Reminder: Wine Tasting To Benefit Sandy Hook School
Tickets are still available for Sandy Hook School’s upcoming wine tasting fundraising event sche...
Spring Baseball Registration Ending
Newtown Spring Baseball late registration will end on March 5 and players will be added to a team only if space is availabl...
For police reports
DUI Incident
Police said they received a report about 6:28 pm on March 2 concerning an erratic driver traveling in the Key Rock Road are...
Garner Correction Officer
Checked At Hospital
By Andrew Gorosko
While responding to a physical altercation among three inmates at the high-security Garner Corr...
Census May Boost
Number Of Liquor Stores
HARTFORD — The imminent release of Connecticut’s population figures from the US 2010 census wi...
Bridle Lands Group Hopes To Revitalize Newtown As A Horse Town
By Nancy K. Crevier
The new board of the Newtown Bridle Lands Association (NBLA) is galloping ful...
Geraldine M. Ilioff
Beloved Wife, Mother,
And Sister
Geraldine M. Ilioff, 69, of Milford, beloved wife of 49 years to George C. Ilioff, Sr, died Febr...
Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass Music
At NUMC
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church will take place on March 5 in the church’s...
Newtown Support Groups
Friday, March 4Â 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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By John Voket
BRIDGEPORT — Following historic renovations to sites including the Statue of Liberty and the US Capital dome in Washington, D.C., Swan...
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.