Public hearing set for cancer center is next big step for $80M Danbury facility
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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
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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
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The front jacket of Eric Metaxas’ new memoir, “Fish Out of Water.”contributed imageShow MoreShow Less
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The back jacket of Eric Metaxas’ new memoir, “Fish Out of Water.”contributed imageShow MoreShow Less
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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?
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Michael Safranek, Danbury’s Republican Party leader.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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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.
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For a grieving father, House passage of background check bills is a wonderful day of forward motion
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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,