UPDATE (Monday, December 5, 2022): This article has been updated to include the address for the podcast.
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FAIRFIELD — On December 5, WSHU Public ...
The Rev Jane Alice (McCulloch) Sibley, age 77, of Sandy Hook, passed away peacefully on Monday, November 28, 2022.
She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on August 21, ...
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) has two public events planned during the next week.
The first event is the SCAN Small Works Art Show & Sale. Arti...
As the calendar page turns to the final month of 2022, Newtown Bee staff who were on here on 12/14 along with those who joined the team since the Sandy Hook Ele...
To the Editor:
Nearly half (46%) of all Americans think the media is very biased. Source: Gallop/Knight poll.
Everyone is biased — and that’s okay. There’s no s...
To the Editor:
Hearts and minds were dedicated to reality for lifetime remembrances of those taken on December 14, 2012 for those remaining close and caring who...
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The local unit of the Salvation Army is challenging all local civic, religious, neighborhood groups, and others to join us and our current volunt...
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Why don't we ban all military arms in the US and require that they all be sold back to the government.
We could take money from the appropriation...
To the Editor:
I was most disturbed to read the Letter to the Editor, “Can I Be Sure?,” by Connie Cooper, in the November 18 edition of The Newtown Bee. It cert...
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On behalf of the Board of the Newtown Scholarship Association, our thanks to all who made the recent Casino Night fundraiser a success.
Thank you...
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).