Town Accepts Land Donation for Sandy Hook Memorial: Report

SANDY HOOK, CT — Town officials have agreed to accept a donation of land which will be the location of Sandy Hook memorial, reports the News Times.

The five-acre property off Riverside Road would be donated under to the town Sandy under the agreement between the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission and the owners of the Sports Athletic Club. The property backs up to Treadwell Park and the new Sandy Hook School.

The group had originally planned for the memorial to be located at the Fairfield Hills campus, but the group opted to seek another location due to environmental concerns. The Riverside Road site had was first thought to be too close to the school, but commission members felt more comfortable as they walked the property.

The commission consists of parents of children killed on 12/14.

Read more from the News Times here.

Image: White roses with the faces of the victims attached to a telephone pole near Sandy Hook Elementary School taken on Jan. 14, 2013. (Jessica Hill/Associated Press, File)