In light of the fact that the town has had troubles recently with its garage and complying with Occupational Health & Safety Act standards, First Selectman Frank DeLucia has proposed a local committee be established to keep abreast of the standards as they relate to municipal facilities.

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The Newtown Federation of Teachers and the Board of Education will sit down together again and begin all over to try to come to an agreement on a new contract for the Newtown teachers. Possibly the first of such negotiating sessions will take place within a very few days.

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Every week it seems there is a new situation regarding the town’s efforts to find land as a site for a new town garage-maintenance faiclity, and this week is no exception. Last week’s Bee reported the Public Building Committee had inspected several parcels of land which were available and had recommended three as possibilities. Two were new sites, one thought to have approximately seven acres, owned by the Murphy Sign Company and located on the eastern side of Route 25 south of the access road to the landfill; the other, of some 16 acres, owned by William Murphy and located off Philo Curtis Road, Sandy Hook, is a finished sand and gravel-mining site. The third was the Finch land, located at the corner of Ethan Allen Road and Route 25, the $150,000 tract of 7.35 acres, the purchase of which was voted down at a town meeting on February 13.

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Mrs Rose Elliott reopened her Prints Charming fabric shop in new larger quarters March 15 and is happy to have more than four times her former space for browsing customers. The new location is the former Trade Well Store at 20 Church Hill Road.

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Committees have been formed and are hard at work preparing for the ballet performance of the Marsha Ismailoff Mark School of Ballet to be held on June 19 and 21 at the Edmond Town Hall. Serving as co-chairmen are Mrs Angus McDonald and Mrs John Schwerdtle; treasurer, Mrs Joseph Ball; program, Mrs Raymond Theriault, Mrs Frederick Dirga, and Mrs Jack Fuller; Costumes, Mrs John D’Addario, Mrs Vincent Jurksitis, and Mrs John Madsen; publicity, Mrs John Schwertdle and Mrs Gary McMahon.

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On Tuesday evening, April 8, Newtowners will get the opportunity to attend the Board of Finance public hearing at the Middle School on the proposed budgets for the town and the Board of Education for fiscal 1975-76. The Board of Education proposal for fiscal 1975-76 is $7,120,435, a little more than one million dollars more than the budgeted 1974-75 figure of an even $6,000,000.

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“Nothing new,” is Health Director Dr Thomas Draper’s response to questions about the status of the septic lagoon site search here in Newtown. All the land tests so far have been found unsuitable, he said on April 1. The town is still in the position of having to find a piece of land for the lagoons.

APRIL 7, 1950

A project begun in the fall of last year and postponed during the winter months, now nears completion. It is the construction of a garage in which to house the ambulance owned and operated by the community’s Newtown Ambulance Association, Inc. Since 1942, at which time the first and present ambulance was purchased, it has been housed in a number of places about town. For a time it was kept at Dickinson’s Service Station, then in a garage on the property of Mr and Mrs Milton F. Hull, and also in Mr and Mrs Stephen Budd’s barn. At one time First Selectman Stanley Blackman arranged to have it housed in the Newtown Hook and Ladder Company’s building, and later it was transferred to the barn at the rear of the Trinity Episcopal rectory, where it is currently located.

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Fifteen young people and adults met Monday evening in Edmond Town Hall to make plans for the 1950 Youth Club Jamboree, setting the date of Friday, May 19, and the place, the Edmond Town Hall gymnasium. Representatives of seven of the nine youth clubs operating in Newtown were on hand and expressed the desire that the plan of last year be followed, along with some innovations. The meeting was directed by Coach Harold S. DeGroat.

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The State Highway Department will advertise in the late summer and fall for the first two projects concerned with the relocation of Route U.S. 6 and the erection of a new bridge over the Housatonic River between Southbury and Newtown.

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Announcement comes from Hawley School this week that three girls, members of the class of ’50, have maintained highest scholastic standing for nearly four years of their high school work. These June graduates who have maintained such a standard of excellence are Catherine Quinn, first; Barbara Drew, second; Jean Taylor, third.

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A joint installation of officers of the VFW Auxiliary with the Charles Howard Peck, Sr and Jr, Post 308 will be held in St John’s recreation room, Sandy Hook, next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs Ben Day Smith will be the installing officer. The following auxiliary members will be installed in office: president, Mrs Richard E. Lane; senior vice president, Mrs Harold Morgan; junior vice president, Mrs Claude Lewis; treasurer, Mrs Edmond J. Pelletier; chaplain, Miss Alice Mary Carey; conductress, Miss Marian Lewis; guard, Mrs Bert Carey; trustees, Mrs William Hanlon (3 years) and Mrs Helen Tomlinson (2 years).

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The four appointed census enumerators for the town of Newtown received their assignments of territory last Friday and began their local work on Saturday. Serving are Mrs Alexander McQuillan, whose territory is the center of Newtown, including the Borough; Mrs William J. Mannix, Fairfield State Hospital; Mrs Ellis W. Walker, the eastern part of town; and William Murphy, the western part of the community.

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Prior to the annual buffet dinner of the Newtown Fish and Game Club to be held next Wednesday evening, J. Robert Lockwood has announced that the streams of Newtown were stocked this Monday with 400 legal-sized brook trout, 12 days prior to the opening of the trout season.

 

APRIL 3, 1925

An important real estate deal was consummated Monday when William D. Parker, proprietor of the Parker House, bought the Parker House property of Miss Annie Sanford and Mrs R.H. Beers. The property comprises the hotel, barns, etc., and about three and one-half acres of land with a frontage of 160 feet on Main Street and about 700 feet on West Street.

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Clement Maye’s big school bus, which transports the Hawley School pupils from Botsford to the school and returns, figured in a spectacular accident last Thursday afternoon. Mr Maye was on his way north to the school in the afternoon and at a point near James J. Farrell’s residence, something went wrong with the steering gear, causing the bus to run into a ditch and turn over. The only person in the bus was Mr Maye, who escaped injury.

APRIL 6, 1900

Letters addressed to the following persons remained uncalled for in the Newtown Post Office April 1, 1900: Daniel Decell, Rosa James, Bridgie Leahy, J. Sadleir, one foreign.

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Miss Bell Gilbert has been quite busy doing dressmaking for her neighbors this spring.

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The iron fence in front of the residence of P.H. Skidmore, which has been a landmark for many years, has been taken away, Mr Skidmore having sold it to a junk dealer.