Newtown High School Band and Guard is excited to host its annual Gift Wrapping Fundraiser, taking place on Saturday and Sunday, December 21-22, 12-3 pm each day, in the Old Cafeteria of Newtown High S...
Grace Family Church will present its Third Annual Drive Thru Nativity next weekend, complete with Mary and Joseph, Jesus, live manger animals, wise men, angels, and other characters.
The sounds of Christmas bells will be in the air the weekends of December 13-14 and 20-21 when The Salvation Army-Newtown Unit bell ringers set up at locations around town. Organizers are still hoping to fill a few final slots for that second weekend.
The Edmond Town Hall speaker series, “Newtown Talks: Conversations on Culture, Society, and Change,” will continue December 19 with Brian Reed, the award-winning journalist and host of the acclaimed podcast
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will present Tracy Van Buskirk demonstrating gel printing technique, tomorrow afternoon at Newtown Meeting House.
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.
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.
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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