It may be that the only thing that prevented Newtown High School’s girls’ golf team from either winning a championship or finishing runner-up in the South-West Conference a year ago was the fact the season was canceled due to the coronavirus.
Shawn Tierney, an All-State golfer at New Milford High School and math teacher at Newtown High, succeeds Bobby Pattison as head coach of the Newtown High boys’ golf team.
With a goal of getting to the finish of the campaign, Newtown High School’s boys’ track and field team is striving to also have some success in meets this spring.
A trio of Nighthawks notched hat tricks to account for nine of the Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse team’s baker’s dozen goals in a season-opening win.
All nine Newtown High School baseball players to record at-bats had at least one run batted in or run scored in the team’s 13-6 season-opening triumph at New Milford on April 10.
Newtown High School’s softball team bounced back from a 4-0 season-opening defeat at New Milford on April 10 to earn a 20-2, five-inning, mercy-rule triumph at Bethel on April 13.
At least according to the scoreboard — a 23-0 triumph at Immaculate of Danbury in the season opener on April 13 — Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team showed no signs of rust.
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.
