Newtown’s 2022 Teacher of the Year Amy Deeb and 2022 Paraeducator of the Year Judy Watts were celebrated at the Board of Education’s September 20 meeting.
Durin...
Newtown High School's girls' swimming and diving team hosted the New Milford Green Wave and earned a 97-84 win on September 27. The Nighthawks sealed the team w...
While some states have done away with Columbus Day, or changed the observation to honor Indigenous Peoples Day, the State of Connecticut continues to follow the...
With the change of seasons, billions of birds are traveling right now for a better chance of survival. The fall migration period began September 1 and will cont...
A number of stories were posted to newtownbee.com this past weekend. In case you missed them, here is a list of some of those stories.
"Another First For NHS Ma...
July 10, 1939 to October 7, 2017
The Moment That You Left Me
my heart was split in two;
one side was filled with memories,
the other side died with you.
I ...
On September 21, Senator Tony Hwang hosted a Connecticut Wartime Service Medal Ceremony at Newtown High School as a way to recognize the service of our state’s ...
The Blair Atholl Patrol Jamborette in Scotland took place July 19 to 29 to the delight of Scouts BSA members in Newtown and worldwide. The last time it took pla...
Fourteen members of Newtown Senior Center competed in the seventh offering of Trivia with Larry & Zach on September 23.
Those attending were divided into three...
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).