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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

NEW HARTFORD - The Board of Selectmen last week appointed Denton Butler, Wes Marsh and Scott Goff to a Pine Meadow sewer extension building committee. Extension of the system was one of the conditions set in 2021 when residents approved the $8 million sale of the town's water and sewer assets to Aqu

NEW HARTFORD - The recent property revaluation in town has raised concerns among property owners who fear their taxes will increase because of significant escalation in some assessments. "We have property values up generally 30%," First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram said. "Everyone is shocked in every

NEW HARTFORD - Moving the long-anticipated Rails to Trails project forward has proved "tricky," First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram said.The town received a $616,000 grant for phase 1 in May, conditional on obtaining the necessary easements from property owners. "We really want to wrap up the acquisiti

NEW HARTFORD - First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram said he completed a "deep dive" into the intricacies of selling the town's water and sewer systems to Aquarion Water Co. before closing the $8 million deal Monday. "Words matter," he said in the days leading up to the closing. "If we don't get the l

NEW HARTFORD - First Selectman Daniel V. Jerram told the Board of Finance last week the town was in "a last-minute dash" to complete details before Monday's closing that will transfer the town's water and sewer systems to Aquarion Water Co.The deal, nearly nine years in the making, was approved by r