The Newtown Fire Marshal’s Office is in full alignment with the National Fire Protection Association following recent deadly back-to-back residential fires in Philadelphia and New York.
Newtown officials have announced the next round of distribution opportunities for free COVID-19 test kits. Registration goes live Saturday, January 15, at noon.
Connecticut Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani, MD updated state COVID-19 guidance for Pre-K-12 schools just as the FDA cleared 12-15-year-olds to receive booster shots.
A shipping delay is forcing Newtown officials to postpone distributing thousands of COVID-19 in-home test kits to residents who qualified to pick them up Friday, December 31.
Newtown Emergency Management officials have pivoted to a system that will require online registration for qualified residents to receive up to two free COVID-19 test kits on Friday, December 31.
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.
