Collision During Passing
Newtown Police report Chanel Brown, 44, of Hamden, operating a 2008 Kia Sorento, was traveling westbound on Route 34 at 10:07 am J...
Newtown Police Department responded to two separate fatal motorcycle crashes within 24 hours last weekend, both involving young riders whose ages were just abou...
A five building self-storage facility was the topic of discussion at the Newtown Inland Wetlands Commission’s (IWC) June 22 meeting at Newtown Municipal Center....
St Rose Parish recently held its annual carnival, welcoming parishioners and the public for four of the five scheduled nights of June 21-25. By all accounts — e...
With Newtown Middle School Principal Tom Einhorn’s retirement, the Board of Education voted at a special meeting on June 24 to appoint NMS Assistant Principal J...
Newtown High School’s Ultimate Frisbee club team, The Ducks, competed this spring and placed third in division B at the Connecticut Ultimate Frisbee State Tourn...
RIDGEFIELD — Attorney Jennifer Collins, a Connecticut Magistrate and Senior Partner with the regional law firm Cramer & Anderson, is running for Judge of Probat...
June 29 marked another big step toward this year’s Friends of C.H. Booth Library Book Sale. The carefully sorted and boxed donations of hundreds of thousands of...
UPDATE (July 5, 2022; 10 am): This web report has been updated to include missing details about a 2020 PPP distribution, and correcting language around the ...
A number of stories were posted to newtownbee.com this past weekend. In case you missed them, here is a list of some of those stories.
"Annual Tuesday Tunes Con...
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