Police Chief Rilling will likely be unhappy as he reads the newspapers today. Reinstated office Liam Callahan is back in the news, this time he was charged in Newtown with first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree threatening and second-degree breach of peace. John Nickerson reports:

Callahan, who was fired for a year after taking a skull fragment from an accident scene in 2005 but later was reinstated, turned himself in at Newtown police headquarters Tuesday evening, Newtown Capt. Joe Rios said.

Callahan’s arrest sparked an internal Norwalk police investigation that could result in his second firing, a police source said. Callahan was placed on administrative leave June 9, the day the Newtown incident took place.

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Patrick Linsey’s report on the meeting between Sal Corda, members of the Board of Ed (BOE), Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) and the Common Council suggests much rhetoric was lofted but little of substance was achieved. From his article:

Several members each from the Common Council, the Board of Education and the Board of Estimate & Taxation attended the meeting. All agreed to tone down political attacks and improve communication after a spring that saw much more of the former than the latter.

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After a contentious discussion the Historical Commission voted to accept a proposed agreement that would spell out the role that the Friends of the Norwalk Museum will run day-to-day operations. From the Hour:

Douglas E. Hempstead, council liaison to the Historical Commission and member of the Land Use Committee, urged commissioners not to argue over the proposed agreement at this point.

“This is conceptual. It’s very broad. It has to reviewed. Everybody is going to have their hand in this,” said Hempstead, referring to the council, the city’s law department and the municipal union to which Gunn belongs. “This will probably turn into a 20-page document.”

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