To the Editor:
Once Indigenous People were one with tall grass prairies, where lived the Sage grouse, the gopher, the Black Tailed Prairie Dog, the buffalo, the...
Update: This report was updated at 12 pm on February to add a clarification from the C.H.Booth Library Director Douglas Lord about an attribution regarding ...
The Newtown Torpedoes’ youth swim program held its fifth and final regular season meet when the Bristol Splash visited for competition at Newtown High School on...
There is some significantly encouraging good news for Newtown High School’s wrestling team as the postseason quickly approaches: These Nighthawks are really tou...
Following two weeks of department by department review meetings, the Board of Selectmen made $67,795 in cuts to the proposed 2023-24 municipal budget, leaving a...
Newtown Allies For Change is set to host a free viewing of episodes from the docuseries The 1619 Project on Thursday, February 9, at 6:30 pm, at Trinity Episco...
Readers have two opportunities during the next week to create valentines for veterans thanks to the efforts of at least three local organizations. On Sunday, al...
The Board of Education’s 2023-24 spending plan was unanimously approved at its meeting on January 31. As approved by the board, its 2023-24 budget request is $8...
Three members of Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Newtown were at the association’s thrift shop Monday morning, working ahead of a special sale event planned...
February 6, 1998
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Jane Cottingham
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On the night of January 29, an unattended Mercedes-Benz sedan parked at a Wills Road resid...
We all would like nothing to change, but look at how much this proposed property will add to the grand list. The eastern lot is currently assessed at $352,000 which brings in just under $10k in property value. I appreciate you taking note that the new houses will be $1,000,0000 EACH! This means the property, including club house, pickleball courts, skeet range, putting greens could be assessed at 117 million which would collectively bring in over $3,000,000 in tax revenue. This could also mean over 200 new luxury cars which brings in over $300k in additional revenue. Let's be honest though, they will register out of state. Either way, let's be honest here, if we had 3 MILLON more tax revenue the school wouldn't have to worry about canceling Spanish classes for kindergarteners.
Lets get it passed!
Leave the 'Rich" alone. 50% of this country pay no taxes. And many get money back. The taxpayers on the 'Gold' coast here in CT keep Hartford and Bridgeport afloat. Run them out of town and see what happens.