Occupation: I have been director of adult and continuing education for the Newtown schools for five years. I graduated with a bachelor of general studies, w...
Few Attend Saturday
Budget Hearing
By Steve Bigham
Only three people turned out for the annual Saturday morning public hearing on the proposed town budget March...
Theresa Loar At Fairfield University
FAIRFIELD — Theresa Loar, former director of the White House Interagency Council on Women and Senior Coordinato...
Lyme Disease Forum On April 9
The Newtown Rotary Club, in conjunction with the Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force, will present a program on Lyme disease preven...
Tom Nelson will also entertain with his Celtic harp. Borders will have the presenters’ books available for sale. The event is a fundraiser for local...
Valley Classic Bike Racing
Scenes like this (the Planet Outdoors team at the Killington, Vermont Stage Race 2000) will be found at the Housatonic Valley Classic...
Mr And Mrs John J. Beardsworth
Cheryl D. Greene, daughter of Colene Brink of Denver, Colo., and David Brink of Lake Worth, Fla., was married to John J. Beardswo...
South Main Crash
Motorist Andrew M. Hernandez, 20, of Bridgeport was driving a 1994 Ford Explorer northbound on South Main Street about 4 pm March 26, when...
DANBURY – The Housatonic Valley Classic, featuring five of the top professional cycling teams, will be held Sunday, May 20. Wheelworks/Cannondale â&...
Steele Helps St. Thomas More Win Title
Courtney Steele (fourth from left, in back), a 2000 graduate of Newtown High School, helped the St. Thomas More â€&#...
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.