Northern Fairfield Professionals will conduct its next meeting Tuesday, February 12,at the Holy Innocents Faith Formation Center at St Rose of Lima Parish. This month's guest speaker will be Rob Thomas, who will discuss “Beyond The Business Card.”
Veterinarian Dr John Robb is currently celebrating the soft opening of his new Protect The Pets practice at 98 South Main Street and will hold a day-long event on Saturday, January 19.
UPDATE: With information received on February 11 from Main Street Adventures, this article has been updated to show Kayla Buckley is the sole owner.
Business name: Main Street Adventures
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Professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and the public are invited to join The Working Women’s Forum on Wednesday, January 9, for a panel discussion on "Top Things I Learned Starting My Own Business.”
Business name: Danny’s Barbershop
Address: 150 South Main Street
Owner: Nderim Erbeli
Business background: Originally, I started back in Albania in my hometown. I always enjoyed gettin...
Business name: Studio Q
Address: 14 Depot Place, Bethel
Owner: Fawn Schmidt
Business background: I actually made my first small quilt very poorly, but had perfected the art of machine ...
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!
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.
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.
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.
