Spreading Scary Stories
About Health Care Rationing
To the Editor:
A writer to The Bee last week [Letter Hive, 4/27/12, “Why Obama Should Be â€...
5 Horseshoe Ridge Road, Sandy Hook
Virginia and Charles Hettenbach sold a home at 5 Horseshoe Ridge Road, Sandy Hook to Michael Pierwola.
Bob and Richelle...
Budget Round 2
To the Editor:
The annual budget referendum has produced interesting results. The proposed budget failed by a record margin and the finger pointi...
Don’t Cut Full-Day
Kindergarten
To the Editor:
I am the father of a son who will be starting kindergarten next year. My vote for or against future ...
Richard Hull Gildersleeve Bassford
May His Memory
Be Eternal
Richard “Dick” Bassford, 80, died April 25. He was born December...
Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass Music At NUMC, Saturday
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church will take place on May 5 in the churchâ€...
Chase Collegiate School To Offer Summer Forensics Class
WATERBURY — Chase Collegiate School is set to offer “Forensic Investigation,â&#x...
Taxpayers
Want Accountability
To the Editor:
I have heard several people comment that the budget defeat is “retribution,” I assume for ...
For New Firehouse—
Amaral Agrees To Sell
Parcel To NH&L
By John Voket
Daniel Amaral, whose former Chrysler dealership and service station is a fixt...
It was the Inland Wetland Commission that voted 4 to 3 to approve the cluster home development, even though it will negatively impact 2 wetlands and eliminate a 3rd, without requiring an alternative plan, as required by their own regulations. It is now up to the Borough Zoning Commission (not the Newtown P&Z), to approve or deny the project. If they approve it, it will then move onto the Newtown P&Z to confirm with it complies with the town's Plan of Conservation & Development.
or maybe 'Ban the Wrongthink' crusade. You'll have a lot of signatures on that petition. Far too many people in town question the policies that are clearly instituted for their own good.
There was no "book ban", just concern that underaged students had access to a few pages of pornograghic images. And why would you want to mask the kids for an alleged virus that had a 99.9% survival rate? No one is "cutting the budget", just cutting the proposed increase. C'mon Bruce
We will have to agree to disagree. The $404,500 for school building maintenance was in the BoE budget. The BoE wanted control of it. That control is now up to the Town. It was originally in the BoE budget and it was taken out. The Board of Finance does not vote on the Superintendent's budget, only the BoE's budget that the superintendent supported. There is no guarantee it will be used as the BoE chooses. It will be used as the Town chooses. Hopefully, the two will work together. With 15 years as Chair or Vice Chair of the Board of Finance I can only remember a couple times when $1,000,000+ was reduced from the BoE budget by the BoF. Whether you want to argue its $1,000,000+ or $600,000 reduction from the BoE budget, the cut was sizable, and again, not a single LC member, BoF member, not the Superintendent, the BoE Chairperson, or Don Ramsey said they could find another specific BoE item to cut.
I believe the 2 buildings will contain approximately 169 apartments many of which will be low income and add anywhere from 169-338+ cars driving and parking on that campus everyday. Sounds like a congested nightmare.
