Saturday, July 7
Absentee voting session for the referendum on the proposed town budget for 2012-13, 9 am–noon, town clerk’s office...
Renegades Win Two, Battle Back For Tie
The Newtown Renegades 86 baseball team got off to strong start in I-84 League play with two wins and a tie this past week...
It’s Not The Money,
It’s How The Money Is Distributed
To the Editor:
My issue with this year’s proposed budgets is not the ...
Liam Loging
Loging, who will be a sixth grader this fall, participated in the Summer Baseball Academy at Newtown High in late June.
Favorite part about play...
CL&P Reports Outages In Wake
Of Conn. Storms
BERLIN (AP) — Connecticut Light & Power reported early this week that few customers were without power...
*Summer Hours: The library will be closed on Sundays through September 3.
*37th Annual Book Sale hosted by Friends of the C.H. Booth Library will be July 14â&#x...
They Did Their Very Best
To the Editor:
Abraham Lincoln said: “I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep o...
 Summer Safety Series Part 2—
Latest Power Outages, Spike In Generator Installations
Prompts Safety Reminders
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By John Voket
This is the se...
Newtown Is Not Polarized
To the Editor:
It has been said that there are voters in town that always vote No to the budget but those are not the folks Pat Llodra ...
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.