To The Editor:

Just a short note to first of all thank all Newtown Voters for exercising your critically important right to vote, and secondly to humbly express my appreciation to those who chose to vote for me. It has been an honor to serve Newtown in a number of elected offices for the past 42 years, and I will do my best to do so for the next 6 years of this new term.

Congratulations to all the winning candidates and also a thank you to those who were not successful this time but offered their services and took the risk of having their names on an election ballot.

Thank you as well to the Democratic Town Committee for nominating me and to all the Newtown residents who volunteered their time to work on the campaigns of all of the candidates and those who worked on Election Day. Finally, last but not least, a thank you to our election officials for their critical role.

Herb Rosenthal

Newtown