Longtime Newtown resident Carmel “Carm” O’Neill was a lover of classic literature and had a passion for learning.
She worked professionally as the library direc...
In their role as the planning agency for the Borough of Newtown, town Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members on Thursday, November 7, are slated to discuss ...
To the Editor:
Next Tuesday, November 5, Newtown residents will have an opportunity to do something that happens only twice a year, something that will have a p...
Published: Nov 01, 2019 at 09:30 AM
Due to an overnight storm that has left many roads in Newtown closed after trees and/or wires fell in high winds and rain, Newtown schools have been closed for ...
A windy rainstorm that occurred overnight from Halloween into Friday, November 1, caused tree limbs to fall onto electric lines across town, resulting in about ...
Trick-or-Treaters were granted a reprieve on Thursday evening. Those who headed out early for Halloween enjoyed a break in the rain that had been drenching the ...
Barbara L. (Grant) Millard, age 77, of Newtown, passed away at home on Monday, October 28. Barbara was born on April 11, 1942, in New York City to the late Fran...
Celebrating October 24 were FISH of Newtown Inc members, enjoying dinner and an anniversary cake at Newtown Country Club.
FISH is a service organization celebra...
Newtown High School’s girls’ soccer team scored twice in the first 11 minutes and change and held off the host Masuk Panthers for a 2-1 victory in the South-Wes...
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).