For School Bd. Review—
Superintendent Presents
$62 Million Budget
By Susan Coney
Newtown Superintendent of Schools Evan Pitkoff presented his prop...
Herbal Medicine For Beginners
BETHEL — Valerie Hoffman, a certified herbalist and the owner of Sunrise Herb Farm in Bethel, is offering a free class...
Native Plants For Birds And Butterflies
John Longstreth, director of Bent of the River Audubon Sanctuary in Southbury, will be presenting a program entitled â&#...
Indoor Track
– Saturday, February 4, at 10 am, at Wilton High School.
Wrestling – Saturday, February 11, at 10 am, at Stratf...
*TOBY KEITH will bring his Big Throwdown Tour II to Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4. Both shows will begin at 8 pm and will include ...
Dog Pound Support With Magnetic Appeal
This week people can begin to show their support for The Canine Advocates of Newtown Building Fund by displaying a car ma...
Savings Bank Unveils The Next Chapter In Its History
By John Voket
Many of the officers and employees who provided tours Tuesday evening at the 150th Anniversar...
NHS Debate Team Achieving Success
After much preparation and a trip on January 20 and 21 to participate in a major tournament at Columbia University, the Newtow...
Young People’s Theatre To
Present ‘Curious George’
WATERBURY — The Adventures of Curious George, a play based on...
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.