Celebrating A Second Year In The Victory Garden
By Kendra Bobowick
A coolness in the air and touch of color on falling leaves set the scene to celebrate this ye...
Town Police Cars Changing To Black And White Color Scheme
By Andrew Gorosko
Although the work that they do will remain the same, the vehicles that they use whil...
Wine Tasting To Beat Cancer, Saturday
The Cure Is Only A Sip Away, a special event being hosted by and to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s ...
Still Life In Oil Next Program To Be Hosted By SCAN
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present a demonstration by Shauna Shane at its next meet...
A Destination For Fun
To the Editor:
Are you looking for something fun to do this Saturday? Come join us for our second annual Passport to Sandy Hook from 11 to...
Antiques Shows ______________
Oct 5-7: 26th Annual Washington Antiques Show, Washington Primary School, 11 School St, Washington Depot, Fri preview night (a...
Field Hockey Team Topples Masuk
By Andy Hutchison
Newtown High School’s field hockey team improved to 4-3 overall with a 4-1 win over visiting Masuk...
After two weeks of trying, only Bill Pendergast was able to tell us that our most recent Bee’s Buck challenge (inset) was an old-fashioned water pum...
A Day Of Fun In Sandy Hook
To the Editor:
The Country Mill, located at 5 Glen Road in Sandy Hook, would like to invite the public down to enjoy a day of fun for...
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.