The proposed redistricting plan for the elementary schools for next year has raised the wrath of the parents of the students involved, and the Board of Education is sure to hear loud and clear protests when it meets next Tuesday.
The proposed redistricting plan for the elementary schools for next year has raised the wrath of the parents of the students involved, and the Board of Education is sure to hear loud and clear protests when it meets next Tuesday.
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Jack H. Rosenthal will be a candidate for re-election as first selectman, he announced at the Democratic Town Committee meeting on Thursday, May 10 at the Edmond Town Hall.
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The Board of Education budget proposed by the Legislative Council for the next fiscal year will be $200,000 less than the one rejected by the townwide referendum on May 9, as the council by a vote of 11-5 reduced the Board of Education budget request from $8.8 million to $8.6 million.
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Council members came under criticism from the informal group of taxpayers who successfully forced the budget referendum last week, for not recommending a budget which would have no increase in the current mill rate, 31.5 mills. Ernest Gismondi of Currituck Road, one of the budget petitioners, said, âFifteen hundred voters came out and said they want no mill rate increase. Thatâs what we campaigned on.â
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A change in the Borough zoning regulations to allow government buildings in business zones was unanimously approved at public hearing on Thursday, May 10, at the Edmond Town Hall. According to zoning regulations before the change, municipal buildings were allowed in residential zones only. At the hearing First Selectman Jack Rosenthal spoke in favor of the change, stating that the town is in process of purchasing the Ruwet-Sibley building and this change would permit the town to use the building as municipal offices. No one spoke in opposition to the amendment.
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State health officials say it will be a year before they have enough information to determine whether their ban on eating PCB contaminated fish can be lifted. The ban was imposed two years ago after tests showed high concentrations of the odorless, colorless chemical in Housatonic River fish. Since then the Department of Environmental Protection has also found the substance in sediment core samples of Lakes Lillinonah and Zoar.
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The severe electrical storm last Thursday night was to blame for school having to be cancelled at Sandy Hook elementary for the day on Monday, as well as the shutdown of the Childrenâs Adventure Center at the multi-purpose building adjacent to the school.
MAY 21, 1954
The âBattle of Currituck Road,â in which First Selectman A. Fenn Dickinson and Brookfield contractor John Kolinchak have been pitted in legal action over the use of the road by the contractorâs trucks, entered a new phase last Thursday, May 13, with the enactment of a town ordinance prohibiting through truck traffic on Currituck Road and three other paved town roads.
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The candidacy of Mrs Sarah Frances Curtis, Newtown representative in the General Assembly, for the position of Republican State Central Committeewoman in the 25th Senatorial District was announced last weekend following her endorsement by the Republican Town Committee last Friday night, May 14.
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Papers were signed on Monday by officials of the Newtown Savings Bank, awarding the contract for the addition to be built to the bank building to Harry Maring, Jr, Inc, of Bridgeport. It is expected that building activities will start by June 1. The present area of the main banking floor is 1,456 square feet, which will be expanded with the addition to 2,600 square feet. One feature will be a new vault, with reinforced concrete walls 27 inches thick.
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In an effort to bring to an end the delay on the part of the State Highway Department in installing a traffic light at the intersection of Main Street, Sugar Street and Glover Avenue, members of Pohtatuck Grange recently voted to instruct the groupâs secretary, Miss Florence A. Pease, to write to the department and urge prompt installation.
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At an unusual assembly in Newtown High School last Friday morning, May 14, safety on the roads was taught in a unique but convincing way. A film, âAnd Then There Were Four,â narrated by Jimmy Stuart, safety demonstrator, dramatized for the students the bad habits of five persons while driving their automobiles.
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Twelve years of service in various capacities for the Bridgeport Area Girl Scout Council were climaxed Tuesday, May 18, for Mrs John Jay of Cherry Street, Sandy Hook, by her election as president of the council.
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The postponed business session of the annual Borough meeting, held last Thursday evening, May 13, in Edmond Town Hall, reviewed the business of the year in largely routine manner and showed a sound financial condition. Dr Russell F. Strasburger, warden, presided over the gathering of about 30 persons.
MAY 17, 1929
Miss Louise Nichols will present her pupils in an interesting program of piano solos, duets, and quartets.
On Thursday evening, May 9, a meeting of the Inter-Town Baseball League was held in the rooms over Morris and Shepardâs store in Newtown. Four teams were represented at the meeting: Redding, Southbury, Newtown, and Sandy Hook.
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Edward Bevans is painting the residence of Jacob Goldberg.
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Henry Hart is having a pneumatic water system and bath room installed in his residence by Ezra J. Hall.
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John R. Roberts of New York has bought six acres of land and barn on West Street from the Misses Scudder and Mrs A.J. Smith.
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Mr and Mrs Lee B. Woodworth sailed Wednesday on the steamer, Paris, and will tour through England, Scotland, and France.
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Patrick Sweeney is driving a new Whippet sedan, bought of F.E. Knox.
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A.B. Nichols and men are redecorating the residence of Fred C. Sanford.
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The contract for resurfacing of 6,457 feet of highway, beginning at Lovellâs garage and running west on the Bethel road has been let to the Osborn-Barnes Company, of Danbury, at a price of $3,929.43.
MAY 20, 1904
Assistant Construction Foreman J.K. Hutton of New Haven, of the Southern New England Telephone Company, is in town to do the preliminary work necessary for the establishment of the Newtown Central. He is making contracts for the poles, establishing locations. He is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel.
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P.H. McCarthy, Mrs Mary Gaffney, Miss Margaret Houlihan, Miss Margaret Keane and Miss Lizzie Gallagher attended the meeting of the Fairfield County Teacherâs Association in Bridgeport Friday.
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Charles G. Morris expects to have a telephone placed in his home in Zoar.
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Mrs Julia C. Hawley has had the lot west of her house nicely graded and has laid out a tennis court on it.
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Dr George E. Bolles, the dentist, will make appointments for every Thursday to do dental work at his rooms over Bettsâ Pharmacy in Sandy Hook.
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E.S. Hanfield lost a valuable cow last week.
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C.E. Blakeman, who has been sawing for several months near the Housatonic River, has finished his contract there and moved his mill to his home in Palestine.
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Charles G. Peck, the popular bachelor, entertained in a pleasing manner the Clover Leaf Whist Club last Friday night.
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I.B. Goodsell has had his barn newly painted. B.J. Bassett of Redding did the work.