Newtown students will bring assistance to a West Virginia community during a workcamp experience later this month. Meanwhile, one workcamper is collecting shoes to take with him, to further help the community he will be serving.
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will wrap its 2018-19 season with an “Anything Newtown” competition on Thursday, June 13, beginning at 7:15 pm, at Newtown Senior Center.
Last Sunday, Theatre Arts & Opportunities Foundation’s InsideOut Youth Theater program, from Bridgeport, traveled to Brookfield to see a performance of "Annie Jr." This weekend the group will return to Brookfield, this time to perform its production of "Every Little Bit." Admission is free; donations will benefit the youth theater program.
On Wednesday, June 12, at 7:30 pm, The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will have James Coe painting a landscape in oil. Mr Coe will be working from a photograph, and plans to quickly block-in and establish the essentials of a complete landscape painting in just about an hour.
The Stray Kats Theatre Company is planning to present the Third Annual Still Crazy After All These Years! festival at Edmond Town Hall this weekend. A collection of one-act plays will celebrate the lives of today’s senior citizens: healthier and more active and engaged than ever before.
The whimsical screwball comedy film Harvey (1950), starring James Stewart, will be shown at Edmond Town Hall Theatre, 45 Main Street, on Thursday, June 13, at 1, 4, and 7 pm.
CT Woolcrafters will host a local knit-in on Saturday, June 8, as part of an international observation planned by similar groups around the world. Weather permitting, knitters and fiber artists will be able to gather on the terrace outside C.H. Booth Library for a few hours.
EverWonder Children’s Museum, at 31 Pecks Lane, has announced its calendar for June 2019. This month the museum has added a new benefit for its members and will host a children's author-illustrator, among other events.
The idea that a freshman Democrat would be able to stand up to the special interests and prioritization of urban districts that are the base of that caucus to deliver results for Newtown is laughable - especially someone who could not even build the "relationships, coalitions, and the support necessary" to garner the endorsements of her fellow Democrat Council members ahead of Newtown's local caucus this spring.
More likely Newtown would see something akin to Leeper in Fairfield, performative actions after vote counting, while privately advancing their party's interests over their community's.
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.
