The Garden Club of Newtown is offering Plant Your Own Dish Garden to Snazzy-Up Meals, a free program as part of the continuing Timeless Newtown series.
Lisa A. Phillips will return to her former hometown and C.H. Booth Library on Tuesday, June 3, when she will be the featured author during a program that evening.
The next Friends Of Newtown Seniors Roundtable is scheduled for Tuesday, May 27. FONS has also announced the location for this month’s Social, to be held the following afternoon.
The Most Reverend Bishop Frank Caggiano of the Diocese of Bridgeport will tape his popular podcast series “Let Me Be Frank” and take questions from the live audience during a special visit to St Rose of Lima Church.
The Garden Club of Newtown will host “How To Make A DIY Bog in The Front Yard” during its next meeting. The local club is also celebrating the receipt of a grant that will benefit multiple projects.
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After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass.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.
