Newtown High School's hockey and basketball teams earned victories in January 31 action. The hockey team edged Brookfield-Bethel-Danbury 3-2, and the girls' and...
Flagpole Radio Café Founder Martin Blanco is always looking for a good fit between his special guests and the members of the local music and comedy troupe, whic...
State Senator Will Haskell recently visited Newtown manufacturer Sonics & Materials, Inc along with several students from the Advanced Manufacturing Program at ...
Nicole St Marie and David Renza were married on December 21 at Edmond Town Hall.
Carrie Lucas officiated the ceremony, which took place in the gymnasium of the ...
Adults and children alike enjoyed Newtown Parks & Recreation Department's Snow Much Fun winter celebration at Fairfield Hills on January 24. There was fire to k...
When Interfaith Partnership for Refugee Resettlement (IPRR) launched 3½ years ago, its mission was to help refugees — families that have been displaced because ...
February 17, 1995
The Junior Woman’s Club Science Discover Workshop on Saturday, February 11, attracted about 275 children eager to examine bugs, dissect owl pe...
The Board of Selectmen continued working through public reviews of select department budget requests ahead of a planned vote Monday, February 3, endorsing a pr...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
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DUI Warrant
Police report that after learning that they held an arrest warrant for him, Charles Sekera, 23, of Shelton, came to the police station at about...
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).