Ceremonial Groundbreaking Set For 5/6 School
By Tanjua Damon
The plans and preparation for the 5/6 school have been anything but low-key, but a groundbreaking c...
—15,370-Acre Legacy
Nature Conservancy Unveils Statewide
 ‘Last Great Places’ Program
MIDDLETOWN, CONN. — With ...
The Difference Horses Make
To the Editor:
I want to start off by saying horses literally mean my future. I have no interests nor talents in any sports, for exam...
Local Church Organizes Drive To Collect Items For Zimbabwe Orphans
By Tanjua Damon
The call for help is thousands of miles away and across several oceans, but t...
Fairy Tales: Theater For Children
DANBURY — Musicals at Richter, Fairfield County’s longest-running outdoor theater, has been offering F...
Better Breathing Support Group
WATERBURY — The Better Breathing Club, a support group sponsored by the Cardiopulmonary Department at Waterbury Hospi...
Newtown Country Club
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Mixed Two-Ball
Gross – 1. Charlie Walsh and Ed Sidlowsky (137), 2. Walter Gebert and Joe Humeston (139).
Net â...
Wyatt Promoted By Excel
Excel Communications has promoted former Newtown resident Tom Wyatt to the position of senior director.
Mr Wyatt has been promoted to th...
Two MV Charges
Police said they stopped motorist James Comerford, III, 38, of 1 Alpine Circle, on Main St on June 25 for apparently operating an unregister...
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).