The World Heritage Cultural Center this week announced the winners of the 2024 inaugural EmpowHer Newtown Awards. The awards will be presented Saturday, August 24, at HillTop Kitchen in Sandy Hook.
Ben’s Lighthouse has announced a major fundraising event this autumn: "A Very Special Evening of Music and Song with Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal, and Joe Henry."
The EmpowHer Newtown Award Committee, presented by the World Heritage Cultural Center, reminds readers that the inaugural awards will be celebrated during a public event this month.
Panacea & Friends will be combining talents with the Willie-Portera Trio for their annual Labor Day Weekend concert/dance at the pavilion of Dickinson Memorial Park.
Newtown Cultural Arts Commission will award two or more project grants with a total of $2,500 in two categories, individual artists and groups that bring the arts to Newtown.
Musicals at Richter (MAR), celebrating its 40th season as the longest-running outdoor theater in Connecticut, announces its 2024 season of musicals and children’s theater.
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.
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.
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.
