Education

A Day Of Kindness: NHS Club Planning Special September Event

Published: August 06, 2013 12:00 am

On Saturday, September 14, the NHS Kindness Club will host a Day of Kindness. This free event is aimed at the youth of the town, but is open to residents of all ages. With students returning to school...

NJWC Collecting For Its Backpack Program

Published: August 02, 2013 12:00 am

The Newtown Junior Women’s Club (NJWC) has announced the return of its Annual Back-to-School Backpack Program, which provides backpacks and school supplies to students in need. NJWC works with Newtown...

Parks & Recreation Summer Camp Openings Available

By Colleen Francke

Published: August 01, 2013 12:00 am

With the summer halfway over, Newtown Parks & Recreation is pleased at the attendance at this summer’s camps and activities thus far. According to RoseAnn Reggiano, assistant director of recreation, a...

State Approves $100,000 For Security Upgrades For Children's Adventure Center

Published: July 26, 2013 12:00 am

HARTFORD — The state’s Bond Commission announced on Friday, July 26, its approval of $100,000 in grants for upgrades to school security at the Children’s Adventure Center (CAC). Children’s Adventure C...

Wooden Train Playscape Arrives At Children's Adventure Center

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: July 25, 2013 12:00 am

The sound of a bell being tolled rang out across the playground at Children’s Adventure Center on Tuesday, July 23. It marked the arrival of a wooden train playscape, which is the culmination of many ...

To Air During Kids Week- Resident Quizzed On 'Jeopardy'

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: July 25, 2013 12:00 am

During Kids Week on Jeopardy!, a trivia quiz television show, rising Newtown Middle School eighth grader Thomas Hurley will have his first television debut aired on July 31, at 7 pm. Thomas said he ha...

NMS Releases Fourth Marking Period Honor Rolls

Published: July 25, 2013 12:00 am

Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the fourth quarter marking period of the 2012-13 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list....

Newtown High School Fourth Quarter Honor Rolls

Published: July 18, 2013 12:00 am

The following are the students who made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the fourth quarter marking period at Newtown High School this school year. Students earn recognition on the High Honor Ro...

Newtown High School Fourth Quarter Honor Rolls

Published: July 18, 2013 12:00 am

School District Hires New Supervisor Of Special Education

Published: July 15, 2013 12:00 am

The Newtown Public School District announced on Monday, July 15, it hired Sandy Rodriguez as supervisor of special education. Ms Rodriguez comes to Newtown from the Stratford Public Schools with 12 ye...

Newtown Kids Enjoyed Annual Breakfast With Santa

Carolyn Bloomberg

Tourette Syndrome Awareness

Garden Club Offers Thanks

Mary E. Hanlon

Unfortunately, I think this is likely to get worse, not better... Based on both public comments and private conversations, I’m increasingly concerned that our newly elected First Selectman intends not just to install these cameras, but to expand their use for full-blown enforcement and fines. Try getting a straight answer out of him about the long-term plan and you quickly realize how vague the responses become. Tyler is absolutely right to raise the privacy issue. These systems don’t just “catch speeders” — they quietly build a database of where we drive, when we drive, and who is in our vehicles. Once that infrastructure is in place, it becomes very easy to justify expanding its scope: more cameras, more locations, more uses, and eventually more automated enforcement. If Newtown is going down this road, residents deserve clear, written answers to some basic questions before anything is expanded: What limits will be placed on how and where cameras are used? Will footage and plate data be used only for speed enforcement, or for other investigations too? How long will data be stored, and who can access it? What safeguards will prevent vendors and individuals from abusing this information? Without firm, enforceable rules in place, “just a few cameras to slow traffic” can turn into something very different over time. I support safe roads — but not at the cost of unchecked surveillance and vague promises from our leaders. You try getting straight answers out of our First Selectman, myself and others have not been able to...

Discusses Traffic Cameras

I had to hold back a laugh at the idea that 7:30 pm is apparently such a late-night hardship that we’re already talking about moving meetings earlier. For a lot of residents, 7:30 is the earliest they can realistically get to Town Hall after work, family obligations, and the rest of real life. Shifting BOS meetings to 7:00 might make the calendar look tidier for those in the building, but it makes participation harder for the people who pay for the building. If the new First Selectman’s week is already booked solid and evening meetings feel like a strain, that’s not a reason to move the goalposts on public access—it's a reminder that the job is supposed to be demanding. Public service means accommodating the public, even when it’s inconvenient.

Walczak Adjusts To New Role, First Board Meeting

Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position. If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe. Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.

How Many Accidents Will It Take?

To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion. The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public. This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.

NIC Speaks With Danbury Unites For Immigrants, Discusses 12/14 Service

Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.

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A Day Of Kindness: NHS Club Planning Special September Event

NJWC Collecting For Its Backpack Program

Parks & Recreation Summer Camp Openings Available

State Approves $100,000 For Security Upgrades For Children's Adventure Center

Wooden Train Playscape Arrives At Children's Adventure Center

To Air During Kids Week- Resident Quizzed On 'Jeopardy'

NMS Releases Fourth Marking Period Honor Rolls

Newtown High School Fourth Quarter Honor Rolls

Newtown High School Fourth Quarter Honor Rolls

School District Hires New Supervisor Of Special Education