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  • Strutt Your Mutt, Saturday

    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    Pack up your pooch and head over to Fairfield Hills on Saturday, May 18, for to Newtown’s 4th annual Strutt Your Mutt.

    This fun and healthy family event sponsored by the Friends of Newtown Park and Bark and Newtown Parks & Recreation will take place from 11 am until 3 pm, on Simpson Street (near the municipal center). Dogs must be leashed at all times.

  • Strutt Your Mutt Returning To Fairfield Hills, May 18

    Thursday, May 9, 2013

    The 4th annual Strutt Your Mutt event will be Saturday, May 18, from 11 am to 4 pm, at Fairfield Hills.

    Organizers are encouraging all dog owners to “grab the leash and join us.” The entry fee is $5 per dog, cash only.

    Guests can see demonstrations in dog agility and obedience, and enjoy vendors’ tables.

  • Tilling The Land For The Victory Garden’s New Home

    Tuesday, May 7, 2013

    The scent of fresh-turned soil and dust on the breeze drifted across a “Beautiful, quiet field,” between Keating Farm Road and Mile Hill South Tuesday, May 7, said Harvey Pessin. He watched as Parks and Recreation machinery graded earth, preparing a new site for the community-oriented Victory Garden that he founded three years ago.

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

    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.

  • Police Reports April 23 - 30, 2013

    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    Motorcycle Accident

    Police report that at about 4:10 pm on April 25, motorcyclist John Allen, 58, of Shelton was riding a 2010 Victory V-10 eastward on Berkshire Road, as motorist Pastor Estrada, 59, of Waterbury, who was driving a 2001 Saturn SC-1 coupe, was attempting to make a left turn out from a driveway at 44 Berkshire Road onto westbound Berkshire Road.

  • Bunny Watch To Return March 29 & 30 To Fairfield Hills

    Friday, March 22, 2013
    For the third year a Newtown High School Odyssey of the Mind team will be hosting a Bunny Watch near Glander Field on the Fairfield Hills campus.

  • Grant Funds Enable Clean Up at Fairfield Hills

    Wednesday, March 20, 2013

    Officials plan to use $200,000 in grant funds for a hazardous materials cleanup of Danbury Hall and the eight single family dwellings at Fairfield Hills — all of which are slated for demolition.

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleanup grant process “is well underway,” announced Director of Economic and Community Development Elizabeth Stocker.

    “The clean up helps bring us a step closer to achieving the master plan,” she said.

  • EverWonder Files Draft Letter Of Intent To Lease Plymouth Hall

    Thursday, March 14, 2013

    A draft letter of intent (LOI) now in Fairfield Hills Authority members’ hands proposes a lease agreement between the town and proponents for the EverWonder Children’s Museum. Presenting the draft on March 6 were EverWonder board members, including Kristin Chiriatti, museum founder and president.

  • Wondering Whether everw?nder Is Right For Newtown

    Wednesday, March 13, 2013

    To the Editor:

    I'm not opposed to museums. How could I be? They are invaluable. I had objections to the proposal (spelled exactly like this, “ever?wonder”) presented to the FHA meeting, last week.

  • FFH Authority Earmarks Plymouth Hall For Everwonder Museum

    Thursday, March 7, 2013

    The Fairfield Hills Authority members emerged from a brief and at times volatile meeting Wednesday with a motion: to earmark Plymouth Hall as a potential future site for a children's museum, subject to approvals by all town boards and agencies, and fundraising. The motion passed with six in favor, and one opposed.

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