The 47th Friends of the C.H. Booth Library Book Sale will be held at Reed Intermediate School July 7-11.
Book Sale Chair Denise Kaiser says there will be “appro...
Russell E. Bevans Sr, 79, of Oxford, passed away on June 27, 2023, at Waterbury Hospital surrounded by family.
Born in Bridgeport to Ernest and Ada Bevans, he w...
On the day of the ribbon cutting for EverWonder Children’s Museum at its new and expanded location, Executive Director Merredith Christos said it seemed “very s...
Newtown native Karen Lewis, associate professor of architecture at The Ohio State University, will share her current research on the historic Midwest and Northe...
Heat, humidity and a little smoke from the Canadian wildfires expected over next three days. Summertime heat and humidity mixed with a little smoke from the Can...
Mrs Betty Lee (Hatcher) Pantuso, age 86, passed away peacefully on July 4, 2023, at her home at Weinberg Village Assisted Living in Tampa, Fla.
Born in 1936 in ...
Have you heard the rumor about the $1.1 billion in rebates coming back to healthcare insurance customers just like you because of apparent over-billing of premi...
To the Editor:
Miracles happen every day? Maybe to someone else but definitely not to me! Full disclosure: I am a born-again Christian for 55 years. I believe i...
To the Editor:
Protect Our Pollinators (POP) wishes to extend our sincere thanks to the Garden Club of Newtown for their continued support. The Garden Club reco...
To the Editor:
Recently national partisan politics reared its ugly head on the Board of Education.
Valuable time was wasted, diverting our elected officials fro...
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.”