The second major shopping center proposal brought before the Newtown Planning & Zoning Commissin in the last two years for land off Church Hill and Edmond Roads was received by P&Z at its meeting on March 21. The commission will call a public
The second major shopping center proposal brought before the Newtown Planning & Zoning Commissin in the last two years for land off Church Hill and Edmond Roads was received by P&Z at its meeting on March 21. The commission will call a public hearing on the special exception application within 65 days. Applicant for âThe Edmond Mall,ââ a proposed 200,000-square-foot enclosed mall facility with 934 parking spaces proposed, is James F. Edwards of Redding, president of Churchill Business Forms Company of Newtown.
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Suzanne J. Kopple has been named valedictorian of the Newtown High School Class of â75. Deborah L. Brody has been named salutatorian.
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The Conservation Commission is still seeking to complete a listing of historic sites, buildings, homes, and markers in Newtown, which will be included in an open space and recreation study for the town. The commission is being helped by Frederick P. Clark Associates, planning and development consultants of Rye, N.Y. According to the consultants, an important part of the study will be the incorporation of buildings and areas which are of historic, architectural, or aesthetic value to the town.
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Members of the Dodgingtown Volunteer Fire Department responded to a barn fire on the Rufus Mosher property on Hattertown Road early on the morning of March 23. The alarm came in about 2:10 am, and the fire wasnât noticed until it was fairly well involved. Twenty men from Dodgingtown reported with Engine 21, Tanker 29, and brush truck 25. The fire was a stubborn one to fight, according to the volunteers, who were on the scene for several hours. A wall of the barn collapsed and set off flames for a second time. Lost in the blaze were bicycles, tires, and a riding tractor.
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Nelson G. Curtis, president of S. Curtis and Son, Inc., reported that the companyâs net sales reached a new high in 1974 at $8,063,835 â a 12.6 percent increase over 1973 sales of $7,163,022.
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Frank DeLucia, first selectman, requested an opinion of town counsel Paul Pollock relative to salaries in this yearâs budget. Mr Pollockâs opinion was given to the Board of Finance at its Monday night, March 24 meeting. Mr DeLucia said that, in the past, the Board of Finance had raised some salaries on its own, and he wanted to define the responsibilities of the selectmen and those of the Board of Finance members.
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A petition drive opposing a new Route 25 has been launched in Newtown, Monroe, and Trumbull under the leadershp of two Environmental Study and Protection Inc. directors, Dr Frances Berting and Mrs Andrea Boyce, both of Newtown. Petitions addressed to Gov Grasso were circulated last Saturday, March 22, in area shopping centers, and will be carried door to door in the next few weeks by ESP members and friends.
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MARCH 31, 1950
A ceremony of historical significance took place last Friday afternoon in the founderâs room of Edmond Town Hall when Arthur T. Nettleton, for more than 50 years a loyal and constructive leader in the town, was presented with a plaque, which was a cross-section of the townâs recently dismantled wooden flagpole, a landmark which had stood as a town institution at the head of Church Hill Road for many years. The presentation was made by Judge Paul V. Cavanaugh, under whose direction the plaque had been prepared, and the ceremony took place in the presence of a group of representative citizens of the town.
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Approximately 200 persons attended a two-hour public hearing called by the Zoning Commission of the borough on Monday night and held in the Edmond Town Hall gymnasium. The purpose of the meeting was to present and consider the petition of Ralph L. Knibloe, Taunton District, for reclassification of his property on Queen Street from residential to business, to permit him and his associates to construct on the site a shopping center to be known as The Village Center.
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Coach Harold S. DeGroat was named for the position of vice president-elect of the recreation division of the Eastern District Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, a division of the National Health Association, at its convention held in Atlantic City last Wednesday and Thursday.
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A delegation from the Newtown Mothersâ Club met with First Selectman A. Fenn Dickinson at the Edmond Town Hall on Thursday morning of last week, to discuss the need for highway safety, especially in front of Hawley School and along the highway between Newtown and Sandy Hook.
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At a meeting on Friday evening, March 24, members of the VFW Charles Howard Peck Post elected George Jackson as their commander. Other officers elected at this time were Harold Morgan, senior vice commander; Jerry Jackson, junior vice commander; William Daniells, chaplain; Robert Kayfus, quartermaster; William Slocum, trustee; and Herbert Carey and Joseph Huston, county council delegates.
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Danger in spring clean-up fires is emphasized by Vincent P. Gaffney, district fire warden, in words of caution sent to the Bee office this week. Mr Gaffney states that fire permits are required for burning outside the borough from March 1 to December 1, and calls attention to a bulletin on fire hazards written by George Crowther of the State Agricultural Extension Service.
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Plans for the annual Rotary-sponsored Youth Club Jamboree in Newtown will be formulated at a meeting called by Harold S. DeGroat to meet in the Alexandria room cloak room at Edmond Town Hall next Monday, April 3, at 7:45 pm. He is asking that each youth club be represented at the meeting by one member and one adult. Mr DeGroat is director of physical education at Hawley School, director of recreation, health, and athletics for the Town of Newtown, and heads the Rotary Club youth committee.
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MARCH 27, 1925
M.B. Hawley has sold the Campbell Mill property recently acquired by the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company to F.E. Wetmore of this town.
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Henry Johnson of Sandy Hook is out with a new Chevrolet touring car, bought of F.E. Knox of Woodbury.
MARCH 30, 1900
At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Newtown Savings Bank, March 24, a division of 2 percent was declared, payable April 1.
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Last Sunday afternoon a flock of over a hundred wild geese were seen flying northward.
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Charles Hawley, who has conducted the Sandy Hook Stage business for ten years, has taken the contract for carrying the mail between the Newtown Station and the Sandy Hook Post Office, beginning April 1.