As of March 31, Newtown Heath District Director Donna Culbert told The Newtown Bee she is monitoring 33 active COVID-19 cases in town.
Locally, Newtown State R...
To the Editor:
On March 29, 2020, we lost one of our most cherished FAITH Food Pantry (FFP) volunteers ever.
Bruce Landgrebe was one of the kindest, most gentle...
To the Editor:
Other than engaging in a thorough spring cleaning, reading things long set aside for “someday,” binging on a Netflix series, the opportunity to t...
The Newtown Bee has been informed of the death of longtime Sandy Hook resident and former First Selectman Joseph Borst.
Joseph Edward Borst was born on July...
HARTFORD— Connecticut is announcing stricter measures to support safe, solitary enjoyment of outdoor spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, March 31, ...
Registration for Newtown Youth Football and Family Cheer (NYF&C) is open for the upcoming 2020 season, according to a March 30 announcement.
“Due to the recent ...
Governor Ned Lamont announced an infant less than seven weeks old brought to a Hartford area hospital is the state's youngest COVID-19 victim, giving him reason...
Joseph “Joe” Edward Borst, Sr, 92, of Sandy Hook, passed away at Bishop Wicke Health Center in Shelton, on March 31, 2020.
Joe is survived by his loving wife of...
From the first edition of The Newtown Bee, published on June 28, 1877, there has always been a weekly newspaper in the hands of Newtown citizens. The Smith fami...
Franklin “Fritz” Freeman, 90, of Ashland, Mass., formerly of Newtown, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 19, 2020, after a brief illness.
He will be grea...
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).