Health Reminders For The Start Of A New Year
“You can’t educate a child who isn’t healthy, and you can’t keep ch...
Backpack Safety Tips
By Susan Coney
Back to school means back to toting around heavy, cumbersome backpacks. Anxious to have every item necessary to be successfu...
NHS Attendance Office Moves To Main Lobby
By Susan Coney
The Newtown High School attendance office will be relocating to the front main lobby area this fall. Du...
Mary Arbas
Mary (Palumbo) Arbas, 77, of Shelton, died July 26 at the Maefair Health Center, Trumbull. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Raymond Fernan...
 *The big event this weekend in Newtown, of course, is the Tercentennial Birthday Party.
 Live music will open the weekend on Friday night and will then keep ...
Theodore George Ruopp
Theodore George Ruopp, 91, of Hawleyville, died July 30 in Chicago, where he was residing with his daughter, Kathleen Ruopp. He is survive...
It is time to start thinking about the fall.
Newtown High School fall sports tryouts are just around the corner and all students anticipating trying out for a t...
Nanotech Dreams—
A Tiny Proposal
For FFH
By John Voket
When it comes to imagining one of America’s first advance degree academies in a ...
Osborne Memorial Golf Classic
The Jim Osborne Memorial Golf Classic, sponsored by the Newtown Rotary Club, will be held Monday, September 12, at Tashua Kno...
Condo Complex Rejection Draws Court Appeal
By Andrew Gorosko
The developer whose proposal for a 59-unit age-restricted condominium complex on Oakview Road was r...
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
