Congresswoman Hayes interacted with residents from in and around Newtown during a Congressional Update and Q&A Session at Newtown Community Center earlier this week.

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 the prospect of enhanced collaboration.

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.

There is plenty to read at newtownbee.com, but so much more information to be found in print.

Ahead of the 55th anniversary of The Selma to Montgomery Marches that took place in March 1965, Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks is hoping to hear from current and former Newtown residents who either participated in any of those historic marches, or lived in Newtown in March 1955 and remember first-hand accounts of the events in Alabama.

A 17-year-old from Danbury was died late Friday, January 17, as a result of injuries suffered in a one-car crash on I-84 in Newtown.

The public is invited to a winter autism resource event at Newtown Community Center, 8 Simpson Street, on Saturday, January 25.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill reminds votes that if they are registered in one party, but want to vote in a different party’s presidential primary this April 28, they must change their registration by January 28.

Over the course of two meetings held two nights apart on January 13 and 15, the Board of Finance and Legislative Council finalized a five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) that included a moratorium on bonding in the 2025 fiscal cycle — creating what officials have dubbed a “debt vacation.”