With curated shelves of books roughly organized by grade levels, the Little Book Store manager Marge Gingolaski says the for-sale selections at C.H. Booth Library are perfect for stocking up classrooms or private collections for students.
Seconds after the Board of Education voted at its meeting on August 27 to hire Bob Gerbert, Jr, of Trumbull as the district’s new facilities director, one of his sons slapped him a high-five while his other son clapped.
A new year has begun. Along with Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue sharing news of a “smooth” start to the school year, the Board of Education approved its final 2018-19 year-end financial ...
Summer travels have led Newtown High School social studies teacher Rachel Torres to being excited for the 2019-20 school year: She documented traveling to Lithuania and Poland while learning about the Holocaust.
Kindergarten students across Newtown got a taste of school on August 23, ahead of the start of the 2019-20 school year on August 26.
Newtown Public School district kindergarten students all had the op...
With just days before the start of the 2019-20 school year, district educators and staff were welcomed on August 21 at Newtown High School for an annual convocation.
The Newtown High School Marching Band & Color Guard fall season has begun.
The group of 78 seventh to twelfth grade students participated in a two-week band camp that began August 12 and was scheduled...
Newtown Public School district parents can share first day of school (August 26) photos of their child/children with The Newtown Bee for possible publication in next week’s print edition of the paper.
Sisters Sonya, 11, Karinna, 7, and Adrianna Feder, 7, worked collectively to complete the coloring page in The Newtown Bee’s Back To School supplement, published on August 16.
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.
