The camp’s description read, “Time travelers wanted!” And local students answered the call.
Newtown Historical Society offered its Newtown Summer History Camp t...
Patricia Hubbell Hornstein, 94, of Easton, Conn., passed away on July 29, 2022, at the home of her daughter, Deborah Hereld, in Cheshire, Conn. Born in Bridgepo...
Anthony Capozziello has been elected the new chief of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company following a meeting at the volunteer company’s headquarters on ...
With forecasts indicating high temperatures returning over the next few days with a heat index in the low to mid 90s, Governor Ned Lamont has activated the stat...
HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff beginning at sunrise on Wednesday, August 3, through s...
Registration is open for this summer’s presentation of Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Grace Family Church, 13 Covered Bridge Road in Newtown.
The church will ho...
Occupation: My current occupation is being the sales manager of the Newtown Verizon Wireless Zone location, which I took over mid-January.
Family: I’m c...
Loved ones of Newtown resident Kelly Lucas gathered at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 pavilion for a celebration of her life on Saturday, July 23.
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“The ABCs of Newtown” is a series tying each letter of the alphabet to something in Newtown. This week we continue with a look at the eight-plus miles of in...
Recent Boston University graduate Kevin Reiss reflected on how his experiences with educators in both Newtown and at the university helped foster his abilities ...
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).