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Thanks To National Pollinator Week Supporters

Published: Jun 27, 2017 12:00 am

To The Editor:Vanishing of the Bees

Protect Our Pollinators would like to thank the following for their contributions to Newtown's celebration of National Pollinator Week:

1. The Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers for donation of movie tickets for the Poster Challenge participants

2. The Big Y for a donation for refreshments at the showing of the movie

3. The Booth Library for co-sponsoring the movie event, displaying the pollinator posters, and supporting a gathering of the young artists

4. First Selectman Pat Llodra for issuing the Pollinator Proclamation and for speaking with the children at that gathering and last but not least,

5. The nineteen students who created such impressive and thoughtful art work. That display will be up through July at the Booth Library, right inside the back entry. Don't miss it - it will make you smile!

Mary Gaudet-Wilson

Protect Our Pollinators

12 Whippoorwill Hill Road, Newtown ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ June 27, 2017

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I want to clarify something that was not clear in my letter. Newtown DOES have an affordable housing plan, put together with the aid of the Council of Governments (COG) in 2022 and approved by the LC that year. The strategies in that plan are to "encourage", "support", "explore", "promote" various aspects of state and local affordable housing programs. Those strategies are largely repeated in the Housing Chapter of the Plan of Conservation and Development being finalized now. Newtown needs to measure its performance against those strategies and refine them to reflect the current situation and evaluate whether we are eligible for a moratorium on 8-30(g) projects if we have met the criteria. It's a question of being more specific and more rigorous in what we as a community would like to see to address this real and serious need, rather than to be on our heels when a developer proposes a project on their terms. An independent look outside the application process would be best for that. Thank you. Peter.

Discusses Affordable Housing

I on Glover Ave. walk my two Labs every morning and evening. Drivers are constantly cutting me off at the shopping center entrance and other driveways. There is no understanding of pedestrians rights. Drives make left turns onto Queen when its forbidden. Most cars cruse right thru the crosswalks without stopping for pedestrians. The Police have not issued one citation nor even a warming for crosswalk violations. The situation is out of control and now a loved resident, Pete, and a pet, Coby have been killed. Time for a plan. The problem is not Intersections, nor traffic, the problem 98s drivers and lack of enforcement. The plan need to create a culture that drivers obey speed limits and honor pedestrians right of ways. Isn't that the job of the Police Department and The Police Commission, to protect Newtowns citizens. This is a call to action.

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Its already too late, the Nimby mob have scared developers so that their only option is to use the state wide 8-30 exemption to get around the local zoning board. Thanks Nimby mob.

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Ya gotta pay more to live in a Blue state and subsidize the 'affordable' folks.

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