The Town Players of Newtown are in final rehearsal for their new event for this season-that-wasn’t: a virtual holiday fundraiser scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
Newtown High School students are set for a streamed video performance of It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play for this Saturday, December 19, starting a 7 pm. Tickets are available now.
NewArts Artistic Director Michael Unger has called in a pack of professional actors and technicians to work with two separate local casts to bring a decidedly different presentation of A Christmas Carol to screens this holiday season.
Newtown Community Center and Newtown Chamber of Commerce are spreading holiday cheer this year on the Fairfield Hills campus with a new event: Newtown Lights 2020.
In anticipation of continued changes to holiday traditions, including visits or photos with Santa, Newtown Youth and Family Services is introducing “Elf Chats: Live from the North Pole!” The virtual events are a new offering of Newtown Holiday Festival.
Newtown’s five fire companies will once again join together the weekend before Thanksgiving to collect donations for the town’s food pantry.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event will be...
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After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass.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.
