The fields at St Rose of Lima School were filled with people mingling beneath tents on October 6, when the school hosted a Mass and Oktoberfest-themed celebration to commemorate 60 years of educating students in town.
Newtown Middle School’s Eighth Grade Scarecrow Contest entries are set to go on display on the front lawn of the Queen Street school for voting by residents on Saturday and Sunday, October 20 and 21.
Local author Matt Tullis discussed writing and his recently published book, Running With Ghosts: A Memoir of Surviving Childhood Cancer, on September 25.
The Newtown Special Education Parent Teacher Organization (SEPTO) has scheduled its first meeting of the year for Thursday, October 18, in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall, 12 Berkshire Road, at 7 pm.
The Board of Education approved amending its contract with All-Star Transportation to replace diesel buses in the company’s Newtown fleet with propane buses in the third year of the contract.
The voters spoke, loud and clear that they support our schools and municipal services. The majority vote was a mandate to keep delivering well rated education services and keep it" Nicer in Newtown."
Thank you LeReine, for speaking out about this. The list of public servants who are unfairly targeted for abuse just for doing their jobs has been growing. It is a testament to the power of propaganda that otherwise good and well-meaning people can get so emotional as to act out in this way.
While I respect the outcome of the referendum, I’m disappointed by the way this budget was presented and passed. A 6.72% tax increase and a mill rate jump to 28.78 may have been framed as “just a few dollars a day,” but for many families in town — especially those already stretched thin — those “few dollars” add up quickly.
It’s frustrating to see large increases minimized in this way, and I worry that next year we’ll hear, “It’s only a little more than last year,” as if that justifies an ongoing trend of rising taxes. This year’s combined municipal and education budgets total over $141 million — that’s a significant sum.
All of the referendums deserve to be pasted. We have a history of deferring needed maintenance and then paying more years later. These are required to keep our town owned building and roads in working condition.
