Hattertown Road
Walter and Helen Schneider purchased 101 Hattertown Road from Mr and Mrs David Goldblatt.
Linda Whipkey of William Pitt Sotheby’...
Ridgefield Kitchen Tour
Will Celebrate The Heart Of The Home
 RIDGEFIELD — It’s that time of year again when things heat up, especial...
The dispatchers at the emergency communications center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls during the past week:
Thursday, April 26: 4:43 pm,...
Former Interim Commissioner
Appointed As New Education Deputy
George A. Coleman of Sandy Hook was appointed deputy commissioner of the State Department of Educ...
Final Chance
For Fashion
Show Tickets
Sunday, May 6, is the last day to make reservations for The Greater Newtown Chapter of Hadassah luncheon and fashion sho...
Interpreting
The Budget Vote
To the Editor:
I read with some concern the account of the selectman’s approach to the budget rejection. Of the 3,574 ...
If you think your spring chores are tough, consider the work the guys are doing at The Pleasance. Last weekend, Brian Sacco, Chris Sacco, Kenny Joyce, Emory Kle...
A Community
That Believes In Its Future
To the Editor:
For as many years as I have been chairperson of the Board of Education, I have asked the citizens of New...
Fuzzy Math
To the Editor:
What’s the phrase; fuzzy math?
I find in incredulous that this would not only be suggested but actually be put to print
T...
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.