Susan “Sue” Boucher Medve, of Bridgeport, passed away on April 9, 2024, in Portland, Maine, at the age of 84.
She was born on December 13, 1939.
Sue was the bel...
George James Miller, 92, of Newtown, passed away peacefully on April 17, 2024, at home.
George was born on August 4, 1931, to George Miller and Margaret Jordan....
Residents donated pre-bagged groceries to help fight hunger for the Newtown Lions Second Annual Stuff-A-Truck Food Drive held on Saturday, April 6. The event wa...
Hit Vehicle From Driveway
Newtown Police report John Celli, 18, of Newtown, operating a 2016 Nissan Rogue, was backing from a driveway onto Schoolhouse Hil...
For the second year in a row Newtown High School’s lacrosse programs are partnering with the 15 For Life Foundation for designated games as players, coaches, pa...
Newtown’s Earth Day Festival is being planned for Saturday, April 27, 10 am to 4 pm, at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street.
Among the many exhibits there wi...
Although the Cheshire Rams may be from out of conference they certainly have become a notable rival for the Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse team. On April 1...
The Newtown United Methodist Church (NUMC) Mission & Outreach Committee is inviting readers to their spring fundraising event, the Second Annual Afternoon Tea.
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Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team was involved in close contests with South-West Conference rivals this past week, highlighted by a nail-biting then a 7...
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!
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.
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).