Friday, June 24

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Jun 24, 2011 12:00 am

Friday, June 24

St Rose Carnival, 6â10:30 pm, St Rose of Lima Church grounds, 46 Church Hill Road, carnival rides, games of chance, refreshments, also Bingo tonight (see separate listing), continues nightly to June 25.

Bingo Night, doors open at 5:45 pm, games begin at 6:45, St Rose School Gathering Hall, $17 covers all regular and most special games, cash prizes, also door prizes; 203-426-5102.

Saturday, June 25

4th Annual Donut Dash, day-of registration opens 8:30 am, race to begin at 9:30, start from and return to Porcoâs Karate Academy, 113 Church Hill Road, runners will run from academy to Newtown High School (12 Berkshire Road), consume donut, then return to karate academy, fundraiser for Newtown Youth & Family Services; 203-426-2427.

Car Wash, 9 amâ2 pm, Amaral Motors, 41 South Main Street, youth group from Grace Christian Fellowship will offer car wash in exchange for donation of any size, fundraiser for youth groupâs summer mission trip to Mexico.

Pig Roast & Summer Picnic, 11 amâ5 pm, VFW Post 308, Freedom Defenders Way, $20 or $30 family max, public invited to join VFW members for family friendly event, live music to begin at 5 pm, proceeds to be donated to troops; 203-426-9316.

âGoogle Earth, Part IIâ workshop, 2â4 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free workshop led by Newtown resident Scot Wilson will offer instruction on using Google SketchUp software to create three-dimensional buildings for placement within Google Earth (visit www.be3d.info for background), with plan to create and place many Main Street Newtown buildings online this summer; 203-426-4533.

Final night of St Rose Carnival, 6â10:30 pm, St Rose of Lima Church grounds, see June 24 details.

Sunday, June 26

Wild Food & Ecology Tour, 2:30 pm, Sticks & Stones Farm, 201 Huntingtown Road, $25, $10 ages 10 and under, join naturalist and author âWildmanâ Steve Brill for 30-minute talk and then 90-minute tour of the farm to search for wild plants and mushrooms, edible greens, culinary and medicinal herbs and more; 203-270-8820.

Monday, June 27

Friends of Booth Library Childrenâs Book Sale, 9:30 amâ5 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, special event will offer titles for children and family reading entertainment; 203-426-4533.

Newtown Youth & Family Services annual meeting, 5:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Board of Fire Commissioners, 7 pm, Sandy Hook Firehouse, 18 Riverside Road.

Tuesday, June 28

Opening day for Sandy Hook Organic Farmersâ Market 2011 season, 2â6 pm, Washington Square at Fairfield Hills, off Primrose Street, weekly market offers locally grown veggies, fruit, preserves and other farm-raised products, also baked goods, fiber art, handmade soaps and more, continues to October; 203-313-9908.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers, 6 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.Â Â

Conservation Commission, 7 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Design Advisory Board, 7 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Public Building and Site Commission, 7:30 pm, Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane.

Wednesday, June 29

Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART) board of directors, 4 pm, HART office, 62 Federal Road, Danbury.

The Big Beat Band in concert, 7 pm, Masonicare at Newtown, 139 Toddy Hill Road, free performance of music from the 1950â60s, bring seating, rain date June 30; 203-426-5847.

Tick-Borne Disease Action Committee, 8 pm, Multipurpose Center, 14 Riverside Road.

Thursday, June 30

MaryBeth Sippin & Goldrush in concert, 6:30 pm, Dickinson Park, Elm Drive, free 90-minute concert will open Parks & Rec 2011 summer concert series, bring seating, picnics welcome, under pavilion if light rain;Â 203-270-4340.

Sunday, July 3

âAmericans Weâ by The Air National Guard Band of the Northeast, 6:30 pm, Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road, free performance by 37-member squadron that provides musical support for military ceremonies, functions and other special events, program to include works of Henry Fillmore, John Williams, Camille Saint-SaÃ«ns, Russell Alexander, and Robert Jaeger, et al; 508-233-7871.

Monday, July 4

INDEPENDENCE DAY

COA Briefed On Mary Hawley Public Service Award, Encouraged To Participate

Boy Scouts Scheduling Christmas Tree Pickups

Swim And Dive Team Begins Season With Visit To Masuk

NHS Wrestling Team Wins Matches

The Way We Were

Head on a swivel at all times - especially in grocery parking lots! Keep an eye out for folks turning at the flagpole - it befuddles them at times.

Please Drive Safe In 2025

How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

Why Gun Violence Is Higher In The US

Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

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