Wine Store Helps Stop MS
The World of Wine & Spirits of Newtown will be participating in the annual National Multiple Sclerosis walk-a-thon to be held on Apri...
A Host Of Promotions
Due to a series of elections and staff officer appointments – as well as an Assistant Squad Leader competition – th...
Saturday, April 8: Southern Connecticut Past Masters Association at Southington Grange, potluck supper 6:30 pm, installation of officers; program “B...
Allergy Season Is Here
WATERBURY — Last season was particularly brutal for allergy sufferers. With spring around the corner, trees, bushes, and flow...
Occupation: I retired in 1987 as a sales engineer for the TRANE Company, which made heat and air conditioning equipment. I attended Wooster School in Danbur...
Free Blood Pressure Screening
Danbury Visiting Nurse Association will sponsor a free blood pressure screening Thursday, April 13, from 1 to 2 pm, at the Newtown...
Hospital Offers Free Makeovers
WATERBURY — Women who have mammograms at Waterbury Hospital’s Be Well Center at the Brass Mill Center mal...
Kristen Meyer, daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas O. Meyer, recently earned academic honors from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, for the winte...
Criminal Charges
Police report Leigh C. Brandes, 42, of Greenwich, forcibly entered a house on Dayton Street on March 31, damaging a door in the process, and be...
Celebrate The Family, Sunday At Discovery
BRIDGEPORT — “Celebrating the Family” is the theme for the next Sunday Celebration...
I fail to see the Newtown connection in this nonconstructive partisan letter which apparently seeks to scare local seniors. Mr. Epstein's letter does nothing to further the conversation around a legitimate policy issue in the future of Social Security which according to SSA.gov "if trust fund assets are exhausted without reform, benefits will necessarily be lowered," citing lower birth rates. This is an area where we need an open and objective, multi generational, national dialogue, not fear based political propaganda.
I agree, thank you Richard. The example given by Ms. Murray illustrates that this is a state issue, not a town issue. If the same case occurred in Connecticut the plaintiff would have sued the state of Connecticut, not the town of Newtown.
What fun to have stumbled across this write up. As a friend of one of the daughters I was fortunate to have visited with them many times in the early 80s in various locations. A wonderful, adventuresome family!
The state constitution permits the lawful carry of firearms after proof of training and background checks. Local ordinances do not preempt state statutes and passing an ordinance for a problem that is non-existent as per the Newtown Police Department will undoubtedly result in the town incurring legal fees unnecessarily. Please see attached link for numerous legal precedents where municipalities failed when their respective ordinances were passed. https://ballotpedia.org/Firearms_preemption_conflicts_between_state_and_local_governments
Law abiding citizens do not violate laws and infringement on the Second Amendment is not going to make any community safer. Enforcing existing laws is what should be the focus regarding gun violence along with addressing the mental health crisis.
Richard Fisher, DDS
Newtown, Connecticut
