Celebrate St Patrick’s Day The Bald Way:
Hair-Shaving Event To Benefit Childhood Cancer Research
McGuire’s Ale House, 130 Mt Pleasant R...
NMS To Stage
Bye Bye Birdie
The cast and crew of the Newtown Middle School’s upcoming production of Bye Bye Birdie were quick to the stage th...
Parks and Recreation director Amy Mangold is quite excited about the Big Food exhibit at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, and even hopes summer camps will be ab...
Former CEO Admits Embezzling $1.7 Million
BRIDGEPORT — A Minnesota man waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty this week to one count of w...
Softball Registration
Registration for Newtown Softball’s spring Recreational Season and the 2012 Travel Season are available online at www.newtowns...
Free Basic Computer Class
Have fun learning the basics about computers during a free class at C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, on Friday, March 9, from 9 to ...
Patricia Silliman Kearney
Loving Mother And Grandmother
Patricia Silliman Kearney, 81, of Cape Coral, Fla., died peacefully, February 21. Born September 16...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
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).