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Advocacy Group Releases New School Budget Fact Sheet

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: March 21, 2015 12:00 am

The Newtown Education Advocacy Group (NEAG) has released an updated budget fact sheet to share information about the proposed 2015-16 school budget. The fact sheet was prepared by NEAG in collaboratio...

A Snowy Start To Spring

By Shannon Hicks

Published: March 21, 2015 12:00 am

Snow continued to fall across town Saturday morning, the first full day of spring. Mother Nature is not moving easily into the new season, which officially arrived with the Spring Equinox at 6:45 Frid...

Developer Proposes
74-Unit Housing Complex In Sandy Hook Center

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

The Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) is reviewing a request for sanitary sewer service at an 11.8-acre site at 10 through 22 Washington Avenue in Sandy Hook Center, where a local developer/builder propos...

Senator Hwang Wants Certain School Threats Treated As Felonies

By John Voket

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

HARTFORD — Freshman State Senator Tony Hwang, who represents Newtown, understands the long-term effects the Sandy Hook tragedy will have on the community. Among his strongest initiatives in Hartford s...

Finance Board Recommends $111.7 Million Budget With Lower Taxes, Mill Rate

By John Voket

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

After hearing from one member of the public who spoke in support of the school district budget, the Board of Finance on March 12 unanimously recommended a 2015-16 budget proposal of $111,730,513 to th...

Housing Complex Foes Raise Environmental Concerns

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

Opponents of a controversial proposal to construct a large multifamily housing complex at a 35-acre site near Exit 10 of Interstate 84 are urging the Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) to reject a develope...

Snow Leading To Closings & Cancellations

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

Mother Nature is not letting go of winter easily today. She is hanging on to winter like a stubborn lion, not a gentle lamb. Newtown, and the region, is expected to see a little more snow before the V...

State, Local Supporters Converge As New Middle School Health Center Opens

By John Voket

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

With the snip of an oversized pair of shears, a group of about a dozen local and state officials, supporters, and local school staffers celebrated the opening of a new and independent health center at...

Police Commission Slates Session On Flagpole Intersection

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: March 20, 2015 12:00 am

The Police Commission has scheduled a special meeting for next week to discuss the traffic safety issues that exist at the flagpole intersection of Main Street, Church Hill Road, and West Street. The ...

Police Reports, March 2-17, 2015

Published: March 19, 2015 12:00 am

Hattertown Center Accident Police report a two-vehicle accident about 1:21 am on March 16 on Hattertown Road in Hattertown Center. Police said motorist Victor Bazikov, 51, of Danbury, who was dri...

Top Of The Mountain

Theater Review: Fascinating 'Restored To Reason' Worth The Drive To Sherman This Weekend

Murphy Basketball Camp Has Been In The Family Since 1981

Council Considers Senior Ride Funding

Softball Player Mia McGuigan Stands Out In The Pitcher's Circle — And Batter's Box

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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