Letters of Endorsement
To the Editor:
I want to encourage all Republicans of Newtown, Bethel, Ridgefield and Redding to go to the polls on August 10th and join ...
Wetlands Permit Sought—
Hook & Ladder Submits Firehouse Application
By Andrew Gorosko
Newtown Hook & Ladder Company, Inc, #1, which is one of the t...
Nedra A. Demers
Generous And Loving
Nedra A. (Canfield) Demers, 91, a longtime resident of Lebanon, N.H., died August 2, at Genesis Eldercare in Lebanon. B...
To the Editor:
I want to encourage all Republicans of Newtown, Bethel, Ridgefield, and Redding to go to the polls on August 10 and join me in voting for Moira R...
Openings For Vacation Bible School
MONROE — Children and young adults ages 4–14 are invited to Vacation Bible School at Good Shepherd Lu...
Connecticut learned last week that it had lost out on its second bid to secure up to $195 million in federal Race to the Top stimulus funding, which is designed...
Dancers And Uke Band Make Hawaiian Luau Special
By Nancy K. Crevier
Members of the Danbury Senior Center Hat City Uke Band, the Brookfield Hula Group, and the ...
B’nai Israel Annual Picnic, August 8
SOUTHBURY — B’nai Israel, the Reform Jewish congregation of Southbury, will hold its an...
Correction
A photo caption accompanying the photos of turkey vultures at Fairfield Hills that appeared on the front page of the July 30 edition of The Bee incor...
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).