Area residents are preparing for the January 8 US Postal Service rate increase, the first in four years, by supplementing their 37 cent stamps with two cent s...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The ...
Police Mitten Tree Project
PProves Successful
During the holiday season, approximately 80 new hats, scarves, and pairs of mittens were donated by the public to...
Whistle Blowing In The Wind––
The Last Phantom Train Through Botsford Station
By Dottie Evans
Few people know it, but there is a long-un...
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From middle age onward...
Reed Students Research Countries Around The World And Present Their Findings
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Quilt Guild To Hold Meeting
And Pot Luck Supper
RIDGEFIELD — The Nutmeg Quilters Guild will hold its next monthly meeting at Ridgefield Recreation C...
Bits & Pieces
By Kim J. Harmon
Isn’t college basketball in December kind of silly?
My brother is a University of Connecticut men’s ...
Film Series At Library Will Feature Indie Features
This winter C.H. Booth Library will be showing award winning independent foreign films that rarely make it to...
I hope that concerned folks will focus on the budget that we vote to approve each year. It is the primary determinant of the taxes we pay. Assessments are, in a way, the distribution or redistribution of that tax burden across taxpayers based on the value of their homes. Even if there were no revaluation taking place, we would be paying more tax because we voted for an increased budget. The only other offset would be a meaningful increase in businesses or new homes providing additional tax revenues. As I understand it, the mil rate will adjust based on valuations (grand list) to provide the budget we vote for. Taxes will go up until we spend less or get more revenue from new sources.
Editor's Note: It should also be pointed out that NYA (and NVAC) built their own building — which has a footprint larger than Newsylum, Parent Connection, and the Ambulance headquarters combined — that each of the latter organizations also contributed their own significant funds to their construction and improvement projects; and that Newsylum and the Parent Connection both improved existing abandoned buildings that may have otherwise continued to be unused and deteriorating.
