website designer cindy brunner laid off 6 of her 14 employees.e chrysler dealer, the chevy dealer, the tractor supply company. since the recession, we've seen a lot of troubled towns in the country but nothing that looks quite as broken as newton. even the local chapter of the optimist club has closed. >> you know, i want to tell everybody that we're a company town where the company left, but we're gonna thrive. >> chaz allen is the mayor of this town of 15,000 people. it's a part-time job. pays about $4,000 a year. allen walked us through an abandoned maytag plant that, at its peak, held 2,500 factory workers building washers and dryers. if anyone out there is interested, the mayor has more than 1.7 million square feet to rent. >> it is available. it is available. we'll make you a good deal. >> the mayor's been trying to pull new jobs into town. he made a run at green energy and got a company that makes wind turbine blades. but every time he gets a few hundred jobs, he seems to lose a few hundred. this fall, a telecom company called windstream h