Newtown Friends Of Music
Continues Preparing For Its 33rd Season
Preparations for the 2010-11 season of concerts sponsored by Newtown Friends of Music got unde...
Students Spending Summer Near And Far
From crossing a river in Cancun, Mexico, on a zipline to venturing to Springfield, Mass., for a concert with the family, N...
Occupation: I’m in advertising sales for Manta, a business information website. I also have a master’s in library and information sc...
Medical Devices Hurt More Than 70,000 Children Annually
By Lindsey Tanner
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency roo...
Newtown Bridle Lands Association Events
The Newtown Bridle Lands Association (NBLA) announces events for month of August as follows:
Saturday, August 7, NBLA wi...
Letters Of Endorsement
To the Editor:
I would like to urge all Newtown Republicans to vote in next Tuesday’s primary. For the office of judge of pro...
Newtown Company Working To Clear Up Murky Waterways
By John Voket
As the environmental debacle of the BP oil spill played out in the Gulf of Mexico, many who lo...
Friendships Built Through AFS Continue
By Eliza Hallabeck
American Field Services (AFS) student Arnold Geng from Hannover, Germany, was only a student at Newtow...
Updated Parity Regulations Defend Right to Access, Enhance Addiction Treatment
HARTFORD — Kevin Lembo, state healthcare advocate, heralded new feder...
Let's be honest, The ARPA funds were not "provided to municipalities during the COVID-19 pandemic to help provide PPE for citizens and make improvements to the town’s infrastructure." It was a Stimulus Package to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.
Dave at the NCC, this letter says that this letter was written on behalf of the Newtown Conservation Commission. Your website lists Land Use Staff, does this mean they are part of your Commission and your letter above speaks for them, or does it just speak for the 7 "citizen" members? I ask because typically, letters to the editor are written as individuals, don't remember any Commission or board representative writing in for the whole land use department. This brings up another question your charter doesn't say anything about opposing all new privately held property developments, I think your coalition was only supposed to "preservation and protection of 2,000 acres of town-owned open space". Do you have a new charter?
I think that it is a shame that the NIMBY Coalition is preventing the town from reverting this paper road back to its original owner. If, by some magic of beurocratic shamemanship the NCC is successful I think the Town should pave the road. Some of it is already a gravel road, paving this section of road would allow residents to avoid traffic at the flag pole by cutting through the newly paved "Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau Road". Ok, we have to work on the name of the road. Just think of the traffic freed from having to go through West Street or around to Taunton Hill.
Barbara was a mentor to me in my youth. I learned many things from this loving , sweet lady. May God bless Rudy and the kids.
Rest in peace Barbara.
Cheryl Booth Hornal
WA. State
We are not investigative reporters. We've never claimed to be. We cover meetings, write features, and do other very good work for this town.
We're not doing any less than when John Voket was Editor (nor any of his predecessors). Sorry we're not doing enough for you.
-SH