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Jason Varney and Brea Passero
An August 2010 wedding is being planned for Brea Rose Passero, daughter of Rose and Richard Passero of Newtown, and Jason Ant...
Warren R. Hull, Sr
Retired State DEP Employee
Warren R. Hull, Sr, 86, of Southport, died May 27, at St Vincent’s Medical Center. Born in Southp...
The United States Achievement Academy announced recently that Newtown Middle School eighth grader Tommy Gleason, son of Pam and Bob Gleason, has been named an A...
Saturday, June 5
Kids for Canines Celebration Day, 10:30 am to noon, Newtown Dog Pound, Ethan Allen Road (behind transfer station), donations welcome, face...
George W. Houghton
US Army WWII Veteran
George W. Houghton, 86, died with family by his side, May 27. Born in East Long Meadow, Mass., May 21, 1924, he was...
Confused
To the Editor:
It seems voting No for the budget doesn’t really mean No anymore. How are we supposed to vote if we want the town budget low...
Voting Yes On June 8
To the Editor:
After voting No at each of the past two referendums, I will be voting Yes on Tuesday, June 8.
My decision comes after the Le...
Education Is The Answer
To the Editor:
I’d like to thank The Bee for giving Newtown’s citizenry a place to air their thoughts and opinio...
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).