In Loving Memory
27th Anniversary
November 22, 1993
Though his smile is gone forever,
and his hand we cannot touch,
Still we have so many memories of
The o...
Each week we compile a list of the most read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s top five stories, based on the number of page ...
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue announced in a letter to district parents and staff on November 11 that some students and staff of the Middle Gate ...
To the Editor:
Why did 70 million Americans (including many members of my own family) vote for Trump?
He has encouraged his supporters not to wear masks. That h...
To the Editor:
The Newtown Cultural Arts Commission thanks The Newtown Bee and [Newtown Bee Associate Editor] Shannon Hicks for the terrific article on Hanna Ro...
UPDATE: The Nighthawks defeated Brookfield 3-0 in the semifinal and will host New Milford in the Friday, November 13, championship game at 5 pm.
Newtown H...
The Newtown Fund’s Holiday Basket program, the largest annual undertaking by the fund, is being done differently this year.
The program annually benefits an ave...
RIDGEFIELD — ACT of CT is the first Equity theater in the country to be approved to reopen with a long running indoor musical. The company has jumped through co...
To the Editor:
I grew up in Newtown, worked as Assistant Town Clerk for five years and Town Clerk for 20 years, then moved from Newtown after living there for 5...
Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team completed the season with an unbeaten record at 10-0-2, concluding the campaign with a 5-0 triumph over Brookfield on No...
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.