Chinese Cooking With The Traveling Gourmet
BETHEL — On Tuesday, May 25, at 7 pm, Bethel Public Library will offer “Cooking Chinese,â...
Local Builders Win National Volunteer Award
Newtown remodeler Peter McLoughlin, representing the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Fairfield County, a...
Fair Celebrates Jewish Independence
BRIDGEPORT — Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown will be one of the many congregations participating in the Jew...
Musicians With A Mission
DANBURY — The Danbury Deanery of Episcopal Churches – which includes St John’s Episcopal Church in ...
Reed Intermediate School Welcomes Future Fifth Graders
By Larissa Lytwyn
While Hawley Elementary School fourth grader Gillian Malone is looking forward to start...
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
 —Spanish proverb
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
—Ge...
No Longer Just Lyme––
Co-Infections Challenge Doctors And Patients
By Dottie Evans
An informational forum on Lyme disease sponsored by t...
Auditions For Town Players
Auditions are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, May 10-11, for The Merry Wives of Windsor, which will be staged by Town Players of Ne...
Saturday, May 8 – The Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard will sponsor its annual Judged Pleasure Ride on Saturday, May 8, 9 am to...
Symposium Stresses Early Treatment Of Diabetes
DANBURY — Diabetes is such a serious and complicated disease that patients should be treated as if th...
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).