Occupation: I am assistant vice president and branch manager of Union Savings Bank on Commerce Road, Newtown. I’ve been in banking for 19 years,...
Genealogy Club Program
Newtown genealogist Harlan Jessup will present information on “The Barbour Collection — More and Less Than You Th...
MG Support Group
BRIDGEPORT — The Southwestern Connecticut Myasthenia Gravis Support Group will meet on Sunday, February 20, at St Vincentâ€&#x...
WATERBURY – In spite of the blizzard, dressage enthusiasts battled through the snow to attend the Third Annual Weekend Educational Program with Help...
Frederick Blore and Sunshine Campbell
John and Dorinda Campbell, Melbourne, Fla. (formerly of New Milford), announce the engagement of their daughter, Sunshine,...
Women’s Center Stats
Shock Selectmen
By John Voket
Selectmen got a glimpse this week at what may be one of Newtown’s shameful secrets. C...
 The Aviator, which leads the pack with 11 nominations, including one for celebrated director Martin Scorsese, who has not yet won an Academy Award, is an exci...
Recital Sunday At NCC
Soprano Mary Andreotta and mezzo-soprano Sharon Goodkowski, with the pianist Susan Anthony-Klein, will present “Sing When the ...
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).