Kinealy To Speak About Irish Famine
HAMDEN — Christine Kinealy, an authority on the Irish Famine, will speak at the dedication of the Lender Family ...
Program On Children And Sports Injuries
WATERBURY — More than 30 million children participate in organized sports in the United states. However, eac...
Everyone Was Properly Immunized –
Newtown Students Roll Up Their Sleeves
So The School Year Can Start Smoothly
By Tanjua Damon
There were no rejecti...
Fall Domestic Violence And Sexual
Assault Hotline Training
DANBURY — The Womens’ Center of Greater Danbury is now screening volunteers ...
Rabbi/Comic Brings Laughter To United Jewish Center
DANBURY — Rabbi Bob Alper, the world’s only practicing clergyman doing standup comed...
A Musical And Spiritual Journey To Scotland
By Jan Howard
Members of the Valley Presbyterian Church choir in Brookfield have returned from a 12-day tour of Scot...
Memory Walk For Alzheimer’s
HARTFORD — On October 8, the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern Connecticut will hold its annua...
Health Forum Addresses ‘Controversial’ Illnesses
NEW MILFORD — On Wednesday, September 20, at 6:45 pm at the New Milford Hos...
Heidi Evans Receives_eCertified Designation
Heidi Evans of Prudential Connecticut Realty has received the distinguished eCertified designation from the Prudenti...
Friday, September 8
Housatonic Valley Economic Development Partnership, noon, Old Brookfield Town Hall, Routes 25 and 133, Brookfield Center.
By The S...
In the case of the example given, CP Western Studies, grades move from 89 to 86 from 2017/18 to 2019/2020. Would be interesting to know if this is a statistically significant change. In the case of an 89, the students' corresponding GPA is 3.33. For the 86, it is 3.0. With colleges having hard and fast cutoffs for scholarships where as little as a 0.1 GPA difference can be make or break, small percentage differences in a grade can have an outsized impact if they fall near a breakpoint in GPA. That is, the GPA conversion isn't a smooth function, but rather a step function. If average grades are "in line", is 2 points lower considered "in line?" Many classes are said to have higher grades. What has the distribution been? Is the median class grade higher or lower overall in the school? Not advocating for grade inflation, and I don't have any students in the system. It is important to consider whether the resulting changes in grade distributions might affect competitiveness for scholarships.
from this Senator Tony Hwangs website.
"8-30g law has become an emotional issue for many communities because of the broad latitude it gives developers to build under the auspices of increasing affordable housing inventory. Developers can place dense, multi-family projects into single-family neighborhoods, or take land set aside for office buildings and make it into residential properties with set aside percentages far below median income housing. These sometimes controversial development projects often change the town’s character and disrupts neighborhoods."
Looking forward to next meeting. I encourage at the next public hearing there should be a serious discussion of the 8.30g option and the realities of what Main Street and Newtown could face at this site. By not working with the potential developers what this site could face. How well the Historic District question can sustain a challenge. Is there an option to trade land at FFH and the town to take control ot 19 Main Street in a fair trade deal as well. There needs to be continued talks to come to a solution. I personally feel this is an ideal location for residence, not rentals, either condominiums and or townhouses that have some age restrictions if needed. Maybe for seniors or our aging population who may want to downsize. Hope to see more residents there who resiide outside of the Borough since this impacts the entire town and its appeal.
Just want to point out how "Nicer in Newtown" isn't taken seriously by others when the tell a government council that it would be okay to build these apartments, but not near where they live. They want to push it off on someone else. Make it someone else's problem. "Nicer in Newtown" ? ...not so much.