The Resiliency Center of Newtown announces a six session parent group that will focus on the social and emotional needs of tweens and teens (ages 12-18).
The group will be facilitated by Suzanne Arnon...
Newtown High School students have been busy rehearsing for their upcoming musical, a special School Edition of Les Miserables.
After school on March 1, students were on stage singing as Director Jane ...
As Middle Gate Elementary School students entered the school's cafeteria for lunch on February 23, they were assigned to sit at tables where visiting adults waited to speak with them about their caree...
Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue told the Board of Education at its meeting on March 6 that no visitors or media will be welcome at planned school walkouts at Newtown High School a...
The Newtown High School Winter Percussion competed at the 2018 WGI Trumbull Percussion Regional competition in the Scholastic Marching A division on March 3 at Trumbull High School. Performing its sho...
Students at The Children's Adventure Center in Sandy Hook participated in a coloring activity on Monday, March 5, that focused on the importance of kindness.
The children were encouraged to think abou...
The morning after St Rose of Lima School hosted its rescheduled Hands & Hearts in the Community Service Award/Tuition Assistance Benefit Dinner, this year's Monsignor Robert E. Weiss Hands & Hearts in...
Newtown's newly formed Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) held its first meeting on February 28, when representatives from the state PTA presented the new group's charter.
The first ...
Dear Alyssa, Kelela, and Brandon,
We send our sincere sympathy to you and your family. We will also keep you in our prayers asking our Lord to grant you comfort and peace.
With love,
Vince and Sandy Venitelli
Bruce, your advice that voters should “read, listen, and engage” would be much more persuasive if you practiced it yourself.
You campaigned on openness and responsiveness. You declared that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government” and promised to answer constituent inquiries within two days. Yet you never answered my straightforward public question about Main Street demonstrations, traffic disruption, pedestrian safety, and the effects on local businesses.
After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass. That is not accessible, townwide engagement. Previous first selectmen held open coffee hours and walk-and-talk sessions that any resident could attend.
Then came the failed storm communications, your apology, and another promise to communicate better—followed shortly afterward by more silence while multiple police agencies conducted a significant search near Saw Mill Road.
You now tell voters to examine what candidates say and “how they say it.” I would suggest going one step further: compare what politicians promise while seeking office with what they actually do after winning.
Your record presents a stark contrast. You told voters exactly what they wanted to hear to get the job, then failed to live by those promises. Whether that is dishonesty or simply indifference, it is the same familiar, two-faced politics you once claimed you would replace.
Nothing says “I care about Newtown homeowners” quite like lining Main Street with plywood campaign billboards—apparently built just inches below the size at which officials say they can take action. At this rate, we’ll need property-tax relief just to offset the loss in curb appeal.
