Census Offers Local Jobs

Testing and application sessions for people who are interested in working on the Year 2000 Census will be held at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library and Edmond Town Hall next week.

Sessions will be held in Newtown at the library at 1 pm on March 13, 20, and April 2 and 7. They will be held at the town hall at 1 pm on March 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, and 30.

Jobs are temporary, part-time positions lasting six to eight weeks. Job applicants must be aged 18 or older. The jobs pay $10.75 to $15.75 per hour. Most positions will start this month.

Testing and application sessions take approximately 90 minutes. Each applicant must complete an application, a background questionnaire, an I-9 form and take a 30-minute written test. Veterans can obtain a five-point preference by bringing a copy of their DD214 to the test session.

 To obtain more information or to register for a testing session, call the Waterbury Local Census Office at 203/596-4315 or toll-free at 800/325-7733.

Cockshure Island (later Hubbell Island) is a former island that was located one-third of a mile north of the Sandy Hook Bridge and was submerged after the construction of Stevenson Dam. Cockshure was a Pootatuck Indian who owned the island until 1733.

The first burying ground established for the community of Newtown was voted into place on March 24, 1711. One and a half acres in a lower part of the community was set aside; this section remains part of Newtown Village Cemetery, on Elm Drive.