A large crowd gathered in the lobby of Reed Intermediate School for a special Buddy Bench dedication ceremony to honor the late Rosario “Ross” Salvo on Tuesday, November 26. Ross was a former Reed student who died unexpectedly in June 2018 at the age of 12.
Newtown Public Schools will be closed Tuesday, December 17, due to the weather. The district's Central Office will open at 10 am. The announcement was made early Tuesday morning.
Students in kindergarten through fourth grade at Hawley Elementary School participated in a school-wide Self Kindness Day on Friday, November 22.
Lead Teacher Jenna Connors said that November has been...
Students at Fraser Woods Montessori School participated in a school-wide assembly prior to Thanksgiving on the morning of Wednesday, November 27.
The children sang seasonal songs, like a tune that inc...
You are correct, Bruce. I know how hard these plans are to put together, but I still believe that we can have more definitive and measurable goals. I know there are a number of units coming online, and the community truly needs them. If only we can move the development of affordable housing to more of a partnership between the community and the developers than the adversarial tug-of-war it seems to be now, that would be good progress.
I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.
We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.”
In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts:
Regional Toolbox
Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.
