Genealogy Club Meets Nov. 10
The Genealogy Club of Newtown announced that Brigid Guertin of the Danbury Historical Society will be the speaker for the Wednesday...
NCC Showing Film Nov. 14
Fried Green Tomatoes will be the film for the Women’s Fellowship of Newtown Congregational Church event, “E...
Board Of Education Notes
The High School Space Needs Study Committee will meet on Monday, November 8, at 7:30 pm in the Newtown High School lecture hall.
There ...
Lawn Mower Causes Taunton Lane Brush Fire
By Andrew Gorosko
About 25 Hawleyville and Dodgingtown firefighters responded to a Taunton Lane property just after no...
Lockwood Lodge
 Open House Nov. 7
The residents of Lockwood Lodge at Ashlar of Newtown invite the public to visit them on Sunday, November 7, from 1 to 3 pm, f...
Only In Newtown
(The Bee has received for publication the following letter addressed jointly to Bee Publisher R. Scudder Smith and Managing Editor Curtiss Clark...
Vintage Base Ball Meeting
The Newtown Vintage Base Ball Club will hold a meeting on Tuesday, November 9, at 7 pm in the meeting room of the Cyrenius Booth Libra...
Raymond Peck of Bethel to Daniel J. Rapley of (no town given), a residential property at 15 Round Hill Road for $120,000. Angelo and Darice Peruch of San Ramon,...
Friendly Visitor Seeks Volunteers
DANBURY — The Friendly Visitor Program, sponsored by the Volunteer Center Serving Western Connecticut, will be hol...
Bangkok Thai Restaurant Draws Devoted Pilgrims To Its Authentic Cuisine
Authentic, traditional Thai cuisine is the pride of Bangkok Thai Restaurant in Nutmeg Sq...
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).