Town Players of Newtown will host auditions for The Foreigner, by Larry Shue, on Sunday and Monday, April 17-18, from 7 to 9 pm each night.newtownplayers.org.The production calls for five men and two ...
On Saturday, April 9, more than 60 volunteer fire departments throughout the state will celebrate the start of National Volunteer Week (April 10-16) by holding Recruitment Open Houses.
Eighty percent ...
Sandy Hook School Brownie Troop 50611 is collecting items for The Ana Grace Project's partner schools, CREC Ana Grace Academy of the Arts Elementary School and Chamberlain Elementary School.neasa.waal...
"The Art of Glen River" will be on view at Newtown Municipal Center Gallery, April 2-May 28. An artist's reception is set for Sunday, April 2, from 3 to 5 pm.
Poet, artist, composer, singer and musici...
EverWonder Children's Museum is pleased to announce its calendar for April 2016. The museum has events for the entire family.Story Lab for Young Explorers meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 am. ...
The Town and Country Garden Club and Newtown Forest Association invite the public to a free educational seminar titled "Connecticut Grasslands and Meadows," to be presented Saturday, April 9, at 10 am...
"Aria: From Opera to Broadway," the Connecticut Choral Society's spring gala fundraiser, will be presented Sunday, April 3, from 3 to 5:30 pm.
The Alexandria Room at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street i...
Cocktails and Curtain Calls is a new show being offered on Charter Communications Local Access station (channel 192).
Co-hosts Elizabeth Young and Matt Austin talk about all things theater, focusi...
In honor of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, Newtown Cultural Arts Commission is hosting a special poetry event on Sunday, April 3: "Risk A Verse."
HARTFORD - American Arts Marketing has issued a call for young artists to submit work for display and sale at the American Fine Craft Show. Sales of the work - in addition to sales of contemporary Ame...
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.
