The public is invited to enjoy an afternoon outdoors with Newtown Forest Association at one of Newtown's most scenic locations.
On Saturday, May 7, at 1 pm, the...
Hera's eyes, the color of sunrise, looked at people crowding around her. A saw-whet owl rescued by Sharon Audubon, Hera, named after a Greek goddess, had a coll...
Local schools celebrated the Earth all week long ahead of Earth Day on Friday, April 22.
Middle Gate Elementary School began the week with an assembly on Monday...
At its April 19 meeting the Board of Education heard from some of the Newtown High School students who traveled to Japan in February to take part in an educatio...
To the Editor:
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon on April 24th, the Newtown Lacrosse Club hosted its first annual golf outing at Newtown Country Club. The fundrai...
Decommissioned as of Tuesday, April 26, with its charge completed, the Community Center Commission held its last meeting that night.
After nearly a year of twic...
Patricia Anne Marzik Pribesh, 81, of the Black Rock section of Bridgeport, wife of the late John R. Pribesh, Sr, died April 28 in her home, with her loving fami...
Town Historian Dan Cruson's Edmond Town Hall office is becoming a repository for Newtown ephemera discovered all over the country and returned to its hometown, ...
Newtown High School's softball and baseball teams piled up the runs in road wins over Kolbe Cathedral of Bridgeport on May 2.
The softball team cruised to a 26-...
DANBURY - St Rose of Lima School hosted its first Hands & Hearts in the Community celebration to honor a community member for service to the community on Friday...
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.
