Voters in Monroe and Newtown head to the polls – again – in an effort to get a 2010 budget to pass.
In Monroe, First Selectman Steve Vavrack slashed an additional $610,000 from the last failed budget, shaving it to a lean $76.7 million.
This will be the town’s third attempt to pass the budget. The initial [...]
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Budget Redux
May 2010Historical Society Plans Tour of Matthew Curtis House
May 2009
NEWTOWN – The Matthew Curtis House, home to the Newtown Historical Society, will open its door to the public on Sunday, May 17. Constructed in 1750, the Society will welcome guests to the early-American saltbox colonial between the hours of noon and 4pm. The tours will be led by senior and junior docents, who will [...]
Movies Move Into 3rd Century at Edmond Town Hall
May 2009
Movies have a long history at the Edmond Town Hall in Newtown. In fact, the first movies, sponsored by the Men’s Literacy and Social Club of Newtown on December 6, 1897, were made possible by the recent invention of Thomas Edison’s Vitoscope and Phonograph.
J. Stewart Blackton and Albert Smith staged the production of ‘moving pictures’ [...]
