Coming off a loss in last year’s Newtown High School softball program fundraiser game, the baseball team beat the girls at their own game to even the overall se...
Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team won a pair of lopsided tilts this past week, toppling host Bunnell of Stratford 14-0 on April 25, then bouncing back f...
May 7, 1999
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Wally Wood.
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Last month’s tragedy in Littleton, Colo., and the fear that it could happen again brought parents t...
Magdalene “Maggie” Schaefer Sorrentino, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, and friend, passed away on Saturday, April 27, at age 90.
She was ...
We’re midway through the spring 2024 edition of Lights Out Connecticut. Newtown Conservation Commission is encouraging residents to support Audubon’s Lights Out...
Flags are to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, May 5, in recognition of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service, an annual ob...
The Ladies Auxiliary of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue plans to present the second of its two annual flower sales next weekend. On Friday and Saturday, May ...
BROOKFIELD — When typical Americans Peter and Cindy Kirby invite college exchange student Rob into their home, they find he is the perfect guest — even though h...
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...
Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia Halstead has announced that the Town Clerk’s office will have Special Absentee Voting Hours ahead of the Board of Education referendum...
A lot of things have changed in Sandy Hook shopping area. The old bridge was no longer needed, the town helped create parking , brick sidewalks and classic street lights were added, and zoning was adjusted to add housing. Spending money on a bridge from nowhere makes no sense, focus on things that will add to the viability of the Sandy Hook Center.
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.