Eagle Scout Court Of Honor Celebrated
An Eagle Court of Honor was held recently at Newtown Meeting House for Ryan DiLuoffo, son of Alice and Vincent DiLuoffo of...
‘Connecticut Yankees At Gettysburg’
WASHINGTON GREEN — Dr Walter L. Powell will present a lecture called “Conne...
Thomas W.
Travers
Founded Advanced
Water Systems On Cape
Thomas W. Travers, 82, of West Harwich, Mass., and formerly of Dobbs Ferry and Riverdale, N...
Adopt From The Animal Center
The following cats are available for adoption through The Animal Center:
COMET is a very friendly and sweet 8-month-old black a...
Drug Charges
Police report that at about 9:55 pm on February 24, they stopped motorist Richard Hopkins, 20, of New Milford for a motor vehicle violation ne...
Recession Tampers With Plans For The Golden Years
By Nancy K. Crevier
For senior citizens, the recession has been a mix of experiences. Some have lost huge amou...
As Business Converges On Capitol, Labor Resumes Push For Paid Sick Days
By Mark Pazniokas
The Connecticut Mirror
A renewed effort to make Connecticut the first ...
David Dunlop To Be Guest Artist For Next SCAN Program
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have a painting demonstration by David Dunlop at its m...
BOE Referendum, Round Two, UnderwayRegistered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.Registered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.All voting is again taking place at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street. Polls opened at 6 am and will remain open until 8 pm.Following a rejection of the school budget by 507 votes at a referendum on April 23, the Legislative Council at its April 29 meeting slashed $1,408,307 from the Board of Education’s proposed 2024-25 budget.The reduction was unanimously approved by all 12 councilmen, in contrast to a previous, pre-referendum meeting on March 27, where no bottom line for the school budget drew more than a simple majority of seven votes.The new bottom line of $87,409,066 is a $2,339,415 or 2.75% spending increase over the 2023-24 budget, which places it in line with the municipal budget, which was passed by voters.The previous proposed 2024-25 BOE budget rejected by voters was $88,817,373, which would have been a $3,747,722 or 4.4% spending increase.The education budget failed, 1,701 No votes to 1,194 Yes votes.On the secondary question to the education budget — If the proposed sum for the Board of Education is not approved, should the revised budget be higher? — the responses were 727 Yes and 2,071 No.The Registrar of Voters reported 15.1% of Newtown’s registered voters participated in the April 23 referendum, with 2,952 people showing up at the middle school to vote and another 47 turning in absentee ballots.
I was the recipient of such a invasion of my privacy when my daughter was visiting her boyfriend in Waterbury. They tried to get me to pay them taxes instead of Newtown. They were rude, offensive and threatening and I had to call the mayor of Waterbury to finally get it cleared up after being threatened. It was a long drawn out process to get this overturned. Are we that broke that we have to turn our residents over to these mercenaries? This is beyond belief. How dare you hire these rent a cops to harass and threaten us?
Thanks for the quote, many people don’t realize Newtown does not exist in a silo and we have peers to benchmark against. For example Trumbull also spends less per student and outperforms us.
ALL students benefit from consistent policies and quality education. Affordability matters, especially to less affluent families which tend to skew more heavily minority based on census data.