Members of Newtown Police Department plan to participate in the Special Olympics Penguin Plunge, a fundraising event for the Special Olympics of Connecticut sch...
To the Editor:
It is unlikely that the founders of Twitter could have predicted the economic impact their small social networking app would have. How could a 28...
To the Editor:
As the director of the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the work of the tel...
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As teenagers across the country prepare to celebrate key milestones in their lives during the upcoming prom and graduation season, parents can do...
A “countryish singer/songwriter from Minnesota” will stop in Newtown on Saturday, April 6, for a live performance at Murphy’s Pub.
Luke Hendrickson introduced h...
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Ingrid Meier, 94, passed away peacefully at home on March 30, with her family by her side. Born in Neuendorf, Pomerania, Germany, on October 2, 1924, to Dr Max ...
The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for this morning, afternoon, and evening. The entire state is under the warning, which will remain in...
Newtown High School’s girls’ outdoor track and field team is coming off a South-West Conference championship last spring and striving to pick up where it left o...
Newtown High School’s boys’ outdoor track and field team, coming off a tie for the Colonial Division championship with New Milford last spring, is again strivin...
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.