Theater Review—
Long Wharf Opens Strong With ‘Guys And Dolls’
               By Julie Stern
 Long Wharf T...
ANTIQUES AT THE PIERS
SS/JAR SET 11/3
NEW YORK CITY — Both New Yorkers with rustic country houses and those with sophisticated New York apartm...
ANTIQUES AT THE PIERS
SS/JAR SET 11/3
NEW YORK CITY — Both New Yorkers with rustic country houses and those with sophisticated New York apartm...
Newtown’s Helping Hands—
Community Service Is A WIN-Win Situation For This Local Group
By John Voket
It is easy for Women Involved in Ne...
Please Adopt Us!
Ivory, right, is a one-year-old white and tan Husky mixed, spayed female who is very puppy-like in her behavior. She is a medium size dog about...
Missing Main Street Trick-Or-Treater Quickly Found
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Religious Community Plans Thanksgiving 2004
The members of St Rose of Lima Church, Newtown Congregational Church, Congregation Adath Israel, and The Knights of ...
Mr and Mrs David Andrew Cheney
Sheila Jane McCraith and David Andrew Cheney were married on January 3 at the historic King’s Chapel in Boston, Mass....
Musical Memories, November 5
Newtown Congregational Church will host a performance by The Wind Ensemble of Western Connecticut on Friday, November 5. The concer...
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).