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’s Programs
*Music at the Library: On Saturday, November 8, at 2 pm, local author Ryan SanAngelou will be at the library with a mus...
Town’s Annual Tag Sale Set To Begin Nov. 12
By Kaaren Valenta
Like a typical household, the Town of Newtown accumulates items that it no longer need...
A Stimulating Campaign
To the Editor:
I wish to thank the voters who supported me in my bid for a seat on the Board of Education in this past election. It was a...
Holiday Wine Extravaganza
Benefits WCSU Scholarships
The Caraluzzi family, owner of Nutmeg Discount Liquors and Caraluzzis’ Markets in Bethel and G...
Fireworks For The Tercentenary?
By Jan Howard
The Board of Selectmen on November 3 discussed a question raised by the Newtown Tercentennial Commission regarding...
Stamp Art Workshop For Young Adults
Get a head start on holiday gifts or make yourself a treat when C.H. Booth Library’s Young Adult Department offe...
Occupation: I am site manager for the Newtown Senior Center kitchen. We put out a hot lunch five days a week. The menus are prepared one month in advance fr...
If These Walls Could Talk…
By Larissa Lytwyn
In honor of Veterans’ Day, Middle Gate Elementary School students have helped organize a Rememb...
Snellback Joins Merritt Company
HARTFORD –– The Joseph Merritt & Company announces the addition of Dean H. Snellback of Newtown to the...
Helen M. Basher
Helen M. Basher, 86, of Danbury, wife of the late Abraham F. Basher, died on November 1 at her home.
Mrs Basher was born in Lawrence, Mass., Jul...
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).