Members of Newtown Congregational Church (NCC), 14 West Street, conducted a Contactless Pick-Up Mississippi BBQ Dinner for community members on Saturday, Octobe...
Newtown High School’s cross country teams hosted Immaculate of Danbury on October 23. The boys won their race 19-38 and the girls fell 25-30 to the Mustangs.
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National Guard Captain and Army Dental Officer Sean Lee, DDS, MOS is inviting his brothers and sisters in arms for a free dental exam and no-cost treatment on V...
The Newtown Chamber of Commerce has announced the promotion of Helen Brickfield to executive director, effective immediately.
Brickfield has served as the chamb...
Failure To Maintain Lane
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To the Editor:
Regarding a recent letter entitled “Help Make The World Better.” (October 30, 2020, The Newtown Bee.) Clare is so right that trash, particularly ...
To the Editor:
On Labor Day of 2020, President Donald Trump held a conference in which he announced the state of a COVID-19 vaccine, “we remain on track to deli...
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).