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Published: Feb 03, 2023 at 08:00 AM
The Board of Education’s 2023-24 spending plan was unanimously approved at its meeting on January 31. As approved by the board, its 2023-24 budget request is $85,990,974, roughly $3,856,335 or a 4.7 percent increase over the 2022-23 budget.
With the ...
Published: Feb 03, 2023 at 07:00 AM
There is some significantly encouraging good news for Newtown High School’s wrestling team as the postseason quickly approaches: These Nighthawks are really tough in the tournament setting.
Postseason begins when the South-West Conference championshi...
Published: Feb 03, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Following two weeks of department by department review meetings, the Board of Selectmen made $67,795 in cuts to the proposed 2023-24 municipal budget, leaving a new bottom line of $46,848,647.
The largest reductions included $40,000 from the Insuranc...
Updated: Feb 03, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Newtown Allies For Change is set to host a free viewing of episodes from the docuseries The 1619 Project on Thursday, February 9, at 6:30 pm, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street.
It is the second evening hosted by Newtown Allies For Change t...
Published: Feb 03, 2023 at 06:50 AM
The Newtown Torpedoes’ youth swim program held its fifth and final regular season meet when the Bristol Splash visited for competition at Newtown High School on January 28. Bristol won 394-260 but the Newtown swimmers continued to show progress.
“We ...
Updated: Feb 08, 2023 at 12:14 PM
Update: This report was updated at 12 pm on February to add a clarification from the C.H.Booth Library Director Douglas Lord about an attribution regarding the library budget operating at a loss in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 fiscal years.
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Published: Feb 02, 2023 at 04:05 PM
To the Editor:
Once Indigenous People were one with tall grass prairies, where lived the Sage grouse, the gopher, the Black Tailed Prairie Dog, the buffalo, the so-important Buffalo soul-mates of the indigenous people. Now the Sage Grouse is almost e...
Published: Feb 02, 2023 at 04:00 PM
To the Editor:
It appears that almost everything that I buy in a grocery store is either wrapped in plastic or it comes in a plastic container. Potatoes come in a plastic bag, onions come in a plastic bag. If I get cold cuts at the deli, they put the...
Published: Feb 02, 2023 at 03:00 PM
As a curiously un-winterlike January gives way to February, the new month offers folks around Newtown an opportunity to focus and learn about a couple of important things.
First and foremost, February is Black History Month. According to our colleagu...
Published: Feb 02, 2023 at 01:00 PM
First Selectman Dan Rosenthal, who followed a similar municipal service path as his father Herb and grandfather Jack, told The Newtown Bee February 1 he was not planning to seek a fourth term as the community’s top elected leader.
In a written statem...
