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Public Open House Slated At New Sandy Hook Elementary School

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

First Selectman Pat Llodra and School Superintendent Dr Joseph V. Erardi invite Newtown residents to an open house at the newly completed Sandy Hook Elementary School, 12 Dickinson Drive, on Friday, J...

First SMART Camp Session Ends

By Madeleine Peck

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

Campers and parents alike celebrated SMART (Summer Music and Art) Camp's 25th anniversary with a showcase of the children's work on July 15, the last day of the camp's first session.The Lonely Shark w...

Lego Creations At Camp

By Madeleine Peck

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

Most Lego cars need a push from the builder to get rolling, but at the Lego in Motion Camp at Hawley Elementary School, campers assembled cars that could move on their own with help from a motor. The ...

Students Enjoy A Fantastical Frolic At Dagorhir Camp

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

As Andrew Mangold held up "a golden egg" on Wednesday, June 29, all the campers in the first session of Newtown Parks & Recreation's Dagorhir camp gathered around him.The Lord of the Rings, camper...

Newtown Middle School Releases Fourth Quarter Honor Roll

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

Newtown Middle School released its honor roll for the fourth quarter marking period of the 2015-16 school year on Wednesday, July 6. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place ...

Campers Discover Science

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jul 22, 2016 12:00 AM

Campers under the direction of High Touch High Tech's Chris Stetson spent the week of June 27 to July 1 learning about science topics and completing activities and experiments of their own. The Scienc...

SMART Camp Brings Summer Fun; Second Session Starts July 18

By Madeleine Peck

Published: Jul 15, 2016 12:00 AM

SMART (Summer Music and Art) Camp is celebrating its 25th year as campers sculpt, perform, and experiment at Head O' Meadow Elementary School.Further information about Newtown Continuing Education pro...

Stream Education At Summer Camp

By Kendra Bobowick

Published: Jul 12, 2016 12:00 AM

With their short-attention spans snapped suddenly into focus, young campers at Dickinson Park watched a stream of water wash through an imaginary town. Nestled in sand filling a large tray were thimbl...

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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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Public Open House Slated At New Sandy Hook Elementary School

First SMART Camp Session Ends

Lego Creations At Camp

Students Enjoy A Fantastical Frolic At Dagorhir Camp

Newtown Middle School Releases Fourth Quarter Honor Roll

Campers Discover Science

SMART Camp Brings Summer Fun; Second Session Starts July 18

Stream Education At Summer Camp