NEW HARTFORD The Board of Finance held a four-hour budget marathon last week, receiving proposed budgets from the Region 7 school district, local Board of Education and Board of Selectmen for 2024-25.The total package presented totals $29,530,694 and, if passed untouched, would boost spending $1,
NEW HARTFORD - First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram, recently elected chairman of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments, calls trash disposal "the biggest problem no one knows about."NWCOG includes 21 municipalities in Northwest Connecticut, virtually the entirety of Litchfield County, and most are
NEW HARTFORD - First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram, recently elected chairman of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments, calls trash disposal "the biggest problem no one knows about."NWCOG includes 21 municipalities in Northwest Connecticut, virtually the entirety of Litchfield County, and most are
NEW HARTFORD - The Board of Selectmen has referred creation of an ordinance that would allow tax abatements for local firefighters to town counsel.Discussion at last week's Board of Selectmen meeting centered on how to fairly recompense volunteer first responders who own property in town and who wou
NEW HARTFORD - The Board of Selectmen last week briefly discussed the thorny problem of how to control the inappropriate use of Airbnb rentals in the community. "A lot of towns are trying to find the right way to handle this problem. Some are proposing ordinances to outlaw all of it," First Selectma