Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team will take to the court looking to bump, set, and spike its way to a fourth South-West Conference championship match ...
While youth and inexperience generally means rebuilding in school sports, that is not always the case — and especially this year’s Newtown High School girls’ go...
Local volunteer responders to water emergencies in Newtown and throughout the region have a new tool to hasten and improve their search and rescue capabilities....
Afternoon Tea is being planned for Saturday, April 29, at Newtown United Methodist Church.
An Afternoon Tea is being planned for Saturday, April 29, at Newtown ...
Director Alexis Vournazos has a full cast of 13 actors in rehearsals for Town Players of Newtown’s spring production.
12 Angry Men will open at The Little T...
On Saturday, April 22, from 10 am until 2 pm, Newtown Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide will be partnering with the Drug Enforceme...
Some things never change, and even when they do ... they don’t. Or in the case of Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team, the Nighthawks believe that will b...
The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown is scheduled for Wednesday, April 12, at 7 pm via Zoom.
In a lecture entitled “Reclaim the Records: Who We Are...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Wednesday, Mar...
Newtown Parks & Recreation is offering two upcoming classes for gardening enthusiasts age 18 and older. Each session costs $39, will be held at Newtown High Sch...
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).