On Saturday, June 19, Newtown Woman’s Club will host an author/book signing lunch with special guest Nan Rossiter.
The event will take place at My Place Restaur...
Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia Halstead has announced that June is dog licensing month. All dogs over six months old must be licensed. Last year 1,841 dog tags were ...
The Susie Foundation is holding its first Pours + Poses event on Saturday, June 26, at Reverie Brewing Company. The event starts at 10:15 am and each ticket pur...
UPDATE (Tuesday, June 1, 2021): This post has been updated to correct and clarify the date of the concert, Sunday, June 6.
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The Newtown-based auti...
Catherine “Kay” Ann Reich passed surrounded by family on Wednesday, May 19. Kay was born to Mary (Geraghty) and John Dougherty March 24, 1932, in Mineola, Long ...
A number of stories posted to newtownbee.com this past weekend.
In case you missed them, here is a list of some of those stories, not in particular order.
“Char...
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David Egee of London, England, and Southbury, Conn., passed away peacefully on May 30 at the Danbury Regional Hospice after a short illness.
David was...
The school district’s 2020-21 Profiles in Professionalism honorees were celebrated at the Board of Education’s May 18 meeting, which was held both virtually and...
Occupation: I retired last year after 48 years in the maritime industry. I served 12 years in the British merchant marine, four years on the sixth largest p...
Each week we compile a list of some of the most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s recent top stories, based on the numbe...
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).