Park and Bark will be closed Monday for maintenance.

The Resiliency Center of Newtown (RCN) will host an open house on Monday, September 23.

Security cameras at Newtown’s public schools were replaced over the summer, and the new system began recording 24 hours a day, every day, ahead of the school year’s start.

In a unanimous decision, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) has conditionally approved a land developer’s request for a zoning variance that would allow vehicles to park closer to Berkshire Road (Route 34) than would normally be allowed, in connection with that developer’s proposal to construct a 10,150-square-foot retail center there, near Exit 11 of Interstate 84.

After spotting a motorist traveling the wrong way on an Interstate 84 ramp at the Exit 10 interchange at about 9 pm on September 3, police stopped the person who was driving the 2005 Infiniti auto, and as they approached the vehicle smelled a strong odor of marijuana emanating from it, police said.

With little discussion during a brief meeting September 3, the Board of Selectmen rejected a right of first refusal to purchase a small interior parcel of state land adjacent to a proposed commercial development on Berkshire Road.

On August 30, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District in Austin ruled that

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of August 23-September 2, 2019.

A land development firm has submitted to the Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) a long-expected pair of redevelopment applications, which, if approved, would set the stage for the firm later submitting a site redevelopment proposal, describing in detail how it would use a centrally-located site, formerly used for The Inn at Newtown, for three new residential buildings comprising a multifamily housing complex with an as-yet unspecified number of dwellings.

Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of August 29-September 4, 2019.