Newtown United Methodist Church will have two Christmas Eve services this year. The listing in last week’s print edition Worship Services had an incorrect time for the second service.
Bringing hope to the new year, the Right Reverend James E. Curry and Reverend Matthew Crebbin will co-host a Swords To Plowshares transformational experience at Newtown Congregational Church next month.
With torrential rain and wind preceding a severe drop in temperatures into the Christmas weekend, town and state officials as well as Eversource are bracing while issuing advisories.
Following the revelation that the town's portion of the budgets for the Lake Zoar Authority and Lake Lillinonah Authority were state-statute mandated assessments and not requests, the Legislative Council voted to restore money it cut from them in the 2022-23 budget.
Following concerns on fund balances from outside agencies that make budget requests of the town, the Board of Finance is crafting a policy for how to review those budgets without singling any agency out.
Well said, Anne. Thank you. Michelle Embree Ku is about as stand-up a person, let alone a state house rep, as one could possibly hope for. I definitely will be supporting her -- as an Independent! Who (sadly) must register as a Dem in order to vote in primaries. Ah... so many other things to fix about our system! :)
The endorsement letter isn’t the problem — the branding is.
A group calling itself the “Democratic Women’s Caucus” strongly implies a party-connected, representative body. Yet one of the co-founders wrote here in the comments that it’s “not affiliated with any political party.” If that’s true, the name is misleading to readers.
We’ve seen this movie before. The Bee described the Newtown Conservation Coalition as “a public group based on the social media platform,” and noted that its name has confused residents because it closely resembles the Newtown Conservation Commission. Words matter, especially when they borrow the credibility of established civic institutions.
If the Democratic Women’s Caucus is simply two founders speaking for themselves, that’s fine — just be transparent and wait for it ... honest...
I agree with Ms Renner. The name is misleading. If you are NOT affiliated with a political party, why have it in your title? Both Miller and Bloom are both Democrats and I am also dismayed that Michelle Ku isn't getting your endorsement. A clear case of "With friends like this, who needs enemies?" I am an independent voter, and although I haven't voted for a Democrat since Obama, I have always found Ms Ku polite and not only willing to listen to both sides of a discussion with an open mind, she is extremely helpful with a follow-up contact to see if an issue is resolved.
