Celebrate National School Nurse Day
Joan B. Cagginello, RN, Association of School Nurses of Connecticut president, announced that National School Nurse Day will...
Dropping From The Ranks Of The Unbeaten
By Kim J. Harmon
Undefeated no more.
Newtown High School came into the week (that is, April 26 through May 2) with four ...
‘Tale Of The Horse’ Now On View In Litchfield
LITCHFIELD — Litchfield Historical Society has unveiled a new exhibition, â&#x...
Free Advice On Tree Pruning
Those who care about trees will find advice on pruning and related topics in The National Arbor Day Foundation’s free bo...
Walk-A-Thon May 21—
Friends And Residents Invited To Fight CF With Team Cameron
By Shannon Hicks
Cystic fibrosis is a disease that continues to affe...
‘Meditation Boards’
By Hochstetter
On View At Library
Pamela Hochstetter’s new body of work is an integration of paint, clay...
Antiques Shows______
Saturdays
(through mid-Dec): 39th Season Woodbury’s Famous Antiques & Flea Market, 787 Main St South (Rte 6, near Rte ...
Rotary-Sponsored Venezuela TeamTouring CT
A Rotary-sponsored exchange team from Venezuela spent a day in Newtown recently, on their first day of a month visitin...
Self-Esteem Workshop For Women Beginning May 11
DANBURY — Registration is being accepted for a Self-Esteem for Women workshop series conducted by th...
Commentary–
Let’s Support Farmers And Consumers, Not Agribusiness
By Mark Muller
The alarming rise in obesity and other food-related he...
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).