As voting continued at the different polling places around town, Hawley Elementary School offered breakfast options for "Donuts With Dads" to help promote voting before school on Tuesday, April 26.here.

The school district's main website also posted a reminder for the "Budget Vote, Tuesday, April 26," from 6 am to 8 pm at Newtown Middle School.

Hawley PTA President Kristen Bonacci and PTA members Susan Burbank and Jeni Walker organized the Donuts With Dads event. Ms Burbank said a line of dads waiting to attend the event with their children was already formed by the time the breakfast kicked off just before 8:30 am.

Ms Burbank said the hope for holding the event was to get dads out to Hawley Elementary School, "basically across from the polls," to help support voting at NMS.

Ms Burbank and Ms Bonacci agreed that every voice and every vote matters.

While voters in Newtown Districts 1 and 1-5 can cast both a budget and Presidential Primary ballot between 6 am and 8 pm at NMS, all qualified voters in each of the remaining Newtown voting districts have to cast a presidential ballot at their district polling place, and then respond to the middle school to cast a budget vote.

Residents who live within District 2 and District 3-2 vote at Reed School, 3 Trades Lane; and Districts 3 and 3-5 vote at Head O' Meadow School, 94 Boggs Hill Road.

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At Head O' Meadow Elementary School, PTA members are reportedly waiting outside the presidential primary polling location to help remind voters to also vote on the town's budget at NMS.

Newtown High School shared the message to vote by placing cups in a fence that can be seen as people drive in and out of the Berkshire Road school.