Date: Fri 20-Dec-1996

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Aug 11, 1999 12:00 am

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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telephone-listings

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GENNEWS

Town Adds To Its

Telephone Listings

The town has has made some additions to its telephone listings, providing

various direct telephone lines to the police department and adding some

listings for town administrative offices.

Among the changes are the addition of an "anonymous tip line" to the police

department. The tip line, 270-8888, is connected to a telephone answering

machine. Calls placed to the tip line are not traced and are not connected to

caller ID, said James Crouch, the chief dispatcher at the Edmond Town Hall

dispatch center who is in charge of town telephone communications.

The new listings for the police department will allow the public direct

telephone access to various sections of the police department, averting the

tie-ups which can occur when all telephone calls are funneled through one

telephone number, he said.

The following new telephone numbers also have been added to the town's

administrative listings:

Police Department

Routine Police Calls 270-4255

Records 270-4254

Field Services 270-4234

Investigations 270-4235

School Resource Officer 270-4238

Youth Officer 270-4239

Anonymous Tip Line 270-8888

All Emergencies (Police, Fire, Ambulance) 911

Town Administration

Adventure Center 426-3018

Building Department 270-4260

Civil Defense 270-4325

Commission on Aging 270-4310

Community Development 270-4271

Conservation 270-4350

Dog Warden/Dog Pound 426-6900

If Busy 270-4255

Finance Officer 270-4221

First Selectman 270-4201

If Busy 270-4200

Health Department 270-4291

Highway Department 270-4300

Human Resources Director 270-4246

Landfill 270-4307

Planning and Zoning 270-4276

Probate Court 270-4280

Recreation Department 270-4340

Recycling 426-9968

Registrars of Voters 270-4250

Social Services/Commission on Aging 270-4330

Municipal Agent 270-4344

Senior Center 270-4310

Tax Assessor 270-4240

Tax Collector 270-4320

Town Clerk 270-4210

Town Engineer 270-4276

Town Hall Board of Managers 270-4285

Visiting Nurses 270-4367

Youth Services 270-4335

Zoning Board of Appeals 270-4260

All Other Departments Not Listed 270-4200

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I understand your basic point, but not the numbers. Can you help us understand where your numbers come from? Thanks!

The ‘Me’ Generation

Tom, I appreciate you sharing your perspective. My advocacy isn't about a personal 'vested interest' in a single field; it is about the Standard of Newtown. While you categorize the salt shed and library parking as 'essential' and the turf as an 'upgrade,' I would argue they all fall under the same umbrella of maintaining town assets. The Turf Field ($1.4M): This was a replacement project for a facility used by thousands of youth athletes, not a new 'luxury' add-on. The Salt Shed ($1.2M) & Library Parking ($1.4M): These were passed at almost identical price points. The point isn't to say these items aren't important; it’s to ask why we find the money for infrastructure that serves one demographic while claiming we are too 'fiscally strained' to fund infrastructure for another. When we categorize things we use as 'essential' and things our neighbors' children use as 'extras,' we aren't having an honest discussion about priorities, we are picking winners and losers. The goal of my letter wasn't to be 'unproductive,' but to sound the alarm for the 82% of residents who didn't show up to the polls. We cannot be a community that only thrives in parts. If we want Newtown to remain a place where people want to move and raise families, we have to invest in the next generation with the same urgency we use to fix our parking lots.

Michelle, I am sorry to see that you are also a victim of fabrications. All those rumors that go round that seem so convincing. All so often, those rumors are little more than convenient lies. This has been happening for several years and hopefully we can come together to stop them. Until then, I ask that those of you who have heard disparaging remarks about the candidates take the time to meet with them to ask them directly what you are concerned about. Get to know them better rather than assume. We all will have better representation both locally and state-wide if you do so.

Support For Brandon Moore

He is just another politician, you could see it when he got Bruce Walcz'zzz'k elected. Say whatever it takes to get into office...

Two Questions

This is disappointing because it frames voters who rejected the Treadwell turf replacement as selfish or anti-youth. When I suspect that Katherine's motives were likely because she has some vested interest in those turf fields, which makes it exceptionally selfish. There is a clear difference between maintaining basic town infrastructure and approving an athletic facility upgrade. Library sidewalks, parking access, and a salt storage facility support safety and essential town operations. The turf field may be worthwhile, but it is still a different type of request. Residents can support youth sports and still question the cost, timing, or priority of a specific project. Calling that selfish, or turning it into a generational argument is unfair and unproductive. Newtown is better served by honest discussion about priorities, not by accusing voters of lacking community spirit because they disagreed on one ballot item.

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