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Nighthawks March To Highest Score Of The Season

Published: Oct 15, 2021 07:00 AM

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard achieved its highest score of the season at Norwalk High School on October 9.

The NHS Marching Nighthawks performed its 2021 show, Everest, and brought home more first place hardware. The show evolves throughout the season, and the crowd in Norwalk was treated to a full musical run. Everest is a story of human struggle and explores the ambitions, desires, tribulations, and ultimately triumphs that “climbers” face on their way to the summit.

The Newtown community will have its chance to catch Everest this Saturday, October 16, when the Nighthawks host the Annual Joseph P. Grasso Festival at NHS, 12 Berkshire Road.

Gates open at 5 pm, performances begin at 6 pm and Newtown performs at 8:30 p.m. Fifteen seniors will be recognized at the end of the performance.

Tickets are $12 for adults, $7 for children. Reed Intermediate and Newtown Middle School students may use the voucher e-mailed recently to parents for a $2 discount.

During the event, the Marching Band & Guard also announced it will pay tribute to Joseph Grasso, the festival’s namesake, who passed away October 9.

Majors and captains of the band and guard pose with the first place trophy and mascot Teletubbies on October 9. Standing left to right are Nina Srivastava, Nate Hoffert, Evan Keckley, Jeremy Voegeli, Michael Spanedda, and Julia Kaiser. Kneeling are Mia Hochstetler, left, and Kaylee Timmons.

Guard members Rachel Krauss (saber) and Cassie Fossum (rifle) point skyward as flutist Gus Osier strides in the background.

Sophomore Jackson DeFelice stirs up emotion with his opening solo on the quad tenor drums.

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A lovely tribute-Matt, we are thinking of you, Tanya, and entire Medve family at this time-Jane & Keith & Family 💙

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

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Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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