By Kim J. Harmon
STRATFORD – After starting the season at 1-2, the Newtown High School girls’ track team has taken steps to get itself a...
NHS Seniors Wins 1st Place—
Young Artists Musical Showcase
This Weekend
RIDGEFIELD — Geoffrey DiBeneditto, a senior at Newtown High Scho...
After-School Ecology Programs
WOODBURY — Flanders Nature Center will offer after school programs Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 5:30 pm at its Van Vle...
From its inception last fall, Newtown’s Charter Revision Commission has shown a high degree of independence – particularly from the Legi...
Poetry Reading Of Whitman And Dickinson
WASHINGTON — Gunn Memorial Library will host a poetry reading by Susan Kinsolving and Jack Gilpin of poems b...
By Steve Bigham
DANBURY – The Newtown High School boys’ tennis team made quick work of Immaculate Monday afternoon, losing a total of ju...
Commission Poised To Select A Police Chief
By Andrew Gorosko
The Police Commission is preparing to select a person as the town’s police chief.
The t...
Helping The Anxious
Child Cope
The Family Counseling Center, a nonprofit mental health agency, will present a free public workshop, “Helping the Anx...
By Steve Bigham
MONROE – Jodi Minalgo needed a hit and the Newtown High School softball team needed a win.
On Tuesday, both got what they were looki...
The small yard outside of my unit is covered with lovely periwinkle (myrtle), Martha Washington violets – purple and white, and deep purple ones, al...
Thanks for the quote, many people don’t realize Newtown does not exist in a silo and we have peers to benchmark against. For example Trumbull also spends less per student and outperforms us.
ALL students benefit from consistent policies and quality education. Affordability matters, especially to less affluent families which tend to skew more heavily minority based on census data.
This is a pure case of those with the money get what they want. We are allowed to look on but not be part of what should be a town decision.Just saying?