John D'Addario's hours of effort convincing Republican Town Committee members that he should be their next chairman paid off on Monday night when the count of written ballots cast by the 46 committee members present showed him the victor over for
John DâAddarioâs hours of effort convincing Republican Town Committee members that he should be their next chairman paid off on Monday night when the count of written ballots cast by the 46 committee members present showed him the victor over former party chairman Timothy J. Loughlin 26 to 18. There was one abstention and one blank ballot cast.
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Publicâs view sought on needs totalling $12 million. Newtownâs Legislative Council will seek the publicâs view on capital expenditures foreseen over the next five years by the town and school board at a public hearing scheduled for 7:30 pm Wednesday, January 17, in Edmond Town Hallâs Alexandria Room. The capital improvements plan for 1979â84 was compiled by Director of Finance Robert Shaw from projections supplied by individual departments. The plan, which is merely a guide the Legislative Council can use in its budget planning for the five year period, is required by the town charter.
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Arthur Spector of Taunton Ridge Road, a Newtown Planning & Zoning commissioner for 13 of the last 14 years, was elected commission chairman at the first meeting of the year, January 4.
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Members of the Park and Recreation Department and Commission arenât happy with the latest Stefanko Park scheme presented by landscape architectural firm, Ward Associates. The New Jersey and New York-based firm has come up with another plan which will eliminate two ballfields in the proposed park off Philo Curtis Road.
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âIt never entered anyoneâs mind that we wouldnât come before you,â Park and Recreation Chairman William Denlinger told the Conservation Commission Wednesday night. Mr Denlinger, appearing before the commission on behalf of the proposed 56-acre Stefanko park, had been notified by the wetlands agency that P&R was not exempt from applicable wetlands regulations. But Mr Denlinger informed the commission that the park was still in the planning stages. He said although P&R might have hoped the project would go out to bid by winter, that didnât mean construction would commence before the wetlands agency was consulted.
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Newtownâs first baby of the year has arrived, born in Danbury Hospital at 7:08 am on January 7 to Georgeanne and Harry Pitman of Greenbriar Lane. His name is James Patrick, and he is a big boy, weighing in at birth at 9½ pounds and measuring 22 inches long.
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Police are investigating one of the most bizarre cases of vandalism and theft to hit Newtown, as they are checking into the disappearance of four electric meters which were taken from the outside of the Newtown General Store building sometime Friday night, January 5.
JANUARY 15, 1953
Winter made up for its late start this season with a weekend of bad weather and the heaviest snowfall in several years to slow down traffic to a near walk as town roads and highways became too slippery for comfort. After three days of hard work by state and town road crews, with traffic getting back to somewhere near its normal pace, a cold snap sent the temperature plunging to zero and lower to confirm the fact that the goosebone weather prophets and The Farmers Almanac, predictors of a heavy winter, had something in their favor.
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Townspeople have indicated strong support of the March of Dimes campaign as the annual January drive against polio moved into its second week, according to John F. Holian, co-chairman. Coin cards have been mailed to residents and coin collection boxes distributed to all places of business and public places by Willis R. Tomlinson who willingly offered his services. Miss Martha Kline, school nurse, is again supervising the distribution and collection of coin cards among the students in the local school and the Newtown Branch of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Bridgeport will handle all contributions related to the drive.
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Newtowners need not be surprised if they have callers at their doors beginning next week who ask various questions about family finances in 1953 and spending plans for 1954, as well as seeking opinions on the general outlook for 1954. These visitors, whose job it is to be somewhat on the nosey side, will be seeking information for the ninth annual Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan and sponsored by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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The eyes of the world will be focused on Connecticut next Thursday, January 21, when the first atomic-powered vessel in history, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is launched by Mrs Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Electric Boat yards on the Thames River at Groton.
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Candace Storrs, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin B. Storrs of Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook, was given a party by her parents in celebration of her eighth birthday on Friday, January 8. Those present were Lee Nute, Mary Ann Parker, Mary Jane Wise, Ellen Jay, Betsy Guibord, and her sister, Susan Storrs.
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Thermometers around town dropped to their lowest point of the season early this Thursday morning with temperatures ranging from 10 to 20 degrees below zero in various parts of town at about 7 am. The lowest reported temperature of â20 degrees was said to have been noted by George Kuhne at his home on Riverside Road.
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The March of Dimes will receive the proceeds from three dances held by town organizations, in a presentation to be made at the last of the three, that of the 4-H Live and Learn Club next Saturday night, January 23, in Edmond Town Hall gymnasium. The contributing organizations will be the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Company and Charles Howard Peck Sr and Jr Post 308 and Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in addition to the 4-H group, a girlsâ club.
JANUARY 11, 1929
Tax Collector P.H. McCarthy wishes to remind all persons who have not as yet paid their personal tax that the time is drawing to a close. A penalty of one dollar must be added to all unpaid personal taxes after January 15.
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The Homestead farms, E.J. and G.C. Morgan proprietors, had the first hatch of chicks come off last week, and they have been in great demand.
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Miss Alice Carmody is ill with diptheria of the nose, but is getting along nicely.
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Miss Nellie E. Tucker, the popular postmistress at Sandy Hook, sustained a fall on Sunday, fracturing her leg in three places. Dr Desmond reduced the fractures and took her to the Danbury Hospital to have pictures taken. Mrs Tucker returned to Sandy Hook, the limb was placed in a cast, and she is doing nicely.
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Mrs Albert Pinkham is substituting at the Newtown Library for Miss Ebba Moller, the librarian, who is passing a few weeks in New York City.
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Some miscreant stole three electric light bulbs the other night on the outside of Gombergâs gas station at Botsford.
JANUARY 15, 1904
Hon F.J. Naramore, Mrs S.C. Glover, Mrs. W.J. Beecher, and Mrs Elizabeth Tomlinson enjoyed a sleigh ride to Woodbury Saturday with dinner at the Curtis hotel.
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In the severe cold spell last week, the water wheel which furnishes power at the factory of S. Curtis & Son, in Berkshire, froze up one or two mornings, necessitating a good deal of work before business could be resumed. Mr Curtis informs us the mercury has registered as low as 27 degrees below zero at his shop.
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Thomas Keating of Great Ring had the misfortune to lose a cow last week.
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W.B. Terrill has rented his place on Mile Hill to L.C. Nickerson of Danbury.
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David Penny moved his sawmill this week on the land of John R. Peck where he is sawing for contractor E.E. Nettleton.
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Mr and Mrs W.A. Leonard entertained the Clover Leaf whist club at the annex last Friday night. Ladies prize was won by Miss Lillian Dikeman, a boullion cup; consolation, Miss Mary S. Blackman; gentsâ first, Stanley J. Blackman, a fountain pen; consolation, James B. Nichols, an ash receiver.