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While the recently recommended municipal budget request equates to an 8% spending increase, that spending largely represents money being transferred into the town’s Capital and Non-Recurring Fund. The actual tax increase residents may be facing if th...

To the Editor: Last night (March 1), the Chair of the Board of Education suggested that she is not prohibiting clapping at Board of Education meetings. While on January 4 she said, "Therefore, there will be no more clapping or any other form, public ...

To the Editor: Too often, cost-driven health insurers treat patients like numbers on a ledger. We all know someone who was given a prognosis based on a statistic, rather than really knowing the person. That “just a number” culture grows exponentially...

To the Editor and Our Community: Two weeks ago, an editorial in The Newtown Bee, and last week a letter to the editor by Paul Bluestein, focused on MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) legislation. My friends, Lynda Shannon Bluestein, who has late-stag...

To the Editor, In the real-world lives of our children and community, I think Boards of Ed are now more important than the President, Congress, Supreme Court, or any other institution. The pandemic of the past two years necessitated parents becoming ...

To the Editor: On March 17, people around the world will come together to celebrate the Irish holiday of St Patrick’s Day. It’s always a good time to wear your green attire and partake in local festivities with friends and enjoy a cold beer. That’s w...

To the Editor: If you ate breakfast or lunch at My Place Restaurant before the pandemic, you probably met Laurie Lincoln, the smiling face who worked so hard there. (Her Facebook page is under the name Laurie Royal.) Now, Laurie needs a kidney. Her d...

To the Editor Last week, I gave public testimony in support of the Medical-Aid-in-Dying bill, SB 88. Because I was a practicing physician before I retired, I got asked about the apparent conflict between the Hippocratic Oath and the proposed legislat...

To the Editor: A proposal will soon be presented to Newtown’s Planning & Zoning Commission by Wharton Equity Partners, LLC, for the development of a distribution warehouse on 100 acres of wetlands property off I-84 Exit 9. The proposal provides for 7...

To the Editor: A proposal by Wharton Equity Partners, LLC is scheduled for review by Newtown’s Planning & Zoning Commission. It is just stunning that this proposal is for a 76-truck terminal and massive warehouse (contents undisclosed) near residenti...