Chris Gardner, Newtown’s “Keeper of the Flag,” was at the Main Street flagpole recently, watching while Hook & Ladder firefighters changed out the flag that had...
Newtown Nonprofit Council (NNC) saw about a dozen representatives from local organizations at its Tuesday, February 21 hybrid meeting. Those attending in person...
March 21, 1938 to February 26, 2023
Michael B. Csanadi, Jr, of Newtown, passed away unexpectedly at Danbury Hospital on February 26, 2023, at the age of 84 year...
Occupation: I am a retired army chaplain and I am finishing my doctorate of ministry at Erskine Theological Seminary.
Family: I have a wife, Gail, and...
Participants munched on salads and took notes during the Lunch and Learn on February 13 as part of the Community Center’s “Healthy Heart Month” series.
The lunc...
In loving memory of our mother, Mary “Peggy” Thibdeau, who passed away on February 24, 2023, after a short but devastating battle with a very aggressive brain c...
Leonard “Lenny” or “Len” Watt Manz, 84, of Homosassa, Florida, passed away on February 17, 2023, at home after a long battle with cancer. He was born in Bridgep...
Having a longstanding media relationship with a number of agencies that provide assistance to residents facing financial challenges compromising their ability t...
To the Editor:
Two important issues that affect Newtown and area towns are topics of draft legislation in this year’s General Assembly.
The first is SB122, An A...
To the Editor:
I would like to thank everyone who takes the initiative to pick up trash along our town’s roadways, even though the trash is not your own. Road t...
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).