The Newtown Bee is looking for the first child born to Newtown parents this year. This will continue a tradition now in its 59th year.
The First Baby of New...
Boy Scouts from Troop 270 in Newtown will be available to pick up Christmas trees from the homes of residents in Newtown and Sandy Hook for three consecutive we...
It was quite an impressive fall for Newtown's Catherine O'Connor, who recently competed in the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Cross Country Nationals, the h...
Coming off a pair of home victories, Newtown High School's girls' basketball team continued its winning ways in a 65-50 triumph over host Mansfield, Mass. in th...
Newtown High School's boys' basketball team has had some early-season challenges in the form of more than just tough competition, facing a pair of solid nonconf...
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The gymnastics competition season is finally here, and members of the defending South-West Conference champion Newtown High School team are ready for their meet...
A new year is the impetus to do life better. Whether in our personal lives or work places, the calendar pushes the idea that this is the moment to seize; that f...
Joseph Isola, of Newtown, Conn., died Monday, December 30, 2019. He was 96.
Joe, otherwise known as Pop, Poppy, or Uncle Joe, was born on December 29, 1923, in ...
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).