Signs of winter's passing include spring plants and charcoal for sale in local stores, and tickets going on sale for Newtown Lions Club's Great Annual Pootatuck Duck Race.The Newtown Bee, Porco Karate...
Edmond Town Hall Theater, at 45 Main Street, will host two screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) in digital HD on Thursday, April 20, at 1 and 7 pm.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ...
Newtown resident Virginia Zimmerman will soon begin painting a mural, "Welcome to Newtown," on one of the abutments of the railroad bridge that spans Church Hill Road.newtowntrainmural@gmail.com.she w...
"Making Peace With Bees" will be the topic for the Wednesday, April 12, meeting of the Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown. Kathy Olson, also known as "The Bee Lady from Meriden," will provide infor...
BETHEL - A jazz tribute to Joni Mitchell is scheduled on Sunday, April 23, from 6 to 8 pm, at Pizzeria Lauretano in Bethel. The seven-member group includes four Newtown residents - Leslie Ballard (flu...
BETHEL - Film Fest 52, the weekly film festival event created by the organizers of Connecticut Film Festival and Bethel Film Festival in partnership with Bethel Cinema, has selected Harvey Hubbell V's...
On Saturday, April 1, dozens of friends and family members of the Battle of the Books teams came out to show their support at the 13th annual Battle of the Books at the C.H. Booth Library. After four ...
NEW HAVEN - Sandy Hook resident Hanna Roehrs took home a pair of ribbons following Saturday's opening reception and awards ceremony for "Weavers' Heaven," the 2017 exhibition being presented by Handwe...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public for the club's April events, which include a still life photography presentation and a hands-on workshop photographing Newtown with club members a...
On Friday, May 19, Fun Music Presents will produce its hit Back to The Eighties Show with Jessie's Girl at Edmond Town Hall Theatre for the residents of Newtown.
This is a family-fun show for all ages...
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.
