August 5: North Haven, picnic at Borrelli’s.
August 6: Wolcott, to be announced.
August 7: Eureka, “Dog Days.”
August 9: C...
Political Dialogue Welcomed
To the Editor:
I would like to welcome Newtown’s newest political party. I watched the formation of the NICE Party with ...
Nature Awareness For Young People
WOODBURY — Two Coyotes Wilderness School will be offering its 30-week home-school program at Flanders Nature Cente...
Survey:
More Radon Than Uranium
By Kaaren Valenta
A random sampling of 47 household wells in Newtown showed that only three had uranium levels slightly above th...
Jazz In Weir Garden
WILTON — Weir Farm National Historic Site will host its 6th Annual “Jazz in the Garden” concert on Sunda...
Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson, 43, of Rogers, Ark., formerly of Newtown, died July 27 at his home from a lengthy illness.
Mr Johnson was born June 19, 1958, in Tole...
Catherine L. Lubus
Catherine L. Lubus, 102, of 154 Triangle Street, Danbury, wife of the late Charles M. Lubus, Sr, died on July 30 at Danbury Hospital.
She was...
Samantha Bernstein
Samantha L. Bernstein, the daughter of Kenneth and Laura Lerman, has been awarded a BSN from Simmons College in Boston, Mass., gradu...
Real Estate Notes #2
Heritage Lane
Steve Knapp recently sold his home at 706A Heritage Village to Larry and Dolores Holland, formerly of Southbury.
Ginny McKinn...
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.