Tuesday, August 7

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Aug 01, 2001 12:00 AM

Tuesday, August 7

Galvanized Jazz Band performance, 7 pm rain or shine, Ashlar of Newtown, 139 Toddy Hill Road, free outdoor performance of Dixieland and Big Band music concludes Ashlarâs 15th Annual Summer Sounds Concert Series, bring blankets/lawn chairs; 426-5847.

Charter Revision Commission, 7 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

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

Lake Zoar Authority, 7:30 pm, Southbury Town Hall, Main Street South, Southbury.

Lake Lillinonah Authority, 7:30 pm, Bridgewater Town Hall, Route 133, Bridgewater.

Wednesday, August 8

Borough Zoning Commission, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

âThrough the Camera to the Easel,â 7:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free program by contemporary wildlife artist John Swatsley will discuss uses of photographic reference material in painting, hosted by Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN; program preceded by board of directorsâ meeting, 6:15); 426-6654.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Thursday, August 9

âThe Drama Queens Around the World,â 7:30 pm, Edmond Town Hallâs Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, tickets $5 adults, free age 12 and under, performance by summer acting group of girls ages 7-14 with music and dance traditions from around the world, proceeds to The Heifer Project (also afternoon performance on August 10 at library); 426-4191.

Friday, August 10

âThe Drama Queens Around the World,â 1:30 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, tickets $5 adults, free age 12 and under, performance by summer acting group of girls ages 7-14 with music and dance traditions from around the world, proceeds to The Heifer Project; 426-4191.

Peter Pan, 7:30 pm, Newtown High School auditorium, 12 Berkshire Road/Route 34, tickets $14 adults/reserved seats, $12 adults/general admission, $7 seniors and students/reserved seats, $6 seniors and students/general admission, production featuring college, high school and middle school students from 14 regional schools participating in Summer Theater Connection, two additional performances on August 11; 426-1787.

Saturday, August 11

Peter Pan, 2 and 7:30 pm, Newtown High School auditorium, see ticket and other details in August 10 listing.

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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.

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

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