Business owners within the shopping and business plaza at 125 South Main Street are extending an invitation to the public to join them the weekend of March 8-10...
After nearly three hours of deliberations on February 27, the Board of Finance unanimously passed both the Board of Selectmen’s, and the Board of Education’s 20...
Eleanor Louise Fries, 94, of Marlborough and Tequesta, Fla., passed away on February 22, 2019. Her passing was peaceful and with the beauty and dignity with whi...
Newtown’s Purchasing Agent Rick Spreyer has been on the job for a few months. On February 26, he had an opportunity to introduce himself to the Legislative Coun...
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...
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Guests will enjoy them all at the first performance of Dark Night Cabaret, a series of live shows planned for four Fridays in March at Edmond...
Newtown Continuing Education has limited openings available in the following classes and activities. Contact Newtown Continuing Education at 203-426-1787, 9 am ...
SOUTHBURY — State police have arrested a former Garner Correctional Institution inmate on felony charges for sexual actions he allegedly took while incarcerated...
Newtown High School’s midyear graduates were celebrated in the school’s cafetorium in a ceremony on February 21. Family and friends smiled as the four students ...
During a special meeting February 26 following a weather-related postponement the week before, the Legislative Council approved a proposal to modestly expand th...
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).