Sandy Hook firefighters have some exciting news to share: Santa is returning to their main station next month.
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Friends of Newtown Seniors will sponsor a special performance of The Trip To Bountiful this weekend.
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Newtown High School's fall drama production of Getting Away With Murder is set to be staged at Reed Intermediate School this Thursday, November 16, to Sunday, November 19.Getting Away With Murder will...
RIDGEFIELD - Newtown resident Nora Murphy will be one of three judges for the 18th Biennial Tree Festival in Ridgefield.
The festival opens with a ticketed Champagne Preview Party on Thursday, Novembe...
The Matthew Curtiss House, home of Newtown Historical Society at 44 Main Street, will host the final regular open house of the year on Sunday, November 19, from noon until 4 pm.
One of the oldest buil...
Newtown will once again hold three tree lightings this holiday season. All three are scheduled for the first weekend of December.
The 33rd Annual Ram Pasture Tree Lighting is scheduled for Friday, Dec...
All are invited to join Newtown Hearts of Hope on Wednesday, November 15, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook, for this month's painting party.F...
Newtown High School students in this year's fall drama production of Getting Away With Murder have been rehearsing for next weekend's line up of performances.Getting Away With Murder will be performed...
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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.
