Wound Care Open House Set For June 5
DANBURY — Danbury Hospital will host an open house to educate the community and physicians throughout the regi...
Rescue Program A Two-Way Street At Zoar Ridge Stables
By Nancy K. Crevier
The Sandy Hook Zoar Ridge Stables’ horse rescue program made national news...
In Celebration Of Mothers
By Nancy K. Crevier
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Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
State Police List Holiday Enforcement Statistics
State police report that during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, they investigated 279 motor vehicle accident...
Police Roving Patrols Issue Many Violations To MotoristsÂ
Police report the roving patrols that they conducted during the Memorial Day holiday weekend designe...
Superintendent Denies Salary Bumps
By John Voket
School Superintendent Janet Robinson said she has cancelled raises that were recommended for two district data ...
Mad Dash Challenge June 9
Newtown’s Mad Dash Challenge, a fitness competition, will be held at Fairfield Hills on Saturday June 9. Participants will...
Marie Teresa Meola
Marie Teresa (Nuzzi) Meola, 78, of Brewster, N.Y., died May 26, in Danbury. She was born February 24, 1934, in White Plains, N.Y., daughter o...
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).