New Date & Location For Bethel Book Sale
BETHEL — The Friends of Bethel Public Library will host their annual book sale on Saturday and Sunday, July...
Going Farther Afield For Local Fare ––
The Annual Search For Better Berries
By Dottie Evans
Searching for fresh, local strawberries can ...
Newtown Real Estate: It’s Hot Out There!
By Steve Bigham
A total of 43 homes were sold in Newtown last week, quite possibly an all-time record for o...
Teikyo Post Schedules Open House For Working Adults
The Division of Accelerated Degree Programs at Teikyo Post University invites prospective students to attend...
Mensa Test Slated
BROOKFIELD — MENSA, the international high-IQ society, will administer qualification tests for prospective new members at the Broo...
John B.              Grimardi
John B. Grimardi, 92, formerly of Chicago, Ill., died June 27 in Ashlar of Newtown.
He was born in Chicago, August ...
William Weiss
William Weiss, 87, of Newtown, passed away on June 27 at Bethel Health Care in Bethel.
He was born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y....
Oak Ridge Drive
Gerald J. Cavaliere purchased land located at 12 (Lot 7) Oak Ridge Drive from Bernhard Thomas.
Merrilee Currier, owner/broker of Curtiss and Cra...
Danbury Information
Session For TPU
The Division of Accelerated Degree Programs at Teikyo Post University invites prospective students to an Open House/Informat...
Another Quiet 4th In Newtown —
Will There Be
Fireworks Next Year?
By Steve Bigham
It has been 17 years since Newtown last put on a fireworks display...
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).