While the NewArts summer productions have traditionally been for younger audiences, upcoming events by are being planned to include guests, performers, and supports of all ages.
Raymond B. Scalzo is a drummer, singer-songwriter, and producer who has been playing drums since the age of four. While he took music theory during high school, the self-taught drummer picked up most ...
Newtown Community Center and Newtown Parks & Recreation will co-sponsor an outdoor movie night at Fairfield Hills next month.
All are invited to a free screening of Moana on Tuesday, August 17, on the...
Newtown Lions Club and its team of 5,000 rubber ducks are moving forward with plans for Saturday, September 4, when this year’s Great Pootatuck Duck Race will take place.
The big dump of rubber ducks ...
With a nod to Don McClean’s “day the music died,” local parents have come together with Creative Music Center to ensure music is alive and vibrant this summer as COVID restrictions ease.
A display of photographs by former Newtown residents and longtime friends Tom Kretsch and Shapleigh Smith is on view at through Labor Day weekend at C.H. Booth Library.
Dear Alyssa, Kelela, and Brandon,
We send our sincere sympathy to you and your family. We will also keep you in our prayers asking our Lord to grant you comfort and peace.
With love,
Vince and Sandy Venitelli
Bruce, your advice that voters should “read, listen, and engage” would be much more persuasive if you practiced it yourself.
You campaigned on openness and responsiveness. You declared that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government” and promised to answer constituent inquiries within two days. Yet you never answered my straightforward public question about Main Street demonstrations, traffic disruption, pedestrian safety, and the effects on local businesses.
After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass. That is not accessible, townwide engagement. Previous first selectmen held open coffee hours and walk-and-talk sessions that any resident could attend.
Then came the failed storm communications, your apology, and another promise to communicate better—followed shortly afterward by more silence while multiple police agencies conducted a significant search near Saw Mill Road.
You now tell voters to examine what candidates say and “how they say it.” I would suggest going one step further: compare what politicians promise while seeking office with what they actually do after winning.
Your record presents a stark contrast. You told voters exactly what they wanted to hear to get the job, then failed to live by those promises. Whether that is dishonesty or simply indifference, it is the same familiar, two-faced politics you once claimed you would replace.
Nothing says “I care about Newtown homeowners” quite like lining Main Street with plywood campaign billboards—apparently built just inches below the size at which officials say they can take action. At this rate, we’ll need property-tax relief just to offset the loss in curb appeal.
