Cultural Events

SCAN Announces Fall Schedule Of Art Classes

Published: September 01, 2018 8:00 am

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will be hosting three classes in the fall. All will meet in the lower level of Newtown Meeting House.

Navigate The Challenges Of Being A Teenage Girl

Updated: September 20, 2018 12:23 pm

The Resiliency Center of Newtown is offering a new eight-week series for girls in grades 6-8.

Woman's Club 2018 Ornament To Debut At Parade

Published: August 31, 2018 11:30 am

Newtown Woman’s Club, GFWC Inc, continues its 50th anniversary celebration with the introduction of its 31st annual pewter Christmas ornament. This year, the club has chosen to honor “Newtown’s Five F...

‘Cooking, Baking And Garnishing With Herbs And Edible Flowers’

Published: August 31, 2018 11:30 am

For those who wonder what to do with edible flowers in their garden, or even wonder if flowers they think are edible are truly safe to eat, Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown’s first program of the...

Pancakes, Parking, The Parade... And Perhaps A Cruise, Monday

Updated: August 31, 2018 11:14 am

Newtown Congregational Church is adding something new this year to its annual Labor Day Pancakes & Parking event.

Larry Ayce Band Farewell To Summer Concert, September 5 At Commons

Updated: August 31, 2018 10:52 am

On Wednesday, September 5, The Commons of Newtown (formerly Masonicare at Newtown) will host a farewell to summer outdoor concert. The Larry Ayce Band will be performing at 6:30 pm; rain date is Thurs...

'The Ten Best Free Genealogy Websites,' September 12 At Library

Updated: August 31, 2018 11:11 am

Penelope Hartzell will offer a presentation on some of her favorite genealogy research websites during the first meeting of The Genealogy Club of Newtown's 2018-19 season.

Someday Cinema To Continue With Tracy-Hepburn Comedy With Very Local Ties

Published: August 31, 2018 10:25 am

The Someday Cinema Series will screen the classic comedy Adam’s Rib (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, at 2 and 7 pm on Thursday, September 6, at Edmond Town Hall Theater, 45 Main S...

18th CT United Ride Is Sunday, September 9

Published: August 28, 2018 6:00 am

The 2018 CT United Ride, the 18th annual 9/11 tribute, is being held on Sunday, September 9, organizers announce. Connecticut’s largest 9/11 tribute, the CT United Ride is the largest single ride in N...

Holiday Closings: Labor Day

Published: August 26, 2018 6:00 am

All town offices will be closed on Monday, September 3, in honor of Labor Day. Newtown Senior Center, the schools, and C.H. Booth Library also will be closed. The transfer station on Ethan Allen Road ...

The Way We Were

Top Of The Mountain

Theater Review: Fascinating 'Restored To Reason' Worth The Drive To Sherman This Weekend

Murphy Basketball Camp Has Been In The Family Since 1981

Council Considers Senior Ride Funding

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!

Time to Change the Guard

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.

First Selectman Addresses Storm Response

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.

Elections Have Consequences XXVI

Who would think that we would start losing count? Maybe not so much a typo as a copy-and-paste error, easy to understand after this much repetition.

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.

Onwards And Upwards — NHS Class Of 2026 Graduates

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