At Tuesday's Board of Selectmen's meeting, First Selectman Jack Rosenthal had on the agenda the matter of a $5,000 special appropriation for the Public Building Committee to prepare preliminary plans and estimates and to outline specifications fo
At Tuesdayâs Board of Selectmenâs meeting, First Selectman Jack Rosenthal had on the agenda the matter of a $5,000 special appropriation for the Public Building Committee to prepare preliminary plans and estimates and to outline specifications for a new town garage.
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âNobody tells anybody anythingâ was the sentiment grumbled by financial director William Hanlon in discussing the Hawley roof brouhaha which arose on two days after the Legislative Council accepted a bid Monday night from the Barrett-Nonpariel Company of $16,540 to put a new asphalt roof on the Hawley School. The roof will replace the existing slate one which is in bad repair and has caused a safety problem with the slates slipping off because their steel pinnings have rotted out. Apparently council members thought the work on the roof would begin right away because they had given verbal approval Monday for the company to begin work, when Councilman Lyndon Thomasâ motion was entered in the minutes giving council authorization for the work. On Wednesday the work did begin but then stopped, and everyone seems to be mad at everyone else as some council members accused the Board of Education of being responsible for the work delay and board members in turn saying the council was out of its bounds in authorizing the go-ahead for the job.
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âA preliminary structural investigation of the Newtown High School building complex indicates no apparent significant structural safety problem. However, the investigation does reveal many construction deficiencies which are creating serious maintenance problems in the masonry walls, roofing and flashing areas.â The paragraph above is a summary of the preliminary structural report on the high school given to the selectmen and the Board of Education last week by engineer Bruce Onderdonk of Onderdonk-Lathrop Associates of Glastonbury.
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William E. Bausch, Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook has been selected as an Outstanding Young Man of America for 1976.
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May 1 is the deadline for artwork to be entered in the Newtown Bicentennial Art Contest. The artwork or painting should be of something related to Newtown; a scene, building, historical event in town, graphic symbol, design, or sculpture.
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On Wednesday, April 14, Newtownâs Police Union Local 337 filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the State Board of Labor Relations against the town saying it has âfailed to provide appropriate funds required to comply with a collective agreement under the Municipal Employees Relations Act.â
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While the shipments of spent fuel rods from Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island over Connecticut roads have been completed, Joanne Zang, co-chairman of the Stop Transportation of Pollution (STOP), indicated the local groupâs opposition to use of nuclear energy has not ended. Among activities the local group plans is distribution of information at the La Leche League fair on May 1 at the Middle School. The members will also have petitions on behalf of the Westchester Peopleâs Action Coalition available for people attending the fair to sign. The coalition is seeking to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York.
APRIL 27, 1951
What to be or what not to be is a serious question among high school students. The purpose of the guidance conferences being held at Hawley School during April and May is to help students explore the vocational fields they would like, and come to some decision about the problem of what to be. Mrs Goodsell, guidance director, with the help of Joseph Ozanne and Walter Los, has organized the conferences. They first took a survey of the students to determine what the fields of interest of the majority of the students were. A questionnaire reveals that students were interested in 22 different occupations, ranging from Army to waitress.
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A caution against trying to legislate for other countries without full knowledge of the facts in the case to be decided and of the attitudes of the people involved was the purport of an address given by William R.G. Barron, native of Antrim County, Northern Ireland, at the Monday night meeting of the Rotary Club of Newtown held in the Parker House.
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Herman E. deVries, who spent most of last summer in Holland painting and sketching, now has a large exhibit of watercolors and pencil sketches at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library.
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The picturesque ceremony of the crowning of the statue of the Virgin Mary conducted each year at St Rose Church during the month of May will take place this year following the 9 oâclock Mass on Sunday, May 13. Claire Jandreau has been chosen to crown the statue and her attendants will be Evelyn Pendergast and Katherine Cavanaugh. The crown bearer will be Cecilia Powell, and the pages Stanley Scibek and William Siegert.
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The Newtown baseball team starts its 1951 season against Oxford on Taylor Field, Sunday, May 13, at 2:30 pm. The Pomperaug Valley League is now made up of eight teams, which are Woodbury, Southbury, Oxford, Bethany, Shelton, Huntington, and Newtown. The presiding officers remain the same as last year: President, Arthur Kinney; vice president, Herman Hellwinkle; secretary, Earle S. Olson; and treasurer, Dr Malcolm Brinton.
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According to H.H. Cutler, chairman of the School Building Committee, floor plans have been approved by the committee for a new local high school and the architects are now preparing final preliminary sketches which will be presented to the Board of Education for their consideration at a meeting to be held on May 4.
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Henry Schnakenberg of Taunton District is having a one-man show at the Silvermine Guild of Artists, Silvermine Road, Norwalk, with the exhibit opening this Saturday between 3 and 5 pm. The exhibit comprises about 20 works of which the majority are watercolors and all are on Mexico.
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The quiet of the home of Mr and Mrs John A. Miller of the Huntingtown Road, Botsford, was suddenly shattered in Thursdayâs mid-morning of last week by sounds like a violent explosion and shattering glass proceeding from the dining room. Investigation showed that a hen pheasant, evidently in strong flight, had burst through the glass and screen of the outside combination window and the glass of the inner window, the force of the impact scattering glass over the floor and furniture of the dining room and into adjoining rooms. The pheasant, stunned by the collision, lay on the dining room floor. On examination, Mrs Johnson could find no injury of the feathered intruder, and it soon recovered sufficiently to threaten further demolition of the house interior. Placed on the ground outside, it took off with a great whirr of wings apparently in the direction from whence it came. A parakeet, caged in the dining room and apparently shocked by the explosive entrance, stood quite motionless on his perch for two hours.
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APRIL 23, 1926
Only a handful of voters turned out at the annual Borough Caucus, Friday night, in the building. Borough Clerk C.F. Beardsley called the caucus to order and read the warning, and Judge P.H. McCarthy was named as moderator. The following ticket was nominated for the annual Borough election to be held on May 4. Warden, Levi C. Morris; Senior Burgess, Charles F. Cavanaugh; Clerk, C.F. Beardsley; Burgesses, Richmond H. Gesner, Allison P. Smith, Michael P. Crowe, Leo B. Woodworth, Thomas Holian; Treasurer, Rodney P. Shepard; Bailiff, Patrick H. Gannon; Street Inspectors, Frank A. Blackman, Frederick H. Duncombe, W.A. Honan; Fire Inspectors, Patrick H. Gannon, John A. Carlson, Paul V. Cavanaugh; Haywards, Arthur J. Smith, John C. Beers, Dr. E.L. Kingman; Poundkeeper, Thomas Carlson; Assessors, Judge Oscar Pitzschler, Judge P.H. McCarthy; Board of Relief, Frank Wright, H.N. Tieman, Sr; Registrar of Voters, C.F. Beardsley; Auditors, H.N. Tieman, Sr, Judge Oscar Pitzschler.
APRIL 26, 1901
The freshet of last Sunday washed away about six feet from the top of John R. Tomlinsonâs dam at the Botsford saw mill.
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Archibald Kyle has sold his farm to I.C.B. Ransom and has gone to make his home with his son, James Kyle, of Great Plain, Danbury.
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Work is rushing at Prattsâ wagon shop, customers coming from all surrounding towns and even from Bridgeport.
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The annual meeting of the Newtown Driving Club was held on Tuesday evening in the firemenâs room. The officers elected were: President, Robert H. Beers; Vice President, George F. Taylor; Secretary, P.H. McCarthy; Treasurer, Allison P. Smith; Directors, J.A. James, W.R. Curtis, C.G. Peck; Racing board, Edward Taylor, C.G. Peck, and R.S. Tomlinson. It ws voted to hold a race, with blanket, whip, etc., for prizes, on May 25, and to have a carriage parade in connection with the same.