Officer Thomas Bean will be allowed to remain on long-term disability, after Police Chief Michael Kehoe rescinded his recommendation to fire Bean on Dec. 5. The News-Times of Danbury reports the town's Police Commission accepted Kehoe's withdrawal of the proposed firing and dropped the matter Tuesday.
Kehoe declined to comment.
Twenty first-graders and six adults were killed at the school on Dec. 14, 2012.
Bean gets half pay under the town's long-term disability benefits, but there's a dispute over how long he can receive those benefits. Town officials say two years, but the police union says 13 years until Bean's eligible for retirement.
Joe Meyers
Published 5:54 pm, Thursday, December 19, 2013
Longtime Newtown (click here) resident Steven Kellogg has provided the illustrations for a new holiday season children's book, "Snowflakes Fall" (Random House, $17.99), that is meant to "celebrate life" in the wake of last year's Sandy Hook Elementary School murders.
The book is a collaboration between Kellogg andNewbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan.
In honor of Newtown and the village of Sandy Hook,Random House Children's Books made a donation to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, is donating books to the national literacy organization, First Book, and also has donated to the Where Angels Play Foundation.
