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To the Editor: Perhaps the largest crowd ever to attend a Planning & Zoning public hearing showed up last Thursday evening, April 7, to demonstrate opposition to an insidious warehouse proposal by Wharton Equity Partners of New York City. To accommod...

To the Editor: One might think that my comment at last week’s BOE meeting … that the vast majority of Newtown is not racist was pretty innocuous. But judging from the spirited commentary in last week’s Letter Hive, this is not the case. Such is the w...

To the Editor: Citizens of Newtown, you may be aware of the proposal of Wharton Equity Partners (WEP) to build a mega warehouse tractor trailer hub at Exit 9 off Interstate 84 (intersection of Old Hawleyville Road and Mount Pleasant Road). This struc...

To the Editor: I recall a Newtown Bee headline at least 20 years ago that read: “We Can Make Newtown The Next Paramus!” — quoting a visiting New Jersey builder. The story focused on the same property where Wharton Equity Partners wants to erect a 345...

RIDGEFIELD — “You’ve got a guitar, haven’t you? Do you want to be in a band?” Those two offhand questions from one school boy to another back in the early 1960s launched a chain of events that gave birth to one of the earliest (and most resilient) Br...

To the Editor: Wharton Partners, a New York investment firm, has an application with the Town for an eight acre last mile distribution facility which is not a permitted use under current Newtown zoning regulations. To get approval the developer must ...

To the Editor: Thank you to the greater Newtown community for turning out on a blustery spring day to support the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library’s Donation Day on Sunday, April 10. Friends’ volunteers collected an astonishing number of books, puzz...

To the Editor, Last Thursday, April 7, there was a P&Z meeting regarding the gigantic proposed warehouse near exit 9. As I was prepping for a colonoscopy the next day, I was unable to attend. So now that everyone knows what I was doing that evening I...

To the Editor: Progress: On July 7, 2020 the board unanimously approved the diversity & equity resolution that was “a starting point that showed the district’s intention.” Progress: With a standing ovation, on October 5, 2021, we welcomed and pledged...

To the Editor: The Planning and Zoning Commission has received a special exception request from a major developer, Wharton Equity, which seeks to build a 345,000 square foot warehouse with 76 trailer truck bays on a 103-acre lot near the intersection...