Asbury At Next SCAN Meeting
Melody Asbury will paint figures in action using oil media for the next meeting of The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) on...
At this point of the year, I am always glad that Newtown zigs when most other towns zag. Rather than having its big celebration and parade at the beginning of t...
Yoga Dimensions—
Newtown Now Has A Place Just For Yoga
By Kaaren Valenta
Lynda Weber had been studying, practicing, and teaching yoga for years befo...
Few More Music Program Openings
DANBURY — Danbury Music Centre announces the final opportunity to enroll in its Summer Enrichment Programs. Programs...
Lieutenant Colonel Dean Raab and Julie Raab of Heidelberg, Germany, announce the birth of a daughter, Eleanor Charlotte Raab, on April 6 at Heidelberg Army Hosp...
South Main Rear-Ender
Police report a two-car collision near 71 South Main Street about 6 pm June 25.
Northbound motorist M.J. Mastrobattista, 40, of Reddi...
Erica Hanson to Keith Belden
Erica Hanson of Newtown and Keith Belden of Bridgeport announce their engagement to be married.
The future bride is the daught...
Lacrosse Summer League
Starting on Tuesday, July 13, anyone with lacrosse experience is welcome to participate in a Lacrosse Summer League. Games will be p...
First Positive Test Result In The State—
Dead Crow In Sandy Hook Had West Nile Virus
By Jan Howard
A dead crow found in Sandy Hook on June 17 has te...
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).