January 19, 1996
The Borough’s Historic District Study Committee has decided to proceed with a proposal to create a scaled-down version of the historic dis...
Just to remind us who has been in charge this past year, Mother Nature decided to play an unpleasant prank on Christmas Eve, December 24, pulling the plug on th...
The Board of Education began its December 15 virtual meeting honoring school nurses for their efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such celebrations are ro...
Note: The accompanying images were drawn from The Newtown Bee's health coverage throughout 2020.
The year that was will be remembered by a combination of five l...
Note: The accompanying images were drawn from The Newtown Bee's business coverage throughout 2020.
So many Newtown businesses celebrated optimistically as ...
As with other areas of life, the pandemic was a big story for local communities of faith in 2020.
In March, most local houses of worship began entering the pand...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Tuesda...
It is doubtful that anyone ahead of the calendar change to 2020 would have made a New Year’s resolution for schools along the lines of “create learning models t...
One of the most notable pieces of construction in Newtown in 2020 was the rise of the new Newtown Police Department headquarters at 191 South Main Street.
Forme...
When life slowed down and then came to a halt for a few months early last year due to COVID-19, many events were canceled and postponed. As the year slowly cont...
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).