To the Editor:
The mission of Newtown Scholarship Association (NSA) is to provide needs-based scholarship awards to help students and their families manage the ...
While many media organizations subscribe to the "if it bleeds, it leads" credo when reporting on incidents, accidents, and other related tragedies, the last thi...
July 19, 1996
The confident Newtown Babe Ruth 14/15-year-old All Star team looked like a force to be reckoned with as it swaggered through the first three games...
July 19, 1996
The pool at Dickinson Park reopened Wednesday, after being closed for a day amid concerns that the water had become polluted. Water from a ne...
A Legislative Council public hearing on the formation of a permanent Newtown Community Center Commission will be conducted at 7 pm on Wednesday, July 7, in the ...
This year’s Friends of C.H. Booth Library Book Sale is set to be bigger than ever, and it will start on Friday, July 9, earlier than the typical Saturday start....
The Newtown Bee welcomes our newest reporter this week, Jim Taylor. You’ll be seeing him around town at various events and town meetings, so look for his by...
Newtown High School’s Blue & Gold Stadium is being renovated this summer. The turf is being pulled up for a new surface that is expected to be in place in July....
DANBURY — The Gallery at Still River Editions is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its rebranding with an exhibition featuring works of some of the many a...
The Town Players of Newtown is back in business.
After a year and a half of darkened stages, theaters of all sizes, from community and regional to Broadway, are...
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.