New Jewelry For
One Lucky Gala Attendee
By Shannon Hicks
A black-tie gala is being planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the C.H. Booth Library. The eve...
Deborah Donnelly Remembered And Honored
By R. Scudder Smith
ROXBURY — “Roxbury granite, because of the way it was formed millions of yea...
‘An Aesthetic And Environmental Art Exhibit’
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Oil Drum Art At The Barnum Museum
Offers One Starting Point And Many Thematic Responses...
The Sounds Of Music
By Nancy K. Crevier
Not only was the temperature hot in Newtown on Thursday afternoon, July 26, but it was a hot time in the old town at New...
Summer Bands
Doing Standards
DANBURY — The Danbury Music Centre Summer Bands, under the direction of Albert Montecalvo, will perform a free concert...
Norman R. Begin
NMS Language Teacher
Norman R. Begin, 63, of Trumbull, beloved husband of Deena Tencza Begin, died July 29 surrounded by his loving family....
Helen May Tilt Honychurch
Managed Trumbull Lunch Programs
Helen May Tilt Honychurch died at home July 29, surrounded by her family. She was born in Toronto...
The Basics Of Citizenship
SOUTHBURY — Brownstein Jewish Family Service of The Federation: Jewish Communities of Western CT, Inc, is exploring the po...
Canine Advocates Planning A Family Event At Fairfield Hills
By Shannon Hicks
Last year the dog pound at Newtown had a beagle that was, in the words of Canine Ad...
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).