Girl Scout Council Honors Three Volunteers From Newtown
At its 2005 annual Adult Recognition Ceremony on May 15, the Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecti...
Maestro David Dworkin Returning For An Encore ‘Conductorcise’ Class
SOUTHBURY — They laughed, learned that John Phillips Sou...
Newtown High School Underclassmen Awards
Newtown High School has announced the following underclassmen recipients of civic and academic awards for the 2004-2005...
Two Locations For 3rd Annual Flanders Artists’ Day
WOODBURY — The public will have the opportunity to view an exhibit in two locations t...
Caring For An Elderly Loved One
DANBURY — As baby boomers age, more of them are dealing with issues related to elderly parents.
Questions of whethe...
The society plans to move the house to a donated parcel of land this summer and to use it as an educational center and museum focusing on local history.
For add...
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
 —Doug Horton
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prev...
Antique Car Show & A Taste
Of Woodbury On June 5
WOODBURY — The Woodbury Lions Club will present its 27th Annual Antique Car Show and Taste of Woodb...
Medical Town Meeting On Memory & Alzheimer’s DiseaseÂ
DANBURY — A Danbury Hospital Medical Town Meeting discussing “Memory...
Newtown Singles Program Planned
Newtown Singles will have its next Meet & Mingle on Friday, June 3, from 7 to 9 pm.
The group meets at Newtown Meeting House, 31...
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).