Mae S. Schmidle didn't win her race for state representative in the 106th District against John Anderson Tuesday, but the popular Newtown Town Clerk knows she still has a job to do up in her office in the Edmond Town Hall. "I think there's no q
Mae S. Schmidle didnât win her race for state representative in the 106th District against John Anderson Tuesday, but the popular Newtown Town Clerk knows she still has a job to do up in her office in the Edmond Town Hall. âI think thereâs no question that the people in town are satisfied with my work as town clerk,â she mused Wednesday as The Bee spoke with her about her unsuccessful try for the state legislature. Itâs a job she conducts with flair and good humor, from struggling for funds to restore the townâs land records to holding âBicentennial Mondaysâ in her office earlier this year, complete with costumed and be-wigged town clerk and office staff.
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 The biggest headache First Selectman Jack Rosenthal had in the first few months of his administration after he took office last January 5 was poor drainage on Newtown roads, and heâs aiming by mid-December to have some of the worst problems taken care of.
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Three more groups in town have expressed their opinion on the flagpole, and they are all in agreement. Leave the flagpole alone! This is what the Board of Police Commissioners heard on Monday evening via Chief Louis Marchese who advised he had received communications from the Newtown Womanâs Club, the Garden Club of Newtown, and the Newtown Board of Realtors, all of which wrote saying Newtownâs Main Street with its flagpole in the center should remain as is.
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The Newtown Junior Womenâs Club conservation committee has been selected to receive a third place organizational award in Keep America Beautiful, Incâs 1976 awards program.
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The Legislative Council Wednesday night deferred approving a special appropriation of $12,500 to cover wage increase costs for the new highway department contract that was recommended by the Board of Selectmen. The reason council members felt it was too early in the year for special appropriations, and that the monies could possibly be found through transfers at this time.
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A town manager would only have to please 18 people in Newtown to keep his job, while a mayor or first selectman would have to please 18,000 to insure his reelection, First Selectman Jack Rosenthal told the Charter Revision Commission Monday, November 1, in response to their request that the selectmen discuss their views of the responsibilities of the executive arm of town government.
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First Selectman Jack Rosenthal will apply to the Newtown Planning & Zoning this month to change the zone of the Newtown landfill and surrounding property, the Public Building Committee was informed Monday. Mr Rosenthal will ask that more than 58 acres be changed from residential to Industrial M-5. This will include the 3.692 acres fronting southerly on Turkey Hill Road, which the town is to receive in a land exchange with Loma Sand & Gravel. The first selectman is planning to locate a new town garage on this tract, and under the zoning regulations a public works garage is a permitted use in M-5 zones, which allow two acre minimum lots.
NOVEMBER 9, 1951
Following the recessed session of the annual town meeting held on October 18, when no action was taken approving items for teachersâ salaries in the current budget of the Board of Education, advice was sought by Herman W. Parker, town treasurer, from Attorney Joseph H.A. Symonds, town counsel, as to whether or not salary payments due for services since October 1, could be made to the Newtown teachers. Attorney Symonds has made a detailed legal study of the existing situation and on Saturday handed his opinion to Mr Parker advising that payment can and should be made to the teachers, doing so on a temporary 90-day basis under the provisions of existing legislation in the General Statutes.
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Some 1,500 people were present at open house of the Tru Valu Store located in the Newtown Shopping Center on Wednesday evening. The store officially opened for business on this Thursday morning. During the time that the store was open for inspection many of the concerns, whose products are on sale, had representatives on hand to present samples to the visiting public. The Birdseye Foods treated the gathering to cold orange juice and samples of Wisconsin cheddar cheese, Ritz Crackers, Clix and Cape Cod cookies. Jupiter and Connecticut Potato Chips were also given away.
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Some 300 parents, friends, and members of Fairfield County 4-H Clubs attended the annual county rally, which took place in Samuel Staples School, Easton, last Friday night, where the program was highlighted with entertainment, awards and presentation of prizes. The program was conducted by Robert Deming, 4-H county agent, with Fred Clark, New Fairfield as master of ceremonies. Lester Reynolds, president of the Fairfield County Farm Bureau, welcomed those attending.
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George M. Stuart, president of George M. Stuart, Inc, is moving his insurance business on Saturday from his present space in the Atchison Block on Main Street to the âBrick Buildingâ opposite the Cyrenius H. Booth Library.
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Two more men in Korea, both with the US Marines, were heard from by their parents last week. They are Pfc Kendall Grannis, son of Mr and Mrs C. Edward Grannis of Glen Road, Sandy Hook, and Pfc Robert J. Qubick, son of Mr and Mrs John Qubick of the Boulevard. The boys left Newtown last January 29, received their earlier training at Pendleton, Parris Island, and advance training at Oceanside, Calif. They arrived in Korea August 3, and both have been wounded, but are again in active service.
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Judge Paul V. Cavanaugh of Newtown, chairman of Fairfield County Chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, has announced the gift by the chapter of a new Emerson Respirator or iron lung to Danbury Hospital so that if occasion arises the hospital is equipped to handle an emergency case locally. Nurses assigned to the respirator have attended special classes in the care of infantile paralysis and the use of the respirator.
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A local man, Dr Henry Roger of ROLAB Studios, Walnut Tree Hill, has developed and put on the market a computer for use in film editing, which he calls the Ready-Eddy. With this device, questions about footage, projection time in minutes and seconds, number of frames per foot and per second, equivalents of 16mm. and 35 mm. are answered by rotating an indicator on a plastic disk.
NOVEMBER 5, 1926
Selectman Brew is having a good improvement made on the Hawleyville flats, the road connecting the state roads, giving it a substantial covering of gravel.
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Mrs Sarah Beers Mitchell with her mother, Mrs George B. Beers, gave a very delightful Halloween party last Saturday night. The house was all trimmed with Halloween sourvenirs and the âWitch of Endorâ stood ready to greet you as you entered the door.
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The Halloween party at the Castle on Saturday night was attended by fully 100 people and was a most enjoyable event.
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The State Highway Department has issued an order to prevent the burning of leaves along the highway. The burning of the leaves causes a smoke screen that has caused several near accidents, and in one case caused an accident.
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In one of the greatest victories for an off year, the Republicans carried Connecticut Tuesday, by a majority of 82,000. Charles G. Morris of Newtown, for a second time his partyâs nominee, was buried under an avalance of votes. His home town of Newtown went against him by 12 votes.
NOVEMBER 8, 1901
T.B. Drew has been around looking at some of the crops of tobacco in this vicinity.
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The Henderson property in South Center district is being rejuvenated by the new owner, Charles Henry Peck. New roofs have been placed on the house, the barn repaired, and other improvements made.
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E.A. Wilson has recently purchased a blacksmithâs forge of Chicago parties and will now be able to do his own blacksmithing.
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Henry Johnson of Zoar attended the bicentennial of Yale at New Haven.
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The average citizen has no objection to the harmless antics of the boys on Halloween, but when it comes to pass that public property is damaged, as was the case in the North Center school district, it is high time the culprits were brought to bay. It will probably cost $8 or $10 to repair the damage done to certain buildings by the boys, last week Thursday night, belonging to the North Center school district.
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The Fabric Fire Hose Company is having substantial improvements made on the houses belonging to the company, in the way of new roofs and the like. John Keating is doing the carpenter work.
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P.L.Ronalds has very generously given $25 to help fix up the fair grounds.