Trinity Tag Sale
May 21
Trinity Episcopal Church will host a tag sale Saturday, May 21. Because it will be presented in the church’s undercroft, th...
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Fourteen “hometown heroes” were honored at a reception on Thursday, May 1, at the Matthew Curtiss House, ending a year-long series o...
NHS Golfers Top New Milford, Fall To Pomperaug
Newtown High School’s boys’ golf team edged New Milford, shooting a 169 to New Milfordâ&#...
Around The Horn — Baseball Results
Youth Baseball highlights from this past week are as follows:
U11
Begany Design 12, Grimes Times Titans ...
Kitten Associates Cats For Adoption
Kitten Associates has the following cats available for adoption (each has been spayed or neutered, is up to date on shots, h...
Men
’s Opening Day
First, 61 Duane Slavin, Rich Carrano, Bob Osterman, and John Shalkan
Second, 62 Steve Sharlow, Dan Walsh, John Grimardi, ...
Genealogy Club To Host ‘Researching Colonial Dutch And German Ancestors In New York’s Hudson Valley’
On Wednesday, May 11, t...
The Winds Of Change
To the Editor:
In a recent interview, Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, flatly refused to consider dropping ten...
Trey Trudell
Trudell is a member of Newtown High School’s lacrosse team, which was unbeaten heading into the middle of this week.
Favorite part ...
Ryan Plan
Would End Medicare
To the Editor:
I am completely outraged by Paul Ryan’s budget plan which recently passed Congress with full Republican...
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.