A Gathering With Heart
To the Editor:
We would like to thank Mary and Ronnie Pratt for spearheading the Michael “Grover” Glover memoria...
By Kim J. Harmon
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ow, I love football – I mean, I LOVE it . . . and not just because Sunday afternoon is the only time in my house when there is NO...
Lions Welcome New Members
The Newtown Lions Club welcomed two new members, Jerry Cole and Jim Larin, at the last meeting of the 1999-2000 season.
The Lions rec...
Newtown Middle School Honor Roll
Grade 6
Drew Adamek; Gregory Aiello; Lisa Alberico; Carola Aldrich; Kristen Amodeo; Richard Andrews; Abigail Atkinson; Lauren B...
SOUTH MERIDEN – Rain rain go away, come again . . . well, some other day.
The Newtown 11-year-old All Stars had their run towards a state championsh...
By Mary Jane Anderson
Before you are able to efficiently train your dog, you must first understand yourself.
Owning a dog gives a few clues about your personali...
PayPal
With four million items on auction at any time, eBay enjoys wild popularity. At the heart of eBay’s success lies a simple principle; eBay is ...
Court Appeal Seeks To Reinstate Lysaght As Police Chief
By Andrew Gorosko
In a memorandum to Judge Dale Radcliffe, attorney John Kelly, representing former Newt...
Amy Jane Lightfoot To Eric J. Lindstrom
Mr and Mrs James W. Lightfoot of New London, N.H., formerly of Woodbury, announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy ...
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).