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RUTLAND, VA. — At the semiannual business meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealer’...
Voice For Joanie Helps
 Hundreds To Communicate
By Jan Howard
It was 13 years ago that Shirley Fredlund set out to discover a new, computer generated speech sy...
>>revised 12-27>>
FOR 12/10
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RUTLAND, VA. — At the semiannual business meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealer’...
FOR DECEMBER 10 –
CONNECTICUT ANTIQUES DEALERS ASSOCIATION – NO CUTS –
SS/jl set 12-1
CHESHIRE, CONN. — The Co...
12/ 10 or 12/17
A Collection of Indian Textiles On Display At Mount Holyoke College Art Musuem
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SOUTH HADLEY, MASS. — From early times, I...
12/ 10 or 12/17
A Collection of Indian Textiles On Display At Mount Holyoke College Art Musuem
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SOUTH HADLEY, MASS. — From early times, I...
The Holiday Festival: A Celebration Of Light
In these final frantic weeks before Christmas, it is not uncommon for moods to darken a bit as the list of things t...
Genealogy Club To Meet Dec. 8
The December 8 meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown will begin promptly at 7 pm with an orientation tour of the C.H. Booth Lib...
Police To Collect Toys For Tots
As they have for the past several years, police again will hold a holiday toy collection for local needy children.
The event, kn...
Where’s The Outrage?
To the Editor:
With all the hype last year regarding the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, one would 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).