Newtown Public Schools Director of Visual and Performing Arts Michelle Hiscavich is excited for the 2022-23 school year, and she has a good reason for that excitement.
For those who are curious about how the US Supreme Court’s recent decisions could affect them — particularly Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health — one state representative will visit Newtown next week to address that topic.
In an exclusive chat this week, singer/songwriter Amy Helm said she is very much looking forward to opening the 2022 Newtown Arts Festival with a headline show at Edmond Town Hall Friday night.
Connecticut Choral Society this month will unite singers, renowned soloists, and instrumentalists in a “Vigil for Peace,” a benefit concert to support Ukrainian relief efforts.
Newtown Arts Festival, now in its tenth year, returns September 17-18 to the large playing fields at Fairfield Hills. An opening night concert is also planned at Edmond Town Hall.
Newtown authors Andrea Zimmermann, Sydney Eddison, and Nancy Crevier are planning an evening of discussion and readings of their recent works, Thursday, September 15, at C.H. Booth Library.
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Jim Laurino painting a landscape in oil on Wednesday, September 14, at 7:30 pm, at The Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street in Newtown (at ...
While it's encouraging to see the town taking steps to put the sewer fund back on track, it's important to recognize how we got here. A significant factor contributing to the current financial strain was the $3.8 million expansion of the municipal sanitary sewer system in 2016—an expansion that was intended to support future development that continues to be blocked by persistent NIMBY opposition.
That investment was predicated on growth that has yet to materialize, leaving ratepayers footing the bill for infrastructure that's currently underutilized. Meanwhile, residents are now facing annual 9% rate increases just to stabilize the system—yet they’re not benefiting from the expansion that was supposed to help distribute those costs more broadly through new hookups.
Another overtly partisan pollical rally, betrayed by their apathy regarding the corruption and mismanagement under their state party leaders in Hartford.
