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School Board Approves Support For Letter To President Trump Denouncing Hoaxers

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Feb 03, 2017 12:00 AM

The Board of Education voted at its meeting on Wednesday, February 1, in support of having its chair, Keith Alexander, sign a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to denounce people across the ...

Pep Rally Begins Catholic Schools Week At St Rose Of Lima

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Feb 03, 2017 12:00 AM

St Rose of Lima School began its celebration of Catholic Schools Week, recognized nationally January 29 to February 3, with a pep rally, near the end of the school day, on Monday, January 30. For the ...

Early Dismissal For Newtown Public Schools Tuesday

Published: Jan 31, 2017 12:00 AM

Newtown Public Schools will have an early dismissal on Tuesday, January 31, due to anticipated weather. All afternoon and evening student activities, including athletics, are canceled.

Early Dismissal For Newtown Public Schools Tuesday

Published: Jan 31, 2017 12:00 AM

Newtown Public Schools will have an early dismissal on Tuesday, January 31, due to anticipated weather. All afternoon and evening student activities, including athletics, are canceled.

NMS Talent Show Wows The Audience

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jan 28, 2017 12:00 AM

As students gathered in Newtown Middle School's auditorium for one of two assemblies on Friday, January 20, seventh and eighth graders were preparing in a hallway to showcase their talents. NMS sevent...

NHS Educators Share Math Pathways With School Board Ahead Of Eighth Grade Orientation Night

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jan 28, 2017 12:00 AM

While Newtown High School Math Department Chair Lauren Dominick and Principal Lorrie Rodrigue introduced two new possible courses for NHS to the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, January 1...

NHS Educators Share Math Pathways With School Board Ahead Of Eighth Grade Orientation Night

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jan 28, 2017 12:00 AM

Valentines For Troops Effort Ramping Up For 2017 Effort

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jan 27, 2017 12:00 AM

The campaign for local students and others to write valentines for servicemen and women overseas is returning for its 12th year, according to Valentines For Troops Chairperson Donna Monteleone Randle....

Newtown Woman’s Club 2025 Pewter Ornament ‘A Transfusion Of Patriotism’

Borough Board Of Burgesses Continues Discussion Of Insurance Policy

Holiday Spirit In Full Force At 65th Annual Rotary Pancake Breakfast

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Safety At Home: ‘Simple Steps, Big Impact’ Presentation At Newtown Senior Center

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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School Board Approves Support For Letter To President Trump Denouncing Hoaxers

Pep Rally Begins Catholic Schools Week At St Rose Of Lima

Early Dismissal For Newtown Public Schools Tuesday

Early Dismissal For Newtown Public Schools Tuesday

NMS Talent Show Wows The Audience

NHS Educators Share Math Pathways With School Board Ahead Of Eighth Grade Orientation Night

NHS Educators Share Math Pathways With School Board Ahead Of Eighth Grade Orientation Night

Valentines For Troops Effort Ramping Up For 2017 Effort