Friday, June 11

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Jun 11, 2010 12:00 am

Friday, June 11

23rd Annual Sandy Hook Lobsterfest, 5â9 pm, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue main station, 18-20 Riverside Road, $22 advance, $24 at door, full lobster or steak dinner, also raw bar, live music, also running June 12; 203-270-4392.

Saturday, June 12

1st Annual Honor, Remember & Heal Walk, 9 amânoon, Sticks & Stones Farm, 201 Huntingtown Road, free walk for anyone who has lost a child to addiction, reservations requested; 203-650-4060.

23rd Annual Sandy Hook Lobsterfest, 3â9 pm, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue main station, 18-20 Riverside Road, see June 11 details; 203-270-4392.

Sunday, June 13

Moon Jumpers Tag Sale, 9 amâ4 pm, 169 Sugar Street, proceeds from tag sale will help cover costs of sending members of Newtown students on competitive jump rope team to nationals later this month, also raffle for Yankees tickets.

Family Fun Day, 12-4 pm, Santosha Center, 27 Hawleyville Road, free event hosted by CT DCF-Danbury office will include food, fire truck tours, games, raffles, face painting, petting zoo, Newtown K-9 Baro, dunk tank and more, while raising awareness of need for foster homes in greater Danbury; 203-207-5267, 203-364-0851.

Monday, June 14

FLAG DAY

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Tuesday, June 15

Dog Park Committee, 6:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Economic Development Commission, 7 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Newtown Toastmasters meeting, 7 pm, Town Hall South (Parks & Recreation Conference Room), 3 Main Street, guests welcome; 203-313-5507.

âVarian Fry: Americaâs Oscar Schindler,â 7:15 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free program by Rita Frost about late Easton and Ridgefield resident who saved more than 2,000 artists and writers trapped in Nazi-controlled France during World War II, also guest speaker Gys Landsberger, whose in-laws were among those rescued by Mr Fry, and Town Historian Dan Cruson; 203-426-4533.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Wednesday, June 16

âNorman Rockwellâs America,â 3 pm, Nunnawauk Meadows Community Building, 3 Nunnawauk Road, free lecture by former history teacher Gordon Williams will cover why Rockwell has become known as âAmericaâs painter,â also presentation of Rockwell artifacts and memorabilia; 203-270-7257.

Fairfield Hills Authority, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Legislative Council, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Tick-Borne Disease Action Committee, 8 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Thursday, June 17

Housatonic Resources Recycling Authority, 10:30 am, Brookfield Town Hall, 100 Pocono Road.

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials, 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall, 100 Pocono Road.

Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC), 2 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, public session on planned extension of United Waterâs water supply system from Newtown to the Greenridge section of Brookfield.

Planning and Zoning Commission, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Sustainable Energy Commission, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Saturday, June 19

Rabies Clinic, 10 amânoon, Edmond Town Hall gym, 45 Main Street, $20 cash only, written proof (not tags) of prior vaccination required for three-year certificate, otherwise one-year certificate to be issued; 203-270-4210.

Sunday, June 20

FATHERâS DAY

Silver Alert: Katherine Sullivan

Snapshot: Pastor Zach Kinsman

Fire Reports | December 11-December 16, 2024

Middle School Counseling Department Hosts Annual Career Day

New Year’s Walk & Seed Bomb Launching Event Planned

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.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

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

The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

Discusses Affordable Housing

gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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