Now On View
*Wooden Wildlife: In the display case near the children’s department, Newtown residents Carol and Wayne Smith have assembled recent...
Financial Award Will Help YMCA Continue Literacy Programs
DANBURY — MasterCard International has awarded $10,000 to the Regional YMCA of Western Con...
The Chamber Members Sit Down To Breakfast
And Consider Edmond Town Hall’s Future
By Kendra Bobowick
Silverware tinkling against porcelain teacups ec...
Newtown
Support Groups
Friday, March 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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Area Homeschoolers Study Colonial Life
By Nancy K. Crevier
As part of an integrated program combining history, reading, and math, homeschooled students from the...
Above And Beyond
To the Editor:
So often I hear negative stories about the selling or buying of a house. I just did both and wanted to take a moment to sing the...
‘The Spirituality Of Aging’ At Next Lunch & Learn
The next Lunch and Learn program at Lockwood Lodge at Ashlar of Newtown will be on Tue...
The Key To The Stony Hill Inn’s Long Success:
Good Food, Good Value
The Stony Hill Inn on Route 6 in Bethel has long been a popular destination, and...
Police Use Dog To Track Man Near Little Brook Lane
While on patrol about 4:45 pm February 24, police said they came across an unoccupied, suspicious vehicle par...
NYS will present
“A Night of Tastes and Talents
” at The Fireside Inn on Saturday, March 18, from 7 to 11 pm. Dinner, dancing...
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.