NHS To Dispose Of Records
In accordance with state regulations, which address the retention and disposal of student records, Newtown High School will be elimina...
Saturday, June 10 – The Rombout Hunt Trail Ride will be held Saturday, June 10, at Anjes Farm in Stone Ridge, New York. Contact Jackie Bachnor a...
Volunteers Needed To Save The Lake
BRIDGEWATER — Friends of the Lake will sponsor the 3rd Annual Save The Lake Day on Saturday, June 10, from 9 am t...
Five New Spaces Available
In Summer Acting Workshop
FAIRFIELD — Shakespeare Ventures, a professional theatre company on the Fairfield University cam...
Garner Inmate Arrested For Assaults
 State police said Garner Correctional Institution inmate Benjamine Torres, 21, became combative during a strip search at t...
Library Summer Reading Kickoff
“Awesome Anime” is the featured program at the Tweens & Teens Summer Reading Kickoff on Monday, June 26, ...
Running With The Roosters
The 32nd annual Rooster Run/Walk will be held Saturday, June 3, at Reed Intermediate School. The 5k course will begin and end at Reed ...
Flamingo-A-Friend
The Newtown High School cheerleaders will once again offer their popular Flamingo-A-Friend fundraiser. Anyone wishing to surprise a friend wit...
Consumer Alert—
Porch & Patio Going Out Of Business;
Liquidation Sales Underway
HARTFORD — General Richard Blumenthal and Department of...
The Newtown Blue & Gold Booster Club will be holding a raffle on Thursday, June 29, at 12 noon at the Washington Mutual Financial Center and one lucky winner wi...
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).