The Board of Education, at a special public meeting on March 4 in the Middle School, released its tentative budget proposal for 1975-76. If changes are not made by the time the budget submittal is due on March 15, the Board of Finance will be asked t
The Board of Education, at a special public meeting on March 4 in the Middle School, released its tentative budget proposal for 1975-76. If changes are not made by the time the budget submittal is due on March 15, the Board of Finance will be asked to consider a request of $7,120, 435. The figure represents a $1,120,435 increase over the 1974-75 town meeting-approved budget of an even $6,000,000 for the school board.
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The Board of Selectmen was still waiting this week to receive a list of citations and findings from the Occupational Safety & Health division of the State Labor Department, as a result of an inspection fo the town garage on Church Hill Road by two OSHA compliance officers in February.
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The Board of Selectmen will take comments from the public relating to the Ram Pasture in the first part of their meeting on March 11. Their aim is to try to assess the townâs response to the idea of purchasing the 12 acre meadow at the corner of Rotues 302 and 25 before taking it on the road leading to a town meeting. The property, currently in the hands of the Cemetery Association, has a price tag of $120,000. Leasing is out of the question, according to Association decision. The first choice then is simply whether to spend the money or not.
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A wooden foot bridge has appeared alongside the span which carries Turkey Hill Road over the Pootatuck River, and Highway Superintendent Edward Napier said he has received a number of calls about it. The old bridge is slated to be replaced, as the Board of Selectmen expect to open bids for construction of a new span at its meeting on March 18. When the present bridge is removed, the wooden structure will enable school children to walk across to get to their buses, said Mr Napier.
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The piano students of Lois Gold, Main Street, Newtown, will present their first annual Winter Recital on Saturday, March 8, at 11 am in Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Route 133, Brookfield. Students in the class participating in the recital will be Pam Schulze, Faith Exconde, Barbara Biscoe, Peter Mohlenhoff, Susan Hennessey, Leo Exconde, Nancy Exconde, Mary Watson, Anita Alonte, Susan Meyer and Anne Campbell, Bobby Perkinson and Robert Riebe. Michael Gold will play a cello solo during the recital.
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The Board of Selectmen decided at a special meeting on Friday, February 28, that it will resubmit to a town meeting the question of purchasing the 7.35 acre Frinch property on Rotue 25 as a location for a town garage. A February 13 town meeting rejected the purchase by an 82-74 vote.
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In its quest to seek various means for beautifying Newtown, the Beautification Committee is planning dogwood tree and bulb planting projects, both of which were discussed at length at the committeeâs meeting on Monday March 3, in the home of chairman Mrs Benjamin Blanchard of Main Street.
MARCH 10, 1950
The adjourned session of the annual town meeting will be held at the Edmond Town Hall on Thursday evning, march 16, at 7:30 oâclock. Action will be taken upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance that a tax rate of 26 mills be levied on the Grand List of 1949 to cover the expenses of the town for the fiscal year 1949-1950. The detailed recommendation of the Board of Finance indicates a total budget for the year of $277,770.47.
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Final figures for Newtown in the annual appeal for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reveal total receipts of $1396.28, according to an announcement this week by Judge Paul V. Cavanaugh, Newtown chairman. This is the largest amount collected in any one year for the purpose, Judge Cavanaugh states. Of the total, $1231.81 was received in voluntary individual gifts, $55.93 from the schools and $108.44 from coin boxes placed about town in public places.
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Marking completion of 20 years of Scouting in Newtown an the 40th year of the world Boy Scout movement, this Mondayâs meeting of the Rotary Club of Newtown held in the Parker House was turned into a Boy Scout night. The club sponsors Boy Scout work in Newtown. Larry Soars, executive of Pomperaug Council, with headquarters in Bridgeport, was present to give a history of the Boy Scout movement, and Sidney Dobbs, assistant local Scoutmaster, was present with four members of Troop 70 to explain and demonstrate the local work.
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Miss Bertha Piper of the Fairfield State Hospital staff has announced that the hospital is again in need of magazines and suitable reading material for patients. It is suggested that residents having a supply of such magazines on hand, tie them in bundles and drop them off at the administration building of the hospital where they will be gratefully received and distributed.
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Commander George L. May presided at the meeting of the Raymond L. Pease Post American Legion held in Edmond Town Hall Tuesday night. It was decided at the meeting to hold a card and bingo party, with the help of the Auxiliary, in the Edmond Town Hall gymnasium on Thursday night, April 13.
For the second year the Protestant and Orthodox Churches are combining in a united effort to help their less fortunate Christian neighbors in a program entitled The One Great Hour of Sharing.
MARCH 6, 1925
W.C. Johnson, the efficient and popular state road foreman, has been busy with his assistants filling in the washouts caused by the heavy rain on the Depot Road, Sunday night. A large 30-inch steel sluice is to be put across the road, which will prevent further trouble along this road.
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Two games of basketball were played at the Hawley gymnasium, last Friday night, and at both the girlsâ and boysâ games Hawley School was victorious over the New Milford High. The girls lived up to their expectations and are now champions in their particular field, having lost no games. The score was 17-5. (Note: Players for Hawley: Ferris, Farrell, Kirchner, McGuire, H. Nichols, Johnson, Kiernan) The boys game was closely fought. In the third quarter the score stood even, 8-8, but in the last quarter, the Hawley boys came out victorious, 15-10. (Players for Hawley: Leahy, Kennedy, Keyhne, Brenner, Glover)
MARCH 9, 1900
The Boston Bakery is to open a Cash Bakery in Augurâs building, Sandy Hook, and as the proprietors are Newtown boys they will no doubt get a generous share of the public patronage.
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Rev. O. W. Barker will preach at the Hawleyville Chapel on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 oâclock.
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Thomas Donovan has the contract for building two large sluice ways for the town on the road near his home at Lake George.