Jan/Feb (no later)
Winterthur Will Host Conference On ‘Quilts In A Material World’ March 31
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Jan/Feb (no later)
Winterthur Will Host Conference On ‘Quilts In A Material World’ March 31
ak/gs set 1-3; #683102
WINTERTHUR, DEL. â&#x...
Poetic Photography At Booth Library This Month
The new exhibition of art in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Meeting Room at C.H. Booth Library will feature the photog...
Occupation: I’m a paralegal at a firm in Danbury. I’ve been there for ten years.
Family: I have my husband, Dan. We’...
Marvin Bamberg
Former USPS
Employee
Marvin Bamberg, 86, a resident of Ashlar of Newtown, died December 28. He is survived by his son Steven Bamberg, ...
Sealing The House Against Winter’s Chill
By Kendra Bobowick
If it leaks, seal it. If it is drafty, tighten it up, and if it is dirty, clean it, say ...
Genealogy Club
To Discuss WWI Records
World War I records will be the topic of discussion at the January 10 meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown.
The club ...
Hattertown Road
Kevin Coyle purchased a home at 83 Hattertown Road from George Martin and Sharon Vanderbilt.
Jan Maria Jagush of Century 21 Homes Services ...
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).