Saturday, February 7

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Feb 06, 2004 12:00 AM

Saturday, February 7

NUMC Monthly Pasta Dinner, 5â7:30 pm, Newtown United Methodist Churchâs Rauner Hall, 92 Church Hill Road, admission $8 adults, $7 seniors, $3.50 children, full spaghetti dinner includes salad, desserts, and soft drinks/coffee raises funds each month for church, all welcome, coffee house/musical event follows; 426-0617.

NUMC Coffee House, 7:45â10:30 pm, Newtown United Methodist Churchâs Rauner Hall, 92 Church Hill Road, admission $3 for those attending earlier pasta dinner (see above listing), $4 otherwise, live bluegrass and folk music, refreshments, suitable for all ages; 426-0617.

âTrinity Rocks the Town Hall: 1st Annual Dance Party Benefit,â 7:30 pmâmidnight, Edmond Town Hallâs Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, tickets $25/person, $40/couple, live music by classic rock band Fog, hot and cold hors dâoeuvres, proceeds will help defray costs for members of Trinity Episcopal Churchâs Workcamp â04; 270-9116.

Monday, February 9

Commission on Aging, 5 pm, Multi-Purpose Building, Riverside Road.

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

âFacing Mr Edisonâs Music,â 7:30 pm, C.H. Booth Library community room, 25 Main Street, free program by collector Joan Lubus about Thomas Edisonâs many patents including his Diamond Disc records and phonograph, sponsored by Newtown Historical Society; 426-5937.

Tuesday, February 10

Open Space Committee, 8:30 am, Canaan House at Fairfield Hills.

Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, Reed Intermediate School at Fairfield Hills.

Borough Board of Burgesses, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers, 7:30 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Wednesday, February 11

Borough Zoning Commission, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, Canaan House at Fairfield Hills.

Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) program, 7:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free and open to nonmembers, critique of membersâ work led by Janine Wesselmann; 426-6654.

âEdible Landscaping & Herbs,â 7:30 pm, Multi-Purpose Building (Senior Center), Riverside Road, free program by organic farmer, author and environmental artist Bill Duesing (owner, Old Solar Farm, Oxford), sponsored by Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown; 426-5359.

âParent Connection: Kid Connection,â 7â9 pm, Newtown Middle School, Queen Street, free forum hosted by The Parent Connection will feature panel of local students answering substance abuse-related questions from parents, snow date February 25; 426-9280, 426-6424.

Thursday, February 12

LINCOLNâS BIRTHDAY.

Water Pollution Control Authority, 7:30 pm, sewage treatment plant, Commerce Road.

SHOP President Offers Update On Sandy Hook Center Pedestrian Bridge

Snapshot: Paula Toi

Reminder: Lower Flags For Peace Officers Memorial Day

Music Inspired By Shakespeare’s Plays, Sunday At The Meeting House

BOE Referendum, Round Two, UnderwayRegistered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.Registered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.All voting is again taking place at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street. Polls opened at 6 am and will remain open until 8 pm.Following a rejection of the school budget by 507 votes at a referendum on April 23, the Legislative Council at its April 29 meeting slashed $1,408,307 from the Board of Education’s proposed 2024-25 budget.The reduction was unanimously approved by all 12 councilmen, in contrast to a previous, pre-referendum meeting on March 27, where no bottom line for the school budget drew more than a simple majority of seven votes.The new bottom line of $87,409,066 is a $2,339,415 or 2.75% spending increase over the 2023-24 budget, which places it in line with the municipal budget, which was passed by voters.The previous proposed 2024-25 BOE budget rejected by voters was $88,817,373, which would have been a $3,747,722 or 4.4% spending increase.The education budget failed, 1,701 No votes to 1,194 Yes votes.On the secondary question to the education budget — If the proposed sum for the Board of Education is not approved, should the revised budget be higher? — the responses were 727 Yes and 2,071 No.The Registrar of Voters reported 15.1% of Newtown’s registered voters participated in the April 23 referendum, with 2,952 people showing up at the middle school to vote and another 47 turning in absentee ballots.

You have Capital Tax Recovery confused with a different company, Municipal Tax Services. Municipal Tax Services works with the City of Waterbury. That was discussed at a previous counsel meeting.

Council Approves Money For Vehicle TaxRecovery

It is a shame but yes, we are so broke... The NIMBY crowd will not allow any new development so there is no ability to add to the tax base... got to hire strangers to park at our schools, and grocery stores and sneak around on our property to ensure our kindergartners Spanish class doesn't get canceled.

I was the recipient of such a invasion of my privacy when my daughter was visiting her boyfriend in Waterbury. They tried to get me to pay them taxes instead of Newtown. They were rude, offensive and threatening and I had to call the mayor of Waterbury to finally get it cleared up after being threatened. It was a long drawn out process to get this overturned. Are we that broke that we have to turn our residents over to these mercenaries? This is beyond belief. How dare you hire these rent a cops to harass and threaten us?

Thanks for the quote, many people don’t realize Newtown does not exist in a silo and we have peers to benchmark against. For example Trumbull also spends less per student and outperforms us. ALL students benefit from consistent policies and quality education. Affordability matters, especially to less affluent families which tend to skew more heavily minority based on census data.

Newtown Cares About Its Students, Not Just The Numbers

Why should it be a town decision? The town does not own the land. This town is not one big HOA.

Development Of Unprotected Land Could Permanently Change Character Of The Borough

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