Uncle Sam Leaves Town For
Danbury City Hall
By Andrew Gorosko
Charlie Payne, the proprietor of Newtown Mulch and Outdoor, expressed mixed emotions on a foggy T...
The 112th Assembly District—
Candidates Offer Ideas About Improving State Government
By John Voket
(This is the second of a three-part series in...
Animals, Owners Welcome
 At Fall Fun & Adoption Day
On Saturday, October 6, Mt Pleasant Hospital for Animals will present a Fall Fun & Adoption Day from noon t...
Stray Kats Theatre Company Announces 2012-13 Season
The Stray Kats Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theatre company located at historic Edmond Town Hallâ€...
Land Use Official Explains The Value Of Open Space
To The Council
By Kendra Bobowick
Picture a winter scene: it is six degrees out, and you don’t h...
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. Â
             —Edgar Watson Howe...
To the Editor:
As the former first selectman of Newtown (November 2007–November 2009), I very enthusiastically endorse my good friend and colleague ...
Continuing Ed OSHA Construction Course
Newtown Continuing Education is scheduled to hold a ten-hour, four-night, Construction Occupational Safety and Health Adm...
*A reminder this week that Ives Concert Park has an early Halloween event planned for Saturday night. Area residents can start celebrating the season early at t...
SCAN Planning Fall Art Show & Sale
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown 2012 Fall Art Show and Sale will be held at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, Fr...
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).