Experience is on Newtown High School football team's side this this fall as the Nighthawks try to improve on their winning ways from a year ago.
Last year, Coach Bobby Pattison’s Nighthawks posted a 7...
With 42 team members — 36 swimmers and six divers, the most third-year Coach Becky Osborne has had — there will be plenty of in-team competition for roles during meets for the Newtown High School girl...
It is the start of a new era for Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team.
Charley Amblo, who has extensive coaching and playing experience, takes over as head coach, and he is looking to change the cu...
Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team is once again on a mission to dethrone South-West Conference king Joel Barlow of Redding. The Nighthawks defeated the Falcons in their first of two regular...
Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team will look to be a factor in the South-West Conference with a mostly-new look. In addition to Charley Amblo taking over head coaching duties (see related story),...
Newtown High School’s girls’ soccer team, coming off a run to the South-West Conference tournament championship game and Class LL state tourney quarterfinals, brings back plenty of experienced players...
Newtown High School’s field hockey team begins the campaign with a strong work ethic that Coach Stephanie Kearns is hopeful will help carry her Nighthawks to some postseason success.
“I’m really looki...
There still are openings for the 13th Annual Newtown Road Race and Kids Fun Run, which will take place at Dickinson Park, 50 Elm Drive, on Labor Day Weekend, Saturday, September 1, beginning at 8 am.
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Two months of Newtown Women’s Softball action, often altered because of rain and unplayable field conditions, culminated with a playoffs and a championship game — postponed a week — with the pinnacle ...
Dear Alyssa, Kelela, and Brandon,
We send our sincere sympathy to you and your family. We will also keep you in our prayers asking our Lord to grant you comfort and peace.
With love,
Vince and Sandy Venitelli
Bruce, your advice that voters should “read, listen, and engage” would be much more persuasive if you practiced it yourself.
You campaigned on openness and responsiveness. You declared that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government” and promised to answer constituent inquiries within two days. Yet you never answered my straightforward public question about Main Street demonstrations, traffic disruption, pedestrian safety, and the effects on local businesses.
After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass. That is not accessible, townwide engagement. Previous first selectmen held open coffee hours and walk-and-talk sessions that any resident could attend.
Then came the failed storm communications, your apology, and another promise to communicate better—followed shortly afterward by more silence while multiple police agencies conducted a significant search near Saw Mill Road.
You now tell voters to examine what candidates say and “how they say it.” I would suggest going one step further: compare what politicians promise while seeking office with what they actually do after winning.
Your record presents a stark contrast. You told voters exactly what they wanted to hear to get the job, then failed to live by those promises. Whether that is dishonesty or simply indifference, it is the same familiar, two-faced politics you once claimed you would replace.
Nothing says “I care about Newtown homeowners” quite like lining Main Street with plywood campaign billboards—apparently built just inches below the size at which officials say they can take action. At this rate, we’ll need property-tax relief just to offset the loss in curb appeal.
