Crafters at the Newtown Senior Center have been working hard to produce a large assortment of items for the upcoming Holiday Bazaar, scheduled to take place on ...
Glen “Benny” Atkinson, a longtime swim coach in town, continued to be instrumental in the success of swimmers at Newtown High School years after his death in 20...
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To The Editor:
I am proud to state my support for the candidacy of Rance Thompson for the Legislative Council, District 3.
I have known Rance for many years and...
Published: Nov 04, 2019 at 11:43 AM
On Tuesday, November 5, registered Newtown voters will go to the polls for municipal elections. Polls at all locations are open for voting from 6 am to 8 pm.
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The Connecticut Department of Transportation is announcing nightly ramp closures this week and next on I-84 West in Newtown at Exits 9 and 10 that will bring pa...
NEW MILFORD — Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team dropped a hard-fought five-set match to host New Milford in the South-West Conference tournament quar...
Update: The SWC championship site will be Joel Barlow High in Redding. Game is Wednesday, November 6 at 7 pm.
The third time was the charm for the Newtown ...
This is the first of a two-part series on The Newtown Fund, which is observing its 60th anniversary this year of helping Newtown residents through emergenci...
People’s United Bank, located inside the Sand Hill Plaza’s Stop & Shop, at 228 South Main Street, hosted its Purse Patrol program on October 25, from 10 am to n...
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.