Saturday, April 7

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Mar 29, 2001 12:00 am

Saturday, April 7

PASSOVER BEGINS AT SUNDOWN

Easter Boutique and Plant Sale, 10am-7pm, St Rose Parish Hall, Church Hill Road, Easter plants and traditional Easter decorations, baskets, stuffed animals, books, from around the world.

First Saturday Pasta Project Dinner, 5-7:30 pm, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, $8 adults, $6 seniors, $3.50 children, full spaghetti dinner with choice of sauces, also garlic bread, salad, desserts and soft drinks; 426-9998.

NUMC Coffee House, 7:45-10:45 pm, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, admission $4 (or $3 if staying after pasta dinner), bluegrass and other music led by Roger Sprung and others, also desserts and coffee/soda; 426-9998.

4th Annual CT Choral Society Benefit Concert, 8 pm, Edmond Town Hallâs Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, tickets $25, âromance through musicâ will be performed by pianist Joseph Jacovino and tenor Ciro Franco, benefit for CCS Scholarship Fund; 800-555-5250, 203-263-7603

Sunday, April 8

PALM SUNDAY

Easter Boutique and Plant Sale, 8 am-2 pm, St Rose Parish Hall, Church Hill Road, Easter plants and traditional Easter decorations, baskets, stuffed animals, books, from around the world.

Reception for âTen Years of Fun With Photography,â 2-4 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free reception to celebrate new exhibit of works by longtime Newtown residents Mary Mitchell and Al Goodrich, show on view through end of month; 426-4533.

Monday, April 9

Lyme Disease Forum, 7 pm, Fireside Inn, 123 South Main Street, (with free blood testing for Lyme from 3-8 pm for persons ages 18 to 60). Speakers include State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Dr Brian Fallon of Columbia University, and Lyme Disease Foundation founder/president Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner. Sponsored by Newtown Rotary Club and Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force; 270-3301.Â

The 2000 Mr and Mrs NHS Pageant, 7 pm, Newtown High School, Berkshire Road, nominal admission, talent show by Newtown High School students with proceeds being donated to Newtown Scholarship Fund in memory of Jon Ullo and Greg Chion.

âThe Sybil Ludington Story,â C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, 7:30 pm, free program presented by Ludington biographer Vincent Dacquino will present story of 16-year old Revolutionary War heroine of Danbury, who rode on horseback from her fatherâs farm to gather patriot troops against the British, sponsored by Newtown Historical Society; 426-5937.

Tuesday, April 10

Newtown Newcomers Club Hospitality Coffee, 10 am, Newtown Meeting House lower meeting room, 31 Main St/Rte 25 (at flagpole), Newtown, all new residents, those who have had baby or other recent lifestyle change, etc invited, children welcome, refreshments and socializing; 270-8065.

Free assistance with preparing income tax forms, 1 to 4:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Parks and Recreation Commission, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers, 7:30 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Booth Library Board of Trustees, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

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

Wednesday, April 11

Borough Zoning Commission, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Town & Country Garden Club meeting, 7:30 pm, Newtown Senior Center, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook, free and open to non-members, slide program by Bartlett Arboretum director Michael P. Harvey on âGardens of the British Islesâ; 426-2652.

Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) meeting, 7:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free and open to non-members, program by sculptor James Grashow (meeting will be preceded by board of directors meeting, 6:15 pm); 426-6654.

Thursday, April 12

Charter Revision Commission, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Horticulture Club of Newtown meeting, 8 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free and open to non-members, program on âCurrent Diseases in the Landscapeâ by CT Agricultural Station pathologist Sharon M. Douglas.

Friday, April 13

GOOD FRIDAY

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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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