World famous dance company Pilobolus is known for the joy it brings to people from all walks of life, from professional dancers and preschoolers to senior citizens and special needs students.
Beginnin...
Artwork created by students in Newtown High School art teacher Carol Pelligra's art portfolio class this semester is on view at C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, through January 24, when a closing r...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 has announced the start of its Teacher of the Year award.
Teachers who promote civic responsibility, flag etiquette, and patriotism are prime candidates for...
By Eliza Hallabeck
The Board of Education heard about more areas of the superintendent's proposed 2017-18 budget at its meeting on Tuesday, January 10. The next budget workshop meeting is a public hea...
By Eliza Hallabeck
Each year Hawley Elementary School fourth grade students complete community service projects as part of the school's social studies curriculum.
Recently, fourth grade teacher Michae...
The Board of Education continued its discussion of the superintendent's proposed 2017-18 budget at its meeting on Thursday, January 5.
The Superintendent's Requested Operational Plan was first present...
Eighth grade students in Newtown Middle School computer integration teacher Rachel Smith's classes spend the rotation working on applications for Android devices. This rotation's round of projects cov...
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, is offering Morning Glories Parent & Child classes. The winter session begins January 10 and runs for ten weeks, for $335.waldorfct.org/parentchi...
Holly Kocet is pushing a false narrative. The facts simply don't bear out any negative impact to the traffic on Mt Pleasant Road. Saying it does , does not make it true. The road handles in excess of 40,000 trip a day. a couple hundred form Castle Hill is negatable.
The town historically has strong collaboration with developers, but the primary obstacle arises from community opposition exerting undue influence on the zoning department. This "NIMBY" pressure often leads to project rejections that exceed the department's actual jurisdiction or authority. Consequently, developers face a limited set of options: either engage in expensive legal battles or leverage the Connecticut Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure (CGS § 8-30g) as a recourse.
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.
