Western Connecticut State University seniors Shannon Lynch of Sandy Hook and Erika Wahlers of Holmes, N.Y., are the recipients of this year’s Henry Barnard Distinguished Student Award.
HARTFORD— The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood has announced that it has launched “CTCARES for Family Child Care” to provide support to licensed family child care providers during the COVID-19 pu...
Governor Ned Lamont announced May 14 that the State of Connecticut is receiving $111 million in federal coronavirus relief aid for the state’s school districts.
Connecticut students in grades 3 through 12 can work individually or as a team to propose an idea for a computing technology application, through the Lt Governor's COVID-19 Computing Challenge.
Governor Ned Lamont reached out on Sunday to parents of school age children to submit questions for a Monday morning forum, and is also putting out the call for more volunteers to fortify responses to community needs as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic drag on.
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.
