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  • Green Ribbon Ride Cuts ‘Historic’ Route Through Newtown

    Kendra Bobowick • News •
    Monday, May 6, 2013

    A storm of motorcycles rumbled through Newtown from Shelton, on their way top Trumbull Sunday, May 5. Nearly 3,000 bikes took more than 30 minutes to pass by on the Green Ribbon Ride (riding to remember and honor Newtown’s 26 angels) sponsored by Newtown’s five fire companies. Tickets cost $20 per person to join the ride, with proceeds being paid out directly to children’s charities, the 26 Sandy Hook families, Newtown funds supporting survivors, the EMS, fire departments, police union, Al’s Angels, and the Center for Women & Families.

  • Conservation Commission Offering Invasive Plant ID

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    Monday, May 6, 2013

    Members of Newtown Conservation Commission are again offering their services to residents who want help identifying invasive plants for private homeowners.  Invasive plants have become an ever-increasing problem for Newtown, both in landscaped areas a...

  • Green Ribbon Ride Rolls Through Town

    Shannon Hicks • News •
    Monday, May 6, 2013

    Approximately 2,000 motorcycles participated in The Sandy Hook Green Ribbon Ride, a special motorcycle ride-fundraiser that thundered through Newtown on Sunday, May 5. The event was a fundraiser for ten local funds, including the 26 families who lost a loved one on 12/14. The route took riders from Shelton into Derby, Seymour, and Oxford, crossing Stevenson Dam into Monroe, north on Route 34 into Sandy Hook, over Wasserman Way. The route then turned south on Route 25 back into Monroe, and then into Trumbull, concluding at Trumbull Westfield Mall. “It was amazing how smooth everything went,” said Greg Gnandt, one of the ride's co-chairs. “The volunteers who pulled this together were fantastic. It was so well organized.”

  • Slate Is Unopposed For Today's Borough Election

    John Voket • News •
    Monday, May 6, 2013

    Despite some incorrect media reports about a town wide election that are generating confused calls to Newtown Registrars of Voters this morning, only the 1,311 residents of the Borough of Newtown are being called to the polls today. Borough residents are being asked to endorse an unopposed slate of borough officials who govern the separately designated area around the center of town. Voting is being held in the Registrars Office inside the Newtown Municipal Center today until 8 pm. The polling location has been open since 6 am.

  • Foundation Postpones Distribution Committee Hearings

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    Monday, May 6, 2013

    The board of directors of the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation announced Monday that it has asked the Foundation’s Distribution Committee to postpone the public hearings that were scheduled to take place in Newtown on May 7 and 8.

  • School Panel Facing High Emotions And A Delay On SHS Site Decision

    John Voket • News •
    Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 1:11 pm

    In the final minutes of a marathon five hour meeting May 3 that started with some raw and emotional input from Sandy Hook School staff, a Newtowner who played a key role on 12/14 sat down before a school building task force and described what he was witnessing. Gene Rosen, who found six students from the school in his neighboring driveway that fateful December morning and sheltered them until parents and police arrived, took a few moments to dial down his own emotions before he spoke. “I heard the agony of this process,” he said, his voice hitching. Mr Rosen lavished praise on the Sandy Hook School building panel members, technical team advisors, mental health consultants and a facilitator who moved deftly through numerous agenda items during that protracted session which yielded no final decision on the school’s future.

  • Woman Seeking Money Damages For Carnival Fall

    Andrew Gorosko • News •
    Friday, May 3, 2013

    The town is among four defendants named in a lawsuit which seeks money damages in connection with an April 2011 incident in which a woman tripped and fell at a firefighters’ carnival held at the Newtown High School grounds. 10, Mariel Walters sues Marenna AmusemeIn the lawsuit dated April 10, Mariel Walters sues Marenna Amusements, LLC, of Orange; Botsford Fire & Rescue Company; Fire Marshal Bill Halstead; and the Town of Newtown.

  • Absentee Ballots Available; Special Hours May 11

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    Friday, May 3, 2013

    Absentee ballots are available for the May 14 second round referendum. The applications for absentee ballots are available at the town clerk’s office Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm. Special hours for absentee voting will be held on Saturday, May 11, from 9 am to noon, at the town clerk’s office at Newtown Municipal Center.

  • State Police Charge Prison Social Worker With Drug Offenses

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    Friday, May 3, 2013

    State police have charged a social worker for prisoners at Garner Correctional Institution with two drug offenses in connection with an incident that occurred at the high-security prison on April 25. State police said they charged John Renzulli, 65, of Sou...

  • A Look At What’s Next For Gun Safety

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    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    The public is invited to attend a presentation by Colin Goddard, a Virginia Tech shooting survivor and activist for the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence; Elliot Fineman, president and CEO of National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC); and Josh Horwitz, executive director of th...

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