Rollover Accident
Police report motorist Andrew J. Grossman, 41, of 86 Main Street, who was driving a 1993 Ford Explorer westbound on Mt Pleasant Road abou...
TOPS Is Moving
DANBURY — The Connecticut chapter #134 of Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) is moving to a new meeting location, effective immediately....
Primaries Add Relevance To NHS Government Classes
By Jeff White
As Newtown residents went to the polls March7 to vote in the primaries, the 2000 presidential ca...
Rosenthal Concerned About Possible Expansion Of Garner
By Steve Bigham
First Selectman Herb Rosenthal this week voiced concern that state officials may be eyein...
Lysaght And Police Commission Should Work It Out
To the Editor:
The arbitrator’s report in the case of the Newtown Police Commission vs Chief James ...
Commentary —
Taking On The Secrecy Of ‘Personnel Matters’
By Chris Powell
A welcome blow has been struck against the worst n...
Fairfield Hills Panel Poised To Make Recommendations
By Steve Bigham
The Fairfield Hills Advisory Committee will officially vote next week to recommend that the...
Brendan and Jacquelyn Boland of Newtown announce the birth of their second child, Emma Cady Boland, little sister to Zachary.
Emma was born February 20.
The mat...
Registration For Waldorf Spring Programs
BROOKFIELD — Registration begins Monday, March 6 for “Wading into Waldorf Education,â€	...
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).