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Year In Review — Jenna Visca

By Jenna Visca

Published: January 07, 2025 8:00 am

With a new year comes plenty of changes, and Newtown was no exception to that fact last year.

Fire Reports | December 19-December 29, 2024

Published: January 06, 2025 8:00 am

Thursday, December 19: 5:41 am, fire alarm, 166 Mount Pleasant Road, Botsford, Hawleyville, and Sandy Hook responded. Friday, December 20: 9:50 pm, medical assist, Currituck Road, Hook & Ladder respon...

Police Reports | December 11-December 27, 2024

Published: January 06, 2025 7:00 am

Police reports for December 11 through December 27, 2024.

Council Discusses CIP, Fairfield Hills Duplexes

By Jim Taylor

Published: January 06, 2025 12:00 am

The Legislative Council discusses three large projects on the Capital Improvement Plan, all of which may need to face referendum.

Year In Review: A Photo Essay Of 2024 Highlights

By Shannon Hicks

Published: January 02, 2025 7:00 am

A final look at some of the people, events and views that defined 2024 within Newtown.

Year In Review — Jim Taylor

By Jim Taylor

Updated: January 01, 2025 1:28 pm

A look back at 2024 from the desk of Editor Jim Taylor.

Seeking Newtown’s First Baby Of 2025

Published: January 01, 2025 5:00 am

The Newtown Bee is looking for the first child born to Newtown parents in 2025, continuing a tradition now in its 67th year.

Year In Review: Highlighting Community In 2024

By Sam Cross

Updated: December 31, 2024 10:12 am

Newtown hosted a lot of events that focused on putting the community at the forefront during 2024.

Flags Lowered For Former President Carter

Updated: December 30, 2024 12:16 pm

President Joseph Biden has ordered flags lowered in memory of James Earl Carter Jr, the 39th President of the United States, who died on December 29.

Police Reports | December 3-December 18, 2024

Published: December 30, 2024 9:46 am

Police reports for December 3 through December 18, 2024.

David John Marusa (January 20, 1978-December 22, 2024)

Dolores Whamond

Wilbur Coy ‘Skip’ Luf

Skills For Busy Moms: Delegate To Thrive

HillTop Kitchen Dine At Your Home Away From Home

Dolly! We have missed you so much since you left California & our work family at SBCEO Juvenile Community Court Schools! You are one fascinating woman! Love Debbie Diaz & Mike Ostini. PS-We got married 3 years ago!

Snapshot: Dolly White

Some facts to consider. A total of 40,00 trips a day take place on Rt 25, The Castle Hill project will add less than 1%. Cluster homes are already an approved concept for the Borough, because it preserves open land and builds homes with sewer and public water. I'm Suggesting the Zoning Board should approve this because its a proposal that meets conservation goals and "checks" all the boxes.

A Development Must Be A Good Fit

Head on a swivel at all times - especially in grocery parking lots! Keep an eye out for folks turning at the flagpole - it befuddles them at times.

Please Drive Safe In 2025

How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

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