NEW HAVEN - Newtown High School's spring musical production of Les Miserables, School Edition, staged in March, has earned nomination for three Stephen Sondheim Awards, according to an announcement by...
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue offered an update on the end of the 2017-18 school year and shared school start times and transportation plans for the 2018-19 school year with the Board o...
The Board of Education unanimously voted at its May 22 meeting to hire Dr Kimberly Longobucco as Newtown High School principal, starting July 1.
Dr Longobucco has been serving as an assistant principa...
Reed Intermediate School's fifth and sixth grade clusters are divided into a "blue house" and a "green house," and for the school's first ever "Color Wars" weeklong event, the students in the houses f...
For Newtown High School Science Department Chair Christian Canfield, life has been a bit more musical lately. Roughly four years ago, Mr Canfield began volunteering with Torrington's non-profit, non-c...
The Head O' Meadow Elementary School community has been busy for the last couple of weeks making and painting tiles for what will be a Ben's Bells mural at the school.
The school community began craft...
Tim Vogelman and Victor Scalora of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery reenactment unit of Woodbury shared information and stories of the American Civil War with eighth grade students on ...
Holly Kocet is pushing a false narrative. The facts simply don't bear out any negative impact to the traffic on Mt Pleasant Road. Saying it does , does not make it true. The road handles in excess of 40,000 trip a day. a couple hundred form Castle Hill is negatable.
The town historically has strong collaboration with developers, but the primary obstacle arises from community opposition exerting undue influence on the zoning department. This "NIMBY" pressure often leads to project rejections that exceed the department's actual jurisdiction or authority. Consequently, developers face a limited set of options: either engage in expensive legal battles or leverage the Connecticut Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure (CGS § 8-30g) as a recourse.
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.
