"Girl Scouts are Smart Cookies, We Love to Read" proclaimed the banners on this year's Girl Scout float, constructed by Newtown Girl Scouts and their leaders in support of the Labor Day Parade honoring the Booth Library. At right are several of

By LAURIE BORST

Published: Oct 12, 2007 12:00 am

âGirl Scouts are Smart Cookies, We Love to Readâ proclaimed the banners on this yearâs Girl Scout float, constructed by Newtown Girl Scouts and their leaders in support of the Labor Day Parade honoring the Booth Library. At right are several of the Girl Scouts, many wearing Girl Scout Cookie costumes, and their troop leaders who marched representing Daisy, Brownie, and Junior level troops throughout Newtown.Â

Brownie Lauren Zimmerman and Junior Scouts MaryBeth Semosky and Kelsea Morshuk spent the day before the Labor Day Parade at the home of Leader Michelle Semosky painting signs for their float with several other Girl Scouts and their leaders.

Junior Girl Scout Troop 706 enjoyed a sunny day at Mystic Seaport learning about the ships and what life was like for sailors and their families back in the 1700 and 1800s.Â Pictured in a rowboat on the dock are, front to back, left to right, Nina Bonvini, Kelsea Morshuk, Sophia Matsis, Caitlin Filiato, Lizzie Wojcik, Brownie Julia Calo, Victoria Calo, Brittany Gonzalez, Gillian Ostrofsky, Gabriella Perpignand, Carol Cook, and Rachel Saint.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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