A Year In The Newtown School District
By Eliza Hallabeck
The year of 2008 saw accomplished students graduate from Newtown High School, foreign exchange students...
Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha and one of the smartest investors ever, once mused, “You don’t know who’s swimming naked ...
Police Focused On Better Traffic Control In 2008
By Andrew Gorosko
During 2008, town police focused their energies on the problems posed by traffic, as it affe...
New Programs                                                                     For 2009!...
Burt Chernow Galleries Closed Weekends Through January 25
BRIDGEPORT – The Housatonic Museum of Art’s Burt Chernow Galleries, which are ...
Noted Deaths 2008
As with every year, 2008 saw the passing of several notable figures in Newtown.
Louis D. Marchese, 93, Newtown’s first police chi...
Swamp Road
Police report a motor vehicle accident that occurred during snowy, slippery conditions about 12:30 pm December 19 near 39 Swamp Road.
Motorist D...
Corrections
Readers should note that Susan Belanger, who was featured in last week’s Bee in a story called “Peer Group Counseling Offers...
The Little Stories Of Human Interest That Make Newtown Nicer
By Nancy K. Crevier
The Bee featured many stories with a local and national interest slant duri...
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?