Newtown Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide will be partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration this month for the 26th Drug Take Back Day.
The Borough of Newtown will commemorate its bicentennial with an Evening of Celebration on Thursday, May 16.
By Shannon Hicks
Published: Apr 09, 2024 10:34 AM
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will present Katushka Millones demonstrating mixed media painting with cold wax on Wednesday, April 10.
SCAN To Host Mixed Media Painting With Cold Wax Demo, Wednesday At Meeting HouseThe Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will present Katushka Millones demonstrating mixed media painting with cold wax on Wednesday, April 10.The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Katushka Millones demonstrating mixed media painting with cold wax on Wednesday, April 10, at 7:30 pm.The program will be in the lower gathering room of Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at The Flagpole). The demonstration is open to the public and admission is free.Contemporary artist Katushka Millones lives and works in Brookfield. A native of Lima, Peru, her distinctive personal style emanates joy and peace and expresses the vibrant atmosphere and spirit of the places and moments she loves. Her dreamlike landscapes, mixed media objects, and paintings are brought to life in compositions with harmonious colors, often drawn from themes of nature, memory, time, feelings of tension and harmony, and the female experience.Moved by Turner's dramatic skies, Joseph Cornell's assemblages, and the Old Masters palette,the works of Millones remain in constant communication with the viewer, who becomes part of ascene trapped in time — of light and shade, movement and stillness, sounds and feelings.Her creative process may be influenced by feelings of joy, peace, nostalgia, and solace, andby deep spirituality, which may be represented by the use of light and shadows, a certainpalette or textures. Her paintings are a mix of direct observation, recollection of emotions, andher own imagination, impregnated with different mediums and techniques.In addition to being a fine artist for more than twenty years, Millones earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from a prestigious Peruvian university, where she graduated with honors.Her works have been exhibited and purchased in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Alabama, Canada, and other locations. She continues to expand her artistic horizons beyond the United States, while combining her creative time with art instruction at her private studio in Connecticut.Reservations are not required for SCAN programs but additional information may be found at SCANart.org.
Newtown Allies For Change is planning a book discussion surrounding Keith Boykin’s "25 Arguments That Won’t Go Away: Why Does Everything Have To Be About Race?"
In honor of April as Poetry Month, C.H. Booth Library has launched its first Poetry Walk at Fairfield Hills Campus. A public reception is planned for this Sunday afternoon.
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.
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.