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Set 30 point
Withington Auction Features ‘Dick’s 100 Choices’ Collection
Set 24 pt head
Sale At Within...
2c of blue nude.jpg and 2c recline nude.jpg (shared caption across 4col)
In early 1907, an accident in Matisse’s studio spurred the creation of two ...
Cut e-mailed 8-2
2col Breath of Fire
Mark Davis, “Breath of Fire,” brass and aluminum with steel wires and acrylic colors.
FOR 8-10 KINE...
August 6, 1982
The Town of Newtown faces hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of renovations for two municipal buildings and the six school system struct...
Theater Review   Ackbourn’s First Smash, Back At Its American Birthplace
By Julie Stern
WESTPORT — Alan Ayckbourn has been called the ...
Council Candidate Breaks Ranks
But Still Gets IPN Endorsement
By John Voket
A local committee aspiring to become an official minor political party has dropped ...
Stained Glass Gives Retirement A Rosier Hue
By Kendra Bobowick
A sunlit house can take on a pastel hue tinted with pale green, soft blue, buttercup yellow, or ...
John Wlasuk, 14, of Newtown (pictured left) won a gold medal in the shot put and javelin during Nutmeg Games competition at Danbury High School last week. Wlasu...
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The Housing Market:
What They Aren’t Telling You
To the Editor:
The problem is far bigger than the analyst would have you believe. Unless something...
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).