Chinese Cooking With The Traveling Gourmet
BETHEL — On Tuesday, May 25, at 7 pm, Bethel Public Library will offer “Cooking Chinese,â...
Local Builders Win National Volunteer Award
Newtown remodeler Peter McLoughlin, representing the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Fairfield County, a...
Fair Celebrates Jewish Independence
BRIDGEPORT — Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown will be one of the many congregations participating in the Jew...
Musicians With A Mission
DANBURY — The Danbury Deanery of Episcopal Churches – which includes St John’s Episcopal Church in ...
Reed Intermediate School Welcomes Future Fifth Graders
By Larissa Lytwyn
While Hawley Elementary School fourth grader Gillian Malone is looking forward to start...
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
 —Spanish proverb
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
—Ge...
No Longer Just Lyme––
Co-Infections Challenge Doctors And Patients
By Dottie Evans
An informational forum on Lyme disease sponsored by t...
Auditions For Town Players
Auditions are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, May 10-11, for The Merry Wives of Windsor, which will be staged by Town Players of Ne...
Saturday, May 8 – The Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard will sponsor its annual Judged Pleasure Ride on Saturday, May 8, 9 am to...
Symposium Stresses Early Treatment Of Diabetes
DANBURY — Diabetes is such a serious and complicated disease that patients should be treated as if th...
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.