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Newtown’s legislative delegation, Rep Mitch Bolinsky, Rep Dan Carter, Rep J P Sredzinski and Senator Tony Hwang each had strong words about the process leading up to an apparent state budget agreement that was announced by Governor Dannel P Malloy after a marathon negotiation session broke early Sunday morning.

Inland Wetlands Commission Chairman Mary Curran listens to a comment on May 27 at the IWC’s third public hearing on a proposal to build 74 condominium units on Washington Avenue in Sandy Hook Center. The IWC granted a wetlands/watercourses protection permit for the proposed multifamily housing project.

Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, standing left, and Board of Education member David Freedman, seated facing forward, heard from one of the groups formed during a Community Forum on Thursday, May 28.

Ready for launch: 3,458 individually numbered yellow rubber ducks were dumped into the Pootatuck River around 2:30 pm Saturday, May 23. Brookfield resident Al Sparaco was the big winner this year, holding the ticket that corresponded the to duck that crossed the finish line at the Dayton Street bridge first.

State police report a three-car accident on eastbound Interstate 84, west of Exit 9, at about 4:46 pm on July 1. The autos were traveling in heavy rush-hour traffic when the accident occurred. State police said motorist Michael Seminoro, 32, of Milford, who was driving a 2009 Saturn Aura, stopped, after which motorist Gary Perez, 44, Shelton, who was driving a 2014 Dodge Challenger, started to slow down. Motorist Jason Savoca, 18, of 9 Hedge Meadow Lane, who was driving a 2004 Acura TSX, then struck the rear end of the Dodge, pushing the Dodge into the rear end of the Saturn, state police said. The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps transported Perez to Waterbury Hospital on a report of pain, state police said. Hawleyville volunteer firefighters responded to the incident to clean up a fuel spill. State police said they issued Savoca an infraction for following too closely.