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Girls' Hockey Team Caps Season With Victory

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 22, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High girls' hockey players who are part of the Masuk of Monroe-led co-op squad, helped the Panthers to victory when they hit the ice for the final time this winter. The Panthers concluded the ...

Boys' Basketball Team Qualifies For SWC Tourney With Win Over Stratford

By Paul Samberg

Published: February 21, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' basketball team qualified for the South-West Conference tournament with a 67-53 win against visiting Stratford on February 20. The Nighthawks earned the eighth seed and wil...

Swim Team Gets Two Pool Records In Win Over Barlow

By Newtown Bee

Published: February 21, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' swimming and diving team capped off the regular season with a 92-72 triumph over visiting Joel Barlow of Redding, on February 20. The Nighthawks, in the process, set two po...

Wrestling Team Has Standouts In Class LL Championships

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 20, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's Aaron Occhipinti won the 126 pound weight division championship, and 285 pound grappler Joe Zeller was runner-up as the Nighthawks, the lone South-West Conference team in the com...

Girls' Cagers Upset In SWC Semifinals

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 20, 2018 12:00 am

Things had fallen into place for Newtown High School's girls' basketball team. Winners of nine straight regular-season games, culminating with a win over Notre Dame-Fairfield (previously unbeaten in c...

Track And Field Athletes Shine In State Open

By Newtown Bee

Published: February 19, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's indoor track and field teams had standout performances in the State Open, at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven, on February 17. Carly Swierbut was third in the 55 met...

Occhipinti Wins Title, Zeller Second In State Wrestling Championships

By Newtown Bee

Published: February 18, 2018 12:00 am

Girls' Basketball Team Advances To Tournament Semis

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 17, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's girls' basketball team defeated visiting Immaculate of Danbury 28-21 in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals, on February 16. The top-seeded Nighthawks led 19-5 at ...

Nighthawk Wrestling Team Has Strong Postseason Performances

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 15, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's wrestling team had seven place winners in the February 10 South-West Conference championships, at New Milford High School.Note: This is an expanded version of the article posted ...

Hockey Team Wins, Inches Closer To Playoff Berth

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 15, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' hockey team carries a three-game winning streak into its final three contests of the regular season, and the Nighthawks are within one victory of qualifying for the Divisio...

Community ‘Welcomed With Open Arms’ At Newtown Senior Center’s Open House

Snapshot: Tyler Pruneau

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

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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Girls' Hockey Team Caps Season With Victory

Boys' Basketball Team Qualifies For SWC Tourney With Win Over Stratford

Swim Team Gets Two Pool Records In Win Over Barlow

Wrestling Team Has Standouts In Class LL Championships

Girls' Cagers Upset In SWC Semifinals

Track And Field Athletes Shine In State Open

Occhipinti Wins Title, Zeller Second In State Wrestling Championships

Girls' Basketball Team Advances To Tournament Semis

Nighthawk Wrestling Team Has Strong Postseason Performances

Hockey Team Wins, Inches Closer To Playoff Berth