John Pavia, 79, a Newtown resident since 1969, died January 1. He was born in Faeto, Italy, February 16, 1936. He came to the United States in 1956 and met his ...
Newtown High School's wrestling team placed second to the host Eagles in the Trumbull Duals, on January 2. Newtown defeated Londonderry, Vermont, as well as Mas...
Newtown Lions Club will sponsor an American Red Cross blood drive on Tuesday, January 12, at Newtown Congregational Church. The blood drive will be conducted in...
Moss Mountain Music will launch a Winter Concert Series on Saturday, January 9, from 7 to 9 pm, at The Stone Barn Stage and Cafe.
The BluesyLand Band is kicking...
To the Editor:
At a most poignant time of the year, Thursday December 24th my mother Euriella (Loretta) Ostuni passed away. Along with making arraignments my hu...
Charles Anthony “Chuck” O’Donnell III, 73, died peacefully January 3, in his wife’s loving arms, in the home he built in Monroe, after a day spent surrounded by...
Newtown Hikers is an open group welcoming anyone interested in hiking and the outdoors. There is no membership fee.
Hikes are Saturday mornings, with the group ...
To the Editor:
The officers and members of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company would like to thank the residents who took time to deliver us baked go...
Wanda Veronica Radzimirski, 90, died peacefully, surrounded by her family, December 31. She was born June 16, 1925, in Wojnicz, Poland, and was the daughter of ...
Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team was beaten 53-37 by visiting Masuk of Monroe, on January 4. The Nighthawks never led, but hung close throughout the ...
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.
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.