Share Your Big News

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Apr 04, 2008 12:00 am

Share Your Big News

Weddings, engagements, and other celebrations are news you want to share. Help us to help you share that news in a timely manner.

Call The Newtown Bee at 426-3141 or stop by the office at 5 Church Hill Road for wedding and engagement announcement forms, or visit NewtownBee.com to download a form. Wedding announcements must be returned to The Bee within six months of the wedding date.

Be sure to include a daytime phone number and/or email address so that we can reach you for clarification if necessary.

Original or digital color or black and white photographs are acceptable. Email digital photos (and announcements, if you wish) to shannon@thebee.com.

Birth announcements can include the newbornâs weight and length, siblingsâ names and ages and grandparentsâ names and place of residence. The Bee does not print photos with birth announcements.

Announcements are printed in The Newtown Bee free of charge to residents of Newtown and their immediate relatives and for former residents.

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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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