CPR And Choking Classes
The Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps is planning to hold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and choking classes on Tuesday, November 1...
By Kim J. Harmon
With all the hub-bub over the South-West Conference championship hopes of the Newtown High School boys’ soccer and girlsâ€	...
Girl Scouts Throw Halloween
Birthday Bash For Founder
Newtown Girl Scouts recently celebrated their second annual Halloween Birthday Bash in the Edmond Town Hal...
Discover Martinmas!
The Housatonic Valley Waldorf School’s Early Childhood faculty will celebrate Martinmas with a program for children age 2 to 6 o...
Leona Y. Hanlon
Leona Y. Hanlon, 78, a resident of Sandy Hook the past 57 years, died peacefully at home November 5 surrounded by her loving family. She was the...
Students Invited To Attend Colonial Life Workshop
At The Matthew Curtiss House on Main Street
In the last 300 years there have been many changes in the ways we ...
‘Let Them Eat Turkey’ Lecture At IAIS
WASHINGTON — Dr Laurie Weinstein, a professor at Western CT State University, will off...
A Safer Halloween
To the Editor:
If you were out and about on Main Street Halloween Night you saw what seemed like hundreds of kids and parents trick-or-treatin...
Friday, November 7
17th Annual Christmas in the Country Craft Fair, 6-10 pm, St Rose Parish hall, 46 Church Hill Road, folk art, jewelry, religious items, ...
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).