Key Sandy Hook Streetscape Component To Be Built In Spring
By Andrew Gorosko
A key section of the town’s Sandy Hook Streetscape Project is planned f...
Middle School Students Take Time Out For Some Fun
By Susan Coney
Despite the fact that school was still in session one day before Christmas Eve, the students a...
The Town of Newtown ended the 1979-80 fiscal year last June 30 with an audited surplus of $160,088 from the budget, which will be applied to the budget for the ...
Free YMCA Family Night In Danbury
DANBURY — The Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut’s Boughton Street Branch will hold a free Family Ni...
Cellphone Carriers Hope To Puncture Litchfield County ‘Dead Zones’
LITCHFIELD (AP) — Cellphone carriers are working hard to ...
Special HSO Concert Will Benefit Shepaug
High School’s After School Arts Program
WASHINGTON — Hartford Symphony Orchestra, one of the na...
Charter Revision Process Gets Underway
By John Voket
Newtown is looking for five to 15 good men or women who want to make history, albeit in a very low-key way....
Fourth Annual Free Film Festival
To Be Held At Bethel Cinema
BETHEL — The Robert S. Young Foundation for Jewish Culture of the United Jewish Center ...
Book Discussions Planned At Danbury Library
DANBURY — The next Danbury Library Daytime Book Group discussion will concern In the Time of Butterflies...
Specially designed wheelchairs provide necessary mobility and extend an arthritic dog’s life. Pet owner Roseann Reggiano had a wheelchair built to a...
BOE Referendum, Round Two, UnderwayRegistered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.Registered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.All voting is again taking place at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street. Polls opened at 6 am and will remain open until 8 pm.Following a rejection of the school budget by 507 votes at a referendum on April 23, the Legislative Council at its April 29 meeting slashed $1,408,307 from the Board of Education’s proposed 2024-25 budget.The reduction was unanimously approved by all 12 councilmen, in contrast to a previous, pre-referendum meeting on March 27, where no bottom line for the school budget drew more than a simple majority of seven votes.The new bottom line of $87,409,066 is a $2,339,415 or 2.75% spending increase over the 2023-24 budget, which places it in line with the municipal budget, which was passed by voters.The previous proposed 2024-25 BOE budget rejected by voters was $88,817,373, which would have been a $3,747,722 or 4.4% spending increase.The education budget failed, 1,701 No votes to 1,194 Yes votes.On the secondary question to the education budget — If the proposed sum for the Board of Education is not approved, should the revised budget be higher? — the responses were 727 Yes and 2,071 No.The Registrar of Voters reported 15.1% of Newtown’s registered voters participated in the April 23 referendum, with 2,952 people showing up at the middle school to vote and another 47 turning in absentee ballots.
You have Capital Tax Recovery confused with a different company, Municipal Tax Services. Municipal Tax Services works with the City of Waterbury. That was discussed at a previous counsel meeting.
It is a shame but yes, we are so broke... The NIMBY crowd will not allow any new development so there is no ability to add to the tax base... got to hire strangers to park at our schools, and grocery stores and sneak around on our property to ensure our kindergartners Spanish class doesn't get canceled.
I was the recipient of such a invasion of my privacy when my daughter was visiting her boyfriend in Waterbury. They tried to get me to pay them taxes instead of Newtown. They were rude, offensive and threatening and I had to call the mayor of Waterbury to finally get it cleared up after being threatened. It was a long drawn out process to get this overturned. Are we that broke that we have to turn our residents over to these mercenaries? This is beyond belief. How dare you hire these rent a cops to harass and threaten us?
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.