Feeling The Tug Of The New Season
By Kendra Bobowick
Wind flashed across thin material and cords straightened with tension. A quick yank from Robert Lynders bro...
Newtown The Suitor
In its tense courtship with the military over the possibility of locating an Army Reserve training center in town, Newtown may have wanted to...
Commentary—
The Senate’s Quiet Struggle With The Pentagon
By Daniel M. Smith
Public opinion polls habitually give Congress poor ratings...
Deer Culling Must Be Stopped
To the Editor:
Many people might not be aware of the deer culling that is being planned in Newtown. Hunters from our town, as well ...
65 Complaints—
Third And Fourth Males
Arrested In Thefts From Vehicles
By Andrew Gorosko
Police arrested two more people this week on criminal char...
State Police Seek More Female Applicants
MERIDEN (AP) — The Connecticut State Police say they are trying to get more women interested in joining the...
Police Plan Crackdown On Drunken Driving
Town police have received grant approvals to conduct heightened enforcement of drunken driving laws during the coming y...
Rotary Club Is Ready To Serve Up Pancakes
The Newtown Rotary Club will be serving its annual Pancake Breakfast in the Alexandria Room at Edmond Town Hall on Sat...
Lauren Busser received an honorable mention and a grant of $500 from the 2008 Milton Fisher Scholarships for Innovation and Creativity. Awards ranging from ...
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).