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Boys' Cagers Fight To Finish In OT Setback

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 23, 2015 12:00 am

Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team may have come up short, 70-64 in overtime, in a December 23 clash with visiting Stamford. But the team members may look back at this setback as a turning po...

Track And Field Teams Preparing Outside While They Can

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 23, 2015 12:00 am

It may be December, but the fact that it feels sort of like April is affording Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ indoor track and field teams the opportunity to use the Blue & Gold Stadium track ...

Shorthanded Wrestlers Place Third In Guilford Tourney After Winning Opener

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 22, 2015 12:00 am

The defending South-West Conference, Class LL, and State Open champion Nighthawks kicked off their campaign with a 46-16 triumph over visiting Pomperaug of Southbury, on December 16. The Nighthawks fo...

Inexperienced Boys' Cagers Start Season Against Tough Nonconference Teams

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 22, 2015 12:00 am

Despite having a completely new starting lineup, Tim Tallcouch, coach of the Newtown High School boys’ basketball team, isn’t worried about easing his players into fulltime varsity action. Case and po...

Despite Win, It's A Feeling Out Process In Early Going For Swim Team

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 22, 2015 12:00 am

Members of Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team expect to continue to perform well, as they did in the season-opening 91-79 victory over visiting Masuk of Monroe on December 21, but ho...

Hockey Team Erases Three-Goal Deficit For Dramatic Overtime Win

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 22, 2015 12:00 am

Down 4-1 in the third period, Newtown High School’s hockey team rallied to tie the score to force overtime — then prevailed for a 5-4 victory over host Wilton, at Ridgefield’s Winter Garden Rink, on D...

Girls' Basketball Team Battling Through Challenging Beginning To Campaign

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 22, 2015 12:00 am

With a schedule front-loaded with tough opponents, members of Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team certainly expected a difficult start to the season. After defeating Danbury 55-37 in the Dece...

Given A Lucky Bounce Or Two, This Could Be A Championship Season For Hockey Team

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 19, 2015 12:00 am

Two seasons ago, Newtown High School’s hockey team raised a Division III state championship banner. Last winter, inexperience — ten players graduated from that title-winning bunch — led to a four-win ...

Swim Team's Goal: For Everybody To Qualify For SWC Championships

By Andy Hutchison

Published: December 18, 2015 12:00 am

Although Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team has to overcome the loss of 11 graduates from a year ago, expectations are high this season. How high? Newtown Coach Zach Gauvin has never...

Girls' Basketball Team Raising Money For Outdoor Court

Published: December 17, 2015 12:00 am

Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team will raise money for an outdoor basketball court at Sandy Hook Elementary School when the Nighthawks play home games this weekend and early next week. Dona...

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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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