Jay Fillmore Patrick passed away on Thursday, January 27, 2022, at the age of 74.
His wife Connie, of 30 years, was by his side along with his daughter, Sara St...
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William “Moe” Moseley, Jr, of Newtown, passed away on January 24, 2022, at the age of 73, with his wife and son by his side. Bill was born August 10, 1948, to t...
St Rose of Lima School, 40 Church Hill Road, postponed a Hybrid Open House, originally set for January 30, to Sunday, February 6, from 11 am to 1 pm.
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To the Editor:
I write the following to express my disappointment in the recent Juvenile Justice Forum presented by Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, Tony Scott, ...
To the Editor:
There has recently been a lot of interest and discussion about the increase in auto theft and crimes committed by children. The Newtown Bee repor...
To the Editor:
There was a recent Newtown Bee article discussing how public participation guidelines have been changed at Board of Education meetings. The Bee r...
To the Editor:
When I was young, I did some really foolish things; I even broke the law. I was lucky though; I was a white girl in a nice suburban town, and I d...
To the Editor:
A response: the Board of Education's public participation guidelines are just that, guidelines to keep a public meeting on an even keel, to keep ...
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).