Rudolph "Rudy" Hrabcsak, 86, of Danbury died at Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut on August 30. He was the beloved husband of Lucille A. (Na...
C.H. Booth Public Library will host "Heart and Home, Prints and Paintings," a solo exhibition to feature works by the Newtown artist Roberta Shea during the mon...
The fourth annual Newtown Yoga Festival took place Saturday, August 27, at NYA Sports & Fitness Center.Yoga Bear: Yoga for Youngsters.Newtown Yoga Festival co-f...
Dennis "Denny" Aloysius McLaughlin, a Sandy Hook resident for more than 35 years, died August 30 in Somers Point, N.J., after vacationing with his children and ...
The 27th season of Saturday Pasta Dinners at Newtown United Methodist Church will begin on September 3, in the church's fellowship hall, 92 Church Hill Road in ...
Church Hill Crash
Police report a two-vehicle accident on Church Hill Road, near its intersection with Edmond Road, about 8:05 am on August 22.
Police said...
William "Bill" Edward Ryan died August 24 at Masonicare of Newtown. He was born in Utica, N.Y., on September 9, 1929, and was the son of the late Clarence and G...
"Home" is the place we love, the place we leave, and the place to which we return, whether in memories or by plane, train, or automobile.
With that word, "home,...
The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:Thurs...
Photographs by Marleen Cafarelli taken during the first four Newtown Arts Festivals are the focus of a new exhibit at C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.Ms Cafa...
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).