By Kim J. Harmon

By KIM HARMON

Published: Feb 03, 2006 12:00 am

By Kim J. Harmon

MONROE â A strong routine, featuring lots of tumbling and a difficult stunt, wasnât enough to carry the Newtown High School cheerleading squad to a South-West Conference championship.

The annual cheerleading event was held Saturday afternoon at Masuk High School in Monroe and 11 SWC teams competed â but the Lady Nighthawks, suffering a 24-point deduction due to alignment problems in their pyramid, finished fifth overall.

Bunnell took the trophy home, finishing first ahead of Pomperaug and Masuk.

âItâs disappointing,â said co-captain Noreen Barrett, âbecause we thought we were amazing.â

Barrett captains the team with Kate LeVasseur while Heather Bernhardt and Stacy DâAmico are the co-coaches. Seniors include Bria Innaurato, Christina Matsis, Lauren Egdahl and Melissa Shepard. Juniors are Courtney Sullivan, Lauren Nute, Christina Bell, Jessica Shepard, Alyssa Stendahl, Jess Dugan, Nikki Beatty, Vanessa Hansen and Leah Fahey; sophomores are Alysa DeSimone, Jennah Fahey and Kelly Burch; and freshmen are Maura McDade, Belle Hydock, Stephanie Mitchell, Victoria Summerlin, Genna Rossi and Meghan Dolyak.

The unit will be returning to the National Cheerleading Championships in Orlando, Florida next week.

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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.

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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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