RIDGEFIELD - OrthoConnecticut/Danbury Orthopedics invites the public to a free presentation and discussion, "Not Your Parent's Surgery: How Orthopedic Technolog...
Occupation: I work as an emergency telecommunicator dispatcher for the Town of Newtown. I answer emergency and nonemergency calls and then dispatch to the p...
To keep traffic flowing on the eastern end of Sugar Street (Route 302), while workers labor to replace a deteriorated bridge there, the westbound and eastbound ...
NOTE: This is an updated and expanded version of a story first reported on Sunday, November 26, 2017.
By John Voket & Andrew Gorosko
The town's five v...
On November 27, members of the Newtown Lions Club Foundation, Inc presented the Salvation Army Newtown-Bethel Chapter a check for $1,200. The Newtown Lions Club...
The school district has released the 2017-18 Winter Performance Schedule for concerts and events for the public schools.
According to the Newtown Public Schools...
Nearly 800 hungry guests and attendees queued up and consumed 4,674 free pizza slices during the 14th Annual Destination Newtown for Thursday, November 16, at E...
On the occasion of what First Selectman Pat Llodra joked was her "exit interview" with The Newtown Bee, the walls and surfaces in her Newtown Municipal Center o...
Paul Shafer slid into a booth at Village Perk Café in Sandy Hook. From a stuffed folder he pulled out a laminated sorting guide filled with mayfly and stonefly ...
A "holly, jolly Christmas" often means many preparations, including dressing trees in lights. As they do each year, a Public Works Department crew spent time in...
I don't understand the concern...the museum has been open for years on Pecks Lane and the size of the building can easily hold them. 60,000 visitors a year is less than 200 people per day, of which at least 1/2 are children. Plus spread out over the course of the day, it's only 15-16 cars per hour during their daytime business hours. Plus EverWonder is known for working to improve our community and unlikely to place any more harm on the environment than those already driving by daily. I think the author hit the nail on the head & EverWonder has found the absolute best place for their home, and thankfully that's in Newtown where our business can thrive from their success!
The issue is not that our taxes will go up. The issue is that the assessment came at a time when the pandemic brought folks to Newtown in a frenzy to buy small houses (like mine <2000 sq ft). 13 houses on my street with long time residents sold in less than 2 days each with most getting more than asking. And these 'comps' were used for my assessment (42% increase). Now that the market has stalled, housing prices have dropped dramatically. We will pay increased taxes for the next 5 years until the next assessment corrects this anomaly. And wait for the car tax! Not to mention the 'R' word.
