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Flags To Be Lowered To Honor Former Israeli President Peres

Published: Sep 29, 2016 12:00 AM

Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that, in accordance with a proclamation from President Barack Obama directing flags to be lowered to honor the memory of former President and Prime Minister o...

Murtha Resigns From Pension Committee

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Sep 27, 2016 12:00 AM

Thomas M. Murtha, 61, of Boggs Hill Road, who had served as the town Pension Committee's chairman for more than 20 years, has resigned from that panel, which oversees town employees' pension fund mana...

Major Spike In Online Voter Registrations Following Facebook Promotion

Published: Sep 27, 2016 12:00 AM

The number of online voter registrations surged following a Facebook promotional effort last weekend, which was launched in advance of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 27.a short ...

October 1 Shredding Event Scheduled By Friends Of Newtown Seniors

Published: Sep 27, 2016 12:00 AM

The Friends of Newtown Seniors is sponsoring a shredding day, in cooperation with Newtown Public Schools, Newtown Parks & Recreation, Senior Services, and the Commission on Aging, on Saturday, October...

DOT Approves Traffic Signal For Hazardous Berkshire Road Intersection

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Sep 26, 2016 12:00 AM

Following its review of a request from the Police Commission for the installation of a traffic signal at a hazardous Sandy Hook intersection, the state Department of Transportation (DOT) has decided t...

NHS Auditorium Renovation Project Completion May Be In June

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Sep 26, 2016 12:00 AM

The date for the end of the Newtown High School auditorium renovation project may now be June, as the Board of Education learned at its September 20 meeting. Construction documents, specifications, an...

Police List Accident-Prone Intersections

By Andrew Gorosko

Published: Sep 26, 2016 12:00 AM

Police have compiled motor vehicle accident statistics for the previous four calendar years, listing the intersections in town that have had the highest accident rates from 2012 to 2015 inclusive. Pol...

Stratford PD Issues Silver Alerts 14-Year-Old Stratford Girl, 14-Year-Old Boy

Published: Sep 26, 2016 12:00 AM

UPDATE (Monday, September 26, 5:53 pm):ÃÂ Stratford PD has cancelled the Silver Alert for ÃÂ Tyrique Cunningham. Other than deeming the case "Resolved," no additional information has b...

Nationwide Test Of Emergency Alert System To Take Place September 28

Published: Sep 24, 2016 12:00 AM

On Wednesday, September 28, at 2:20 pmÃÂ EDT, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Weather Service, ...

Oak Stands In Path Of Road Improvements

By Kendra Bobowick

Published: Sep 24, 2016 12:00 AM

A "majestic" white oak tree is standing in the path of road improvements at the top of Toddy Hill Road, causing concern among several residents there. "I am a farmer and I have a lot of respect for tr...

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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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Flags To Be Lowered To Honor Former Israeli President Peres

Murtha Resigns From Pension Committee

Major Spike In Online Voter Registrations Following Facebook Promotion

October 1 Shredding Event Scheduled By Friends Of Newtown Seniors

DOT Approves Traffic Signal For Hazardous Berkshire Road Intersection

NHS Auditorium Renovation Project Completion May Be In June

Police List Accident-Prone Intersections

Stratford PD Issues Silver Alerts 14-Year-Old Stratford Girl, 14-Year-Old Boy

Nationwide Test Of Emergency Alert System To Take Place September 28

Oak Stands In Path Of Road Improvements