Home Improvement Projects Require Town Inspections
By Andrew Gorosko
Building a home addition, such as a porch or deck, involves more than making a trip to the...
Five Things That Do Not Increase The Risk Of Breast Cancer
Most women want to know what their chances are of developing breast cancer and whether there is anyt...
***CAROL, these photos are all in the filler photos file; they shouldn’t be in there… Sorry!
CUTLINES FOR “DRESSING THEIR OWN, FO...
Imaging Center Receives Grant
BRIDGEPORT — Swim Across the Sound Women’s Imaging Center has recently received a $10,000 grant from the C...
Waiting For Winter To End––
The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Selected Daily Journal Entries
By Dottie Evans
Exactly 200 years ago in th...
Fairfield Hills Expenditures
To the Editor:
A few months ago, I wrote a letter to the editor on the cost of doing business. In my letter, I indicated the total ...
Women’s Conference March 12 At SHU
FAIRFIELD — The national “Women’s Images Inside and Out” confere...
Louis T. Pepe
Louis T. Pepe died February 25 at Newark Hospital in Newark, N.Y. He was a Newtown resident for 45 years.
Mr Pepe was a teacher at Henry Abbott Te...
By Kim J. Harmon
A basketball game is 32 minutes long and no matter how things look after 16 minutes or 20 minutes, you gotta play all 32 minutes.
The Newtown H...
Genealogy Club Meets March 9
“Planning Your Genealogy Research Trip” will be the topic presented by Virginia Banerjee at the Genealogy C...
I don't understand the concern...the museum has been open for years on Pecks Lane and the size of the building can easily hold them. 60,000 visitors a year is less than 200 people per day, of which at least 1/2 are children. Plus spread out over the course of the day, it's only 15-16 cars per hour during their daytime business hours. Plus EverWonder is known for working to improve our community and unlikely to place any more harm on the environment than those already driving by daily. I think the author hit the nail on the head & EverWonder has found the absolute best place for their home, and thankfully that's in Newtown where our business can thrive from their success!
The issue is not that our taxes will go up. The issue is that the assessment came at a time when the pandemic brought folks to Newtown in a frenzy to buy small houses (like mine <2000 sq ft). 13 houses on my street with long time residents sold in less than 2 days each with most getting more than asking. And these 'comps' were used for my assessment (42% increase). Now that the market has stalled, housing prices have dropped dramatically. We will pay increased taxes for the next 5 years until the next assessment corrects this anomaly. And wait for the car tax! Not to mention the 'R' word.
