Reunion For
Class Of 1966
The Central Catholic Class of 1966 will be joining in the celebration of the 40th reunion of the Class of 1964. The original four cla...
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
Education is a progressive discovery of our o...
Tour Of Jewish Cemeteries
WATERBURY — The Mattatuck Museum will sponsor a tour of Waterbury’s Jewish cemeteries on Sunday, June 6, from ...
Health And Safety Begins At Home
By Dottie Evans
Danielle Mauborgne, RN, of the Danbury Visiting Nurse Association spoke to several seniors at the Newtown Senio...
NHS Students Win
Honors In Journalism Contest
By Larissa Lytwyn
Sarah Hemingway is no stranger to news writing.
Since entering Newtown High School three years...
NHS Senior Award Winners Listed
The following list of Newtown High School seniors recognized during Newtown High School’s 2004 Senior Award Night on...
What Would You Do If Something Magical Happened To You?
By Larissa Lytwyn
During a languid afternoon last summer, Newtown resident Anne Ziluck and her son Micha...
Open House & Brunch At Homesteads
Morton and Linda Silberstein, the owners of The Homesteads at Newtown, a senior living community, invite the public to join th...
Richard E. Henderson
Richard Henderson, 48, a longtime Connecticut resident, died on May 29. A loving and devoted husband, he is survived by his wife of 20 year...
Dali (Nicola) Couch Dwy
Dali (Nicola) Couch Dwy, 90, of Loveland, Colo., formerly of New Milford, died January 7, 2004, in Loveland. She was the wife of the lat...
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).