CT Choral Society
To Begin Season Rehearsals
SOUTHBURY — On Monday, September 10, the Connecticut Choral Society (CCS) will begin rehearsing for it...
Vet Benefits, Alzheimer’s, Bereavement Support Sessions Slated
SOUTHBURY — Did you know that veterans or the spouse of a vet may be elig...
Volunteers Needed For
CVTU Fall Water Sampling
The Candlewood Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s (CVTU) fall riffle-dwelling benthic macroinverteb...
Rock Ridge
Men
’s League: The winner for the second straight week was David Cornett with 4.5 points. Second place went to Dr. Dean Harve...
Ryan M. Knapp
Ryan M. Knapp, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., died August 27. He was the husband to Carolyn Fendler Knapp and father to Adelyn Rose Knapp.
Mr Knapp is ...
Apple Festival, September 8–9
MONROE — St Peter’s Episcopal Church will host its annual Apple Festival on the Historic Monr...
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WALLINGFORD — Connecticut Better Business Bureau is warning prospect...
Cost Reduction Expert Targets Options For Employee Health Care
SOUTHBURY — A local consultant is working with area businesses to help save money, bo...
Connecticut Credit Conditions Weakened In Second Quarter
HARTFORD — Connecticut’s credit conditions deteriorated slightly in the Aprilâ&...
COA Invites Residents
To Senior Center Open House
To the Editor:
The Commission on Aging looks forward to welcoming Newtown residents to help us celebrate Nati...
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.