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Published: Jan 22, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The superintendent’s proposed 2021-22 $81,080,697 budget represents a 3.09 percent or $2,428,921 increase from the current spending package.
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue shared an overview of the proposal at the Board of Education’s J...
Published: Jan 22, 2021 at 07:00 AM
January 19 may have been the eve of a presidential inauguration, but in Newtown it was all about budgets.
During a regular meeting that evening the Board of Selectmen got the first look at First Selectman Dan Rosenthal’s 2021-22 municipal budget prop...
Updated: Jan 21, 2021 at 04:49 PM
RIDGEFIELD — “He knows what he’s doing.”
Over more than four decades and dozens of award nominations, actor Jeffrey Tambor has earned two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work, having been featured in more than 200 films, animated shows, and te...
Published: Jan 21, 2021 at 04:30 PM
Since mid-October when we switched providers for our crossword — readers were happy to remind us they considered the puzzle up to that time to be on par with the New York Times crossword — we have been seeking a suitable replacement for this entertai...
Updated: Jan 21, 2021 at 05:07 PM
The surge in Newtown’s number of COVID-19 infections continues, with 119 new infections reported in just a week according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH). The community has now lost 57 of its residents, adding two more to the num...
Published: Jan 21, 2021 at 02:02 PM
To the Editor:
I have often wondered why we accept the new revisions of previously accepted concepts, modalities, notions, and beliefs but seem to be stuck on an established idea of what constitutes intelligence. We live at a time when humans live lo...
Published: Jan 21, 2021 at 02:00 PM
To the Editor:
The following is my best attempt to shed some light on a Newtown business owner. Aline Marie, owner of the Newtown Yoga Center, 78 South Main Street, is a great person, period. She is caring and compassionate, has a great sense of humo...
Updated: Jan 21, 2021 at 05:08 PM
Parents were notified this week by Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue and Newtown High School Principal Dr Kimberly Longobucco of a racial slur incident at NHS.
The racial slur was written in a bathroom, and, according to the letter, the in...
Published: Jan 21, 2021 at 09:30 AM
Richard D. Benton of Hawleyville passed away on January 18 at his home after a courageous fight with cancer. He was 75 years old.
Richard was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 16, 1945. He was the last son of Frederick and Edith (Smith) Ben...
Published: Jan 20, 2021 at 02:40 PM
Betty Lynn Smart passed away from complications of COVID-19 in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on January 15. Born on March 20, 1939, to parents Edward Franklin Berryman and Mamie Jane Cox-Berryman in Nettleton, Mississippi. Betty’s father worked for the Civil...
