Police Press
July 4th Weekend DUI Enforcement
Sergeant Douglas Wisentaner said town police will have extra patrol officers on duty during the Fourth of July ho...
U12 Teams Claim District Titles
Both of Newtown’s U12 baseball teams (The Newtown Blue 70-foot division team and Newtown Gold 60-foot team) won dist...
Would You Know
What To Do?
To the Editor:
All it takes is a split second: A child has an accident, an adult suffers a heart attack, someone you’re ...
Getting To Know The Candidate
To the Editor:
I remember when more politicians went door-to-door to campaign for votes. It seems to happen with decreased regular...
Rexview Circle, Trumbull
Anthony Gargano and Amanda Bozio purchased a home at 17 Rexview Circle, Trumbull, from Peter Fearon.
Bob Ward and Richelle Ward of...
Finding A Parking Space At Fairfield Hills
By Kendra Bobowick
The lay of the land is changing.
Flagpoles are down, and the flags secured to make room for the â&...
The radio dispatchers working at the emergency communications center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls:
Thursday, June 26: 10:10 am, medica...
Newtown Country Mill:
Ten Years Of Bringing Primitives And Antiques To Newtown
By Nancy K. Crevier
Being distressed is not such a bad thing — if y...
Lions Honor Outstanding Members
Newtown Lions Club recently honored several members for distinguished service to Lion Club and its ideals, including the numerou...
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of...
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).