Hoyt Gobbles Up Turkey Trot Bragging Rights Again
By Andy Hutchison
Kevin Hoyt, 21, gobbled up first place honors as he led a field of roughly 1,000 runners and...
Going To Bat
For Chivalry
To the Editor:
Last Friday night, I went to a show with my wife and some Sandy Hook neighbors in Bridgeport. (These neighbors are the...
NJWC Tag-A-Gift Program Underway
Every year the Newtown Junior Women’s Club works in conjunction with Social Services to fulfill holiday wishes for ...
School District Retains PR Services Of
Former News Anchor, Broadcaster
By John Voket
The Newtown School District, through a cooperative with the Connecticut As...
Renaissance Christmas Concert
BROOKFIELD CENTER — The Entwyned Trio will present “A Renaissance Christmas Concert” on Sunday...
Newtown School Officials
Travel To China
By Eliza Hallabeck
Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson, Newtown High School Principal Charles Dumais, and Newtown ...
Eighth Grade Gridders Fall In Regional Final
Newtown eighth grade football team fell 20-6 to the undefeated Worcester Cowboys in the American Youth Football New...
Survey Responders Weigh In On Elected Officials
By Eliza Hallabeck
With newly elected and reelected government officials sworn into office Sunday, November 27, ...
The Old Shell Game
To the Editor:
The Newtown Bee reported last week with a headline that the Fairfield Hills budget was dwindling. It was not until the fif...
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).