Newtown Support Groups
Friday, October 3Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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 NHS Orchestra Sponsors Trip
To Mohegan Sun
The Newtown High School Orchestra invites the public to take a trip to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville on Saturday, Octo...
Dogs’ Best Friends
To the Editor:
On behalf of the dogs at the Newtown Pound, Canine Advocates of Newtown, Inc would like to say thank you to First...
Homecoming At
Immaculate High School
DANBURY — Alumni, friends, and family of Immaculate High School are invited to an annual Homecoming Saturday, ...
Dinner Dance For CHIPS
Hiram Lodge #18 in Sandy Hook is planning a dinner dance and silent auction on Saturday, November 1, at the Fireside Inn from 7 pm to m...
Parents, teachers, or educators concerned about the challenging opportunities available for their academically talented children or students should plan to atte...
Thomas J. Malone
Thomas J. Malone, age 79, husband of Margaret (Walsh) Malone, of Taunton Lake Drive, Newtown, died unexpectedly September 28 at his home.
Mr Ma...
Visitors’ Days At Miss Porter’s
FARMINGTON — Discover Miss Porter’s School at one of two fall visitorsâ€&#x...
By Kim J. Harmon
Is there a worse team in the National Football League than the Chicago Bears?
Watching Sean Salisbury on ESPN break down their loss last week I...
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).