The Newtown Bee

Events for Thursday, March 08, 2018

Events for March 8, 2018

Friends of Counted Embroidery-Laurel Chapter meeting **new location**

March 08, 2018 09:00 am - 12:00 am

The Art of Nature

March 08, 2018 10:00 am - 12:00 am

Newtown Bridge Club games

March 08, 2018 11:30 am - 12:00 am

Matinee screening of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'

March 08, 2018 01:00 pm - 12:00 am

Network In Newtown

March 08, 2018 04:00 pm - 12:00 am

Northern Fairfield Professionals meeting

March 08, 2018 04:30 pm - 12:00 am

FAITH Food Pantry open

March 08, 2018 05:00 pm - 12:00 am

Author Program/Book Launch: CJ Golden

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

Horticulture Club of Newtown meeting

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

Legislative Council Education Committee meeting (agenda posted)

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

Newtown Youth Football & Cheer Open House **POSTPONED**

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

Screening of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

Water & Sewer Authority meeting **CANCELED**

March 08, 2018 06:00 pm - 12:00 am

College Funding For Parents **POSTPONED**

March 08, 2018 06:30 pm - 12:00 am

Flagpole Photographers Camera Club meeting

March 08, 2018 06:30 pm - 12:00 am

Legislative Council special meeting (agenda posted)

March 08, 2018 06:30 pm - 12:00 am

Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission meeting (agenda posted, NOTE LOCATION)

March 08, 2018 06:30 pm - 12:00 am

Richard Frederick Kellerman (September 11, 1947-April 13, 2025)

Bruce Marshall Herring

Beer & Cheer For Scholarships

A ‘Timeless Newtown’ Event: Ready To Get Hiking? April 24 Program Will Prepare You For A Fun, New Activity

Learn About FONS At Second Annual Membership Dinner

I suggest you look up the Town's May 2022 Annex to the 2022 Western Connecticut Regional Affordable Housing Plan. A family making Newtown's median household income would immediately be cost burdened if buying the median home in town, not to mention how unaffordable our community is for young teachers, PARAs, cops and bus drivers.

Vessel Technologies Appeals P&Z Commission Denial

Josh Lev’s comments to the Bee about the need for housing in the area..Josh knows NOTHING about our community and is only interested in Vessel’s interests. They don’t care about the surrounding homeowners or the fact that they are overbuilding for the land. Vessel is actually stomping all over Newtown’s zoning regulations. Also, Tom Johnson they don’t own the property yet - it’s under contract per their application and they have no rights until they own the land. I am all for developers that follow local zoning rules and this is not the current case.

Vessel Technologies Appeals P&Z Commission Denial

I'm glad you recognize that even a modest increase in the commercial tax base could help keep residential tax rates down. Remember when we invested in sewers and water infrastructure for Hawleyville, only to have the NIMBY mob push out a modest commercial development? That short-sightedness is still costing us today.

Tax Increase Necessary This Year

I remember when there was talk about building the community center—how it supposedly wasn’t going to cost us anything. Now, just a few years later, we’re raising taxes just to keep it open. One day, this town—and its voters—will hopefully understand that operating expenses don’t disappear once the ribbon is cut. Until then, I think it’s time we start voting no.

Urges ‘Yes’ Vote On Capital Projects

Right. Which begs the question we should all be asking of everyone we know who is passionately pushing a cause, whether it be conservative or liberal in nature, which is: Would you accept an authoritarian system if it were to promote your agenda? In too many places and times to count, people have naively believed that they can allow such a thing but have it only be temporary, just until the agenda is firmly rooted. But beware, if it’s far left or far right it can never really take root, so the authoritarians can never really let go. Randi Kiely

Discusses Newtown “Hands Off” Rally

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