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Steve Sabo with a vintage Grateful Dead banner
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Keith Emack and Kerri Phillips with a folk art stag head.
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Show manager Greg Baecker chats with Karen ...
George Washington Locket
Brings $303,000 At Skinner
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BOSTON, MASS. — A rare miniature ...
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Steve Sabo with a vintage Grateful Dead banner
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Keith Emack and Kerri Phillips with a folk art stag head.
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Show manager Greg Baecker chats with Karen ...
George Washington Locket
Brings $303,000 At Skinner
REVISED Skinner teaser w/1 cut
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BRAC Eyeing High Meadow Site For Military Training Center
By John Voket
The panoramic 360 degree views of Connecticut’s rolling hills as seen after ...
Scarecrow Contest Winners Announced
By Eliza Hallabeck
The winners for the Newtown Middle School Scarecrow Sculpture contest were announced at the school on Wed...
Overtimes, PKs Continue At Newtown High
By Andy Hutchison
Perhaps Newtown High School’s Blue and Gold Stadium should be renamed OT and PK Stadium.
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Discover The Real Meaning Of Christmas
Newtown Christian Church invites children in kindergarten through seventh grade to join them for a morning of fun and fel...
Family Info Series
On Memory Impairment
BROOKFIELD — Family members of loved ones with memory impairment are invited to a monthly “Fami...
Ronald P. Shimko of Sandy Hook graduated with the distinction Summa Cum Laude from Boston University in September with a bachelor of science in business adm...
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).