Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ tennis team results from this past week:
The girls carried a six-match winning streak into May. Newtown beat New Fairfiel...
Although the South-West Conference competition, on the whole, has improved significantly in recent years, Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team continues t...
On Saturday, May 4, Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team will hold a fundraiser in support of Connecticut referee Lew Socci, whose 12-year-old daughter, Ma...
Florence DePalma, age 99, of Newtown, passed away peacefully April 25, 2019, at River Glen Health Care Center, Southbury.
Florence was a woman who always loved ...
Failure To Appear
Police report that after learning that they held a warrant for his arrest, David Kreshpan, 26, of Sandy Hook went to the police station a...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursd...
To the Editor:
We would personally like to thank the 2,823 voters that showed up to vote at the polls and the 57 voters that voted by absentee ballot at the las...
Unlike the appetizing summer specialties our local ice cream shops are scooping up, “Disappointment” seems to be the flavor of the month for ice skating fans in...
Despite being in its seventh year, 2019 marked a year of firsts for Newtown’s Team 26, a hearty and dedicated cluster of “bicycle messengers” who advocate for c...
The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the third quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2018-19 school year. The hono...
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.