Book Donations

By CURT CLARK

Published: Mar 28, 2001 12:00 am

Book Donations

Spring is officially here, time to clean out cellars and attics and bring those unwanted books to the library. Volunteers are hard at work organizing for our Labor Day Book Sale.

Back Issues

Did you know that the library circulates past issues of all of the magazines the library subscribes to? Catch up on some of your favorite back issues. Magazines can be checked out for three weeks.

Lost And Found

Our âlost and foundâ is overflowing with a great assortment of winter hats, sweatshirts, and even matching sets of mittens. Please stop by to see if we have something that belongs to you. The box is located in the childrenâs department.

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Exhibits

Come be inspired! March 16 through May 6 the library will be displaying a lovely collection of kites made by Charles Hunt. The kites will be on exhibit on the first and second floor and will help get you ready to enter Park and Recâs kite flying contest that will be taking place at Ramâs Pasture on Sun, May 6.

The Newtown Scrapbaggers have an exhibit of art quilts on display titled âElements of Architectureâ from February 24 through April 6 on the main floor of the library during regular library hours.

Childrenâs Programs

Easter Workshop for children ages 6 and up with Marie Walker. Come make a special Easter craft on Saturday April 7, from 11:00 am to noon. Please register at the childrenâs department. There is a $2 material fee. Call 426-3851 if you have any questions.

Book Discussion: Grades 4-6. âMan, bird, or angel? Who or what is Skellig?â Check out this mystery-adventure story at the library and join Liz Arneth on April 6 at 3:30 pm for a lively discussion.

Adult Programs

Book Discussion on Family Relationships: âSo You Think Your Familyâs a Mess?â Gordon Williams and Liz Arneth will be leading a new discussion series on four great American plays that all deal with family relationships Thursdays at 7:30 pm; on March 29: The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman; April 5: Fences by August Wilson; April 26: Long Dayâs Journey Into Night by Eugene OâNeill. Along with discussing the plays they will show a movie or two.

Tax Help: Ken Wilkinson is at the library on Tuesday afternoons from 1:30-4:00 pm during tax season to help with tax related questions. No appointment is necessary. Mr Wilkinson can be found in the Large Print Room, which is located next to the circulation desk on the main floor of the library.

New Daytime Book Group: For all of you unable to make the evening book discussion please consider joining us at the library for a new daytime group. On April 9 at 1 pm the group will be discussing Plainsong by Kent Haruf. The group will also be putting together a list of books to read in future months, so if you have a recommendation weâd love your input.

Mystery Author to visit the Library: Marcia Talleyâs talk originally scheduled for March 6 has been postponed until April 10 at 7:30 pm. Along with discussing her book, Sing It to Her Bones, Ms Talley will talk about how she got started writing mystery novels, how she develops characters, as well as answering questions. Marcia Talleyâs second book, Unbreathed Memories, came out in 2000, and her third, Occasion of Revenge, is due out in August. Please join us for this very special evening. Books will be available for purchase at the talk.

Internet Class: Bob Brand will be teaching a beginnerâs Internet class, âWhat Is the Internet and How Do I Get Connected?â on Saturday, April 14, from 10 am to noon in the meeting room of the library. The class is free, but you should register at the main circulation desk or by calling the library at 426-4533.

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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.

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