This is the first of a two-part report as Newtown's Recovery and Resiliency Team transitions services to a newly-established municipal Center for Support an...
Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of people affected by cancer?The Newtown Bee. "There are plenty of opportunities to get involved with thi...
Reacting to information Legislative Council members apparently received during a closed session, a recommendation to eliminate two armed school security officer...
Having lost 17 players to graduation, about half of whom were starters or regulars in the lineup, along with the head coach, Newtown High School's boys' lacross...
Newtown Bridge Club is hosting evening workshops and a one-day weekend seminar for beginning bridge players as well as players returning to bridge after some ye...
The fourth annual Sandy Hook 5K road race will take place on Saturday, April 2. Following three waves of kids runs beginning at 9 am, the 5K will begin at 9:30 ...
April 5, 1991
Police and fire officials closed off a section of Church Hill Road shortly after a gas line ruptured at 11 Church Hill Road Wednesday morning...
Newtown Middle School's musical production of Fiddler on the Roof, Jr will take the stage this Friday through Sunday, April 1-3.
The musical's show times are Fr...
Occupation: I'm a fifth grade teacher in Darien, and I'm the lacrosse coach for NHS.
Family: I'm married to Kristen. My wife is a fourth grade teacher i...
Team 26 is ready to ride - again.The Newtown Bee. "As America's bike messengers, this trip we will be delivering a petition to Congress to keep guns off campuse...
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).