Master Chorale To Present
Connecticut Premiere Of Karl Jenkins Work
The Connecticut Master Chorale (CMC), under the direction of Tina Johns Heidrich, will pres...
Atkinsons Compete In Conference Championships
Newtown sisters Abby and Emma Atkinson, both collegiate swimmers, competed in conference championships February 20...
The Snow Isn’t Over… Yet
By Kendra Bobowick
The snow fell hardest as drivers tried to make their ways safely to work Monday morning, fighting...
Hearts For Harmon
The 2009 Hearts for Harmon community health and wellness event is happening this Sunday, March 8 from noon – 4 pm at Edmond Town H...
Hearing Loss Talk, Blood Pressure Check
Masonicare at Newtown has two free programs planned this month that will help everyone in the community keep their healt...
Hearts For Harmon Will Offer Free Health Care Opportunities
This Sunday’s Hearts For Harmon community wellness event will provide many ways for comm...
Hummer Hit
At about 9:12 pm February 23, motorist Leslie Richards, 50, of 6 Homer Clark Lane, who was driving a 2006 Hummer H-3 SUV, was waiting for traffi...
Council OKs Portable Classrooms
By Kendra Bobowick
Portable high school classrooms and the Connecticut Film Festival found unanimous approval from Legislative C...
Newtown Historical Society To Revisit The Depression:
CCC Program, March 9
“Why did I join the CCC, this old hard labor will be the death of me,â&#...
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.