Newtown residents whose children need backpacks and school supplies for the coming school year have four convenient Wireless Zone locations hosting the company’s annual backpack giveaway on Sunday, July 21.
Newtown Continuing Education’s SMART (Summer Music and Art) Camp first week of summer classes, July 8 to 12, included smiling students attending a range of programs.
The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the fourth quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2018-19 school year. The honor roll listings were recently released by the school for publication.
After meeting for a private executive session to interview a candidate for position of Reed Intermediate School principal, the Board of Education (BOE) convened for its public session on the evening o...
If the smell of food was not enough to draw students to visit three Reed Intermediate School clusters participating in this year’s June 5 Kindness Carts effort, the sounds of cheer and excitement certainly did the trick.
Middle Gate Elementary School fourth grade teacher Linda Baron ran a Flag Day assembly on June 10, and students and special guests were treated to history lessons about the Stars and Stripes.
Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the fourth quarter marking period of the 2018-19 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list.
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.
