Treasured Memories
To the Editor:
With the dissolution of my position as Restitution Facilitator/Solution Room Manager at Newtown Middle School, I am hoping to...
BETHEL – Beautiful skies, wonderful volunteers and happy competitors were the highlights of the 41st annual 4-H Spring Benefit Horse Show at the Uni...
Inviting Wildlife To The Backyard Banquet
By Jan Howard
Two Newtown properties have joined the growing number of residential properties certified by the Nationa...
Lessons On Managing Money
By Tanjua Damon
Ed O’Malley from Western Connecticut Federal Credit was the speaker during the program titled “...
Connecticut’s Civil War Heritage:
A Special Exhibition
HARTFORD — Many people save certain mementos or have special treasures hidde...
Park Bathrooms Taking Shape
By Steve Bigham
The Dickinson Park bathroom project is finally moving forward more than two years after being started, and it looks ...
Richard R.    Kopnicky
Richard R. Kopnicky, 84, husband of Valerie (Horny) Kopnicky of Castle Meadow Road, Newtown, died June 30 in Ashlar of Newtown.
He w...
Police Celebrate Three Promotions On June 28
By Andrew Gorosko
Police Chief Michael Kehoe, Captain Joe Rios, and Sergeant Darlene Froehlich took the oaths of of...
What a wild weekend we had last weekend! I’m glad I have claws because I really had to dig in to keep from being blown away with everything else tha...
Fundraising Homes & Gardens Tour Returns Saturday
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Six of Newtown’s loveliest gardens and four of the town’s prettiest historic homes w...
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).