Town Players of Newtown will be holding auditions for "Prescription: Murder, A Columbo Mystery" the second weekend of September. The play is scheduled for production weekends, November 15-December 7.
Auctioneer Fairfield Auction invites Newtown and area community members to examine and bid on surplus items at the Newtown Library Fundraiser online auction, underway through Thursday, September 5. Proceeds will benefit preservation of the library's museum and archive collections.
Hodge Library in Roxbury will once again turn into a cozy pub where guests are welcome to eat, drink, and be merry, on Friday, August 9. This month's event will also feature beer from Newtown's first craft brewery.
Newtown Bridge Club will host three programs beginning this month for bridge players who would like to polish their skills. Sessions will be offered in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, where the club also hosts five sessions of games each week.
Art Spaces in Fairfield County Libraries will offer curated visual art exhibitions featuring the work of local and regional artists later this year. C.H. Booth Library will host its “Art & Text” presentation October 15-November 15. Local artists are invited to submit work for consideration before September 25.
Families United in Newtown (FUN), in partnership with Anne and Pete Sibley, winners of the 2009 Great American Duet Sing-Off on “A Prairie Home Companion,” is sponsoring a benefit concert and receptio...
Newtown resident Lisa Yu — author of My Mommy is a Firefighter and its counterpart My Daddy is a Firefighter — conducted a book reading in the Meeting Room of C.H. Booth Library on July 20.
LOL! You are neither silent or the majority! 80-120 taxpaying residents attended every public hearing on this over the course of a year, in person, as well as hundreds of emails and letters to the boards, commissions and to the media.....with 95%+ of them in opposition. Facts matter.
To the members of the Borough of Newtown Zoning Commission, please realize your job is to review the application and vote on its merits and not be overwhelmed by a facebook mob. Just like on our national stage, the silent majority are with you. Don't be swayed by a vocal minority mob. Stay the course.
I think you're missing the broader point. Yes, statutes should be followed, but in this case it wouldn't have altered the decision that would have been made. And, yes, 8-30G is getting rammed down our throats. But with regard to this particular application, it is not yet an 8-30G. However, I'm willing to bet that if this nimby nonsense continues it most surely will become one. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
As a former (25 year) Newtown Resident I to agree we need a return to civility. Politics has always been a lively topic and years ago there were many issues that incurred strong feelings. (Fairfield Hills, to buy or not to buy; what to do with it.) I have several good friends who disagreed with me on the most recent election and we just tacitly agreed not to discuss it. And life went on.
I am not sure what you expect the Community Center to do. As long as no one threatens you with direct violence there is not much they can do. They cannot stop your neighbor's wife from spouting off. Unpopular and even abhorrent positions are part and parcel of our free speech. As the Appeals Court said, Nazi's can march in Illinois. (And they and the Klan have demonstrated here in Connecticut.
