The Town of Newtown issued a report noting that as of 10 am, Monday, January 21, “roughly 5 percent (600 homes) of our community” remained without power, down from a high of 2,300 the night before.
Following the town attorney’s review of proposed revisions to the Water Pollution Control Plan, Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) members have decided to submit the document for comments at an upcoming public hearing.
Water & Sewer Authority members are reviewing a 67-page report prepared by the agency’s consulting engineers on the need to expand sewage pumping capacity at the Sandy Hook Center sewage pump station at 5-A Glen Road.
Newtown residents are waking up Sunday to find less snow and ice than predicted, but a mix of both did fall across town overnight leaving roads and walkways very treacherous, and hundreds of local homes without power.
The elected members of Newtown’s state legislative delegation — several surrounded by family members — each expressed varying degrees of optimism as they took their oaths of office to open the 2019 general assembly on Wednesday, January 9.
Ahead of a winter storm that is heading toward the East Coast, local groups and organizations are postponing or canceling events scheduled for January 19-21, 2019. We will continue to update this list as announcements are received.
Local officials are urging residents to be prepared as the first significant storm of the season is forecast to impact the state Saturday night into Sunday. The Newtown Bee is reminding event planners and business owners to contact us to help alert readers and residents of any changes to special events and operating hours before, during and after the storm.
Shortly after 7 am Friday, January 18, first responders were dispatched to the area of 84 Taunton Lake Road to rescue a deer that had fallen through the ice.
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.
When the author had to come back to correct the edition, maybe the series has gotten long enough to require its own index. I can re-run the calc's at the next one, which should be in about 10 days.
