to 1873.

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Myron Beal, well-known Bethel artesian well driller, has just completed the drilling of wells for Rev Curtis Dickens of Brookfield Center, Mrs Pauline Castellano of Dodgingtown district, Newtown, and the C.K. Mulliken estate in Hanover district, Newtown, and now is installing a new pump at the Donald Joseph place on the Danbury-Norwalk road.

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The first snow flurries of the season fell early, Sunday morning, and a bitter north wind blew throughout the day. Snow flurries occurred several times during the day. The temperature was the coldest thus far this season.

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Superintendent Charles A. Wheeler of the Bridgeport Police department gave a very interesting and instructive talk before a large gathering of members of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce. He spoke of several of the more notorious crimes in this country during the past few years, notably the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the Dillinger episode and the capture of Hauptmann. He used these cases to illustrate that the majority of crimes are committed by young men between the ages of 19 and 23 years, and that the answer to crime precaution lies in proper training of the young men in the home, the school and the church.

 

November 5, 1909

R.H. Beers proposes to establish a street light at the corner of his store and in connection with Town Clerk Elect Oscar Pitzschler, will maintain it all night. They are to be commended for their enterprise. It is hoped others will imitate their good example.

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The Congregational church has leased the sheds on the Smith-Scudder property, west of the blacksmith shop. A roadway has been cut from the highway. People attending the Congregational church will appreciate this, as their teams can be under cover in rough and rainy weather.

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Boys who go out for Hallowe’en pranks would show better sense if they did not molest the property of elderly and defenseless ladies or injure town property. One lady filed a complaint with the warden of the borough at the treatment her property received, Monday night. Have a good time, boys, but don’t forget to be decent about it.

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Two popular and highly esteemed ladies in Palestine district husked 40 shocks of corn, Wednesday afternoon. At another place in the same district two lady acquaintances of the writer were engaged in the same healthful and interesting pastime.