The Connecticut Department of Transportation has announced installation of Wrong Way Driver Countermeasure Systems will take place on I-84 East and West at Exits 10 and 11 next week.
As National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2024 nears its end, Newtown Conservation Commission reminds readers that awareness of and action against invasive plants should be done all year.
Precautionary evacuations took place on Thursday, February 29, throughout Fairfield Hills, after a 2-inch gas line was breached shortly after 8 am during water line work at the Town-owned campus.
Two local establishments were found non-compliant during recent inspections to determine who was following state laws concerning the prohibition of the sale of e-cigarettes and/or tobacco products to youths under the age of 21.
The Board of Finance has finished its review of the 2024-25 proposed budgets and cut more than $500,000.
Published: Feb 29, 2024 08:00 AM
UPDATED: Access to Fairfield Hills was limited this morning following a gas line breach. The campus was evacuated for approximately 2½ hours while first responders and other personnel were on the scene.
UPDATED: Campus Reopened Following Gas Main Break At Fairfield Hills UPDATED: Access to Fairfield Hills was limited this morning following a gas line breach. The campus was evacuated for approximately 2½ hours while first responders and other personnel were on the scene.FINAL UPDATE (1:42 PM): Newtown Municipal Center and NYA Sports & Fitness Center have reopened, Newtown Parent Connection is open, and NewSylum Brewing Company reportedly plans to open at its regular 4 pm time this afternoon.Outdoor areas — walking trails, fields, etc — are now accessible.* * * * * UPDATE (11:06 am) : Newtown Police Department has cleared from Fairfield Hills, as have all firefighters, and the campus has been reopened. Walking trails, outdoor recreation areas, and fields are now open. Businesses and municipal services will remain closed, according to the PD.Repairs to the gas line will continue, also according to the PD.Newtown Municipal Center will remain closed for the day.* * * * * UPDATE (9:21 am): This story has been updated with information from Newtown Police Department.9:51 am: It has also been updated to include details about a CodeRED alert issued by the Town. * * * * * Access to Fairfield Hills this morning is limited following a gas line breach. The campus is being evacuated and first responders are on the scene after a main line was broken around 8:15 am. A construction company has been working on the water line within the campus all week.Eversource and the gas company have been contacted.Newtown Police closed both entrances to the public, and confirmed "the campus has been evacuated and is closed at this time."By 9:20 am, the PD said the gas line was no longer leaking "but the campus remains closed."The PD also noted there were no reported injuries. Newtown Emergency Communications Center Director Maureen Will issued a CodeRED alerting residents to the closure of the campus.“Police and fire are on scene, and they are working to take care of the issue. Please stay away from the campus until further notice.”
Dozens of Newtown citizens attended the February 20 Economic Development Commission meeting, when discussion of a Town owned property on Commerce Road was featured.
“Gas prices have come down nearly 20 cents in the last two months, but we know there is more to do. This release will help lower prices at the pump, building on other actions by President Biden" said National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard today (7/2)... why should the President take credit for these actions, but be absolved of blame for the inflationary results of printing trillions of dollars out of thin air?
It seems that for the coming year the only thing that's happening is we are separating the orange bags from the non-orange bags. I don't see how this would help anything.
If the ultimate goal is to reduce the amount of garbage in the system, a pay-by-weight program or something similar would have a much better chance of working. The trick will be to make it fair and efficient. Mandating where we buy special trash bags is just silly.
David Ackert brings up an excellent point, this project would benefit the "developer, Landowner, and real estate professional". The key person there is the "Landowner". When Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was fighting alongside George Washington he was working to protect our freedoms and rights as Landowners.
In this circumstance, the landowner does have rights. I hope the developer drops their plan for 117 cluster homes and decides to put in 132 one-acre homes instead.
117 cluster homes on 20-60 Castle Hill Road while the process of the discontinuance is ongoing. Trudell has said that he needs the road to be discontinued to develop the land the way his plans currently call for, on roughly 40 acres of the 132 acre property.
Is Father Leo is around? He was our parish priest at Annunciation Catholic Church in Havelock , NC in the 60's I'm sure he wouldn't remember me, but he invited me to visit his mother in Danbury Connecticut over Christmas one year. One and only time I used ice skates. He also officiated at my first wife's funeral after our son was born in 1975.
If you have contact, please tell him Stephen Wolak said hey. Piece be with him and his family.
It's great to reduce waste and to push for composting, but this orange bag thing is crazy. I hope residents refuse and protest this ridiculousness. People have to pay high property taxes, a transfer station permit for $100 annually, and now on top of it purchase bags from the town at an unknown price. If you have larger garbage bags in a bin at home, you will have to abandon those and instead stuff everything into little orange bags with the Newtown seal on them for a currently undisclosed price. This is absurd...