Caroline’s Gift
To The Editor:
We’d like to thank all those who have so generously donated to Caroline’s Gift, a fund that ...
After months of intensive training, a very special member of the Newtown Police Department has been set to work. He’s Bronson, a ten-month-old Dober...
Newtown High School Markettes: What was the best part of performing in New York’s Madison Square Garden during last week’s Knick gam...
Please Adopt Us!
Gloria, an Akita/Chow mix with a grey and black face was found on February 24 on the Boulevard. She is big, strong and friendly. Also, Ester, a...
Balancing Issues And Reporting
On Fairfield Hills
To the Editor:
The Fairfield Hills Advisory Committee has been working for 11 months to create a balance betw...
NEW HAVEN – Even though Janelle Tracy has won four consecutive South-West Conference championships in the 55-meter dash, the one thing that has elud...
 Services for Newtown seniors are sponsored by the Commission on Aging and are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. For mor...
Friendly Visitors
The Friendly Visitor Program sponsored by the Volunteer Center Serving Western Connecticut will be holding a three-session training session on...
Thankful For The ETH Theater
To the Editor:
A recent letter to the editor criticizing the film choices at Edmond Town Hall “looks a gift horse in th...
Georgene and Jim Lockwood of Prescott, Ariz. and Raymond Classen of Guilford announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Lee Classen, to Joshua Joseph Tol...
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).