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  • All Newtown Offices Collecting For Tornado Ravaged Moore City

    John Voket • News •
    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    Whether it’s a few pennies from a piggy bank, a generous check, or any amount in between, all Newtown municipal departments are currently set up to collect donations that will be included in a series of ongoing donations to tornado ravaged Moore City, Oklahoma. Town Human Resources Director Carole Ross is heading up the initiative, and hopes to collect enough to make an initial donation to the municipality by early next week. “We have to do something,” she told The Newtown Bee Tuesday, just hours after the full affect of the mile-wide storm became evident: at least 24 people were reported killed, including at least nine children. And those numbers were expected to climb.

  • HealingNewtown Storefront Closing Wednesday; Plans Take Shape For New Location

    Kendra Bobowick • News •
    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    Good news came with the bad on Tuesday, May 21: HealingNewtown Arts Space will close its doors at its current 5 Queen Street location on Wednesday, May 22, but volunteer director Rob Rabinowitz said he “hopes to hear good news soon” regarding leads on a new location. “We are negotiating for space…,” which will be announced. Until then, programming locations will be listed in the HealingNewtown.org calendar of events.In a short Facebook message this week also posted on HealingNewtown.org, Mr Rabinowitz said: “Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, effective Wednesday, May 22, 2013 the HealingNewtown Arts Space will close…” His message assures participants that the healing arts space allocated to the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission following 12/14...

  • Proposal Seeks To Lay Groundwork For Better Children's Mental Health

    Arielle Levin Becker ©The Connecticut Mirror • News •
    Monday, May 20, 2013

    In an effort that grew out of personal experience, advice from experts and the stories parents told in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the head of the legislature’s Committee on Children Monday unveiled a proposal aimed at making it easier for families to access mental health services for children.The bill is a first step, a framework for the mental health system, Sen Dante Bartolomeo, a freshman Democrat from Meriden, said as she outlined the measure, flanked by mental health experts and parents of those killed on 12/14.

  • Green Ribbon Ride Raised $50,000

    Kendra Bobowick • News •
    Saturday, May 18, 2013

    Checks for the approximately $50,000 in funds raised during “the one and only” Sandy Hook Green Ribbon Ride fundraiser and remembrance, held  on Sunday, May 5 will soon be in the mail to recipients, according to event co-organizer Anthony Capozziello. Mr Capozz...

  • Finance Board, Council Cover School Security OT Costs

    John Voket • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    The Board of Finance May 13 and the Legislative Council two days later, decided to delay using a budgeted fund balance allocation to offset some projected police overtime costs for school security. At the same time, the finance board and council approved additional transfers to more than cover overtime expenses accrued since April 1. The Bee reported last week that the Board of Selectmen approved using three sources to cover what Finance Director Robert Tait estimated could be as much as $180,000 in police school security overtime for the fiscal quarter ending June 30.

  • Lawmakers Call For Federal Funding For New Sandy Hook School

    Nancy Crevier • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    US Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty announced in a conference call Thursday, May 16, that next week they will introduce a bill into the Senate and House of Representatives to amend the School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) fund, allowing it to provide funding to assist in reconstruction of school buildings.Currently, there is no federal funding available for the building of new schools. Project SERV traditionally funds “short-term and long-term education-related services for local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) to help them recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted,” according to the US Department of Education website, ed.gov.“Since December 14, the community of Newtown has rallied together,” ...

  • Garner Inmate Arrested After Serious Prison Assault

    Andrew Gorosko • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    State police report they responded to a serious assault in which one inmate attacked another inmate within Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road. State police said this week that on the afternoon of May 8, they received a call from Garner reporting an assault that had occurred about 1:33 pm. State police said their investigation found that the altercation occurred between inmates Travis Hampton, 34, and Jeffrey Allman, 24.

  • Police Reports May 6 - 13, 2013

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    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    Road Rage Police report they received a complaint about 10:45 am on May 12 from a woman concerning a “road rage” incident that had occurred on Queen Street near Lovells Lane. Police said t...

  • Fire Reports May 9 - 16, 2013

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    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications report the following fire calls and the responders:   Thursday, May 9: 10:35 am, alarm, 34 Taunton Hill Road, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 7:40 ...

  • Public Building Chair Ready For Sandy Hook School Project

    John Voket • News •
    Wednesday, May 15, 2013

    Now that the Sandy Hook School Building Task Force has made its recommendation to construct a new facility on the site of the existing school, Public Building and Site Commission Chairman Robert Mitchell believes he can put himself in the place of many of the task force members as they struggled toward their goal. “A part of me wished they could put off the decision another year,” he told The Bee this week, just days after the task force completed its nearly eight-week process. “But we really can’t wait.”

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