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Vocal Majority Bus Tour Visits Newtown

By Alissa Silber

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

The Vocal Majority Bus Tour with former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made a stop at the Edmond Town Hall on Saturday, October 15. The tour is part of Americans for Responsible Solutions' (...

Police Reports | October 4-17, 2016

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

Guy Wire Incident At about 2:18 pm on October 4, motorist Nelson Bassette, 46, of Bridgeport, who was driving a 2002 Toyota Camry sedan southward on South Main Street, near its northerly intersec...

Scarecrow Contest At NMS Postponed To November 5-6

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

Due to concerns about inclement weather the weekend of October 22- 23, Newtown Middle School art teacher Leigh Anne Coles has notified The Newtown Bee that the Scarecrow Contest scheduled for the week...

Fire Reports | October 6-19, 2016

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, October 6: 9:55 am, public ser...

Facility And Enrollment Study Points To NMS Closure

By Alissa Silber

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

At the Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, October 19, Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, prefaced the Facility and Enrollment Study discussion by saying that the evening's presentatio...

Police Panel Analyzing Pearl Street Traffic Remedies

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

The Police Commission, in its role as the local traffic authority, is continuing its review of possible measures to correct a chronic traffic speed problem on Pearl Street, a residential connector roa...

Captain's Departure Triggers Four Police Staff Changes

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 20, 2016 12:00 AM

With the recent retirement of police Captain Joe Rios, who has taken a job in the field of preparedness/security with the Norwalk public school system, there is a key vacancy at the Newtown Police Dep...

Prescription Drug Collection Project Slated

Published: Oct 19, 2016 12:00 AM

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and town police have scheduled a prescription drug collection project for 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, October 22, at the police station, 3 Main StreetÃÂ (Rout...

Wild Trout Replenished At Local Fishery

Published: Oct 18, 2016 12:00 AM

After much study, planning, and volunteer labor to improve the wild trout habitat in Deep Brook and the Pootatuck River, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's (DEEP) fisheries ...

Kansas Man Sentenced On 12/14 Wire Fraud Conviction

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 18, 2016 12:00 AM

HARTFORD - Robert Terry Bruce, 35, of Overland Park, Kan., and formerly of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced on October 14 in US District Court by Judge Alvin W. Thompson to serve three years of probati...

NewSylum Brewing Company Reaches $7,700 In Total Giving To NYFS

Friends Of The C.H. Booth Library 49th Annual Book Sale Comes To A Close

Newtown Parent Connection Presents Second Scholarship To High School Student

Stone Bridge Center For Health And Rehabilitation Resident Juana Geraldino Celebrates 104th Birthday

Fire Reports | July 9-15, 2025

Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

Assembly Ordinance?

Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

Who is Calling Newtowners Stupid?

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Vocal Majority Bus Tour Visits Newtown

Police Reports | October 4-17, 2016

Scarecrow Contest At NMS Postponed To November 5-6

Fire Reports | October 6-19, 2016

Facility And Enrollment Study Points To NMS Closure

Police Panel Analyzing Pearl Street Traffic Remedies

Captain's Departure Triggers Four Police Staff Changes

Prescription Drug Collection Project Slated

Wild Trout Replenished At Local Fishery

Kansas Man Sentenced On 12/14 Wire Fraud Conviction