Like the sun rising in the morning and property taxes going higher and higher, it has become almost a given that Bob Elliott is going to win the Men’...
A Life Of Note—
On Stage And Off, Music Is The Lifeblood Of Steve Buslowe
By Shannon Hicks
Steve Buslowe likes to think that he has had a reverse mi...
No one managed to find the lamp pictured here last week, so we are giving our Bee’s Buck hunters another week to find it, this time with an incentiv...
Three Cheers For Clean Cars
To the Editor:
On behalf of the Newtown High School Varsity and Junior Varsity cheerleaders, we would like to thank the Newtown comm...
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
––Tyron Edwards
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tre...
By Kim J. Harmon
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Even though he is 57 years old and his four sons have long since vanished from the youth sports scene (the youngest is 24), Pete Dâ...
Hale Homestead Getting Modest Makeover
COVENTRY (AP) –– All houses need a fresh coat of paint every now and then. Especially when the ho...
Friday, September 5
Housatonic Valley Economic Development Partnership, executive committee, noon, Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce, 39 West Street, Dan...
Joseph J. Kuczko
Joseph J. Kuczko, 80, of Bethel, husband of Natalie (Tykarski) Kuczko, died August 31, at Danbury Hospital.
An avid outdoorsman, Mr Kuczko was ...
Mass Of Remembrance Set For September 11
 BRIDGEPORT — Bishop William E. Lori will celebrate a special Mass of Remembrance on the second anniversa...
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).