Indigo Girls Serve Up New Disc Full Of Rarities...Well Done
By John Voket
Like two perfectly tuned strings, the voices Amy Ray and Emily Saliers continue to rin...
Two Newtown Girl Scouts
Receive Gold Awards
Sasha Mastrocinque and Paula Wickman were two of nine young women from the 15 Fairfield County towns and cities wit...
Asking Hard Questions
To the Editor:
What to do when the chairman of the Board of Finance asks you the hard questions? Why, attack the person asking the questi...
The Tercentennial
In Newtown Schools
Newtown Schools have been celebrating the tercentennial of Newtown’s founding in various ways throughout the 2...
Support For NUSAR
To the Editor
On behalf of The Newtown Woman’s Club, I would like to thank The Bee for the excellent coverage of our May 28 fundra...
History In The Making: Faces Of Newtown
As Newtown continues to celebrate its 300th birthday, award-winning members of The Connecticut Society Of Portrait Artis...
Bits & Pieces
What An Incredible Year At Newtown High!
By Kim J. Harmon
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I relished the arrival of summer this year not because I like the steamy tempera...
 *Hope no one drove all the way to Uncasville last Friday night for the ROBERT PLANT show… which had to be postponed less than 12 hours before showtime...
The dispatchers at Town Hall South report the following fire calls:
Thursday, June 23: 7:42 am, brake fire on tractor-trailer unit, I-84 eastbound, Sandy Ho...
Stem Cell Science And Religious Belief
To the Editor:
I would first like to thank The Newtown Bee for providing a remarkably good community forum in which citiz...
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).