Newtown Ventures Out For Halloween…
By Steve Bigham
With the nation on high alert this week, many wondered what Halloween 2001 would be like. Would pare...
CPR Saturday Saves Lives
CPR Saturday will be held on Saturday, November 17, at 20 sites, including Newtown, in western Connecticut.
The event, “Sav...
It is not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, “I’m earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. Iâ&#x...
Services for Newtown seniors are sponsored by the Commission on Aging and are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. For more ...
Mr and Mrs Cary L. Kortze
Lucia Lombardi and Cary LaRue Kortze were united in marriage on October 6 at St Mary Church in Stamford.
The bride is the daughter of ...
Danbury Hospital Plans
Two Medical Town Meetings
DANBURY –– “Quitting & Screening: The Best Defense Against Lung Cancerâ...
Doris Nastasia
Doris (Alberghine) Nastasia, 76, of Bridgeport, a retired nurse’s aide, died on November 1 at Bridgeport Health Care Center.
She is s...
Commentary –
Inner Peace And World Peace; We All Can Be Peacemakers
By Janaki Pierson
What can we do, to overcome fear, to bring about world peace, ...
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).