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Former Danbury official has a plan to convert New York's pandemic migrants into long-term residents FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Construction of the former News-Times building, at 333 Main Street, in Danbury, Conn, will bring more apartments downtown. A recent report suggests the city will get younger and more educated. The report is part of Danbury’s effort to update its Plan of Conservation and Development, which will consider the city’s challenges and assets to create a vision for its future. Friday, March 26, 2021, Danbury, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of5 File photo. Stephen Nocera, former director of Danbury’s office of project excellence, and a senior manager for the public sector at Accenture, will present a plan about how to retain newcomers to the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal by Alex Jones in Sandy Hook defamation case FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Extremist Alex Jones at the Texas State Capital building on April 18, 2020 in Austin, Texas.Sergio Flores / Getty Images TNSShow MoreShow Less 2of5 3of5 4of5 Josh Koskoff, attorney for an FBI agent and six Sandy Hook familes suing Alex Jones for defamation.Christopher Burns / For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 5of5 NEWTOWN - The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal by extremist Alex Jones to revisit sanctions the Infowars host received in Connecticut trial court, where he is being sued for defamation by an FBI agent and six families who lost loved ones in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
'We pray that we're almost there': Sandy Hook memorial could finally be constructed FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Ben Waldo, left, and Dan Affleck, architects with San Francisco-based SWA, who won the contract to design the Sandy Hook memorial.contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of6 An overhead rendering of the proposed Sandy Hook memorial, which will be the subject of a final public forum on Monday.Town of NewtownShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 A rendering of the ‘sacred sycamore’ - the focal element of the Sandy Hook memorial, designed by San Francisco-based SWA.contributed imageShow MoreShow Less 5of6 A rendering of the ‘sacred sycamore’ - the focal element of the Sandy Hook memorial, designed by San Francisco-based SWA.contributed imageShow MoreShow Less
CT firearms industry ranks in top 10 nationally in economic impact. Here's why. FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - Bryan Oberc, Munster, Ind., tries out an AR-15 from Sig Sauer in the exhibition hall at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019.Michael Conroy / Associated Press NEWTOWN — Connecticut’s firearms industry slipped slightly during the coronavirus crisis in 2020, losing 100 jobs and seeing its economic production decrease nominally by 0.2 percent. But Connecticut kept its place as a top 10 state in the economic impact of its firearms industry, according to a new report by the Newtown-based trade association for the firearms industry. “Connecticut is known for its very strict gun laws, but the historical roots of the gun industry are right there along the Connecticut River where they still have a presence and where they are obviously doing well and continue to add to the economy,” said Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, whose annual report on the health of the firearms industry was released in March. “It’s not just the firearms industry’s economic activity, but all the state business taxes and local taxes that are being pumped into Connecticut, which has had significant budget issues for years.”
CT firearms industry ranks in top 10 nationally in economic impact. Here's why. FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - Bryan Oberc, Munster, Ind., tries out an AR-15 from Sig Sauer in the exhibition hall at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019.Michael Conroy / Associated Press NEWTOWN — Connecticut’s firearms industry slipped slightly during the coronavirus crisis in 2020, losing 100 jobs and seeing its economic production decrease nominally by 0.2 percent. But Connecticut kept its place as a top 10 state in the economic impact of its firearms industry, according to a new report by the Newtown-based trade association for the firearms industry. “Connecticut is known for its very strict gun laws, but the historical roots of the gun industry are right there along the Connecticut River where they still have a presence and where they are obviously doing well and continue to add to the economy,” said Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, whose annual report on the health of the firearms industry was released in March. “It’s not just the firearms industry’s economic activity, but all the state business taxes and local taxes that are being pumped into Connecticut, which has had significant budget issues for years.”
Public hearing set for cancer center is 'next big step' for $80M Danbury facility FacebookTwitterEmail A rendering of the proposed Danbury Proton treatment center.Contributed image DANBURY - An $80 million cancer treatment center that would use a novel type of radiation to kill more tumor cells and less healthy tissue will be the subject of a public hearing in two weeks. The state Office of Health Strategy, which is reviewing whether the novel radiation treatment proposed by Danbury Proton is warranted in Connecticut, will conduct the April 1 hearing online over the videoconferencing platform, Zoom. The Danbury proposal is one of two “proton therapy” cancer centers under review in Connecticut. The second - a $72 million proposed center in Wallingford under a partnership between Hartford HealthCare and the Yale New Haven Health System, has already had an OHS public hearing.
Police investigation shows 'children were not in jeopardy' following Newtown security camera hack FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 2of6 3of6 5of6 6of6 NEWTOWN - An audit of the security camera footage that was hacked at Sandy Hook school and other classroom buildings in Newtown last week has shown that no one got their hands on images of the children’s faces or other compromising information, police said on Monday. “We can tell through the audit trails what the scope of the breach was, and we are confident that our children were not in jeopardy, and their safety will not be further jeopardized,” said Newtown police Lt. Aaron Bahamonde. “Our chief has been in direct contact on a daily basis with representatives from Verkada, and working with the school district, we have had multiple meetings to determine the extent of this breach.”
Danbury childhood of best-selling author featured in a new memoir about a Candlewood Lake dream FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 The front jacket of Eric Metaxas’ new memoir, “Fish Out of Water.”contributed imageShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 The back jacket of Eric Metaxas’ new memoir, “Fish Out of Water.”contributed imageShow MoreShow Less 5of5 DANBURY - Eric Metaxas is the best-selling author who’s taken readers to the worlds of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the British abolitionist William Wilberforce and the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. As such, it may surprise fans to learn that Metaxas has chosen a comparatively pedestrian setting for his latest history book - 1970s Danbury, where the author as his own subject recounts the seminal events of his childhood in “the only home I ever really had.”
With Boughton gone, is the Danbury mayoral seat at a crossroads? FacebookTwitterEmail 2of6 3of6 4of6 Michael Safranek, Danbury’s Republican Party leader.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 5of6 6of6 DANBURY — Officially, the race for mayor will take shape in one month, when Mayor Joe Cavo exercises his right of first refusal, and tells the GOP whether he’ll run for the office he’s held since December, when Republican Mark Boughton abruptly resigned. At the same time, the race for the city’s highest elected office is well underway for Democrats, whose front-runner Roberto Alves raised $55,000 in his first month of candidacy.
Skip to main content For a grieving father, House passage of background check bills is 'a wonderful day of forward motion' FacebookTwitterEmail File photo: Mark Barden, father of Sandy Hook victim Daniel Barden, speaks during the Vigil to #End Gun Violence at the Unitarian Church of Westport in Westport, Conn. on Sunday, December 10, 2017.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media NEWTOWN - An emotional father who lost his son in the Sandy Hook massacre praised this week’s passage of two firearms background check bills in the House of Representatives during a livestreamed virtual march. “The pain my family continues to endure since Daniel was shot to death is impossible to comprehend unless you too have lost someone precious to gun violence as so many have,” said Mark Barden, a co-founder and managing director of the homegrown nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise. “We are committed to sparing other families the never-ending pain of losing a loved one to preventable gun violence, and to seeing to see this lifesaving legislation across the finish line and finally become the law of the land.”