With a combined decade-and-a-half of experience at two top Connecticut agencies, John Rudolph, principal and creative director of the Newtown-based Map Agency i...
In something of a momentous clash of highly regarded high school rugby teams, the Newtown-based Aspetuck Valley Rugby Club rode a dominant second half to come b...
NOTE: This article was updated with comments from Ben Mason and former NHS Coach Steve George in the May 7 print edition of The Bee.
He once soared as a Ni...
It is not all that uncommon for a top pitcher and starting catcher to be among the team leaders on and off the field in softball. Such is the case with Newtown ...
The Newtown High School Environmental Club’s partnership with Tree-Plenish to offset the school’s paper use by planting trees has produced “roots” of the studen...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursday, April 2...
Following evolving pandemic guidelines, C.H. Booth Library still has safety covered for its patrons.
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Sugar Street At Elm Drive Crash
Camille Stopforth, 21, Monroe, told Newtown police that she had stopped at the stop sign at the northern end of Elm Drive a...
Newtown Savings Bank has announced a partnership with Bank On Connecticut and the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund) in its statewide effort to pr...
Newtown High School’s girls’ golf team won three matches at Newtown Country Club to begin the year. The Nighthawks bested Pomperaug of Southbury 194-162 on Apri...
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.
It is a shame but yes, we are so broke... The NIMBY crowd will not allow any new development so there is no ability to add to the tax base... got to hire strangers to park at our schools, and grocery stores and sneak around on our property to ensure our kindergartners Spanish class doesn't get canceled.
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.