Petition Drive Aimed At Persuading NSB To Alter Branch Design
By John Voket
While welcoming the presence of Newtown Savings Bank in Sandy Hook Center, several r...
Vital Help At A Tough Time
To the Editor:
I would like to give a big thank you to all the EMTs, ambulance, fire department, and police that responded Friday to ...
Alumni Soccer
Former Newtown High School soccer players who played under 19-year coach Lash Ashmore, are invited to participate in an alumni event on Saturday,...
All Hands On ‘Dock’ For Taunton Lake Family
By Nancy K. Crevier
When weed-infested waters make a dive off of the end of the dock an unpl...
Letter Of Endorsement
To the Editor:
Once again, I have the good fortune of writing to support Representative Christopher Lyddy in his bid for a second term of ...
This week’s challenge is a carryover, which is a big surprise. I thought for sure this would be an easy one. Take a ride around town and see if you ...
Children’s Day Planned At Historic Schoolhouse
Newtown Historical Society will host a Children’s Day at the Little Red Schoolhouse on th...
School Reform Still On Track, McQuillan Says
By Robert A. Frahm
The Connecticut Mirror
Despite the failure to win millions of dollars in a federal school reform...
MV Violations
Police report they saw a disabled vehicle near the intersection of Wasserman Way and Oakview Road about 3:15 pm August 31, so they investigat...
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).