Throwing Cold Water
On A Winter Tradition
To the Editor:
On Sunday, the Grinch closed Hawley Pond. Just after I had stepped onto the ice to find nearly 200 peo...
Mary Grace
Gaudiano Falco
Loving And Caring
Mary Grace Gaudiano Falco, 90, of Milford, died January 26 in Connecticut Hospice, Branford. Born in Bridgepor...
Newtown’s Lack Of Coordination
Newtown’s Parks and Recreation Department watched incredulously as defeat was snatched from the jaws of v...
By Andy Hutchison
Depth — both in the number of talented swimmers and in the versitilty they possess to compete in various events — has ...
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leftover property transfers from 2-1-08
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Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as trustee of Austin, Texas, to Mustafa Umar of Bridgeport, residentia...
By Andy Hutchison
If the season results to this point are any indication, expect the Newtown Nighthawks girls’ basketball to — at the ve...
Robert Mulcahy
Former Newtown Resident
Robert D. Mulcahy, 62, of Apex, N.C., died January 20. He was a former resident of Newtown, and had lived in Southbu...
New Home Sales
Fall By Record Amount
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Sales of new homes plunged by a record amount in 2007 while prices posted the weakest ...
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).