ZBA Reviews Developer’s Appeal On Condo Complex Site
By Andrew Gorosko
Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) members are considering a condominium developer...
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Independent Repair Shops Forced To Turn Away Business
By Kathleen Schmatz
Like many car owners, you might not be aware that the giant ca...
Flanders Selects Peter Seltzer As Featured Artist For Annual Benefit
WOODBURY — Peter Seltzer has been named the featured artist for the 2006 Four ...
‘Urinetown’ Extended
NEW MILFORD — Due to popular demand, TheatreWorks New Milford has added two more performances to the ru...
Robert Joseph Tynan
Longtime Resident Was Recognized Engineer And Active In Community
Robert Joseph Tynan, 78, died August 2 at Bethel Health Care. The hus...
Panel Examines Charter Powers And The Law
By John Voket
Town Attorney David Grogins laid out a number of foundational issues regarding the current Newtown Chart...
Women Involved In Newtown (WIN) is gearing up for the first annual Newtown Road Race … and they think the rest of you should, as well.
“Women...
Summer Reading At The Library
For more than 20 years C.H. Booth Library has encouraged children to read during their summer vacation by sponsoring an independen...
Vacancies On Town Boards
The following boards and/or commissions have vacancies that need to be filled as soon as possible:
Public Building and Site Committee a...
Blumenthal Calls Shoreline Plans ‘Unacceptable’
By Kendra Bobowick
The Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) filed last week by power company ...
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.