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Avielle Foundation Pitches Collaboration With School District

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: May 22, 2015 12:00 am

Jeremy Richman introduced himself to the Board of Education during its meeting on Tuesday, May 19, before he explained an interest in a collaboration between The Avielle Foundation and the school dist...

With Minor Modifications, Newtown's Dancing Traffic Agent Cleared To Dance Again

By John Voket

Published: May 22, 2015 12:00 am

NOTE: This is an extended version of a story published on May 19, with comments from Kathy Ballwig Holick. “Dancing Traffic Agent” Kathy Ballwig Holick said she tried to convey everything w...

Board Awards Former Policeman Long-Term Disability Pay

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

The State Board of Mediation and Arbitration has awarded long-term disability pay to a former Newtown police officer, who left his job after the December 2012 shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementar...

Emergency Dispatch Bill Could Force Local Centers To Regionalize Or Pay

By John Voket

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

It appears while a Connecticut State Police pilot program attempting to regionalize related dispatching operations is being scrapped (see related story, “State Police Call-Taking/Dispatching To Return...

Town's Net Liability In Police Officer Settlement Will Be About $31K

By John Voket

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

The award of approximately $380,000 reached in settlement between former Newtown Police Officer Thomas Bean and the Town following a State Board of Mediation and Arbitration ruling will be reduced sub...

12/14 Aftermath: Former Police Officer Wins Arbitration Award On Disability Pay

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

This story has been updated from the original version posted at 1:43 pm to include additional details from the arbitration document, and comments from Newtown Police Union President Scott Ruszczyk...

Borough Zoners Reviewing Pumphouse Proposed For Firehouse Site

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

The Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) is continuing its review of Aquarion Water Company’s proposal to build an above-ground water pumping station at 12 Church Hill Road, the address where the Newtown H...

Residents Sought For Commission Posts

Published: May 21, 2015 12:00 am

First Selectman Pat Llodra is seeking residents to fill several openings on local appointed boards and commissions. In some cases the appointments are required to be affiliated with a specific politic...

State Police Call-Taking/Dispatching To Return To Southbury

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: May 20, 2015 12:00 am

The state police plan to revert to their former call-taking/dispatching scheme, returning all call-taking functions and emergency dispatching operations to their individual barracks in the western and...

Newtown's Dancing Traffic Agent Will 'Bop And Weave' Again

By John Voket

Published: May 19, 2015 12:00 am

After social networks posts exploded with concerns, unhappy fans and those comparing Newtown to the fictional community in the movie Footloose, where dancing is illegal, a Newtown Police Supervisor to...

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WestCOG Seeking Public Input For Hazard Mitigation Plan

Severe Weather Preparedness Reminder

Friends Thanks Town And Local Businesses

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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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