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.
A lot of things have changed in Sandy Hook shopping area. The old bridge was no longer needed, the town helped create parking , brick sidewalks and classic street lights were added, and zoning was adjusted to add housing. Spending money on a bridge from nowhere makes no sense, focus on things that will add to the viability of the Sandy Hook Center.
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.