To the Editor:
My wife and I attended the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corp corned beef and cabbage dinner and fundraiser. We were particularly fortunate to arrive shortly before the local Irish Step D...
To the Editor:
Your elected officials have voted to send to referendum a Community Aquatic Center spending re-quest of $14,550,000 dollars for the building. Taxpayers should consider the following bef...
To the Editor:
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to thank Patty Prestera, a volunteer EMT and chair-man of the St. Patrick's Day Fundraiser event held this past Saturday at our ambulanc...
To the Editor:
The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps would like to thank all the people who came out to support our 1st Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner Fundraiser. It was a wonderful event to...
To the Editor:
To all voters in Newtown, you will have the opportunity to vote on Tuesday April 5 in a referendum to approve the building of a community center which will include a 50 meter pool, a ze...
To the Editor:
Thank you, Newtown residents, for engaging in the process to date on the community center proposal. We are glad to see so many residents actively participating in discussions and making...
To the Editor:
We would once again like to thank Virginia Hutch and Healing Sandy Hook Through the Arts for their generous donation to the SMART - Summer Music and Arts Program in the memory ...
To the Editor:
The Newtown Community Center Commission is thrilled to have so many Newtown residents engaged in the Community Center process, however recently there have been some misconceptions we'd ...
To the Editor:
I work for GE, and I have never been prouder of my company than when they donated $10 million dollars to build and $5 million dollars to operate a community center in Newtown.
I was thr...
To the Editor:
The traffic and safety study and recommendations from Frederick P. Clark Associates needs more resident involvement.  We encourage residents to contact Police Chief Via...
Michelle, I am sorry to see that you are also a victim of fabrications. All those rumors that go round that seem so convincing. All so often, those rumors are little more than convenient lies. This has been happening for several years and hopefully we can come together to stop them.
Until then, I ask that those of you who have heard disparaging remarks about the candidates take the time to meet with them to ask them directly what you are concerned about. Get to know them better rather than assume. We all will have better representation both locally and state-wide if you do so.
This is disappointing because it frames voters who rejected the Treadwell turf replacement as selfish or anti-youth. When I suspect that Katherine's motives were likely because she has some vested interest in those turf fields, which makes it exceptionally selfish.
There is a clear difference between maintaining basic town infrastructure and approving an athletic facility upgrade. Library sidewalks, parking access, and a salt storage facility support safety and essential town operations. The turf field may be worthwhile, but it is still a different type of request.
Residents can support youth sports and still question the cost, timing, or priority of a specific project. Calling that selfish, or turning it into a generational argument is unfair and unproductive.
Newtown is better served by honest discussion about priorities, not by accusing voters of lacking community spirit because they disagreed on one ballot item.
Thank you!
Can you move to remove the future $75,000 commercial kitchen for the library? It's a fire hazard, attracts vermin, wasted expense (anyone who rents a room for an event can hire a local caterer), plus health inspections and licenses, etc
Thank you for being a watchdog guarding our precious tax dollar. I am horrified at some of the items the town wants to spend our money on, like a $95,000 per year executive assistant for the 1st Selectman and now I have learned there are plans for a $75,000 commercial kitchen installed in the library! Jordana Bloom, who represents my 2nd District works at the library. Did she recuse herself from this expense?
