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By CURT CLARK

Published: Oct 23, 2001 12:00 am

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Childrenâs Programs:

Story Hour Regisration: Register for the next session of story hours October 22-31. Weekly story times are offered for 2 year olds: Monday-Thursday, 10:00-10:30 and 3-5 year olds: Tuesday-Thursday, 1:00-1:45, and Thursday, 11:00-11:45. Classes begin the week of November 5. Children must be 2 or 3 years old by November 5 and a resident of Newtown to be eligible for the program. No phone registrations will be accepted. For more information call the childrenâs department, 426-3851.

Author! Author!: The dynamic duo of Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, author and illustrator of the popular Magic School Bus series, will be signing copies of the first book in their new series, âMiss Frizzleâs Adventures â Ancient Egypt,â Sunday, November 11, 2-3:30 pm in the C.H. Booth Library meeting room. Prior to the signing there will be a slide show and a question and answer session. Mark your calendars and donât miss this opportunity to meet these wonderful childrenâs authors and get a personalized copy of one of their books for yourself or to give as a gift. Several titles will be available for purchase the day of the program.

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Adult Programs

Add some mystery to your lifeâ¦ Spend the evening with mystery writers Marcia Talley and Kate Charles Monday, November 5, at 7:30 pm. These two authors will be on hand to speak on âMaking Crime Payâ and to sign copies of their books, which will be available for purchase at the time of the signing. Marcia Talley is the author of Unbreathed Memories and the award-winning Sing It To HerBones. Her third Hannah Ives mystery, Occasion of Revenge, was published in August 2001. She is also the editor of Naked Came the Phoenix, a collaborative work, with each chapter written by some of todayâs most talented mystery novelists. Contributors include Nevada Barr, J.D. Robb, Lisa Scottoline, Faye Kellerman, J.A. Jance, and Mary Jane Clark. Kate Charles, who was described by Oxford Times as âa most English writer,â is in fact an expatriate American. She has a special interest in and expertise in clerical mysteries, and presents frequent lectures on crime novels with church backgrounds. Her books include Evil Angels Among Them, A Drink of Deadly Wine, Unruly Passions and her latest, Cruel Habitations. You wonât want to miss meeting these two delightful authors.

Partners in Crime: A Mystery Book Discussion Series: This book discussion will be exploring the relationships of different mystery solving couples. On Tuesday, October 30, Evil Angels Among Them by Kate Charles will be discussed at 7:30 pm in the special collections room on the third floor. Some copies of the titles are available at the library. Sign up at the circulation desk or by calling 426-4533.

Genealogy Help: Every Monday from 2 to 4 pm Harlan Jessup provides free genealogy help in the Genealogy room. No need to register, but you may want to call ahead to confirm that Mr Jessup will be coming.

Free Blood Pressure Screening: Ashlar sponsors a free blood pressure screening in the genealogy room from 10 am to noon on the fourth Wednesday of every month. No need to register, just stop by.

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Unfortunately, I think this is likely to get worse, not better... Based on both public comments and private conversations, I’m increasingly concerned that our newly elected First Selectman intends not just to install these cameras, but to expand their use for full-blown enforcement and fines. Try getting a straight answer out of him about the long-term plan and you quickly realize how vague the responses become. Tyler is absolutely right to raise the privacy issue. These systems don’t just “catch speeders” — they quietly build a database of where we drive, when we drive, and who is in our vehicles. Once that infrastructure is in place, it becomes very easy to justify expanding its scope: more cameras, more locations, more uses, and eventually more automated enforcement. If Newtown is going down this road, residents deserve clear, written answers to some basic questions before anything is expanded: What limits will be placed on how and where cameras are used? Will footage and plate data be used only for speed enforcement, or for other investigations too? How long will data be stored, and who can access it? What safeguards will prevent vendors and individuals from abusing this information? Without firm, enforceable rules in place, “just a few cameras to slow traffic” can turn into something very different over time. I support safe roads — but not at the cost of unchecked surveillance and vague promises from our leaders. You try getting straight answers out of our First Selectman, myself and others have not been able to...

Discusses Traffic Cameras

I had to hold back a laugh at the idea that 7:30 pm is apparently such a late-night hardship that we’re already talking about moving meetings earlier. For a lot of residents, 7:30 is the earliest they can realistically get to Town Hall after work, family obligations, and the rest of real life. Shifting BOS meetings to 7:00 might make the calendar look tidier for those in the building, but it makes participation harder for the people who pay for the building. If the new First Selectman’s week is already booked solid and evening meetings feel like a strain, that’s not a reason to move the goalposts on public access—it's a reminder that the job is supposed to be demanding. Public service means accommodating the public, even when it’s inconvenient.

Walczak Adjusts To New Role, First Board Meeting

Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position. If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe. Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.

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To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion. The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public. This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.

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Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.

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