Newtown High Spikers Earn Tourney’s Top Seed, Aim For Success
By Andy Hutchison
Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team...
A Gathering Of American Craftsmen, Two Days In Wilton
WILTON — Three and a half decades ago a renaissance occurred in the field of traditional Ameri...
Chase Collegiate Student Honored
Waterbury — Adam Harrison, a freshman at Chase Collegiate and a Newtown resident, was honored this week with the Co...
Many Pumped Up
The Pumpkin Race
To the Editor:
 Well the Great Pumpkin Race has come and gone. Fair weather and lots of enthusiastic people graced the event. ...
Freedom Defenders Way—
Tinkerfield Rd. To Be
Rechristened On Veterans Day
By John Voket
It did not take a lot of time on the Board of Selectmenâ&#x...
Newtown Firefighters Mobilize For Major Monroe Blaze
By Andrew Gorosko
Newtown firefighters mobilized for a major mutual aid response on Wednesday, November 3, ...
A Newtown/Danbury Student Exchange
           By Sarah Walton
Nearly 50 Newtown High School students participated in a student exchange with Danbury...
School Board Discusses Reed Schedule, Full-Day Kindergarten
By Eliza Hallabeck
Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson briefed the Board of Education on an upd...
DUI Incident
Police report that at about 1:15 am on October 30, they found a 1993 Jeep Cherokee SUV facing eastward in a ditch while off the westbound road...
Trail Is Much Better
Without The Trash
To the Editor:
A few months ago I sent Pat Llodra an e-mail asking if she was aware of the garbage that was piled high i...
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.