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Two Hour Delay For Newtown Public Schools

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jan 12, 2015 12:00 AM

Newtown Public Schools will run on a two hour delay Monday, January 12, due to the weather, according to the school district.

Update: Schools Closed For Friday, January 9

Published: Jan 09, 2015 12:00 AM

This story has been updated to reflect a later decision by the school district. All Newtown Public Schools will be closed Friday, January 9, due to deteriorating weather conditions. The decision ...

Newtown High School First Quarter Honor Roll

Published: Jan 08, 2015 12:00 AM

The following are the students who made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the first quarter marking period at Newtown High School this school year. The honor roll listings were recently released ...

A Two Hour Delay For Newtown Public Schools

Published: Jan 08, 2015 12:00 AM

Newtown Public Schools will run on a two hour delay Thursday, January 8, due to the weather, as announced by the school district Thursday morning.

Ben's Lighthouse To Sponsor After-School Program At NMS

Published: Jan 06, 2015 12:00 AM

Ben’s Lighthouse will sponsor a free after-school program at Newtown Middle School for all local seventh and eighth grade students, on Mondays from 2:15 to 3 pm, from February 4 to March 16. The progr...

Middle Gate Conducts A Winter Sing-A-Long Assembly

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Dec 31, 2014 12:00 AM

Middle Gate Elementary School music teacher Tina Jones was ready in the school’s gymnasium on Tuesday, December 23, when students walked in for an assembly. “This is our Middle Gate musical winter sin...

Hawley Students Celebrate A Month Of Kind Acts

By Nancy K. Crevier

Published: Dec 31, 2014 12:00 AM

As students, staff, and a few parents filed into the gymnasium for a Kindness Assembly at Hawley Elementary School, Tuesday, December 23, a slide show of artwork by various students in grades K throug...

Head O' Meadow Holds Holiday Sing-Along

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Dec 31, 2014 12:00 AM

As Head O’ Meadow Principal Barbara Gasparine walked into her school’s cafetorium on Tuesday, December 23, she asked students in Karen Dreger’s second grade class whether they were ready to sing. “Yea...

Poet Laureate Of Newtown Introduces Personal America 250 Initiative During Independence Day Weekend Events

Town Historian To Present ‘The True Story Of Fairfield Hills’

Weller Foundation Announces 2025 Newtown High School Award Recipients

The Way We Were

Laura Wildman

It’s important to clarify that while public process matters, so does the right of a property owner to reasonably develop land they legally own—especially when they follow the rules and engage with the town in good faith. The Board of Selectmen (BOS), whether one agrees with their decision or not, did not “give away” anything. The land in question was part of a road that had been unused and undeveloped for generations. There was no public access, no signage, and no infrastructure—just an overgrown path most residents never knew existed. Mr. Ackert calls the discontinuance “illegal,” but state law grants municipalities the authority to discontinue roads, subject to procedural requirements. The fact that this matter is in litigation shows that questions of law are being properly addressed in court—not in letters to the editor. If the court finds procedural flaws, they’ll be corrected. That’s how the legal system works. Real solutions are found through public process and the courts, not through social media outrage. What’s missing from this conversation is a recognition that towns need to balance many interests: history, environment, public access, private property rights, and economic development. And while the newly championed Revolutionary War heritage is important, there are also pressing modern realities: towns need housing, economic vitality, and responsible development. These things don’t happen in a vacuum—they require compromise, planning, and often, yes, change. If residents truly wish to preserve this trail as public space, the appropriate path is through purchase, conservation easement, or formal designation—not by expecting private landowners to bear the burden of public sentiment. If the writer believes so strongly in its value, perhaps they might consider investing in its preservation themselves. We can honor our history without freezing our town in time. Development and preservation aren’t mutually exclusive—but vilifying one side of the conversation only deepens division. Let’s focus on solutions that balance respect for the past with the rights and needs of those who live here now.

Discusses Rochambeau Trail And 6 Commerce Road

Thank you both for running my letter and the excellent editor's note. I deeply appreciate the Bee and what it means to Newtown.

Critical Of Re-Election Announcement

Dan was a real gentleman. I had the honor of knowing him for about 10 years from high school and into early adulthood. He was always upbeat and amiable. His love of golf was boundless. I remember him droning on about the type of wedge this or that professional golfer was playing at any given time. He loved to play also. Dan made the winning putt that clinched a championship for NHS men’s golf in 1984. It was a snaking, downhill putt that few people would have had the nerve or imagination to have holed at such a critical moment. It was magic!! You are a true gem, Dan. May your eternal reward be endless days of long, straight drives and the sound of difficult putts finding the bottom of the hole.

Daniel R. Baker

Congratulations John! This is quite a feat & shows a lot of perseverance, endurance, & commitment while becoming more healthy & having fun! The ultimate achievement! Wishing u a long healthy life!

Run 169 Towns Society Runner John Gonski Completes Race In Every Connecticut Municipality

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The 1st Amendment does NOT say "except when there's a budget problem, or when some people wish things would quiet down." There is no way a proposed ordinance can be construed as other than singling out RockthisDemocracy, and also no way the town does not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to go down this path.

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Two Hour Delay For Newtown Public Schools

Update: Schools Closed For Friday, January 9

Newtown High School First Quarter Honor Roll

A Two Hour Delay For Newtown Public Schools

Ben's Lighthouse To Sponsor After-School Program At NMS

Middle Gate Conducts A Winter Sing-A-Long Assembly

Hawley Students Celebrate A Month Of Kind Acts

Head O' Meadow Holds Holiday Sing-Along