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  • A Month Of Promotion For Newtown’s Character Tree

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    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    During the month of May, the Newtown Prevention Council in collaboration with the Newtown Police Department, and municipal government is set to promote Newtown’s Character Tree. The Character Tree reflects Newtown’s core character attributes: c...

  • 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...

  • Monster Trucks In Sandy Hook, Saturday

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    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    On Saturday, May 4, from 10 am until 2 pm, Pat Summa from the Advanced Auto Parts Monster Jam Monster Truck Series will be at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue main station. Mr Summa will be giving rides in a special truck made for just such an oc...

  • Council Trims Budget By $900,000 For Second Referendum

    John Voket • News •
    Wednesday, May 1, 2013

    After several suggested but failed attempts to amend main motions, the Legislative Council voted to send a second round budget request to taxpayers with a $900,000 reduction. That will make the bottom line request $110,249,825, representing a 3.87 percent increase in spending over the current year. If approved, the increase will generate a 2013-14 mill rate of 33.42, reflecting a 4.29 percent increase in the tax rate. A second referendum is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, at Newtown Middle School, from 6 am until 8 pm. Absentee ballots will be available in the Town Clerk's beginning Friday, May 3, and a special Saturday session for absentee voting is set for Saturday, May 11 from 9 am to noon.

  • Major Motorcycling Event Will Affect Sunday Traffic

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    Wednesday, May 1, 2013

    On Sunday, May 5, The Green Ribbon Ride, a motorcycling event, will pass through Newtown. The event is a police-escorted police-escorted motorcycle ride to raise funds for ten funds and charities associated with the events of 12/14. The ride will involve as many as 3,000 motorcyclists.

  • Hawleyville Man Sentenced To 23 Years For Child Pornography

    Andrew Gorosko • News •
    Wednesday, May 1, 2013

    HARTFORD — Edward F. Wilson, 29, of Hawleyville on Wednesday, May 1, received a sentence of more than 23 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of probation, for producing, trading, and possessing child pornography. US District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant handed down a 280-month sentence to Wilson in US District Court, according to a statement from David B. Fein, US Attorney for Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, Wilson sexually abused a female child, filmed and photographed the abuse with an iPhone, and then maintained the videos and images on his home computer. The victim was approximately 4 years old at the time of the abuse in 2011 and 2012, according to federal spokesman Thomas Carson.

  • Nashville Security Conference Invites Newtown Police Chief

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    Tuesday, April 30, 2013

    A June 18 national Electronic Security Expo (ESX) will be featuring Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe as the featured speaker of its Industry IceBreaker Luncheon. In times of tragedy public safety officials react. On 12/14, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe had the extremely difficult job of reacting to an elementary school scene that no one could have imagined. ESX Chair George De Marco said he was looking forward to hearing Chief Kehoe’s thoughts on how the public and private safety sectors can work together to protect families and children.

  • Branches Of Healing: New Trees Replace Those Cut At Treadwell

    Kendra Bobowick • News •
    Tuesday, April 30, 2013

    Trees cut down at Treadwell Park in mid-April were quickly replaced thanks to a donation. The story started with a letter in December, and ended with donors and volunteers who are “forever changed,” after helping to plant trees over the weekend of April 26 and 27, said resident Laura King. Twenty-six Zelkova trees now stand where 19 locusts had been along the upper wall overlooking Treadwell’s fields. Planting trees is “such a beautiful gesture,” Ms King said. “What’s more beautiful than to plant them and watch them grow? They will provide shelter and comfort for years to come.”

  • Newtown Real Estate Forecast: Increasingly Brighter

    Nancy K. Crevier • News •
    Monday, April 29, 2013

    Kathy Suhoza was installed as the president of the Newtown Board of Realtors in January, a task she called “daunting.” Although one of the top selling realtors for eight of the ten years she has worked as a real estate professional with Coldwell Banker, and confident of her ability to lead local realtors out of a sluggish period, the Newtown resident was unsure what kind of situation she was stepping into, following 12/14. Ms Suhoza and local realtors had been warned by area colleagues that the Newtown/Sandy Hook real estate situation could expect to stagnate or take a loss. Instead, Ms Suhoza said on Tuesday, April 16, Newtown realtors have seen the resilience and courage portrayed by the town result in a positive response.

  • Town Presses Owner On His Plans For Condemned House

    Andrew Gorosko • News •
    Monday, April 29, 2013

    The town’s building official has sent the owner of a decaying Berkshire Road house a letter informing him that the vacant, rundown building has been condemned by the town due to its deterioration, and is asking him whether he intends to improve the structure to bring it up to habitable standards. Chief Building Official John Poeltl said April 29 that he has sent homeowner Santiago Britt a letter requesting an immediate response about his intentions regarding the house at 82 Berkshire Road (Route 34). After investigating a report of suspicious activity having occurred at that house, police determined on April 26, that unusual, but not criminal, activity had taken place there. Newtown Police Lieutenant Richard Robinson said that an investigation found that someone had deposited between 200 and 300 one-gallon plastic jugs filled with urine within two rooms in the house.

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