WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Newtown Foundation, together with St Mark's Episcopal Church, Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, States United to Prevent Gun Violenc...
At the conclusion of this year's successful food drive, Sandy Hook Elementary School held a Turkey Trot celebration on Wednesday, November 23.
For the food driv...
The town's three Christmas/holiday trees will be formally lit for the holidays, December 2-4.
Newtown's oldest tree lighting celebration will open the weekend.
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With his gaze turned toward Sandy Hook Center, Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity (SHOP) President Joe Hemingway said, "There used to be a mill here, the bu...
Two firearms advocacy groups recently offered responses to a legal action, through which the families of nine Sandy Hook School shooting victims and one survivo...
The 31st Annual Newtown Holiday Festival will be presented along Main Street on Sunday, December 4, from 11 am until 4 pm.
One of the area's longest running hol...
Newtown Historical Society will open The Matthew Curtiss House on Sunday, December 4, from noon until 4 pm, in conjunction with the annual Holiday Festival & Ho...
Police report they charged a Milford woman on 38 criminal counts following their investigation into illicit drug activity that allegedly occurred in June and Ju...
Newtown traditionally spends the first weekend in December celebrating the holidays, and 2016 is no different. Three separate tree lightings are planned, a numb...
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.