Joseph Scott Galleries will host an art auction on Thursday, October 17, at Edmond Town Hall. Proceeds will benefit the child abuse prevention programming at Families Network of Western Connecticut.
The Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity is set to present its Ninth Annual Halloween Walk on Saturday, October 26, from 11 am to 2 pm rain or shine.
Flagpole Radio Café will return to Edmond Town Hall with five new shows beginning on Saturday November 9, at 7 pm. The dynamic alt-roots rock band The Slambovian Circus of Dreams will make their Newtown debut when they open the season.
The public is invited to join Newtown Community Center staff for its Open House on Saturday, October 5, from 11 am to 4 pm. The recently opened center is within the Fairfield Hills campus, at 8 Simpson Street.
The public is invited to join Newtown Community Center staff for a Community Open House on Saturday, October 5, from 11 am to 4 pm.
The recently opened center is within the Fairfield Hills campus,...
Join Molly Birkholm, co-founder of Warriors at Ease and a trauma educator, when she presents “Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment,” on the evening of Saturday, October 26, at the Newtown Congregational ...
William Shakespeare’s dark and violent Macbeth is on stage at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, 184 Whisconier Road, Brookfield, offering a bold and successful undertaking of this compelling classic.
Among those whose names were announced during the recent awards reception for "Marine & Coastal Art," on view at Rowayton Arts Center until early October, was Newtown resident Lisa Berger.
CT primaries are closed to voters not registered with the party's designation. Dems can't vote in Rep. primaries and, vice versa. Unaffiliated and Independent voters cannot vote in them. Keep primaries closed!
Bruce, welcome to the conversation.
Your recent statement after the storm — admitting that you should have communicated “faster, more completely, and more personally” — was fine as far as it went. But this is not just about one storm. It is about a pattern. You ran on openness, responsiveness, and transparency, even saying that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government.”
The problem is that Newtown residents have been dealing with exactly that silence from you since you were elected.
Newtown’s Emergency Management page says the town, together with the Office of the First Selectman, provides “critical public information and warning” during emergencies. The town also rolled out CodeRED cellphone registration on March 24, 2022 so residents could receive emergency information directly.
So where were you when police were searching for missing 23-year-old Kateri Doty in January? Where were you during the brush fires near the Newtown town line in April? Where were you on April 22, when state police and Newtown police were searching for two people who fled an I-84 crash and a canine search moved into the Church Hill Road area?
Residents should not be hearing about a missing person, wildfire conditions, or police tracking dogs moving through backyards from Facebook, neighbors, or kids in town. They should be hearing from their town government.
This is not really about whether you personally press the CodeRED button. Or how many task forces you have created. It is about leadership. You are the First Selectman. You are responsible for making sure the town communicates clearly, quickly, and visibly when public safety is involved.
So yes, it is nice that you have finally acknowledged the problem. But the public did not need this storm to figure it out. We have been saying it for a long time.
Bruce, you were missing when the town needed to hear from you. The question now is whether this storm finally woke you up, or whether this is just another late apology followed by more silence.
The topic may be the same but the narratives every other week differ and I appreciate the installments. Rebuttals on factual content rather than focusing on form would improve the discourse.
Congrats to all the 275 graduates.
For context...class of 2005 had 360 students, the number of graduating seniors seemed to cap out in the late 2000's in the low 400's.
