The Newtown Senior Center, at 8 Simpson Street, was selected as the location for the State Unit on Aging’s “Community Conversation” event on the morning of Tuesday, January 7.
The roughly hour-and-a-h...
A single-family house on Brookwood Drive was damaged last night by an apparently accidental fire that started while the two people who live there were away from home.
LOF Adaptive Skiers will be at Mount Southington, 396 Mt Vernon Road, Plantsville, Conn., Wednesday, January 15, at 9 AM, demonstrating a brand-new TetraSki.
Several Toddy Hill Road area residents who have been attending Police Commission meetings since mid-2017 in seeking better control over vehicular speeding on that north-south town road linking Sandy Hook to Botsford, are now asking the commission to fine tune some recent speed-control improvements made there by the town. The Police Commission is the local Traffic Authority.
Residents filled the lower meeting room at Edmond Town Hall on the wintry night of January 8 to watch and listen as members of the Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) deliberated on a development firm’s controversial proposal to create new zoning regulations, which would serve as a regulatory mechanism to allow that firm to apply to demolish the vacant former Inn at Newtown at 19 Main Street and replace it with a market-rate rental apartment complex.
Thanks for the reply. I meant the numbers you presented in your letter. I found one place where other numbers were listed: https://www.newtownbee.com/04232026/get-out-and-vote-on-the-2026-27-proposed-municipal-and-school-budgets/?q=\\\%22advisory%20questions\\\%22.
In that article, the numbers were cited as:
Treadwell field: $1,125,000
Library: $720,000
Salt Storage: $600,000
As one who started out in the early 80's when inflation was double digits, my 1985 mortgage rate was 14%, and child care costs were comparable (in present value), I shared your grief but never considered the voters ironic or shameful.
PS. I agree college tuition is ridiculous. Thankfully, universities are offering (or considering) waiving all or most tuition for middle class families (upwards of $200,000 incomes). Hopefully, they'll also reconsider their need for those funds in the first place.
Sure! Child care costs: https://www.ffyf.org/2022/10/13/data-child-care-prices-continue-to-rise-ahead-of-midterm-elections-outpacing-inflation/ (also from 2021-2025 we had 2 children in a local daycare in Newtown and it cost us $3200 a month, so that's a number I am very familiar with)
Home price / median price vs income source: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios
Tuition increase vs inflation: https://feed.georgetown.edu/access-affordability/noting-a-decline-in-middle-class-students-colleges-provide-more-aid/
Hope this helps :)
Shame on NAFC. Unless you have not read about the controversy surrounding why I left Michelle Ku’s campaign, I cannot understand why you would endorse a candidate that uses homophobic and stereotypical tactics to run a campaign. Ask her to share the texts sent to her committee involving “diva” and Spanish tshirts because “Brazilians” are moving into Newtown. As if Latinos are all Brazilian and don’t understand English. Shame on you.
Nothing says “community spirit” quite like declaring moral bankruptcy because voters didn’t fund your preferred project.
Apparently, approving basic infrastructure that everyone uses—like functional sidewalks and parking for a facility that all community members use and salt that keeps those touchpoints functional in winter—is now evidence of generational selfishness. The real irony isn’t in what passed or failed; it’s in accusing others of self-interest while insisting they should have voted for something you happen to value. That’s not “us”—that’s just a different version of “me.”
Voters weighed priorities and made a choice. Calling that “shameful” doesn’t elevate the argument—it just reveals how little tolerance there is for democratic outcomes that don’t go your way. If the takeaway is that more people should show up and vote, fair enough. But let’s not pretend disagreement is a character flaw. Sometimes the electorate simply decides that not every nice-to-have is a must-have.
