Dr Olga Antoinette Protomastro died July 29, her 88th birthday, while traveling with her family in Ireland. She was born in Hoboken, N.J., and was a longtime re...
The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) likely will have a busy evening on Thursday, August 2, as the land use agency has scheduled many public hearings for th...
Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members are scheduled to consider a P&Z zoning rules proposal at an upcoming public hearing that would allow drive-window s...
To the Editor:The Newtown Bee participate in a lack of sensitivity and racism by publishing a picture featuring former NHS girls basketball players promoting th...
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Following a few days sun and lowered humidity, it seems Mother Nature has decided to return to her rainy, gloomy, humid self.The Newtown Bee for details), Ms Hi...
With four members absent during a regular meeting August 1, the Legislative Council unanimously agreed to authorize Town Attorney David Grogins to commence proc...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Co...
During the past year, the many motorists who travel daily on Church Hill Road (US Route 6) near Exit 10 of Interstate 84 have watched with interest as workers r...
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).