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Updated: Jan 24, 2020 at 09:07 AM
Following Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue’s presentation of her proposed 2020-21 budget, the Board of Education heard administrators speak about proposed individual school budgets for the coming year.
Representatives from most of the sch...
Published: Jan 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
About two dozen people attended the Newtown Senior Center’s Lunch & Learn program to learn more about how to be a Dementia Friend on January 17.
The hour-long informational session was led by Jessica Warner from the Western Connecticut Area Agency on...
Published: Jan 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Back in 2011, we wrote about a discovery of the gravesite of Newtown Bee founder, John Pearce, and his great-great-great nephew C. Michael Anderson’s efforts to have the Department of Veterans’ Affairs place a headstone on that unmarked grave in Be...
Updated: Jan 24, 2020 at 09:48 AM
Although the applicant for a gas station/convenience store proposed for 13 Hawleyville Road (Route 25) has reduced the scale of the controversial project, some residents living nearby are continuing in their opposition to the complex, saying that its...
Published: Jan 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Mental health, education, health insurance options, President Donald Trump’s impeachment hearings, prescription drug costs, the country’s borders, and a variety of other topics kept the 100-plus crowd’s attention Tuesday evening, January 21, as Democ...
Published: Jan 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
A large turn out of residents packed the C.H. Booth Library’s Meeting Room for a Community Conversation with local legislators on the evening of January 22.
State Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, JP Sredzinski, Raghib Allie-Brennan, and State Senator ...
Updated: Jan 24, 2020 at 03:24 PM
As the Boards of Education and Selectmen move into refining individual budget proposals, with the Board of Finance and Legislative Council poised to take up their roles in the annual process, the leaders of each of those elected panels weighed in on ...
Updated: Jan 24, 2020 at 03:26 PM
On first pass, the proposed 2020-21 municipal spending plan that was unveiled to local selectmen January 21 by First Selectman Dan Rosenthal and Town Finance Director Robert Tait does conclude with just under a 2.5 percent increase.
But as officials ...
Published: Jan 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM
Newtown High School's girls' basketball team battled visiting Notre Dame-Fairfield to the finish before falling 56-53 on January 23
Updated: Jan 27, 2020 at 12:25 PM
The notification on January 13 that 19 Main Street, LLC had withdrawn its application for borough zoning regulation changes hinted at a win for the many residents who opposed the proposal for a three-building, 40-unit apartment complex at the site of...
