"Look, that's my dog," Ray said as he pointed to the TV at My Place Restaurant last week. The bartender spun around to see a promo for the 141st Annual Westmins...
Hygge (hue-geh) is a word that has made its way into the lexicon of people far away from Denmark, the homeland of this borrowed term. The Scandinavian concept o...
The three-time South-West Conference champion cheerleading squad from Newtown High School finished runner-up to Joel Barlow of Redding in the February 4 competi...
On the heels of a new report from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM), Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced January 31 that the state budget propo...
R. Lynn Helsel Wade, 66, of Kingston, N.Y., and formerly of Newtown, died peacefully January 25 in the presence of her husband, son, and daughter. Her courageou...
Newtown Continuing Education has announced its Spring 2017 Brochure is being mailed to local homes, and its spring classes begin as early as March 2. Copies of ...
Local women are invited to join the Working Women's Forum on Wednesday, February 15, when Dr Lisa Freed will present "Women and Heart Disease: How are Women Dif...
Robert "Bob" James Mandulak, 70, of Sandy Hook died unexpectedly February 5. He was born in Bridgeport on January 29, 1947.
He was a graduate of Bullard-Havens ...
C. Renee LeDonne, 72, of Monroe died February 4 at St Vincent's Medical Center with her family by her side. Born in Bridgeport on April 13, 1944, she was a daug...
Outside entertainment coming to town was a big event in the small Minnesota town in which I grew up. So, when a tiny circus set up tents at the outskirts of the...
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.