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For the second time in a week, Newtown was hit with a heavy rainstorm. The Saturday storm caused even more flooding than the one the previous Tuesday. The H...
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Burglary/Larceny
Police received a report on the night of April 2 that a home on Pocono Road in Hawleyville had been burglarized, involv...
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
                           —Scott A...
NHS Suspicious Package Incident A False Alarm
By Andrew Gorosko
What appeared to be a suspicious package, which was spotted unattended on the floor in a corrido...
Town Officials Consider Hawleyville Sewer System Expansion
By Andrew Gorosko
Town officials are rethinking the initial concept behind the Hawleyville sanitary ...
Signs From An Angel
To the Editor:
To date, we have collected $204.45 in our goal to collect returnable cans and bottles to raise money for Relay For Life this ...
‘Hello, My Garden!’
The Horticulture Club of Newtown will host “Hello, My Garden! or, The Weird and Wonderful Spring of 2012...
Speed Tables Coming Soon To Queen Street
By Andrew Gorosko
The town soon plans to install two temporary broad speed bumps, known as speed tables, on residential...
Floral Improv, April 11 With Namesake Of Hartford Flower Show Stoleson Creative Design Award
Terry Stoleson will be presenting a program titled “Imp...
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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?