Members of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce, First Selectmen Dan Rosenthal, and many local residents came out to be part of the BD Provisions specialty grocery store’s official launch November 10.
Friends and fellow business professionals gathered and mingled at Dr Della M. Schmid’s chiropractic office, 19 Church Hill Road, for “Chianti & Chiropractic” on the evening of November 1.
Business name: Villarina’s Pasta Shop of Newtown
Address: 20 Church Hill Road, Newtown
Owner: Ingrid Schneider
Background: Ms Schneider, a Danbury resident and longtime friend of the V...
Business name: Patricia’s Presents
Address: 164 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel
Owner: Patricia “Patti” Polk
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Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage moves from South Main Street to The Village At Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, and hosts a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Newtown Chamber of Commerce on the evening of October 4 to celebrate its new location.
A growing number of chefs and restaurant operators are getting as excited about creating specials for the 2018 Newtown/Sandy Hook Restaurant Week as foodies and hungry patrons are to sample them.
Berkshire Motors in Sandy Hook is now selling and servicing a line of Wolf Brand Scooters, long with American-made motorcycles from Ohio’s Cleveland CycleWerks, and Janus Motocycles of Goshen, Ind.
Newtown Parks & Recreation is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce of Newtown to present the first Newtown Day community event on Saturday, October 6, from 11 am to 5 pm.
Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position.
If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe.
Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.
To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion.
The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public.
This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.
Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.
The Newtown Bee reported what was said at a Newtown Interfaith Council meeting. Whether Mr McGillicuddy agrees with what was said or not, reporting what occurs at a public meeting is not "propaganda." Presenting what was said without editorializing is encouraging the reader to decide what to believe or not believe, and is standard for reporting at a community newspaper like The Newtown Bee.
