The Newtown High School Class of 2018 valedictorian and salutatorian both grew up in Newtown, and they shared reflections on their schooling after their educati...
Temperate weather drew a spirited multi-generational crowd of about 100 to Newtown's VFW Post 308 Memorial Day ceremonies, May 28, as veterans, elected official...
First Selectman Dan Rosenthal has announced that Public Works and contract crews will begin curbside pickup and removal of storm generated debris on Monday, Jun...
A group of Newtown police officers, among many others, attended solemn ceremonies on Thursday, May 24, at the Connecticut Police Memorial in Meriden, where the ...
The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard is partnering with Custom Fundraising Solutions (CFS) to hold its third annual Mattress Fundraiser this Saturday, ...
VFW Post 308 Commander Ray Wisniewski stopped by our office last week to let us know the Post had some help replacing flags on the graves of veterans in all of ...
Governor Dannel P. Malloy ordered flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff last night, in honor of Connecticut State Police Trooper First Class Walter...
Occupation: I am a podiatrist at Performance Foot & Ankle Specialists, where I split my time in the Newtown and Waterbury offices. I also work at Yale New H...
The school district's 2017-18 Profiles in Professionalism awardees were honored at the May 22 Board of Education meeting.
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Ro...
June 4, 1993
Pssst! Hey you! Are you a voter in Newtown? Did you know that Newtown's superintendent of schools makes more than the superintendent of New Ha...
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).