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P&Z Approves Change Of Zone For Tractor Supply Store Proposal

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: November 14, 2015 12:00 am

Following lengthy discussion at a heavily attended November 5 public hearing, Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have approved a controversial change of zone for an eight-acre site at 116 So...

Commission Begins Reviewing Public Survey Data On Community Center

By Kendra Bobowick

Published: November 14, 2015 12:00 am

Creating a place that offers a destination, “feels like an experience,” and serves as a “place to gather,” are just some of the “takeaways” of what the public wants in a community center. Newtown Comm...

Newtown Fund Announces Depot Day, Annual Appeal For Help

By Shannon Hicks

Published: November 14, 2015 12:00 am

The Newtown Fund has for many years helped Newtown’s residents in need around the December holidays. Most referrals come through the town’s Social Service Department or local clergy. Families, couples...

Police Quell Threatening Situation In Botsford

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

Following a report of a man threatening to "shoot anybody" who went to his Botsford home on the night of November 8, police responded to the Dusty LaneÃÂ residence in number, and following a bri...

Pesky Leak Continues To Plague NHS Years After Occupancy

By John Voket

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

Technically, the long completed Newtown High School addition is not yet complete. According to Public Building and Site Commission Chairman Robert Mitchell, a pesky leak that has confounded school mai...

P&Z Continues Review Of Hawleyville Mixed-Use Proposal

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members are continuing their long-running review of a major mixed-use complex proposed for a 42-acre site in Hawleyville, which would include a 180-unit rental apa...

Instead Of An Investigator, School Board Turns To Ethics Panel And FOI

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

After learning that hiring an investigator would cost roughly $15,000 to $20,000 to look into leaked board communications, the Board of Education decided at a special meeting on Wednesday, November 11...

Newtown Men Arrested In Monroe Robbery Case

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

MONROE — Monroe police have arrested two Newtown men on robbery charges, alleging that they robbed a gas station/convenience store there early on the morning of September 6. Police said they have arre...

School Bus Driver Suspended Following Arrest By Bethel Police

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: November 13, 2015 12:00 am

Following his recent arrest by Bethel police on burglary/larceny charges, All-Star Transportation has suspended from work without pay a Monroe man who had driven School Bus #20 in Newtown. In an e-mai...

District 2 Council Recount Seats Wiedemann

By John Voket

Published: November 12, 2015 12:00 am

Democratic Registrar of Voters LeReine Frampton released the results of a District 2 Legislative Council recount, which was completed late in the afternoon of November 5. Ms Frampton notified The Newt...

Danbury Resident Dead Following Off Road Crash

Snapshot: Megan Ferrell

Borough Board of Burgesses Discuss Storm Damages, Possible Tree Removal

Hartz's Stained Glass, Watercolor, Pencil Drawings At Newtown Senior Center Now

SS4A Presentation At Borough Board Of Burgesses

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!

Time to Change the Guard

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.

First Selectman Addresses Storm Response

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.

Elections Have Consequences XXVI

Who would think that we would start losing count? Maybe not so much a typo as a copy-and-paste error, easy to understand after this much repetition.

Elections Have Consequences XXVI

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.

Onwards And Upwards — NHS Class Of 2026 Graduates

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