How did Sandy Hook Elementary School celebrate its effort to support the annual Women Involved in Newtown (WIN) Thanksgiving Basket Program this year? Find out here.
Newtown Public Schools will have a three-hour delayed opening on Tuesday, December 3, due to the weather. The announcement was made by the district early Tuesday morning.
Children have the chance to design and publish their own books thanks to the Book Builder program, now offered through the C.H. Booth Library.
Book Builder is a cloud-based software program by Varidig...
The school district has released the 2019-20 Winter Performance Schedule for concerts and events for the public schools. Do not miss an event: Dates and times are available here.
The Board of Education heard updates regarding a special education self study conducted in 2018 at its November 19 meeting. Read about the updates here.
At Newtown High School, the 2019-20 school year brought a new grading system. Learn what the Board of Education heard at a presentation on it at its November 19 meeting by reading this story.
You are correct, Bruce. I know how hard these plans are to put together, but I still believe that we can have more definitive and measurable goals. I know there are a number of units coming online, and the community truly needs them. If only we can move the development of affordable housing to more of a partnership between the community and the developers than the adversarial tug-of-war it seems to be now, that would be good progress.
I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.
We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.”
In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts:
Regional Toolbox
Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.
