Teaching To The Test
 To the Editor:
Is there any inspiration left in learning? Tom Chapin says it best in a song about how the standardized Connecticut Master...
Local Performance This Weekend—
Belly Dancers Use Much More Than Their Abdomen
By Shannon Hicks
Egyptian Sunrise, a belly dance troupe based at New...
Historical Society Promises Uplifting Program By Karen Tracy
The decade of the 1930s was one of financial pain, but also of excitement, technological developmen...
Violinist & Pianist Will Share The Stage
For Next NFoM Concert
Newtown Friends of Music (NFoM) will sponsor a performance by the violinist Jennifer Stumm and t...
The Process
Needs To Be Fixed
To the Editor:
Last Thursday night [February 25], the Newtown Board of Finance Committee sat in the Lecture Hall of Newtown High ...
Tick-Borne Disease Panel
Begins Work On Final Report
By Kendra Bobowick
As daffodils poke through the ground and temperatures lean toward spring, the Tick-Born...
Nest Box Workshop At Library
Mike Amodeo, environmental educator from Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust, will host a Blue Bird Nest Box Workshop for families ...
Skate Park Plans
Ready For Bid
By Kendra Bobowick
Bank ramps, bowls, rails, and stair systems will soon echo with the clack and whoosh of skaters’ ...
Speed Kills … NHS Girls’ Basketball Team Falls In States
By Andy Hutchison
NORWALK — They say speed kills. On March 2, speed kill...
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.