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Understanding A Threat To The Region's Ash Trees

By Kendra Bobowick

Published: July 28, 2014 12:00 am

Newtown is among a growing number of towns in recent years infested with the emerald ash borer, “a destructive insect responsible for the death and decline” of ash trees throughout the country, accord...

Permanent Memorial Commission Publishes First Q&A

By Nancy K. Crevier

Published: July 28, 2014 12:00 am

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission has published a document in the form of questions and answers (Q&A) at the town website as an effort to guide people through the process, said commission c...

Sobriety Checkpoint Nets One DUI Arrest, Many Other Violations

Published: July 28, 2014 12:00 am

Police report that during a sobriety checkpoint that they held on the evening of Saturday, July 19, and early morning hours of Sunday, July 20, at the intersection of Wasserman Way and Trades Lane at ...

HealingNewtown Project To Phase Out, But NCAC Arts Programs To Continue

By Shannon Hicks

Published: July 26, 2014 12:00 am

The era of HealingNewtown programs is coming to an end. Launched in January 2013 by Newtown Cultural Arts Commission (NCAC), with the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut and the Connecticut Offic...

Summit At Newtown: South Main Street Mixed-Use Building Gains P&Z Approval

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 26, 2014 12:00 am

Following a July 17 public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) approved the construction of an 18,750-square-foot mixed-use two-story building at a 2.35-acre site at 146 South Main Stree...

Sports Car Runs Off Hawleyville Road, Hits Tree

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 25, 2014 12:00 am

About 2:33 am on Sunday, July 20, police received a call reporting that a vehicle had driven off the road and gone down an embankment alongside Hawleyville Road (Route 25), near the Brookfield town li...

Two Sessions Slated On SHS Project

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 25, 2014 12:00 am

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members are scheduled to conduct a public hearing on the zoning aspects of the proposed new Sandy Hook Elementary School at 7:30 pm on Thursday, July 31, at Newtow...

Airplane Crashes Into Swamp Near Danbury Airport; Pilot Uninjured

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 25, 2014 12:00 am

DANBURY – A single-engine 1984 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane crashed near Danbury Municipal Airport on the evening of Thursday, July 24. The airplane was approaching Runway 35 from the south for a landi...

DOT Describes Church Hill Road Improvement Project

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 25, 2014 12:00 am

State Department of Transportation (DOT) officials this week provided more details on their plans to improve a 1,100-foot-long section of Church Hill Road, including realigning the broadly offset inte...

Cluster-Style 23-Lot Residential Subdivision Proposed

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: July 25, 2014 12:00 am

Two development firms are proposing the construction of a cluster-style residential subdivision that would hold 23 single-family house lots on a 167-acre tract. Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) member...

'Newtown: An American Town' One Of Three Local Semiquincentennial Exhibits

‘Jeff Hiller Is Basic’ Heading To Edmond Town Hall In November

Dick And Marie Sturdevant Honored During Successful Newtown-Bethel Salvation Army 'Christmas In July'

Local Semiquincentennial Events Continue

Entries Sought For Sandy Hook Village Mural Project

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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