By Ron Meredith
When some students first arrive here at Meredith Manor they don’t see the point of the ground work we call “heeding.â&#x...
William Mulhall
William Mulhall, 62, of Trumbull, died July 1 in his home.
He is survived by one daughter, Theresa M. Jones and her husband, Douglas, of Newtown...
Eyesores And Personal Freedom
To the Editor:
First Selectman Rosenthal’s desire to enact a so-called “Eyesore Ordinance” is ...
Idlewood Drive, Bethel
Phillip and Sarah Barta recently sold their condominium at 52 Idlewood Drive, Bethel, to William Van Gieson, formerly of Jefferson Valley...
Cross Sound Swim –
Jim Bayles Gets Waves (But No Waiver) From Mother Nature
By Steve Bigham
Newtown resident Jim Bayles has been swimming long enoug...
By Kim J. Harmon
W
hen Bill Flood became an official member of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) back on April 20, it was with an enormous sense of rel...
Organ Fund Drive Continues
By Tanjua Damon
With the restoration of the Meeting House organ complete, the Heritage Preservation Trust is conducting a continuing ...
Evening Nature Program
With Larry Fischer
WESTON — On Friday, July 13, from 8:30 to 10 pm, Larry Fischer of Newtown will lead another of his popular...
One-Day Show By Ruth Newquist, Saturday
NEW FAIRFIELD — “Off To The City, Back To The Country” is the title of the next one-...
By Kim J. Harmon
I
sabelle Murray can be forgiven if she can’t remember if she was first vice-president or second vice-president of the Rock Ridge C...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?