Friday, January 20

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Jan 20, 2006 12:00 am

Friday, January 20

Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, 10:30 am, Brookfield Town Hall.

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials (HVCEO), 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall.

Saturday, January 21

Opening day for SCANâs Color in January Art Show & Sale, 10 amâ5 pm, Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, free, original work by more than 100 artist members of Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will be on view daily until January 29, also pastel demonstration by Melody Asbury at 12:30, opening reception 2â4 pm; 798-7439 (show chair Garry Thomas).

Pre-Prom Fashion Show, 7:30 pm, Newtown High School auditorium, 12 Berkshire Road, admission $5, members of NHS Peer Leadership group will model formal fashions, all proceeds to benefit Kevinâs Community Center; 426-7646.

Sunday, January 22

SCANâs Color in January continues, 10 amâ5 pm, Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, see show description under January 21, special demonstration on painting landscape with oil at 12:30 by Ruth Newquist; 798-7439 (show chair Garry Thomas).

Open House, 1â3 pm, St Rose Parochial School, 40 Church Hill Road, meet teachers and faculty, learn about curriculum and programs available for preschool and grades Kâ8; 426-5102.

Monday, January 23

Commission on Aging, 5 pm, Multipurpose Center, Riverside Road.

Board of Fire Commissioners, 7 pm, Sandy Hook Firehouse, Riverside Road.

Newtown Pension Committee, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Tuesday, January 24

âPlanning Your Paradise: Envisioning and Troubleshooting Your Garden,â 1 pm, C.H. Booth Library lower meeting room, 25 Main Street, free program by award-winning journalist and photographer Virginia Small will be hosted by Garden Club of Newtown; 270-1108.

Public Building and Site Commission, 6:30 pm, Reed Intermediate School, Trades Lane.

Hattertown Historic District Commission, 7 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, 2006-07 municipal budget review, Multipurpose Center, Riverside Road.

NHS PTSA program, 7:30 pm, Newtown High School lecture hall, 12 Berkshire Road, Assistant Superintendent Alice Jackson will address the subject of bullying, hosted by NHS Parent Teacher Student Association; 426-7646.

Wednesday, January 25

Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART), board of directors, 4 pm, HART offices, 62 Federal Road, Danbury.

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, Multipurpose Center, Riverside Road, agenda includes 2006-07 municipal budget review.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, 31 Peckâs Lane.

Thursday, January 26

Business Network International (BNI) meeting, 7â8:30 am, My Place Restaurant, Queen Street, all businesses welcome, guest speaker Mary Jane Magoon (Artistic Surroundings) will talk about âOrganizing Your Lifeâ; 312-0386.

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, Multipurpose Center, Riverside Road, for 2006-07 municipal budget review.

Saturday, January 28

SCANâs Color in January continues, 10 amâ5 pm, Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, presentation of more than 200 works by 100 artist members of Society of Creative Arts of Newtown, also special demonstration on painting with watercolor at 12:30 by Cal Martin, show continues to January 29; 798-7439 (show chair Garry Thomas).

Sunday, January 29

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Final day SCANâs Color in January, 10 amâ5 pm, Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, see show description under January 27, also special demonstration on painting portrait using model, working in acrylic, at 12:30 by Ruth Newquist; 798-7439 (show chair Garry Thomas).

Screening of Cyrano de Bergerac, 2 pm, C.H. Booth Library lower meeting room, 25 Main Street, free screening sponsored by Alliance FranÃ§aise of Northwestern Connecticut continues CinÃ©mathÃ¨que series; 426-4533.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

Assembly Ordinance?

Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

Who is Calling Newtowners Stupid?

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