Open House At Chase Collegiate School
WATERBURY — Chase Collegiate School, an independent day school for prekindergarten through grade 12, will hold...
Girl Scout News
On Friday, November 10, the members of Girl Scout Troop 725 gathered at Reed Intermediate School and planted almost 400 daffodils in the Playspa...
Holiday Book Sale
DANBURY — The Friends of Danbury Library will host a holiday book sale on Tuesday, December 5, from 10 am until 2 pm. A large vari...
One Can Never
Have Enough…
The Seventh Annual “You Can Never Have Enough Christmas: A Boutique of Holiday Treasures From Around the Worldâ&#x...
By Pam Mozier
WASHINGTON – It was 25 years ago that Patty Wahlers brought two starving ex-race horses for $1 and walked them three miles to her barn...
Winter Faire At Waldorf School
The Housatonic Valley Waldorf School will be hosting a Winter Faire and Holiday Sale on Saturday, December 2, from 10 am to 3 pm....
UConn Recognized For Katrina Relief
STORRS — The University of Connecticut is one of only nine colleges and universities in the nation to receive a ...
Located in an unassuming storefront just a few doors down from Stop & Shop, the elegant restaurant interior features high-backed booths lining the side walls, b...
Players Are Reviving
Christmas Production
NEW CANAAN — After a five-year hiatus, The Town Players of New Canaan have decided to revive “...
Kenneth Onofrey and Melissa Thompson
Announcement is made of the engagement between Kenneth M. Onofrey and Melissa A. Thompson. A September 2007 wedding is...
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).