The Newtown Lions Club Great Pootatuck River Duck Race will return to Heritage Park in Sandy Hook on Saturday, May 31. Ticket sales officially launch tonight.
For anyone thinking about downsizing or relocating closer to family, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Realtor Joan Alexander is preparing a Lunch & Learn program.
UPDATE: Ahead of expected inclement weather, this event has been postponed. || Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company will host the return of a spring fundraiser at its main station this month.
Readers are invited to join The Town & Country Garden Club on Wednesday, April 9, when they host a guest speaker from Bent of the River Audubon Center in Southbury.
The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will kick off an action-packed April with a special focus on action photography with The Newtown Bee's Sports Editor.
Town Players of Newtown will host auditions this weekend for "Double Vision," written and directed by veteran director, and farce and mystery expert Gene Golaszewski.
The voters spoke, loud and clear that they support our schools and municipal services. The majority vote was a mandate to keep delivering well rated education services and keep it" Nicer in Newtown."
Thank you LeReine, for speaking out about this. The list of public servants who are unfairly targeted for abuse just for doing their jobs has been growing. It is a testament to the power of propaganda that otherwise good and well-meaning people can get so emotional as to act out in this way.
While I respect the outcome of the referendum, I’m disappointed by the way this budget was presented and passed. A 6.72% tax increase and a mill rate jump to 28.78 may have been framed as “just a few dollars a day,” but for many families in town — especially those already stretched thin — those “few dollars” add up quickly.
It’s frustrating to see large increases minimized in this way, and I worry that next year we’ll hear, “It’s only a little more than last year,” as if that justifies an ongoing trend of rising taxes. This year’s combined municipal and education budgets total over $141 million — that’s a significant sum.
All of the referendums deserve to be pasted. We have a history of deferring needed maintenance and then paying more years later. These are required to keep our town owned building and roads in working condition.
