A Critical Time For The Food Bank
To the Editor:
In November 2008, The Newtown Bee published an article to bring our attention to the fact that food donations t...
7th Annual Reed Rally Is September 9
Reed Intermediate School and Chartwells School Dining Services, the school district’s food provider, will host ...
Newtowners Help Connecticut Softball Team Take Silver At National Senior Games
By Nancy K. Crevier
Fourteen members of O’Neil’s Senior M...
A Date With Kate:
Town Players Will Open Season With ‘Tea At Five’
Tea At Five, the smash-hit, one-woman production that broke box ...
Get The Most Out Of HeritageQuest And Online Ancestry Searches
To start off the Genealogy Club of Newtown’s 2009-10 program season, Toni McKeen will...
DUI Rollover
Police report that motorist Therese Stanis, 26, of Bethel was involved in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Route 302, near its intersection ...
Luigi C. Bianco
World War II
Army Veteran
Luigi C. Bianco, 85, of Ridgefield, formerly of New Canaan, husband of Pauline (Paris) Bianco and the late ...
‘Unity In Diversity’ Programs Preview
Unity In Diversity, a cable television program that provides an education in learning about on...
As a former local elected leader, state Independent Party leader and US Congressional candidate, you know Editorials occasionally cause discomfort. This editorial empathized with the departing board member's agonizing about her decision to resign; praised her service and indirectly, yours - calling for the community to do the same; took issue with the timing and the vitriolic parting comments about her board colleagues and chair - justifying each point with fact; and called for remaining school board members to consider her criticism and act upon it if justified. To your other point, any suggestion this newspaper or its editor is "representing" any political party is absurd.
I agree. Rebekah should recuse herself from any involvement in the process of recommending a new board member. However, I do not believe she will. She has demonstrated that she doesn't care about doing the right thing. She does what is best for her.
The court removed a Federal mandated backstop for irresponsible behavior. Now the individual states will determine consequences - as the framers of the Constitution wanted.
Please take some time to educate yourself on this issue and the Supreme Court decision. It is now up to the individual states to determine how this issue will be decided.