Nourishments—
Carrot Cake Is A Lifelong,
Year ‘Round Favorite
By Nancy K. Crevier
I’m not surprised that my grandmaâ€&...
Lacrosse Instructor Invites
People To Play Barber
By Nancy K. Crevier
As a lacrosse player at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, 20-year-old Jaime Va...
Watercolor Demo By Laura Eden, June 8 At
Meeting House
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will welcome Laura Eden of Granby, who will offer a demo...
Exit 10—
Tractor-Trailer Rollover Traps Driver In VehicleÂ
By Andrew Gorosko
A tractor-trailer truck loaded with US mail, which was traveling on ...
Timothy John Scheibel, Sr
Beloved Husband, Father, And Brother
A memorial service for Timothy John Scheibel, Sr, 59, who died December 18, is scheduled for...
Memorial Service Offered A Reminder Of What Is Lost And Gained
By Nancy K. Crevier
As he looked out over the gathering of people outside the Veteransâ€	...
Doggone Etiquette —
Canine Employment
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
What do you have planned for this summer? Have...
University Names Newtowner Interim Dean At School of Nursing
FAIRFIELD — Suzanne Campbell, PhD, WHNP-BC, associate dean for academic programs of Fa...
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).