Monday, July 5

By NANCY CREVIER

Published: Jul 02, 2010 12:00 AM

Monday, July 5

INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY OBSERVED

Tuesday, July 6

Lake Zoar Authority, 7 pm, Southbury Town Hall, 501 Main Street South.

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Lake Lillinonah Authority, 7:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall, 100 Pocono Road.

Police Commission, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Wednesday, July 7

Cultural Arts Commission, 7 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Hattertown Historic District Commission, 7 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Newtown Toastmasters, 7 to 9 pm, Parks and Recreation Conference Room, Town Hall South. Guests welcome.

Â Water & Sewer Authority, 7 pm, sewage treatment plant office building, 24 Commerce Road.

Legislative Council, 7:30 pm, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Thursday, July 8

Opening reception for âEquine Expressions,â 6â8 pm, Koenig Frameworks and Art Gallery, 97 South Main Street, celebration of new exhibition featuring equine-theme art by former Newtown resident Lesie Hudson-Tolles, also Adele Goodman and Shelley Hunter, exhibit continues to August 6; 203-270-1887.

The first of the Parks and Recreation free summer concert series, 6:30 pm, Dickinson Park, featuring The Big Beat. Bring picnic dinners, lawn chairs. Concert under pavilion in case of rain.

Friday, July 9

Opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, $20, $10 ages 10 and under, Town Players of Newtown production of Oscar Wildeâs work continues weekends to July 25; 203-270-9144.

Jackie (Jack) Tanner

Referendum Results: Split Decision

Snapshot: Chris Gardner

Garden Club Of Newtown Preparing Victory Garden Rows, Plants For Fundraising Sale

Dozens Enjoy Recitations Of Original Works During Poetry Walk Reception

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.

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).

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

Susan Medve

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