Two Christ the King Lutheran Church members who visited North Carolina to support residents after Hurricane Helene are planning to go back and continue providing relief.
Newtown Police Department is working with the State of CT Department of Emergency Services and Homeland Security to educate the community on swatting and the current climate of swatting faith-based organizations.
The Little Pantry is a stand-alone structure in the parking lot of Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street.
It is a pantry for the community to donate food and for those in need to receive donated fo...
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.
