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Boys' Cagers Clinch State Playoff Berth And Win Second Straight

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 07, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' basketball team locked up a state playoff berth with a 71-34 triumph over host Masuk of Monroe on February 2. Newtown followed that up with its ninth win of the campaign, t...

Gymnasts Second In Fairfield

By Newtown Bee

Published: February 07, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's gymnastics team went to the Gymnastics and Cheerleading Academy in Fairfield for a meet on February 2, and placed second as a team. Team results are as follows: Fairfield Ludlowe...

Nighthawk Track And Field Competitors Shatter Records In Championships

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 06, 2018 12:00 am

NEW HAVEN - Nothing like going up against the best to bring out the best. And, in the case of some members of Newtown High School's indoor track and field teams, surpassing the best. South-West Confer...

Frank Rocca, Who Poured His Energy Into Baseball For Decades, Is Sportsman Of The Year

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 03, 2018 12:00 am

Throughout the years, while the balls were cracking off bats and youth baseball players collected hits and rounded the bases, Frank Rocca made his way around to fans, collecting for the Jimmy Fund, wh...

Senior Citizens Will Be Treated To Dessert And Basketball Game On February 13

Published: February 01, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown Youth Basketball Association and the Newtown High School athletic department invite all Newtown residents over the age of 65 to a free dessert tasting, followed by the Newtown High girls' bask...

Newtown High School Boys' Swim Team Gives Weston A Test

By Newtown Bee

Published: February 01, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' swimming and diving team, on January 30, visited South-West Conference rival Weston, which had lost only to fellow powerhouse and unbeaten Pomperaug of Southbury, and the N...

Torpedoes Swim 6,430 Laps To Benefit Scholarship Association

Published: February 01, 2018 12:00 am

The Newtown Torpedoes held their fifth Annual Swim-A-Thon at Newtown High School, on January 27. During the daylong event, 46 team members completed 6,430 laps, totaling 160,750 yards, to benefit the ...

Boys' Basketball Team Gets Back Into Win Column Against Rebels

By Andy Hutchison

Published: February 01, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's boys' basketball team put the skids on a four-game losing streak with a 60-49 win over visiting New Fairfield, on January 30. The Nighthawks improved to 7-7 overall and 2-5 in So...

Nighthawk Grapplers Battling Tough Teams As Season Winds Down

By Andy Hutchison

Published: January 30, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's wrestling team, as the postseason draws nearer, is looking to push itself and get back to as close to full strength as it has been throughout the campaign. The Nighthawks compete...

Dance Team Second In Conference

Published: January 30, 2018 12:00 am

Newtown High School's dance team placed second behind Brookfield in the South-West Conference jazz division championship, at New Milford High, on January 25. Members of the team, coached by Cheryl Ste...

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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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Boys' Cagers Clinch State Playoff Berth And Win Second Straight

Gymnasts Second In Fairfield

Nighthawk Track And Field Competitors Shatter Records In Championships

Frank Rocca, Who Poured His Energy Into Baseball For Decades, Is Sportsman Of The Year

Senior Citizens Will Be Treated To Dessert And Basketball Game On February 13

Newtown High School Boys' Swim Team Gives Weston A Test

Torpedoes Swim 6,430 Laps To Benefit Scholarship Association

Boys' Basketball Team Gets Back Into Win Column Against Rebels

Nighthawk Grapplers Battling Tough Teams As Season Winds Down

Dance Team Second In Conference