The Board of Education heard from several residents at a scheduled public hearing for the budget on Thursday, January 26. The board is scheduled to finalize its budget on Tuesday, January 31, at the Newtown Municipal Center at 7:30 pm. Once the budget passes the school board, it will go before the Board of Finance and the Legislative Council before going to referendum.
Elizabeth Lowery of Sandy Hook wanted “a natural, intervention-free birth” for her second child. She got that, and more, when daughter Charlotte was born on January 24 while Wilson Lowery was driving his wife to the hospital Tuesday morning. Charlotte’s birth certificate gives “Exit 9 I-84” as the place of her birth.
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The Secret Adventures of Pancho Villa: Poems and Memories of Other Beloved Pets is a collection of Donald Dale Jackson’s pet-themed writings. Coordinated by Darlene Jackson a few years after her husband’s passing, the book offers fiction (Don’s take on a fantasy life lived by the book’s title character, the couple’s first cat), nonfiction (a touching essay about their collie, Holly Golightly), and seven poems honoring cats.
It did not occur to Danielle Smith and Scott Kunz that there might be a silver lining behind the clouds Sunday, August 28, as they stood outside their home at 62 Scudder Road. A gigantic hickory tree lay across half of the roof, pushing out the walls and allowing the last of the rain from Tropical Storm Irene to pour down into the basement....Read More
Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team showed in its January 20 win over Kolbe Cathedral just how dangerous it can be — and how important it is for the Nighthawks to flip that proverbial switch to turn the lights out on opponents....Read More
Competing day in and day out, but struggling to find ways to win, Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team finally put the skids on a six-game drought. The Nighthawks did so with 61-50 victory over visiting Norwich Free Academy on January 18....Read More
As a part of Newtown’s efforts to upgrade its animal control program and facilities with a new dog pound on Old Farm Road at Fairfield Hills, the Board of Selectmen last week reviewed a two-page proposal called “Policy and Procedure, Impounded Animal Euthanasia.” The first selectman explained that the document was an attempt to formalize and codify a set of de facto practices that have been in place for more than a decade. The use of the word “euthanasia” in the title of the proposal, however, set off alarm bells in the town’s dedicated corps of animal protection advocates, many of whom showed up at the selectmen’s special meeting January 19 to insist that Newtown not abandon its recent tradition of maintaining a “no-kill” animal shelter....Read More
This week's movie: Real Steel
Next week's feature: Tower Heist
Screening of Stray Dog | Middle Gate School 4th Grade Chorus concert | Board of Education public hearing | Board of Finance meeting
Planning and Zoning Commission special meeting/workshop
Open House at Newtown Congregational Preschool | Guided Walk at Holcombe Hill Preserve | Author & Illustrator Program at Booth Library
(no public events announced)
Board of Education meeting
Borough Zoning Board of Appeals special meeting | Legislative Council meeting | Zoning Board of Appeals meeting
Regional Recycling Task Force meeting | Board of Ethics meeting | Planning & Zoning Commission meeting | “Camera Basics” workshop by Flagpole Photographers Camera Club
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School Open House | Take Your Child To The Library Day Puppet Show | Deborah Henson-Conant at Flagpole Radio Caf�
Board of Selectmen meeting
Lake Zoar Authority meeting | Board of Education meeting | L ake Lillinonah Authority meeting
Borough Zoning Commission meeting | Newtown Arts Festival Committee meeting
Water & Sewer Authority meeting
Friday Night Bingo
Turn Nickels Into Gold: NHS Varsity Winter Guard Fundraiser (two locations) | The Newtowner Masked Ball
Trio Solisti in concert
Board of Finance meeting | "Hidden In Plain View: Quilts During History" program
ST VALENTINE'S DAY | Newtown Parks & Recreation Commission meeting | Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers meeting | Conservation Commission meeting
Borough Zoning Board of Appeals meeting
Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority (HRRA) meeting | Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials (HVCEO) meeting | Screening of High and Low | Sustainable Energy Commission meeting | Planning & Zoning Commission meeting