It sounds like the start of a joke: A woman walks into the store, and orders a shrub. Except the woman is me, and I’m not in a garden center, but a fairly upscale pizza place in Seattle, Washington. T...
With summer nearly at its end Sunday, September 21, the Leaps of Faith (LOF) Adaptive Skiers made the most of a local marina.
As a way of saying thank you to the community, the LOF volunteers held a f...
Occupation: I recently retired after 35 years as a teacher/librarian, primarily in schools in Danbury and Ridgefield.
Family: My husband, Ross Carley, is very active in town. Our son, Christop...
October 6, 1989
The search on Block Island, Rhode Island, for a missing 35-year-old Newtown woman, Regina Brown, has been suspended. The search on Block Island began after police discovered a pie...
October 6, 1989
The search on Block Island, Rhode Island, for a missing 35-year-old Newtown woman, Regina Brown, has been suspended. The search on Block Island began after police discovered a pie...
I have been worrying my whiskers off over the news coming out of Liberia. I hope you join me in sending silent purrs and good thoughts toward our friends outside of Monrovia. The building project for ...
“Think for yourself, and let others do the same,” exhorts the American Library Association poster for the 2014 Banned Books Week.
Even though the annual Banned Book Week, September 21–27, is over this...
I have been worrying my whiskers off over the news coming out of Liberia. I hope you join me in sending silent purrs and good thoughts toward our friends outside of Monrovia. The building project for ...
Occupation: I recently retired after 35 years as a teacher/librarian, primarily in schools in Danbury and Ridgefield.
Family: My husband, Ross Carley, is very active in town. Our son, Christop...
“Think for yourself, and let others do the same,” exhorts the American Library Association poster for the 2014 Banned Books Week.
Even though the annual Banned Book Week, September 21–27, is over this...
Michelle, I am sorry to see that you are also a victim of fabrications. All those rumors that go round that seem so convincing. All so often, those rumors are little more than convenient lies. This has been happening for several years and hopefully we can come together to stop them.
Until then, I ask that those of you who have heard disparaging remarks about the candidates take the time to meet with them to ask them directly what you are concerned about. Get to know them better rather than assume. We all will have better representation both locally and state-wide if you do so.
This is disappointing because it frames voters who rejected the Treadwell turf replacement as selfish or anti-youth. When I suspect that Katherine's motives were likely because she has some vested interest in those turf fields, which makes it exceptionally selfish.
There is a clear difference between maintaining basic town infrastructure and approving an athletic facility upgrade. Library sidewalks, parking access, and a salt storage facility support safety and essential town operations. The turf field may be worthwhile, but it is still a different type of request.
Residents can support youth sports and still question the cost, timing, or priority of a specific project. Calling that selfish, or turning it into a generational argument is unfair and unproductive.
Newtown is better served by honest discussion about priorities, not by accusing voters of lacking community spirit because they disagreed on one ballot item.
Thank you!
Can you move to remove the future $75,000 commercial kitchen for the library? It's a fire hazard, attracts vermin, wasted expense (anyone who rents a room for an event can hire a local caterer), plus health inspections and licenses, etc
Thank you for being a watchdog guarding our precious tax dollar. I am horrified at some of the items the town wants to spend our money on, like a $95,000 per year executive assistant for the 1st Selectman and now I have learned there are plans for a $75,000 commercial kitchen installed in the library! Jordana Bloom, who represents my 2nd District works at the library. Did she recuse herself from this expense?
