Volunteer Ambulance Corps Responded To Nearly 2,100 Calls in 2009
In 2009, the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NVAC) received 2,097 calls for help, averaging...
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Master Chorale To Reprise Rutter Masterpiece For Upcoming Winter Concert
The Connecticut Master Chorale, under the direction of Tina Johns Heidrich, will presen...
Meet and network with peers, managers, local business owners, and professionals. NFP is a local business professionals’ networking group that meets ...
Petition Requests ‘Fast Tracking’ Road Work On Honey, Nutmeg Lanes
By John Voket
From the perspective of residents living in the area of...
The cafe will welcome Ms Brinkman with an opening reception on Sunday, March 14, from 3 to 5 pm. The public is cordially invited to meet the artist, view the ex...
School-Inspired Art Now Decorating Hawley
By Eliza Hallabeck
During what would normally have been their recess and lunch, 25 students spent roughly three weeks ...
Free Art Therapy Sessions Offered To Cancer Patients
TRUMBULL — The Norma F. Pfriem Cancer Institute at Bridgeport Hospital will sponsor â€	...
Half Of Audited Seafood Short-Weighted, Overpriced Because Of Ice
HARTFORD — The Department of Consumer Protection has found that ice glazing on pac...
Making A Splash — NHS Swimmers Third In SWC Meet
By Andy Hutchison
MONROE — With perennial powerhouse Pomperaug of Southbury and always-...
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.