LOF Adaptive Skiers will be at Mount Southington, 396 Mt Vernon Road, Plantsville, Conn., Wednesday, January 15, at 9 AM, demonstrating a brand-new TetraSki.
Several Toddy Hill Road area residents who have been attending Police Commission meetings since mid-2017 in seeking better control over vehicular speeding on that north-south town road linking Sandy Hook to Botsford, are now asking the commission to fine tune some recent speed-control improvements made there by the town. The Police Commission is the local Traffic Authority.
Residents filled the lower meeting room at Edmond Town Hall on the wintry night of January 8 to watch and listen as members of the Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) deliberated on a development firm’s controversial proposal to create new zoning regulations, which would serve as a regulatory mechanism to allow that firm to apply to demolish the vacant former Inn at Newtown at 19 Main Street and replace it with a market-rate rental apartment complex.
The National Weather Service-New York office has issued a Snow Squall Warning that includes Newtown among the coverage area. The Warning is in effect until 10:45 am.
This is the second of a two-part retrospective covering a dozen top stories and events that engaged local elected leaders, boards, commissions, and town agencies in 2019.
While 2019 began with a ...
After a long period of inactivity, a lawsuit, which was filed against the Water and Sewer Authority (WSA) in August 2018, is now being handled by a new law firm for the plaintiff, with the defendant WSA members discussing the status of the case at their December meeting.
Michelle I applaud and support you for focusing on the issues that impact everyone in the town. The next priority has to be on CT's out of control electricity rates. Your opponent and his supporters are quick to blame the other side of the aisle and have given up on trying to accomplish anything. You need to be the voice at the Capitol that the town needs and has missed for so long.
After your short sighted decisions on bussing, something parents are still feeling the repercussions of, I would not want you making any decisions on traffic.
With all due respect Lynn, while no one's property should be damaged, it is demonstrably false to suggest this issue only happens to Democrat signs. If these comments allowed for photos I could show you some pretty abhorrent examples of what has been done to Republican candidate's signs for years in the past few elections (including local races.) Just today we had a supporter message the RTC that their signs were stolen.
Indeed suicide awareness is important as is asking young people these tough questions. That said, saying that "every suicide is preventable" is not only incorrect, it is overly simplistic at best and downright harmful at worst.
The Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors - an online support resource with over 25,000 members worldwide writes frequently about the ramifications of such slogans. Many family members say that prevention messages leave them feeling guilty, upset and fearful of being judged – as if they “dropped the ball.". A few of the many sentiments on their webpage from bereaved family members include:
-“I believe suicide is preventable ONLY if someone shows a sign. …My daughter did not show any signs."
-“As a newly bereaved mother, I find the campaign offensive & repulsive. It places the responsibility on family members and those who are about to take their lives. We obviously would have done something if our loved ones expressed their intentions." -"Awareness yes. Preventable no. There was nothing to prevent what happened to my son. Nothing. And I am so sick of the saying it is preventable."
-"I lost my husband to suicide four months ago. It makes me feel cold and sick in the pit of my stomach when I read ‘suicide is preventable’ because I think: ‘It’s my fault, I let him down.'"
Suicide - especially youth suicide - is a complex problem with no easy answers. It’s possible to prevent sometimes — but not always.