Floral Designer At Garden Club, Wednesday
The Town and Country Garden Club will hold its next meeting at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 10, at the Senior Center...
WATERBURY - Knight Ryder, a miniature horse, will be one of the two ‘patients’ at the Horse Health Seminar on Alternative Medicine to be...
Neighbors Concerned About Sandy Hook Subdivision
By Andrew Gorosko
People living near the site of a proposed 18-lot residential subdivision on Route 34 and Paug...
Members of the Chamber of Commerce’s original Christmas Tree lighting committee are still together 15 years later and are working on this yearâ€...
Deborah Feli, executrix estate of Peter J. Feli, Jr of Newtown to James and Bonnie O’Sullivan of Brewster, NY, property at 54 Butterfield Road, $120...
A ‘Dangerous Moment’ Will Conclude Drama Discussion Series
WILTON — A dramatic scene from Lillian Hellman’s play...
Internationally-Traveled Bluegrassers To Play In Ridgefield
RIDGEFIELD — On Saturday, November 13, at 8 pm, Amy Gallatin & The Stillwaters will pres...
RSVP: Golden Years And Volunteers
By Jan Howard
Forty-two members of RSVP in Newtown racked up 5,993 hours of service from 1998 to 1999, giving of their valuabl...
Hanover Road Subdivision Gets Wetlands Permit
By Andrew Gorosko
The Conservation Commission has granted a wetlands permit for a proposed nine-lot residential su...
Abstinence Is The Answer
To the Editor,
In answering Melissa Fornabia’s letter of 10-14-99, I say nobody, and definitely not our government, forces ...
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.