Sarah Ann      Lee
Sarah Ann (Root) Lee, 57, of Monroe, died November 27 at St Vincent Medical Center.
Ms Lee was born in Burlington, Vt., on April 5, 19...
Armory Plans Dropped—
National Guard Starts Military Kennel Project
By Andrew Gorosko
Demolition work required for the planned construction of a mi...
Route 302 DUI
Police said they received a report concerning possible drunken driving about 8 am November 27 on Route 302, near its intersection with Head O...
Lions Club Spearheads Effort
To Replace ETH Theatre Seats
The Tercentennial Committee, working hard to bring many activities to Newtown in 2005, has also been u...
Corrections
A photo caption from last week’s story about a local presentation of The Nutcracker Suite incorrectly identified one of the Newtown perf...
Newtown’s Helping Hands —
Holiday Basket Program Is Newtown Fund’s Premier Activity
By John Voket
Of course there is a Santa...
CCS ‘Fanfares’ Will Continue 25th Anniversary Season
DANBURY — The Connecticut Choral Society (CCS), which is celebrating it...
Dear Missing: As a breeder I’ve had one puppy returned in such a situation. I once sold a young male pup to a couple that didn’t liv...
Heather E.     Heyburn
Heather E. Heyburn, 35, of Waterbury, died unexpectedly November 26 at her parents’ home in Middle Granville, N.Y.
Heat...
Police Launch Their Seasonal
‘Mitten Tree’ Project
As they have for the past several years, town police will again conduct their â€...
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).