Health Reminders For The Start Of A New Year
“You can’t educate a child who isn’t healthy, and you can’t keep ch...
Backpack Safety Tips
By Susan Coney
Back to school means back to toting around heavy, cumbersome backpacks. Anxious to have every item necessary to be successfu...
NHS Attendance Office Moves To Main Lobby
By Susan Coney
The Newtown High School attendance office will be relocating to the front main lobby area this fall. Du...
Mary Arbas
Mary (Palumbo) Arbas, 77, of Shelton, died July 26 at the Maefair Health Center, Trumbull. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Raymond Fernan...
 *The big event this weekend in Newtown, of course, is the Tercentennial Birthday Party.
 Live music will open the weekend on Friday night and will then keep ...
Theodore George Ruopp
Theodore George Ruopp, 91, of Hawleyville, died July 30 in Chicago, where he was residing with his daughter, Kathleen Ruopp. He is survive...
It is time to start thinking about the fall.
Newtown High School fall sports tryouts are just around the corner and all students anticipating trying out for a t...
Nanotech Dreams—
A Tiny Proposal
For FFH
By John Voket
When it comes to imagining one of America’s first advance degree academies in a ...
Osborne Memorial Golf Classic
The Jim Osborne Memorial Golf Classic, sponsored by the Newtown Rotary Club, will be held Monday, September 12, at Tashua Kno...
Condo Complex Rejection Draws Court Appeal
By Andrew Gorosko
The developer whose proposal for a 59-unit age-restricted condominium complex on Oakview Road was r...
I think its clear that Rebekah has her eyes on other elected positions. Perhaps this is for the best. I'm sure a newly appointed Board Member, who is willing to "show up, learn, and listen" to their colleagues - on both sides of the aisle - may be a welcome change.
When Dan Rosenthal discovered that the same law firm retained by the BOE was representing a company suing our town, he called for the BOE to sever ties with that law firm. Rebekah did not support that position. At the beginning of COVID the Governor and our First Selectman stated there wouldn't be any large gatherings. In spite of that Rebekah helped organize a protest in front of Edmund Town Hall. When she lost the election for state legislator, her acknowledgment speech was divisive (not unifying), as is her BOE resignation statement now. She makes disparaging remarks about the BOE without citing examples to support them. Rebekah quits the BOE before the end of her term. This is irresponsible, unprofessional, and disrespectful of the board members left behind. If she truly cared about serving our students, she would have stayed and continued to voice her opinions on their behalf. Rebekah consistently demonstrates that she does what she wants regardless of anything or anyone else. She is not a team player.
