Betsy Anne Cassella, 60, of Sandy Hook died July 23 at Regional Hospice Center for Comfort Care and Healing in Danbury. She was lovingly surrounded by family an...
Robert Courchene-Roy, 55, of Bethel and previously of Newtown, died on July 30, following a courageous battle with cancer. He died peacefully with his family by...
To The Editor:
The office of probate judge requires an individual with impeccable character and competence. That is true simply because judgments impact individ...
To The Editor:
The ultimate test of a probate judge is how to balance the law with compassion for the people who come before the court. For more than 20 years, ...
Growing up in California and Massachusetts, Toni Miraldi always loved to draw - although her parents did not see her making a career of it. Then one day, a high...
To The Editor:
We have known Patrick Walsh and his family for over 20 years. During this time, we watched Patrick as his law practice grew and as he became a vi...
Barbara (Bronk) Hiruo, 71, of Southbury, formerly of Newtown, devoted wife of Robert S. Hiruo, died peacefully in her sleep at her home on July 28. She was born...
To The Editor:
I'm writing to endorse Patrick Walsh for probate judge. Patrick has been our family's attorney since we moved to Connecticut, about 20 years ago....
Fredric H. Kauffman,76, of Lincoln, Neb., died July 27. He was born in St Paul, Minn., into the home of Harold W. and Esther (Smith) Kauffman, who survives her ...
To The Editor:
I would like to express my support for Republican Daniel O'Grady for regional probate judge of the Northern Fairfield County Probate District. 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).