To the Editor:
I had the most pleasant experience Saturday touring the new Newtown Police Department Station. I had read about the opening event in The Bee and ...
To the Editor:
Our family and Newtown were saddened to learn last week of the passing of Lee Glover. Lee was our friend and long time neighbor. His dry humor an...
Robert Francis Sapienza, 69, of Newtown, beloved husband, father, and brother, was called to his eternal resting place on November 5. Robert was born in Lawrenc...
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue announced in a letter to parents and staff on November 9 that there are several new COVID-19 cases in the school co...
To the Editor:
I am very sad to hear that my ex-boss and friend just lost his job of 40 years of faithful service at the Edmond Town Hall (The Newtown Bee, Octo...
A collaborative effort by 122 United Church of Christ congregations, four associations, and more than 100 households in the Southern New England Conference has ...
The Garden Club of Newtown won several top awards during The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut 91st Annual Awards Meeting.
This year’s event, which took pla...
A Sandy Hook resident has reached the level of Master Weaver, the highest rating awarded by the Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut.
Hanna Roehrs learned of her a...
Due to the application being in the public interest, the Town of Newtown Inland Wetland Commission will hold a public hearing at a special meeting on Thursday, ...
The focus of Governor Ned Lamont’s Monday, November 9 news briefing was on the “good news out there” of that day: the joint announcement by drug maker Pfizer an...
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.