Library Talk On Keeping Your Eyesight
DANBURY — There are many things that can go wrong with your eyesight: macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucom...
With Appreciation And Gratitude
To the Editor:
Have you ever passed judgment on volunteer firemen? Have you ever made a cynical comment or poked fun at them beh...
Jeanne Smith
A Million-Dollar Smile
Jeanne Smith, 86, of Newtown, died peacefully, at home, December 23, after fighting a valiant yearlong battle against c...
NHS Gymnasts Second In Season Opener
Newtown High School’s first-year gymnastics team kicked off the season with a strong showing and earned second ...
The Origin Of The Species
To the Editor:
The species I refer to is the high cost of education, whether it be high school or beyond. I refuse to accept the ever ...
Telling Good Advice From Bad
New Year’s resolutions are not supposed to be easy to keep. If some failing or deficiency follows us around for an enti...
The Vermont Relief Effort
To the Editor:
I would like to personally thank the residents of Newtown for their generous donations to the Vermont flood relief food...
Llodra Believes ECS Task Force Proposals Would Reduce Newtown’s Reimbursement
By John Voket
First Selectman Pat Llodra said this week that if recomm...
John Reed Resigns From Fairfield Hills Authority
By Kendra Bobowick
Fairfield Hills Authority Chairman John Reed has resigned, effective January 19, from the le...
Accidental Fire Heavily Damages Botsford Mobile Home
By Andrew Gorosko
An equipment malfunction on the evening of Monday, January 2, caused an accidental fire i...
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).