Saturday, March 11

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Mar 03, 2000 12:00 AM

Saturday, March 11

Newtown Coffee House, doors open 7:30 pm (open mic), music begins 8:30, Newtown Congregational Church House, 41-A Main Street, admission $5, performance of country blues by The Broke & Hungry Blues Band, refreshments and soft drinks included with admission, all ages welcome.

Sunday, March 12

Irish tenor Mark Forrest in concert, 3 pm, St Rose Church, 46 Church Hill Road, free (freewill offering will be taken), performance by Dublin-born singer of famous Irish songs; 426-4502, 426-1014.

Monday, March 13

âThe American Love Affair with the Railroad,â 7:30 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free slide program sponsored by Newtown Historical Society, presented by retired locomotive servicer and preparer, turntable operator and engineer Peter McLachlan; 426-5937.

Tuesday, March 14

Free assistance with preparing income tax forms, 1 to 5 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Parks and Recreation Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers, 7:30 pm, Edmond Town Hall Mary Hawley Room, 45 Main Street.

Borough Board of Burgesses, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Booth Library Board of Trustees, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Legislative Council, 7:30 pm, Newtown Middle School auditorium, 11 Queen Street, budget deliberations for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.

Wednesday, March 15

Legislative Council, 8 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Thursday, March 16

Planning and Zoning Commission, 7:30 pm, town land use office, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Flagpole Photographers Club meeting, 7:30 pm, C.H. Booth Library meeting room, 25 Main Street, free (non-members welcome), guest judge Murth Murthy will critique membersâ âOpen Slideâ competition; 270-1943, 426-0558.

Friday, March 17

ST PATRICKâS DAY

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials, 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall, Pocono Road, Brookfield.

Sunday, March 19

The Shanghai Quartet in concert, 3 pm, Edmond Town Hall theatre, 45 Main Street, tickets $14, $12 students and seniors, performance of works by Zhou Long, Arnold Schonberg and Tchaikovsky, guest musicians Alisa Weilerstein (cello) and Marcus Thompson (violin), sponsored by Newtown Friends of Music; 426-6470.

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A lovely tribute-Matt, we are thinking of you, Tanya, and entire Medve family at this time-Jane & Keith & Family 💙

Susan Medve

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!

Referendum Results: Split Decision

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.

Vote Yes On April 23

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).

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