The Working Women's Forum, an association of local professionals and entrepreneurs, will feature "Seven Tips For Growing Your Small Business" with Belinda Wasse...
On November 4, and continuing the first Friday of each month, Trinity Episcopal Church invites the public to "First Friday at Trinity," for a t...
Kevin J. Seeley, 63, retired Brookfield police officer, cherished husband of Patricia (Schimkosky) Seeley, died at Danbury Hospital on October 17. He was born i...
The costumed masses began heading up Church Hill Road by 4:30 Monday afternoon, heading toward Newtown's ultimate Halloween destination: Main Street.donating ba...
With the sun still bright but falling low in the sky, ghouls and goblins emerged before dark, with a taste for sugar on their lips. Wrapped in tattered rags and...
Wrapped in tattered rags and with a bandaged bleeding head was a young man on the front steps of first one, then another Main Street home, bag outstretched for ...
David R. Donigian, 75, of Sandy Hook, devoted husband, loving father and grandfather, died peacefully at home on October 30, after a long and courageous battle ...
Nancy C. Peterson, 84, longtime resident of Newtown, died peacefully October 28 at Danbury Hospital, surrounded by her family. She was born in Staten Is...
About 100 and their owners gathered on Saturday, October 29, at the town's Park and Bark off-leash dog park at Fairfield Hills to celebrate the canine version o...
To the Editor:
When thinking whom to vote for in our Connecticut Election on November 8, ask yourselves these questions:
Who voted to raise our taxes?
Who has s...
Yes, she did say that. Why would any bureaucrat publicly admit they made a mistake or recommended violating policy? Yet others, including board members, acknowledged naming the vendor for the routing services as All Star was "a mistake" and likely poisoned the well to other bidders (as was explicitly specifying the fuel type of the rolling stock.) While the members knew they did not get a competitive response to the RFP, they awarded the contract anyway... to the same vendor who got a no-bid contract in 2017. That means Newtown's ~$4.5M annual bus contract has not been put out to bid in 10 years, something to consider when asking why our PPE is so high.
They clearly didn't get the message ! CUT THE BUDGET by 20% , not raise it ! Newtown spends $2,500,000.00 every week now ! It will be $2.6m if you approve it ! Who are these people not paying attention to the cost of living? Throwing money at the school administration will not make your kids any smarter ! We are at $22K per kid per year, that is insane ! CUT THE BUDGET ! Go show up and VOTE, because 1200 people who voted yes will show up again, and it's the 1200 people who decide your cost of living for years to come. 51% voters turnout should be mandated to approve the budget, not pathetic 15% of voters. Stop these nonsensical referendums and send everyone a card in the mail so we have a true outcome what people actually want.
All due respect, the headline to this article is misleading. The budget presented was a proposed budget that did not pass public referendum. There are no cuts to anything, rather a reduction in the Board of Education original asking dollars. As matter of fact, the current recommendation from the LC is an increase of 2.3M more than the previous budget from 2023/24.
Some background on the Bus comment Mr Knapp made on not following policy. From ther Bee may 2023.
Following a Request for Proposal (RFP), the school board learned at its March 15 meeting that only one bid came back for the school district’s transportation contract. The current contract with All-Star Transportation, which oversees the majority of bus routes for the district, is set to end at the end of this school year.
At the May 3 meeting, district Director of Business & Finance Tanja Vadas said — reacting to Public Participation speaker Ryan Knapp who, among other things concerning the transportation contract, questioned the school district’s RFP process — she stands by the district’s RFP process “but other companies just didn’t bid.”