This school year Newtown High School (NHS) has a new group of young trailblazers who are working to make a positive impact in the lives of people, animals, and ...
Residents of Fairfield County can knock an item off their travel to-do list Saturday, February 8, with post offices in the region offering an extra dose of conv...
Hearts of Hope of Newtown (HOH-Newtown) had a special event on Wednesday, January 29, sponsored by Fisio Therapy and Wellness of Newtown, where guests painted h...
A new partnership with the Newtown Public School District and the Newtown Senior Center officially began on January 23, when one fourth grade class visited seni...
The Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation is organizing a free StoryWalk in Sandy Hook Center, Saturday, February 22, 2 to 4 pm.
The leisurely walk will stop at loca...
The Board of Education unanimously approved its $79,201,776 budget proposal for 2020-21 at its meeting on February 4. The spending plan represents a 1.4 percent...
During the early morning hours of Saturday, February 1, police received a 911 call for help from a resident inside a compact two-story single-family house at 76...
A Toddy Hill Road man who has led an ongoing neighborhood drive for better traffic speed control on that residential street and Police Chief James Viadero on Fe...
They say timing is everything, and Newtown High School’s football team certainly captured the moment — just in time — winning the Class LL state championship on...
Friday, February 7
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm. Beginners meeting, open discussion.
Saturday, February 8
AA Daily R...
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.