Looking Back At ‘09—
Transparency Takes Precedence In Local Planning, Budget, Elections, Fairfield Hills
By John Voket
The ability to he...
Local Nutrition Coach Combines Proper Foods
To Achieve Desired Results
By John Voket
With a background in psychology, Newtowner Andrea Anderson already had a g...
Committee Still Has Questions About Proposed Bidding Code Change
By John Voket
What was thought to be a routine matter of changing some code language to provide...
Congratulations to Charles Luf and Melissa Procaccini, who were both able to tell us that last week’s challenge (inset) — the final one ...
2009: A Year Of Survival For The Revered Hawleyville Post Office
By Nancy K. Crevier
It was like a ride on a scary roller coaster, but it seems like 2009 may fi...
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humb...
Valentine’s Day Project Around The Corner—
WWE Brings Holiday Greetings From Reed Students To Middle East
By Eliza Hallabeck
For the sec...
2009 Discoveries Provided A Peek At The Past
By Nancy K. Crevier
For many years before the brick building on the corner of Church Hill and Glen Roads in Sandy H...
Juniors And Seniors Complete Projects At NHS
By Eliza Hallabeck
In preparation for the end of the semester, students in Newtown High School’s Junior...
Noise Problem
Police said that they stopped motorist Bryne Spellman, 36, of Rowayton on Main Street at about 8:25 pm December 22 to investigate, after whic...
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.