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Senior Spring Fling Returning In April

By Newtown Parks and Recreation and Newtown Senior Center invite local senior citizens to the 2024 Spring Fling.

Published: February 29, 2024 8:08 am

Newtown Parks and Recreation and Newtown Senior Center invite local senior citizens to the 2024 Spring Fling. Ages 55 and up are invited to the event, being planned for Friday, April 5, from 4 to 7 pm...

Newtown Club Planning Reception For Bridge Players And Lessons For Beginners

Published: February 24, 2024 7:00 am

Newtown Bridge Club will host bridge and lunch on March 9, to welcome graduates of beginning bridge classes and social bridge players to the club. A new series of basic lessons is also scheduled to begin the following week.

Sugar Mountain Returning To Edmond Town Hall, Celebrating The Life & Music Of Neil Young

Published: February 23, 2024 7:15 am

Readers are invited to rock out with Sugar Mountain, the ultimate Neil Young tribute band, tomorrow night at Edmond Town Hall.

Call For Artists: Art & Frame Space Exploration

Published: February 23, 2024 7:00 am

Art & Frame of Newtown is planning an exhibition with a theme of space: space, planets, space exploration, and the cosmos.

SCAN To Host Shea Painting Abstract Landscape In Oils

Published: February 20, 2024 7:00 am

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Roberta Shea demonstrating “Painting an Abstract Landscape in Oils.”

Friends Of Edmond Town Hall Planning ‘A Formal Affair’ Gala

Published: February 17, 2024 8:00 am

Friends of Edmond Town Hall will host its first annual gala in early May.

NHS Class Of 1974 50th Anniversary Reunion Being Organized

Published: February 13, 2024 9:14 am

Organizers for the NHS Class of 1974 are pleased to announce that in honor of their 50-year graduation anniversary, they are proposing an event of grand proportions.

Real Food CT Announces First Two 2024 Events

Published: February 11, 2024 8:00 am

Real Food CT, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit in southern Newtown founded on the belief that everyone deserves access to healthy food, has announced its first two public events of the new year.

Scouts Complete First Aid Merit Badge Sessions

Published: February 10, 2024 8:00 am

Scouts from Newtown Scout Troop 770 recently completed their First Aid Merit Badge during three sessions with the help from members of Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Botsford Fire Company.

Newtown Resident To Receive Heart Of Women Award

Updated: February 09, 2024 11:25 am

A Newtown resident will be the recipient this year of The 2024 Heart of Women Award presented by The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce Women's Business Council.

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Middle School Counseling Department Hosts Annual Career Day

New Year’s Walk & Seed Bomb Launching Event Planned

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Hawk Gymnasts Set To Compete

Half right. The other half wrong (and left).

Why Gun Violence Is Higher In The US

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.

Discusses Affordable Housing

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.

Unidentified Driver Sought After Fatally Striking Dog And Leaving Scene

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.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Ya gotta pay more to live in a Blue state and subsidize the 'affordable' folks.

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