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Jill Soderholm, Planning and Zoning
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I have a professional background in architecture, land planning, and real estate finance. As a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission, I would contribute to the evaluation of project proposals and the application of zoning regulations. Most recently I was a member…
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Lily MacHugh, Legislative Council District 3
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I have worked in the C.H. Booth Library for more than three years in a number of roles, as a Reference Librarian, Newtown nonprofit council coordinator, adult programmer, and ESL teacher. This works lets me interact with far more people, with…
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Michelle Embree Ku, Legislative Council District 3
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I think I am supposed to tell you about my experience — where I’ve worked, or how long I’ve volunteered in local government — but the most important part of my background is all of the people who instilled in me…
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Dan Cruson, Police Commission
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold?When I was on the Newtown Board of Education I was the liaison to the District Safety and Security Committee. This committee is a collaborative group between the the school district and town resources including the Police Department and Emergency Management. I…
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Chris Eide, Legislative Council District 1
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? One reason I’m confident that I will be able to serve in this office is that I have done so successfully in the past. I have served on the Legislative Council already for six years. In that time, I served on…
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Bruce Walczak, First Selectman
We’re with Bruce! Other Links, News, Info: I’m with Bruce candidate page. Donate! Bruce on Facebook Walczak Pledges to Listen and Respond
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Paul Lundquist, Board of Selectmen
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? My involvement in Newtown’s local government began back in 2009, and over the years I’ve had the privilege of serving in a variety of appointed and elected roles. Most notably, I served ten years on the Legislative Council, including four as…
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Peter Schwarz, Planning and Zoning Commission
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? As a corporate lawyer, my job is not to create controversies or make problems worse … my job is to advise my executives how to solve a complicated business problem within the law. I’ve been dong that for almost 40 years…
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Arnold Berman, Legislative Council District 3
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I’ve spent my adult life in Fairfield County, living in Stamford, Darien, Westport and Fairfield. Four years ago, my wife Nancy and I chose to make Newtown our home – not by chance, but by conviction. Every candidate of either party…
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Chris Gardner, Legislative Council District 1
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I am a lifelong Newtown resident and I care deeply about our community. I have been a member of the Legislative Council for 4 years, including 2 years as Chair of the LC Finance Committee. Before that I served on the…
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Don Mitchell, Planning and Zoning Commission (Alternate)
I hope to use my years of legal and zoning experience to continue to assist Newtown in administering its zoning rules in a more principled way and, perhaps, even to prompt some real future planning for our town’s growth. I intend to bring a principled, open and balanced view toward development and economic opportunity for…
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Jim Gaston, Board of Finance
What in your background serves you best in the office you’re running to hold? I have extensive education, experience and practical work in finance. I have a double major from Lehigh University in Finance (with an emphasis on public finance) and Economics. I have served nearly 16 years on the Board of Finance as either…
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Walczak Pledges to Listen and Respond
From the Newtown Bee, 7/31/2025 A Commitment to Responsiveness To The Editor: Running for First Selectman is an extraordinary honor, and I’m grateful for the trust the Democratic Town Committee has placed in me. I pledge to serve the residents of Newtown with every resource and ounce of energy I have. As I consider what…
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Action Alliance on Common Ground
Common Ground, Newtown’s own public affairs program, this week features Po Murray and Cali Taylor of Newtown Action Alliance! See it on our Youtube channel:
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Newtown GOP Assault on 1st Amendment Continues
Leading Newtown Republicans continue to fuss over their already failed attempt to regulate the right of residents to peacefully protest in town, this time taking umbrage with lawyer and Finance Board member Jim Gaston’s reasoned response in the Newtown Bee to Legislative Council member Derek Pisani’s July 10 rant in the Bee regarding the perceived…
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GOP Ranting Against … 1st Amendment
Apparently not content with losing a Legislative Council bid to pass an ordinance that would regulate political protests in Newtown — top Republicans have been doubling down, attacking opponents on social media and in Letters to the Editor in The Newtown Bee. (We’re still waiting for Part 2 of THAT rant. Perhaps cooler heads prevailed.)Democrats…
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Democrats at the Senior Center
Our monthly lunch at the senior center is drawing a crowd.
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‘Good Trouble’ on Main Street
Let’s not forget, as November elections approach, that the response of local Republican officials and candidates to peaceful protest has been to try to regulate it, rather than work with and within the community and to respect the First Amendment.
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Your Selectman Candidates!
Remarks from Bruce Walczak, Democratic nominee for First Selectman, announcing his candidacy on July 21, 2025 at Edmond Town Hall: Good evening, friends and neighbors, It’s a genuine honor to be here with all of you tonight. Holly and I have called Newtown home for the past 34 years. Many of you have seen us…