To the Editor:
Newtown is blessed in many ways and the Booth Library is one of our greatest blessings.
I had the opportunity to work with the staff and “Friends...
Janet Tanner departed peacefully in her sleep on Monday, May 6, at the age of 93.
Janet was born on January 22, 1931, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She attended a...
On Sunday, May 5, William Ross “Skip” Earle passed away at the age of 76.
Born to Major Ulysses W. Earle and Essie Isadora Coleman Earle, he spent his formative...
Newtown High School and Danbury High School students were honored for their work selected and compiled for the Third Annual Rotary Book Project in a recognition...
Family: My wife Vanessa; sons Justin, Tristan and Ian; and daughter Rowen.
Pets: We have two dogs — Coco, a 5-year-old Australian Toy Shepherd; and Harl...
Fifteen golfers spent the early part of April 29 at Newtown Country Club, where they helped one high school student raise funds for the Newtown Ecumenical Workc...
Barbara Ann Edwards, 89, of Newtown, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on April 29. For 64 years she was the beloved wife of Rudy Edwards.
She was...
John Landolfi, 82, a longtime resident of Newtown, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 3, surrounded by his loving family.
John was born in Salerno, Italy, to...
Mark M. Passero, Sr, 86, of Sandy Hook, passed away Friday, May 3.
He was the husband of Jean (Talarico) Passero.
Mark was born in Stamford in 1937, a son of Gl...
Failure To Obey Stop Sign
Newtown Police report Steven D’Amico, 58, of Danbury, operating a 2023 Nissan Frontier, was traveling on Church Hill Road at 8:11...
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.
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.