Teaching To The Test
 To the Editor:
Is there any inspiration left in learning? Tom Chapin says it best in a song about how the standardized Connecticut Master...
Local Performance This Weekend—
Belly Dancers Use Much More Than Their Abdomen
By Shannon Hicks
Egyptian Sunrise, a belly dance troupe based at New...
Historical Society Promises Uplifting Program By Karen Tracy
The decade of the 1930s was one of financial pain, but also of excitement, technological developmen...
Violinist & Pianist Will Share The Stage
For Next NFoM Concert
Newtown Friends of Music (NFoM) will sponsor a performance by the violinist Jennifer Stumm and t...
The Process
Needs To Be Fixed
To the Editor:
Last Thursday night [February 25], the Newtown Board of Finance Committee sat in the Lecture Hall of Newtown High ...
Tick-Borne Disease Panel
Begins Work On Final Report
By Kendra Bobowick
As daffodils poke through the ground and temperatures lean toward spring, the Tick-Born...
Nest Box Workshop At Library
Mike Amodeo, environmental educator from Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust, will host a Blue Bird Nest Box Workshop for families ...
Skate Park Plans
Ready For Bid
By Kendra Bobowick
Bank ramps, bowls, rails, and stair systems will soon echo with the clack and whoosh of skaters’ ...
Speed Kills … NHS Girls’ Basketball Team Falls In States
By Andy Hutchison
NORWALK — They say speed kills. On March 2, speed kill...
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.
This is a pure case of those with the money get what they want. We are allowed to look on but not be part of what should be a town decision.Just saying?