Raising Happy, Healthy Teenagers
By Patti Cummings
Children, Mary Ronan explains, are like the pull of the river’s current, running swiftly to adult...
Weller Foundation Honors NHS Students
In recognition of their exemplary achievements, four Newtown High School seniors were recently presented with awards by Th...
Last Call On School Health Records
The Health Office at Newtown High School has issued a statement advising people that the health records for the members of th...
Putting Famous Crimes Under The Magnifying Glass
By Jan Howard
Was justice served? A book written by Dr Henry Lee and Dr Jerry Labriola re-examines some of the ...
Local radio stations dissolve into static every five miles; insects detonate against the windshield. He stops and has the oil checked. The American is in his se...
Tag Sale For Families With Tikes
The New Moms’ Group at Newtown Youth Services is organizing a tag sale specifically for the needs of families with ...
Cortney Roy Bird of Newtown recently received a bachelor of arts degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Wendy Borst, daughter of Jim and La...
Occupation: I have been a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, located in Ridgefield, for 11 years. I received a bachelor of sc...
What is the first thing you are going to do on the last day of school when the last bell rings? (Newtown students’ last day of school is June 22...
P&Z Begins To Plan For The Next Decade
By Andrew Gorosko
Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members plan to seek out residents’ views on how the t...
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).