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Craft Party Kicks Off New Year’s Celebrations At NCC

By Alissa Silber

Published: Jan 03, 2020 07:15 AM

Children prepared to ring in the new year while at the Newtown Community Center’s (NCC) New Year’s Eve Craft Party on Monday, December 30.

Tables were set up in the art studio with materials for festive arts & crafts projects. Children who attended were invited to make custom noisemakers, party hats, and glasses.

While not all the children will be able to stay up until midnight, they were able to celebrate the excitement of 2020 early with friends and family while making crafts.

Two-year-old Gracie Veteri holds the New Year’s Eve hat she decorated with colorful pompoms, feathers, and glitter while at the Newtown Community Center on December 30. —Bee Photos, Silber

At the Newtown Community Center’s New Year’s Eve Craft Party, Madeline Rangel, 3, concentrates on filling her purple noisemaker as her “Titi” holds it in place.

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

Beth sorry for your loss Scott always talked about how much you loved your mom ❤️ Prayers for you and your family Gauvin Family

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