After spending her younger years locally, graduating from Newtown High School and returning home through college, Beth Bogdan moved on and out to work in the music industry.
Readers may recall she cre...
On the recommendation of Newtown Economic Development Commission (EDC), the Board of Selectmen on March 15 unanimously agreed to a local business incentive program application for a northeastern recre...
Aquila's Nest Vineyard in Sandy Hook was the site of a press conference with Governor Lamont, Lt Governor Susan Bysiewicz, and others to celebrate small businesses and the reopening of the state.
Part of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce mission is to help take as good care of the community's business people as the companies they are running. Check out the chamber's latest effort.
Why should you keep masking, disinfecting, and distancing when folks are getting vaccinated and virus positivity is so low? Our Health District director explains.
Newtown’s State Rep Mitch Bolinsky (R-106), along with a bipartisan coalition of colleagues in the state House of Representatives, approved legislation that will encourage the development of data centers in Connecticut.
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The screenshots from NAFC's private group show prominent members of the organization naming businesses that hosted certain political signs ahead of the last election as these allies self-organized to crowdsource a running list of businesses not to patronize for the sin of supporting candidates such as [gasp] our incumbent State Rep who has a great record with small business associations - claiming that makes them unsafe. The NAFC official account was involved in moderating the discussion as they banned one "problematic" member for questioning the "witch hunt." This tacit threat to the livelihoods of local business owners has a chilling effect on free speech, yet the response from the organization was to claim that anyone who saw it as bullying was "stifling such conversations." If anyone is interested these screenshots are widely available.
Someone either does not understand how the state legislative process works, or is willfully misleading people to try to make the delegation look bad. I hope it is the former scenario.
