Newtown’s taxpayers will have their first opportunity ever to act on the request of the Board of Fire Commissioners for funds to purchase a new ladd...
*Hartford Civic Center has been fairly quiet lately but all that is about to change in a big way. Tickets will be going on sale Saturday, November 4, at 10 am, ...
Angelo J. Manzo
Angelo J. Manzo, 77, of Bridgeport, husband of Shirley (Damiano) Manzo, died October 31 in his home, surrounded by his loving family.
He is sur...
Parent University Cancelled
The third annual Parent University co-sponsored by the Newtown Prevention Council and Danbury Hospital scheduled for November 4 at N...
Choosing State Legislators
We cannot think of a time when Newtown has had a better team of legislators working on its behalf in Hartford. This team takes its le...
An Outpouring Of Love
To the Editor:
The outpouring of love and emotions that filled St Rose Church on Monday cannot be described in simple words. The tragic a...
Author Linda Napier, a registered nurse, will talk about her book Tender Medicine and the physical, emotional and spiritual healing of touch on November 14 at t...
Our Kids Will Never Walk Alone
The following open letter to The Danbury Band Aids, Inc. has been received for publication:
On behalf of the Newtown High School ...
Robert E. Fairfield
Robert E. Fairfield, 84, of 65 Masonic Avenue, Apt. 216, Wallingford, formerly of Newtown, died October 24 at the Masonic Geriatric Healthca...
Potential Buyer Found For Grand Union Chain
WAYNE, N.J. — The Grand Union Company announced this week that it has entered into a letter of intent pr...
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).