The Newtown Fire Marshal’s Office is in full alignment with the National Fire Protection Association following recent deadly back-to-back residential fires in Philadelphia and New York.
Newtown officials have announced the next round of distribution opportunities for free COVID-19 test kits. Registration goes live Saturday, January 15, at noon.
Connecticut Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani, MD updated state COVID-19 guidance for Pre-K-12 schools just as the FDA cleared 12-15-year-olds to receive booster shots.
A shipping delay is forcing Newtown officials to postpone distributing thousands of COVID-19 in-home test kits to residents who qualified to pick them up Friday, December 31.
Newtown Emergency Management officials have pivoted to a system that will require online registration for qualified residents to receive up to two free COVID-19 test kits on Friday, December 31.
So your counterpoint is that The Bee prints the same number of pages regardless of how much content appears in it. If that is true, then I stand corrected. I actually doubt that is the case.
Thank you for continuing to read my letters and bringing attention to them. As I said the last time you went through this tortured calculation, the Bee would be printing the same number of pages with or without my contributions. Why not spend your time writing a letter to the editor trumpeting all the great triumphs you think Trump has accomplished?
The Bee publishes about 3,800(1) copies each week. This is now the 24th installment of “Trump’s Triumphs,” and these pieces generally run about 9 to 11 column inches each. Given the Bee’s broadsheet page size of 16.75" by 22.75" — or roughly 136 column inches per full page — that means this series has consumed the equivalent of about 6,700 full broadsheet pages over 24 installments, or roughly 0.42 acres of paper surface.
If those pages were laid down end to end, sheet by sheet, they would stretch from the flagpole all the way to the transfer station — about 2.4 miles.
On the theme of Earth Day, it is worth remembering that at some point, it stops being civic discourse and starts looking like a remarkable waste of paper.
Source figures: 3,800 copies per week, approximately 10 column inches per installment, 136 column inches per full page, 7.35% of a page per installment, across 24 installments.
Excellent forum hosted by these young college students. They posed difficult but very important questions, especially about the increasing costs of living in Newtown; what qualifications and qualities Brandon Moore, the candidate for CT State Representative that appeared for the forum, brings; the candidate's ability to lead; and the ability to make difficult choices. Brandon Moore was impressive. He was on point and focused on improving the quality of life of Newtown residents. My husband and I were huge opponents to his candidacy, believing some of the things that have turned out to be untrue, but thankfully we asked a lot of questions and observed a lot behind the scenes, and Brandon Moore is a solid, knowledgeable, honest and strong candidate.
