The Hub is working overtime throughout April — Alcohol Awareness Month — reminding residents about the risks and harms when casual social consumption turns into binge drinking.
Check this recap of our informative and potentially life=saving Newtown Bee webcast on youth suicide awareness and prevention — and link to the main event.
Are you 16 or over and looking for a vaccine? Read on and learn about more than two dozen new vaccine sites going live in the coming days within close proximity to Newtown.
Newtown residents who were and continue to be part of the large and loyal following of the former Avielle Foundation will be able next week to virtually meet the team that is leading its recently relocated and renamed effort.
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.
