Scientists Plan To Validate Tick Infection Stats
By John Voket
Hot on the heels of a regional report showing that more than 90 percent of ticks captured in Newt...
Raised Crosswalk Is Making Glover Ave. Couple Just Plain Cross
By Andrew Gorosko
Because Patricia and Robert Kubit live on a heavily traveled road in the center...
Dorothy Eileen Madsen
Lived Life Fully
Dorothy Eileen (Mikita) Madsen, 71, died November 23, at her home in Oxford, after a long, courageous battle with Al...
Peter Mascia and Kelsey Culloton
Former Newtown resident Peter Mascia has become engaged to Kelsey Culloton. Both residents of Pasadena, Calif., the couple...
Anthony John Castagna
Beloved Son, Father,
And Brother
Anthony “Nino” Castagna, 58, formerly of Newtown, died November 17, in...
Cellphone
Police report that they saw motorist Ashley Tillson, 28, of Monroe driving southward near 3 South Main Street about 10:45 am November 29, while t...
More Trash Cans, Please
To the Editor:
What would happed if garbage covered our town? It would ruin it and it could pollute our water. To stop if from polluting...
Dorothy Jeanne MacKenzie
Beloved Mother
And Sister
Dorothy Jeanne (Guler) MacKenzie, 82, of Southbury, died November 30, at Danbury Hospital. She was...
Traditional ‘Candlelight And Carols’ Christmas Concerts Planned
The Connecticut Choral Society (CCS) under the direction of Eric Dale Kn...
English Needs A History Lesson
To the Editor:
A member of the P&Z and Democratic Town Committee has had three consecutive letters to The Bee in the past month r...
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).