Governor Ned Lamont has announced that he has directed Connecticut’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol activated as of noon on Monday, March 1, remaining in effect through noon on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
AARP Connecticut invites community organizations and local government agencies to apply for the 2021 Community Challenge grant program through April 14.
Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert has a few important points for residents and those critical workers to remember as COVID vaccine eligibility expands March 1.
If you are the parent or primary caregiver of a Newtown child or teen, the Newtown Prevention Council, Newtown Parent Connection, and police department want to help educate you.
Read how one Newtown resident got some help connecting with his COVID-19 vaccine after reaching out to The Newtown Bee - and why he is not alone in leaning on his local paper for assistance.
Newtown and Connecticut are seeing positivity rates slowly diminishing with statewide rates over the past week trending in the mid to high three percent range, although health officials are cautiously...
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.
