No New Taxes
To the Editor:
We are rapidly approaching the town budget referendum vote...here before we know it. Now is the time to inform our town leadership o...
Weller Foundation
Scholarship Available
WOODBURY — The Weller Foundation, Inc (formerly the Vitramon Foundation, Inc) has announced that full-time ...
School Board Approves Budget Proposal
By Eliza Hallabeck
Following multiple board meetings, the Board of Education reviewed and approved its 2012-13 budget Janu...
Western To Offer In-State Tuition Rates To Out-Of-State Commuters
DANBURY — Starting in the fall, out-of-state students in graduate education progr...
Retail Developments Offset BluLinx Vacancy To Boost Grand List
By John Voket
While Newtown’s Grand List could have taken a debilitating hit after th...
Congratulations to Mike Hughes, who was able to identify last week’s challenge (inset), a wishing well and welcome sign in a yard along Turkey Roost...
Manufacturing Company Developing
Neumade Facility Into Diversified Hub
By John Voket
The CEO of a Danbury-based manufacturing enterprise told The Newtown Bee t...
The Democrats’ Attack
On The Catholic Church
To the Editor:
If anyone needed any more evidence of the vile, despicable, bigoted nature of the curre...
Newtown Support Groups
Friday, February 3Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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Three Injured In Garner Prison Incident
State police report that two correction officers and an inmate at Garner Correctional Institution were injured following...
As a former local elected leader, state Independent Party leader and US Congressional candidate, you know Editorials occasionally cause discomfort. This editorial empathized with the departing board member's agonizing about her decision to resign; praised her service and indirectly, yours - calling for the community to do the same; took issue with the timing and the vitriolic parting comments about her board colleagues and chair - justifying each point with fact; and called for remaining school board members to consider her criticism and act upon it if justified. To your other point, any suggestion this newspaper or its editor is "representing" any political party is absurd.
I agree. Rebekah should recuse herself from any involvement in the process of recommending a new board member. However, I do not believe she will. She has demonstrated that she doesn't care about doing the right thing. She does what is best for her.
The court removed a Federal mandated backstop for irresponsible behavior. Now the individual states will determine consequences - as the framers of the Constitution wanted.
Please take some time to educate yourself on this issue and the Supreme Court decision. It is now up to the individual states to determine how this issue will be decided.
