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Newtown High School Project Earns Award At Skills21 Expo Fest

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 02, 2018 12:00 AM

Newtown High School senior Zachary Demeglio and Newtown Middle School eighth grader Sam Staubly represented a group of students who worked after school on a project at the Skills21 Expo Fest at the Oa...

Newtown High School Third Quarter Honor Roll

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 02, 2018 12:00 AM

The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the third quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2017-18 school year. The honor roll listings were recently released b...

Newtown High School Announces Valedictorian And Salutatorian

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 01, 2018 12:00 AM

The Newtown High School Class of 2018 valedictorian and salutatorian both grew up in Newtown, and they shared reflections on their schooling after their educational accomplishment was announced at the...

Reminder: NHS Marching Band & Guard Mattress Sale This Saturday

Published: Jun 01, 2018 12:00 AM

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard is partnering with Custom Fundraising Solutions (CFS) to hold its third annual Mattress Fundraiser this Saturday, June 2, from 10 am to 5 pm, in the high ...

School Board Celebrates Profiles in Professionalism Awardees

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 01, 2018 12:00 AM

The school district's 2017-18 Profiles in Professionalism awardees were honored at the May 22 Board of Education meeting. Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue said the Profiles in Professional...

Newtown High School Names Its 2018 Top Demi-Decile

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 01, 2018 12:00 AM

Newtown High School announced its top demi-decile students of the 2018 graduating class at the school on May 24. Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue, Interim Newtown High School Principal Dav...

Art Show Celebrates Student Works At Middle Gate

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: May 30, 2018 12:00 AM

Middle Gate Elementary School was decorated with artwork created by students throughout the school year for its art show evening on May 10. Art teacher Jean Walter was ready as students and families a...

NHS Marching Band and Guard Mattress Sale Will Help You Sleep Tight

Published: May 26, 2018 12:00 AM

The Newtown High School Marching Band andamp; Guard is partnering with Custom Fundraising Solutions (CFS) to hold its third annual Mattress Fundraiser on Saturday, June 2, from 10 am to 5 pm, in the h...

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Unfortunately, I think this is likely to get worse, not better... Based on both public comments and private conversations, I’m increasingly concerned that our newly elected First Selectman intends not just to install these cameras, but to expand their use for full-blown enforcement and fines. Try getting a straight answer out of him about the long-term plan and you quickly realize how vague the responses become. Tyler is absolutely right to raise the privacy issue. These systems don’t just “catch speeders” — they quietly build a database of where we drive, when we drive, and who is in our vehicles. Once that infrastructure is in place, it becomes very easy to justify expanding its scope: more cameras, more locations, more uses, and eventually more automated enforcement. If Newtown is going down this road, residents deserve clear, written answers to some basic questions before anything is expanded: What limits will be placed on how and where cameras are used? Will footage and plate data be used only for speed enforcement, or for other investigations too? How long will data be stored, and who can access it? What safeguards will prevent vendors and individuals from abusing this information? Without firm, enforceable rules in place, “just a few cameras to slow traffic” can turn into something very different over time. I support safe roads — but not at the cost of unchecked surveillance and vague promises from our leaders. You try getting straight answers out of our First Selectman, myself and others have not been able to...

Discusses Traffic Cameras

I had to hold back a laugh at the idea that 7:30 pm is apparently such a late-night hardship that we’re already talking about moving meetings earlier. For a lot of residents, 7:30 is the earliest they can realistically get to Town Hall after work, family obligations, and the rest of real life. Shifting BOS meetings to 7:00 might make the calendar look tidier for those in the building, but it makes participation harder for the people who pay for the building. If the new First Selectman’s week is already booked solid and evening meetings feel like a strain, that’s not a reason to move the goalposts on public access—it's a reminder that the job is supposed to be demanding. Public service means accommodating the public, even when it’s inconvenient.

Walczak Adjusts To New Role, First Board Meeting

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.

How Many Accidents Will It Take?

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.

NIC Speaks With Danbury Unites For Immigrants, Discusses 12/14 Service

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.

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Newtown High School Project Earns Award At Skills21 Expo Fest

Newtown High School Third Quarter Honor Roll

Newtown High School Announces Valedictorian And Salutatorian

Reminder: NHS Marching Band & Guard Mattress Sale This Saturday

School Board Celebrates Profiles in Professionalism Awardees

Newtown High School Names Its 2018 Top Demi-Decile

Art Show Celebrates Student Works At Middle Gate

NHS Marching Band and Guard Mattress Sale Will Help You Sleep Tight