Edmund Peter Breitling, Sr, of Newtown, Conn., died unexpectedly from a stroke on Saturday, February 27. He was 65 years old.
Ed met the love of his life, Elain...
Occupation: I work for the Monroe Police Department in the communications unit as a dispatcher.
Family: My immediate family is my mom, Linda Connor; dad...
The Newtown Bee and Newtown resident John Iannuzzi of Park City Productions have partnered to share current and upcoming news of our town on radio station W...
Each week we compile a list of some of the most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s recent top stories, based on the numbe...
September 3, 1937 - February 26, 2021
Margaret A. Imbro (nee Wilkeyson) was a longtime resident of New Fairfield, Conn., where she raised two sons, Broderick (d...
Brandon Darrell Hensel, 22, of Sandy Hook, passed away unexpectedly on March 1, at 5:25 pm, at Danbury Hospital as the result of a car accident. He passed peace...
By the time this week’s print edition of The Newtown Bee hits the streets on Thursday afternoon, March 4, Newtown will have a newly appointed Charter Revision C...
Donald Boyd Argersinger, age 88, passed away Monday, March 1. He was born January 30, 1933, in Amsterdam, N.Y., to Boyd Fox and Anna Stube Argersinger, and spen...
Henry “Bud” Trenka, of Stamford, died March 3. He was born on November 28, 1943, in New York City, to Henry A. Trenka and Mary (Indrisek) Trenka.
Henry is survi...
To the Editor:
The author Louis L’Amour once said, “Knowledge is like money: To be of value, it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity a...
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.