Led by Phil Makris who scored a hat-trick, the Newtown-New Fairfield hockey team beat the Joel Barlow co-op to advance to the Thursday, March 25 conference tourney semifinals; the game against Milford is at Milford Ice Pavilion at 8 pm.
Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team knocked a deficit that was 11 late in the third quarter all the way down to three points early in the fourth. The fifth-seeded Nighthawks ultimately fell 54-40 to host and top-seeded Notre Dame-Fairfield
The never-quit Newtown High School boys’ basketball team had a late-game surge before falling 66-55 to the host Immaculate Mustangs in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals, on March 18.
Although both Newtown Police Officer William Chapman and Newtown High School Athletic Director Matt Memoli only laced up ice skates for the first time this winter, these men suited up in hockey gear on March 12 and pushed themselves with a skills competition on the ice for a good cause at Danbury Ice Arena.
The Newtown-New Fairfield hockey team, coming off a win and tie this past week, will take on the Barlow co-op in the conference playoffs Saturday, March 20, for an afternoon tilt.
After missing out on a trio of games canceled due to coronavirus protocol, Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team returned just in time for a morning practice the day of a makeup game with Bunnell of Stratford on the last date of the regular season.
Newtown High School’s gymnastics team scored 124.950 points to defeat New Milford, which had 122.400, in a meet at Vasi’s International Gymnastics on March 10. The conference championships will be Saturday, March 20.
Spring sports in Connecticut are slated to roll on, full steam ahead. One year after the entire campaign got wiped out by decisions surrounding the unknowns of the coronavirus, the plan is for all of the state’s teams to play full seasons with conference and state playoffs.
After winning two of its first seven games, then having a scheduled tilt with Joel Barlow of Redding canceled due to coronavirus protocol, Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team was just happy (and hopeful, for that matter) to have four more regular season tilts.
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.
I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.
We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.”
In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts:
Regional Toolbox
Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.
