To the Editor:
Thanks to many of our town business people for participating in this year's Trick or Treat for UNICEF by placing the little orange boxes in promi...
To the Editor:
Please allow a brief shout out to Newtown Parks and Recreation Department. Our sons and their families returned to Newtown for Thanksgiving. Our...
To the Editor:
Upon leaving the Legislative Council voluntarily this past election, I congratulate both the newly elected members and those members who were ree...
Joseph F. Engelberger, 90, a longtime resident of Newtown, known as the “Father of Robotics,” died peacefully at his home, December 1. He was born in Brooklyn, ...
The town’s three Christmas/holiday trees will be formally lit for the holidays, December 4-6.
Newtown’s oldest tree lighting celebration will open the weekend.
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Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown will mark the third anniversary of 12/14 with a memorial service on Friday, December 11, at 7:30 pm.
As part of the synagog...
Saturday, December 5, 2015: This story has been updated to reflect the correct location of the gathering.
An Interfaith Gathering for Prayer and Comfort at...
Thomas Connors wondered, could the Fairfield Hills property be used particularly for events? Mr Connors chairs the board overseeing the town-owned space.
“We al...
DUI Arrest
Police report they received a call about 5:32 pm on November 28 reporting that a black Lexus GS-350 sedan with a specified marker plate was bein...
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).