CPR And Choking Classes
The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps is planning to hold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and choking classes on Tuesday, November 1...
By Kim J. Harmon
With all the hub-bub over the South-West Conference championship hopes of the Newtown High School boys’ soccer and girlsâ€	...
Girl Scouts Throw Halloween
Birthday Bash For Founder
Newtown Girl Scouts recently celebrated their second annual Halloween Birthday Bash in the Edmond Town Hal...
Discover Martinmas!
The Housatonic Valley Waldorf School’s Early Childhood faculty will celebrate Martinmas with a program for children age 2 to 6 o...
Leona Y. Hanlon
Leona Y. Hanlon, 78, a resident of Sandy Hook the past 57 years, died peacefully at home November 5 surrounded by her loving family. She was the...
Students Invited To Attend Colonial Life Workshop
At The Matthew Curtiss House on Main Street
In the last 300 years there have been many changes in the ways we ...
‘Let Them Eat Turkey’ Lecture At IAIS
WASHINGTON — Dr Laurie Weinstein, a professor at Western CT State University, will off...
A Safer Halloween
To the Editor:
If you were out and about on Main Street Halloween Night you saw what seemed like hundreds of kids and parents trick-or-treatin...
Friday, November 7
17th Annual Christmas in the Country Craft Fair, 6-10 pm, St Rose Parish hall, 46 Church Hill Road, folk art, jewelry, religious items, ...
They clearly didn't get the message ! CUT THE BUDGET by 20% , not raise it ! Newtown spends $2,500,000.00 every week now ! It will be $2.6m if you approve it ! Who are these people not paying attention to the cost of living? Throwing money at the school administration will not make your kids any smarter ! We are at $22K per kid per year, that is insane ! CUT THE BUDGET ! Go show up and VOTE, because 1200 people who voted yes will show up again, and it's the 1200 people who decide your cost of living for years to come. 51% voters turnout should be mandated to approve the budget, not pathetic 15% of voters. Stop these nonsensical referendums and send everyone a card in the mail so we have a true outcome what people actually want.
All due respect, the headline to this article is misleading. The budget presented was a proposed budget that did not pass public referendum. There are no cuts to anything, rather a reduction in the Board of Education original asking dollars. As matter of fact, the current recommendation from the LC is an increase of 2.3M more than the previous budget from 2023/24.
Some background on the Bus comment Mr Knapp made on not following policy. From ther Bee may 2023.
Following a Request for Proposal (RFP), the school board learned at its March 15 meeting that only one bid came back for the school district’s transportation contract. The current contract with All-Star Transportation, which oversees the majority of bus routes for the district, is set to end at the end of this school year.
At the May 3 meeting, district Director of Business & Finance Tanja Vadas said — reacting to Public Participation speaker Ryan Knapp who, among other things concerning the transportation contract, questioned the school district’s RFP process — she stands by the district’s RFP process “but other companies just didn’t bid.”