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Stevenson Dam Bridge Repair Schedule Changed; Work To Begin Today

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 12, 2016 12:00 AM

MONROE - A construction project to repair the antiquated vehicular bridge atop Stevenson Dam will limit that bridge's use by motoristsÃÂ until early DecemberÃÂ while those repairs are unde...

Two Pet Cats Saved From Structure Fire On Sunnyview Terrace

By Shannon Hicks

Published: Oct 11, 2016 12:00 AM

Firefighters from all five of Newtown's fire companies, and a crew from Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, responded to a structure fire on Sunnyview Terrace late Tuesday morning, October 11. Firefigh...

Drug Collection Project Slated

Published: Oct 10, 2016 12:00 AM

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

Woman Bilked Out of $7,000 in IRS Scam

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 10, 2016 12:00 AM

Police this week urged residents to be wary of an ongoing scam in which a telephone caller claiming to be an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent seeks to defraud the person being called of money, cla...

Silver Bridge Repair Project To Resume Next Week

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 10, 2016 12:00 AM

Silver Bridge, which spans the Lake Zoar section of the Housatonic River, linking Glen Road in Sandy Hook to River Road in Southbury, is scheduled to undergo more repair work as part of a major $4.47 ...

Facility And Enrollment Presentation Planned By Future Forecast Committee

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Oct 10, 2016 12:00 AM

The Board of Education expects to hear a presentation and a final recommendation from its Future Forecast Committee on closing Newtown Middle School or not closing any district school at its next meet...

Permanent Memorial Commission Considering SAC Field

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Oct 10, 2016 12:00 AM

Police Commission members lastÃÂ week reviewed the potential use of a Riverside Road property as the site for a memorial to the 26 people who died in the December 14, 2012, shooting incident at ...

Drug Ring Member Pleads Guilty To Illicit Drug Charges

By Shannon Hicks

Published: Oct 08, 2016 12:00 AM

HARTFORD - Jeffrey Gentile, 34, of Ansonia, who was a Connecticut judicial marshal while involved in illicit drug activity, pleaded guilty in US District Court on October 5 to one count of using a tel...

Democrat Sharon Wicks Dornfeld Vying For Regional Probate Seat

By John Voket

Published: Oct 08, 2016 12:00 AM

This year is not the first time Ridgefield Attorney Sharon Wicks Dornfeld has considered running for a judge of probate post. But 2016 is the year the Democrat has chosen to step up, vying for the...

Botsford Fire Rescue Officers Announced

Published: Oct 08, 2016 12:00 AM

Botsford Fire Rescue will be led into action by Wayne Ciaccia for another year. Chief Ciaccia was recently reelected as chief of the volunteer fire company whose district includes much of the southern...

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

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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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