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  • Residents Needed To Fill Committee Vacancies

    Wednesday, June 19, 2013

    First Selectman Pat Llodra is calling on qualified or interested residents to consider filling several vacant posts on municipal boards or commissions. There are appointed, not elected, positions.

    There are openings on the following panels:

    *The Hattertown Historic District has an alternate position available to a Democrat or unaffiliated voter.

    *The Charter Communications Advisory Board has an open position for any registered voter.

  • Llodra: Town Will Receive $50M Bond For SHS Replacement

    Wednesday, June 5, 2013

    This story was updated since its first posting to reflect that Newtown has received confirmation of this state bonding initiative.

    First Selectman Pat Llodra learned June 5 that state lawmakers were poised to deliver a $50 million bonding initiative to assist Newtown in its efforts to rebuild Sandy Hook School, which has been vacant since 12/14. And her office confirmed Thursday morning that the state had committed to that bonding initiative.

  • Officials Making A Case For Third-Round School Budget With Video Messages

    Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    Following a similar appeal by Acting Superintendent John Reed via a two-part video broadcast on The Bee’s YouTube channel, a number of other local officials requested to post face-to-face messages to local taxpayers.

  • Veterans Commemorated At VFW Service

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 10:01 am

    While others in town fired up their grills, or packed up for a day at the beach or on the water, a number of Newtown residents gathered at the property of the VFW Post 308 on Tinkerfield Road, just off of Wasserman Way, to observe the reason most Americans had the day off, Monday, May 27, Memorial Day.

    Kevin Booker and his son, Hunter, staked out a shady spot at the edge of the lawn, in anticipation of the VFW Post 308 annual Memorial Day ceremony.

  • Carl Saunders’ Prayer for Peace

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013

    O Lord, Father of All Men, We come to Thee in humble supplication.

    Thou knowest we have strayed much from Thy laws.

    Yet, O God, Thou hast blessed us abundantly, and our children.

    Thankful for these blessings and hopeful in the promise of Thy forgiveness, we now beseech Thy special guidance and care.

    Again in this world of mortal men wars and threats of wars beset us.

    Jealousies and rivalries of nations plague us.

  • Llodra: State Will Accommodate Sandy Hook School Building Schedule

    Friday, April 19, 2013

    Following a pair of meetings April 15 and 16, First Selectman Pat Llodra said she has secured a commitment from state officials that they will waive certain procedural requirements to help fast-track any reconstruction or new construction the town proposes related to Sandy Hook School.

    The  school facility has been vacant since the mass shooting tragedy of 12/14. Following the holiday break, classes for SHS students resumed at the former Chalk Hill School in Monroe.

  • Sandy Hook School Task Force Hears Site Options

    Saturday, April 13, 2013

    “Dumbfounded” was the word that spilled from Sandy Hook resident Aimee Tabor’s lips, following a 2½-hour presentation to the members of the Sandy Hook School Task Force responsible for presenting a recommendation to the Board of Education as to the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School.

    Ms Tabor was the first of several residents present to come to the microphone, at the Friday evening, April 12 meeting, the second in a series of four scheduled Task Force meetings.

  • Town Representatives Begin Discussions On Future Of Sandy Hook Elementary School

    Saturday, April 6, 2013

    In a 2½-hour meeting that took place in Council Chambers at the Newtown Municipal Center, Friday evening, April 5, facilitator Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation led a group of 27 people representing the Board of Education, Legislative Council, Board of Finance, and the Board of Selectmen — collectively, The Sandy Hook School Building Task Force — through the beginning of what will be a four to five week process to reach consensus for the Board of Education, as to the future of the Sandy Hook Elementary School buildin

  • Doing The Right Thing

    Wednesday, April 3, 2013

    To the Editor:

  • The Right Thing To Do

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013

    To the Editor:

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