NYS Honors November Job Bank Member Of The Month
Nick Moser, 17, is the November Job Bank Member of the Month at Newtown Youth Services. Nick has been an ac...
Grief Seminar At St Vincent’s
BRIDGEPORT — St Vincent’s Pastoral Care Department is presenting a “Healing Grief ...
A Holiday Exhibition At Potter & Slack
MARBLEDALE — Through December 31, Potter & Sack Fine Art is presenting a holiday exhibition in small format....
Newtown Singles Mingle Event
Newtown Singles has scheduled its next “Meet & Mingle” event.
The group will meet at Newtown Meeting House ...
Studies Support The Value Of Recess
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor “Bring Back Recess” by Lynda Web...
WCSU Holiday
Jazz Concert
DANBURY — Western CT State University will host The WCSU Holiday Jazz Concert, featuring timeless holiday classics, on Sun...
Police Seek To Replace Pistols With New SidearmsÂ
By Andrew Gorosko
As part of the police department’s proposed budget for the 2005-06 fiscal year...
Council Seeks Members For
Charter Revision Panel
By John Voket
Almost three years ago to this day, members of the Newtown Legislative Council acted like they ne...
NHS Interim Principal Takes The Reins
By Larissa Lytwyn
Newtown High School Principal Bill Manfredonia’s departure on November 30 marked the end of ...
Singers Preparing A Venetian Christmas
KENT — The Kent Singers, under the direction of Marquerite Muller, will perform “A Venetian Chris...
Budget should be cut by 20%, spending $2.65 million dollars per every week forever is absolutely unsustainable ! Do everything possible to Vote No on another nonsensical attempt to increase the cost of living ! Taxpayers are honestly just renting their houses from the town, it costs me $40 every night to sleep in my own bed ! Soon it will be cheaper living in a hotel than owning a property in Newtown !
I went and complaint to Rosenthall's father that the budget was too high at $80M several years ago, now we are at almost $140M . $2.65 million per week that is ! Fairfield hills should have long been developed by investors money and bring revenue to the town. WE ARE DRIVING OURSELVES OUT OF NEWTOWN by doing this and constantly raising the cost of living. It makes zero sense, any extra budget money gets burned on stupid stuff just so they can ask for more next year. Put an END TO THIS STUPIDITY and CUT THE BUDGET 20%. Everyone will be just fine ! Kids won't get any smarter anyway. That's an honest reality !
Any common sensical person can do this job at under 100k salary. Way overhyped and overpaid at over $200k annual salary. We as voters have to put an end to this. Not to mention an assistant comes along with this job paid at 190k! What is wrong with you voters?
The entire budget needs to be cut not raised. The proposed budget now would sit that we spend $2.65 million dollars every week. For population of less than 30k people it is absolutely absurd ! You cannot keep driving older folks out of town just to create a revolving door of parents who come here, educate their kids and run away ! There is no need to be paying 190K annual salary to an ASSISTANT to superintendent, not in the best interest of tax payers ! The voting turnout at 9% is ridiculous ! Lobby lawmakers to change the voting by mail, so everyone gets a ballot in the mail and at least 51% of residents vote to approve, otherwise the budget should not be approved if you don't have the majority ! Most folks don't even know when the vote is ! They have taxes bundled with mortgage and don't even know ! We are raising cost of living for everyone and it is absolutely not necessary.