Governor Dannel P. Malloy has directed State of Connecticut flags to be lowered to half-staff in honor of State Representative Lawrence G. Miller. The Associate...
STRATFORD – The May 31 South-West Conference boys’ lacrosse championship game at Bunnell High School, between Newtown High School and the Brookfield Bobcats, wa...
STRATFORD – The May 31 South-West Conference boys’ lacrosse championship game at Bunnell High School, between Newtown High School and the Brookfield Bobcats, wa...
Governor Dannel P. Malloy has directed State of Connecticut flags to be lowered to half-staff in honor of State Representative Lawrence G. Miller. The Associate...
To the Editor:
As Bee theater critic Julie Stern and her husband, Peter, move on to the next phase in their lives, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Ju...
Town police last week reported yet another theft of copper pipe from a residential property, marking about 15 such copper thefts locally since the beginning of ...
Newtown residents with dogs 6 months of age and older must license their pets annually during the month of June.
The 2014 licenses are available at the town cle...
Monsignor William Loughlin, 87, of Trumbull died May 26 at St Joseph’s Manor in Trumbull. He was born in Wharton, N.J.
His many friends, especially Joe and Mary...
Marcia (Nechin) Fried, 89, of Newtown, formerly of New Milford, N.J., for more than 60 years, died May 27. She was the widow of the late Mitchell Fried.
Mrs Fri...
Newtown residents with dogs 6 months of age and older must license their pets annually during the month of June.
The 2014 licenses are available at the town cle...
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).