Anniversary Day At The Convent
MONROE — In honor of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a day of ce...
Lindsay Carley of Newtown, a 1999 graduate of Newtown High School, earned a varsity letter from the Eastern Connecticut State University women’s...
Itinerant Park & Rec Dept. Due To Move Again
By Steve Bigham
The Parks & Recreation Department is expected to make a move back to Town Hall South later this yea...
Bound For The Rail Museum –
Preservationists Dismantle The Botsford Water Tower
By Jan Howard
A plan to dismantle the Botsford water tower, located ...
Inmate’s Death Investigated
State police and state Department of Correction (DOC) officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deat...
A Quiet Fourth Inspires Memories
Of Fireworks In Newtown
By Steve Bigham
It has been 15 years since Newtown last put on a fireworks display, yet residents still...
A dog begins his older years about the age of seven. Growing old is a process in dogs as well as people. However, the changes are not always as obvious in a dog...
Are You A
Tennis Mom?
NEW HAVEN – The 2000 Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament is searching for its second annual Tennis Mom of the Year.
The winning mom wi...
More Than 50 Years Later, A Diploma With Honors
By Kaaren Valenta
In the years since World War II, Darius Hallabeck never regretted leaving high school to serve...
Wish TV –
Bridging The Gap Between The Living Room And The Classroom
By Jeff White
Imagine every Newtown student coming home after a long day of sch...
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).