Less than 8% of Newtown’s registered voters decided the fate of two budget proposals and two bonding requests during a 14-hour period Tuesday, April 26.

All four items passed: a Board of Education budget request of $82 million, a municipal operating budget request of $46 million, underwriting $850,000 for Newtown High School ventilation systems and HVAC renovations, and $600,000 for improvement to Edmond Town Hall’s parking lot.

Of the 18,953 eligible voters, 1,473 voted yesterday — a turnout of about 7.7%.

Further details and responses from local officials will be presented in tomorrow afternoon’s print edition of The Newtown Bee, and updated online.

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Managing Editor Shannon Hicks can be reached at shannon@thebee.com.