It’s A Dog’s Life—
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By Mary Jane Anderson
Sunlight, fresh air, and exercise directly affect your d...
Adapted ‘A Christmas Carol’ Coming To The Little Theatre
The perennial Christmas classic by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol will be p...
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A Celebration Of Life Comes To Reed And Newtown Middle School
By Eliza Hallabeck
Newtown Middle School and Reed Intermediate School students saw presentations o...
Bed Bug Bugaboo: An Old Problem Returns Via Modern Travel
By Nancy K. Crevier
The old adage, “Sleep tight, and don’t let the bed bugs bi...
Talich Quartet Will Return To Edmond Town Hall Stage This Weekend
For several decades, the Talich Quartet has been recognized internationally as one of Europeâ&...
Master Chorale To Perform
Annual Holiday Prelude Concert
BETHEL — The Connecticut Master Chorale, under the direction of Tina Johns Heidrich, will ...
Appalled And Disgusted
To the Editor:
I was appalled and disgusted when I heard about the vandalism at St Rose Cemetery. My family has relatives and ancestors b...
An Agreement Dishonored
To the Editor:
If the Independent Party can’t be trusted to honor a longstanding agreement to not litter our beautiful town ...
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).