A reminder that the 2023 Ram Pasture Tree Lighting is now scheduled for tomorrow night.
Originally planned for December 1, the event was postponed last week ahe...
Robert William “Bob” Cornell, 97, of Southbury, died November 23 at Danbury Hospital, after several months of declining health. A longtime resident of Newtown, ...
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The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library would like to thank everyone involved in making our 2023 Holiday Sale a huge success: the C.H. Booth Librar...
The season’s here
With mirth and cheer,
Giving cause to celebrate,
Share thankfulness
And gratefulness—
There’s a lot to allocate.
What better spot
Where warmt...
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Thank you, Newtown! With your generous donations, FAITH was able to provide a record 110 full Thanksgiving meals. Every family received a turkey ...
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The Newtown Choral Society presented their winter concert “Songs of the Holiday Season” to an enthusiastic crowd on Sunday, December 3 at The Mee...
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There is a dangerous intersection created from the new traffic patterns at exit 11.
Cars traveling from Route 34 and heading to 84 Westbound inte...
Readers and residents had two very unsettling events take place last week.
First, there was a security concern at one of the schools during the morning of Novem...
Every journey is different. Two people can follow the same path, but their footsteps will not fall on the same ground. Following someone’s footsteps still means...
EAST HADDAM — Dreamgirls, the 1981 Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger musical about a fictionalized 60s pop girl group, is a musical that very rarely sees a revival. Mo...
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.”