During last Sunday's services at Trinity Episcopal Church, it was announced that a new rector has been selected for the church, and will be taking up the position sometime around the middle of September. He is The Reverend Frank G. Dunn, presently
During last Sundayâs services at Trinity Episcopal Church, it was announced that a new rector has been selected for the church, and will be taking up the position sometime around the middle of September. He is The Reverend Frank G. Dunn, presently rector of St Andrewâs Church in Charlotte, Va.
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Pig raising has been banned in Newtown since the zoning regulations were adopted in 1958, but Planning & Zoning Commission members have apparently been convinced that limited swine raising for home consumption should be allowed. The commissioners last Thursday disapproved the proposal of Gerald and Caryl Killing, Walnut Tree Hill Road, for an amendment to the zoning regulations to permit pigs to be raised, for home use only, on a lot of two acres or more, one per 40,000 square feet. In doing so, the commissioners agreed to study and propose their own regulations to allow pig raising. Alternate member Ted Whippie will draft a proposed regulation. Thursday, the commissioners generally agreed the regulation should set a minimum acreage requirement of three acres for pig raising.
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Lovellâs Garage on Main Street is only pumping regular gas these days, but not because of the gas shortage. They have plenty of gas, but itâs all in the ground with no way to pump it up. It happened this way. Last Friday a panel truck belonging to David Roscow Inc of Newington parked on a slight incline, left in high gear with the motor off, slid down into the high test unleaded pump at the station. The pump was sheared off its base by the impact, and a fire broke out almost immediately. Whether it was caused by sparks when the pump was sheared or the still hot motor of the truck has not been determined. Fortunately, the members of Newtown Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 were able to quickly extinguish the blaze, preventing any kind of explorion or injuries. The front portion of the truck, however, was completely destroyed by fire, and the pump itself suffered a great deal of damage.
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A proposal to allow helicopter ports as accessory uses on industrially-zoned land in Newtown will be the subject of a Planning & Zoning Commission public hearing next Thursday, August 2, at 8:30 pm, in the Congregational Church House, Main Street.
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Laurie Palmer peeked into the newly-completed Childrenâs Adventure Center this spring and decided that the walls were much too blank. She promptly called Town Clerk and Adventure Center board member Mae Schmidle, and asked permission to do a series of murals to brighten up the building. Laurie was willing to donate her time so that the artwork would cost only as much as the materials.
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The Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission members said last week they will study requiring a minimum amount of land for raising horses and cows in town, along with studies of a regulation to permit pigs to be raised for home consumption.
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The Board of Directors of Congregation Adath Israel announces the appointment of Jeffrey T. Segelman as Rabbi of the Synagogue. Rabbi Segelman is a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a graduate of Boston University.
JULY 30, 1954
Knowing misery which transcends the experience of Americans, the great mass of the Indian people look at Communism with more hope than horror, an Indian editor told the staff of The Bee during a tour of the plant on Monday of this week. War, pestilence, and famine have created a viewpoint that must be reckoned with by the Western countries if they are to contain successfully the spread of Communism in Asia, he indicated.
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Members of the Boysâ Social and Athletic Club of Sandy Hook will be well stocked with tickets this Friday, July 30, for their annual benefit movie. The film, âAn American in Paris,â will have two evening performances on Thursday, August 26. The proceeds will go toward the completion of the addition to the clubhouse.
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 Five truck drivers who were arrested on charges of reckless driving on Currituck Road last spring by First Selectman A. Fenn Dickinson, in the capacity of chief of police, have brought suit in Superior Court for $25,000 against the official, charging malicious prosecution. All are employed by John Kolinchak and Sons, Inc of Brookfield Center.
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 A tax rate of 1.75 mills was laid upon the estimated budget for the Borough of Newtown for the fiscal year 1954â55 at a borough meeting held last Thursday night, July 22, in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall. This comes as good news to borough taxpayers, whose present tax bills are based upon a two-mill rate. About 20 attended the meeting.
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Five members of the Democratic party of Newtown attended the Democratic congressional convention for the Fourth District Tuesday night in Stamford, where Edward R. Fay, Jr, of Stamford, secured the nomination for Congress in an upset victory over Charles T. Pistey of Stratford. The Newtown delegation attending consisted of Henry L. McCarthy, Willis R. Tomlinson, John Donahue, A. Fenn Dickinson and John F. Holian.
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Colorful jars of many designs, made of ceramics and glass, for centuries, the primary displays of apothecary shops, make a lively hobby for one Newtown resident and provide the substance of a comprehensive exhibit at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library. The collection, made up of jars from shops of the 16th to 18th centuries, epitomizes the ceramics skills of several periods and countries despite their functional origins. The collector is Sydney N. Blumberg of Hattertown, a retired New York City druggist, who has made the collecting of apothecary jars his hobby over a period of 30 years.
Nine members of Explorer Post No. 70, Newtown Boy Scouts, arrived home last Saturday, July 24, with many tales of two weeks spent in the French River section of Ontario, Canada, with the Rev Paul A. Cullens, post advisor, and Hoyt Johnson, assistant advisor. The boys in the party were David Hull, patrol leader; John Wood, first aid man; Leonard Manz, assistant patrol leader, in charge of cooking; Jack Kessinger, Jr, scribe and treasurer; Stephen Kovacs, Jr, baker; Sam Curtis, lighter; Charles Nash, water boy; Hugh Brodie, handyman, and Morris Beers, woodman.
JULY 26, 1929
The home of Henry Botsford at Botsford was threatened with destruction by fire on Wednesday when a fire along the railroad became uncontrollable and threatened the destruction of the house. Joseph Arreghini and Philip Oddo did excellent work and with the assistance of several railroad men saved the place.
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 On Sunday, August 4, Sandy Hook will play Newtown at Newtown, and a red hot game is expected. Sandy Hook expects to turn the tables for the beating they received at Pine Grove Park on July 21.
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Frank Miller, an expert pipe organ repairer of Mt Vernon, N.Y., was in town Monday making repairs on the organ of St Johnâs Church.
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A movement is on hand to repair the dam at Sandy Hook, which is leaking badly and is an eye sore. Anyone interested in contributing to the expense of the same is invited to send their contribution to W.B. Bentley, who has taken the matter in hand.
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A dog of James Egan drove a woodchuck into the wall and captured it one day last week. The woodchuck was entirely black. Old hunters say a black woodchuck was never killed before in this section.
JULY 29, 1904
Walter Ruffells of Palestine has left a bundle of oats at the Bee office which measures nearly six feet high and is heavily headed with oats.
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William H. McNamara had a cow killed on the tracks near the North Newtown depot last Friday.
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The Consolidated road has just put in a pump engine and pipes to pump water from the brook into their tank at Hawleyville.
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J. Howard Peck of Obtuse has been improving his house by building a new veranda across the front.
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Information is desired regarding worthy aged and indigent veterans of the Civil War and their wives and widows who are eligible and would be glad to go to a dormitory home if the state would make such a provision for them.
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Last Sunday night thieves entered the home of W.B. Sniffin in Sandy Hook. The entrance to the house was made by forcing open one of the basement windows. The thieves were evidently hungry for they did justice to the food in the pantry and ice box. Beside the food, the only things missed were two razors.