Through Aug 6: Antiques 10:43 A11/P11 Collectibles at The Mall, Danbury Fair Mall, Backus Ave, Danbury, Fri-Sat 10 am-9:30 pm, Sun 11 am-7 pm, free adm, set up ...
Adelaide E. Osterman
Adelaide E. Osterman, 97, of Frelinghuysen Township, N.J., died July 31 at home. Born in Guttenberg, N.J., Mrs Osterman lived in Cliffsid...
Saturday, August 12
Annie by Summer Theatre Connection, performances 2 and 8 pm, Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road, all matinee tickets $5, evenin...
The dispatchers at Edmond Town Hall report the following fire calls:
No calls July 27-28.
Saturday, July 29: 9:06 am, alarm, no fire, Apple Blossom Lane, Hook &...
Latest Tests Show No Trace Of Virus
By Denise Lavoie
Associated Press
STAMFORD — No new cases of the West Nile-like strain of the encephalitis viru...
Poetry Reading At Danbury Library
DANBURY — A poetry reading of poems from the recently published Heartbeat of New England: An Anthology of Contempo...
Union Asks Police Commission To Make Staff Appointments
By Andrew Gorosko
The Newtown Police Union has asked the Police Commission why an acting sergeantâ€...
WConn Opens Satellite Campus
DANBURY — Western Connecticut State University will offer programs in nursing and management at a new satellite campus...
Council’s Fairfield Hills Panel Postpones Meeting
By Steve Bigham
This week’s Legislative Council meeting on Fairfield Hills was postpon...
Acting Chief Gets High Marks From Police Commission
By Andrew Gorosko
In a job performance evaluation of Captain Michael Kehoe, who has headed the police depart...
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.”