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Contact The Bee With Cancellations & Postponements; Public Schools To Be Closed Wednesday

By Shannon Hicks

Published: February 04, 2014 12:00 am

With an average of six inches of new snow thanks to Monday’s storm, Newtown and the region are preparing for another storm to arrive on Wednesday, February 5. Superintendent of Schools Dr John Reed ha...

Gun Control Activists Shift Tactics

By Ana Radelat

Published: February 04, 2014 12:00 am

WASHINGTON – With Congress opposed to even the most modest efforts at gun control, activists are pressing a sympathetic White House to make gun ownership a public health and safety issue, and they're ...

Storm Bringing More Snow Than Expected, Few Accidents Reported

By Shannon Hicks

Published: February 03, 2014 12:00 am

Newtown’s roads are slippery today. Fred Hurley has had crews out working since 4 am, but 10 hours into the storm, the public works director says the roads are “slick.” Snow began falling around 5 am ...

Postponements & Cancellations

By Shannon Hicks

Published: February 03, 2014 12:00 am

Groups and organizations that need to postpone or cancel events planned for today due to the weather are invited to contact Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks, at 203-426-3141 or shannon@thebe...

Newtown Public Schools Closed Monday

Published: February 03, 2014 12:00 am

Due to the weather, all Newtown Public Schools will be closed Monday, February 3.

Selectmen Approve Seven-Year Tax Benefit For Lexington Villages

By John Voket

Published: February 02, 2014 12:00 am

After requesting developers for the Lexington Villages complex off Church Hill Road return to the Economic Development Commission to further discuss a pending business incentive tax abatement that was...

Town Plan, FFH Plan Now Available In Book Form

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: February 02, 2014 12:00 am

Printed bound versions of the 2014 Town Plan of Conservation and Development and the 2013 Fairfield Hills Master Plan are now available at the town Land Use Agency office at Newtown Municipal Center a...

Town Poised To Secure DOJ Grants For Long-Term Recovery Efforts

By John Voket

Published: February 01, 2014 12:00 am

Newtown officials and a GE representative working with the first selectman’s office are about a week away from filing for approximately $6 million in grants from the US Department of Justice that the ...

FFH Authority Enters A New Phase, Chairman Says

By Kendra Bobowick

Published: February 01, 2014 12:00 am

What will the Fairfield Hills Authority’s role be in the future? This and other topics including building upkeep and prospective tenants to occupy the nearly 80-year-old former state hospital building...

Company Apologizes For Using 12/14 Crime Scene Photo To Market Window Treatment

By Associated Press

Published: February 01, 2014 12:00 am

A South Carolina company that has installed protective window coverings at the US Capitol and other buildings around the world is apologizing for an email advertisement that used a photo of the shot-o...

'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.

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.

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Contact The Bee With Cancellations & Postponements; Public Schools To Be Closed Wednesday

Gun Control Activists Shift Tactics

Storm Bringing More Snow Than Expected, Few Accidents Reported

Postponements & Cancellations

Newtown Public Schools Closed Monday

Selectmen Approve Seven-Year Tax Benefit For Lexington Villages

Town Plan, FFH Plan Now Available In Book Form

Town Poised To Secure DOJ Grants For Long-Term Recovery Efforts

FFH Authority Enters A New Phase, Chairman Says

Company Apologizes For Using 12/14 Crime Scene Photo To Market Window Treatment