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By Connecticut State Statute Chapter 99 on Municipal Charters and Special Acts, towns are required to review and update their Town Charters every ten years; Newtown has been doing charter reviews every five years. The review of the charter is an imp...

The town’s attempts to divest itself of some properties, such as 3 Main Street, Kent and Shelton Houses at Fairfield Hills, and the Batchelder property, have all been continuing sagas going back years — in the case of the Batchelder property, 40 year...

With the announcement of the specifics of the 2026-27 budget, it has been revealed that this year’s budget contains four new town positions, one of which is a director of operations at a proposed salary of roughly $125,000. This position has kicked o...

The Legislative Council found itself presented with an interesting conundrum at its recent meeting on January 21. A resident approached the council for a second time after some talks with Councilman Ben Ruben, asking the town to consider a ban on sho...

Intermittent snows over the weekend caused no end of trouble for Newtown’s Department of Public Works. With 1,000 hours of overtime across DPW employees, especially plow drivers, the on again, off again snow, combined with freezing conditions causing...

Winter brings with it flu season, and this year, a dramatic increase in flu cases. The CT Mirror recently reported that "flu cases in Connecticut have increased dramatically over the last month, and health officials say the surge in illnesses is hap...

According to Scientific American, 40% of people set New Year’s resolutions each year. However, as many as 88% among that number do not keep their resolutions for more than two weeks. As a matter of fact, Quitter’s Day is the second Friday of January,...

First anniversary, fifth anniversary, tenth, twenty-fifth, fiftieth, sixtieth … most milestone anniversaries have traditional or contemporary gifts assigned to them. What does one do to celebrate a 250th anniversary? For one thing, we become very fam...

Not to take credit for a good insight — this was recently seen in a shared post on a local social media group: “I heard something recently that really made me pause. A woman who works at a thrift store said she wishes people would donate their childr...

The Connecticut Better Business Bureau recently noted that Thanksgiving weekend saw an estimated 197 million shoppers last year, according to the National Retail Federation. Black Friday, traditionally the single busiest shopping day of the year, arr...