Man Reported Missing From Homesteads Found
For about 90 minutes Thursday morning, starting at about 9 am, police searched for a male resident who was reported t...
Residents Join WHF To Aid
Indonesia Tsunami Victims
Ten villages in Indonesia still suffering from the effects of the December 2004 tsunami will benefit from t...
‘Oliver’ Clarification
Performances of Oliver! The Musical at The Portuguese Cultural Center, 65 Sand Pit Road in Danbury, continue Frid...
ABERDEEN, Maryland – The seventh annual Cal Ripken 12-year-old World Series will be held August 12 through August 20 at Cal Ripken Yard in Aberdeen,...
Indie Film Series Continues At Library
C.H. Booth Library will continue its independent film series with a free screening of Spare Parts on Tuesday, August 8, a...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The ...
Bicycle Found
Police report that a women’s 21-speed bicycle was found near the intersection of Sugar Street (Route 302) and Boggs Hill Road. Th...
Managed Care Concerns Extend To Once Privileged Information
By John Voket
(This is the second part of a series on how local physicians and medical professio...
Maria Shana Goldstein
Laura DeVita Goldstein and Daniel DeVita of Sandy Hook announce the birth of a daughter, Maria Shana Goldstein, born July 25, at 6:31...
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).