Boys Senior Blue
Watertown 9, Newtown 4 – Nikko Confortini and Sean Ryan scored first quarter goals, but Watertown rallied to take a 4-2 le...
Newtown High School
Lists Scholarships
The Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified. A few of the scholarships, typically national one...
Church Tag Sale
SHELTON — The First Methodist Church of Shelton will hold a tag sale on Saturday, May 22, from 9 am to 2 pm. The sale will be held i...
Thomas J. McCorry
Thomas J. McCorry, 82, of Stratford, beloved husband of 56 years of Ann (Grich) McCorry, died April 28 at Bridgeport Hospital. Born in Bridgep...
 Mobile Clinic Neuters Cats
WESTBROOK — The TEAM Mobile Feline Unit, a mobile spay/neuter and vaccination clinic for cats, will visit more than 35 ...
Friday, May 7
May Friendship Day Celebration, 2:30 pm, Lockwood Lodge at Ashlar of Newtown, 139 Toddy Hill Road, free (donations accepted) service led by m...
Boys C/D
Pink Muffins 4, Jaguars 3 – Evan Batzer scored two goals and Kevin Reed added another for the Jaguars, but it wasn’t e...
Homesteads Fashion Show
To Benefit Ambulance Corps
The Homesteads at Newtown will host a Weekenders clothing line fashion show and fundraiser on Saturday, May ...
DUI Charge
Police report that on the night of April 29, they stopped motorist Gina Ahearn, 37, of 25 Underhill Road for driving erratically on Church Hill ...
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.”