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Mother Nature Isn’t Always Nice
By Dottie Evans
Remember the Chiffon margarine commercial with the catch phra...
 *The big event this weekend in Newtown, of course, is the Tercentennial Birthday Party.
 Live music will open the weekend on Friday night and will then keep ...
Literacy Volunteers Needs Tutors
DANBURY — Literacy Volunteers of America-Danbury is seeking adult volunteers to serve as teachers and tutors for th...
Martin Street
John and Valerie O’Sullivan purchased 6 Martin Street from Veronica McGuinness.
Ellen Baff of Century 21 Home Services in Newtown...
Many thanks to the Sandy Hook Hair Co. They are generously donating $1 to Newtown Youth Services for every Shh…Co. product sold.
Summer Hours
Ne...
Newtown Singles To Meet, Aug. 5
Newtown Singles will have its next Meet & Mingle program on Friday, August 5, from 7 to 9 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main ...
New Fairfield Hills Authority Being Staffed By Familiar Volunteers
By John Voket
While the names may remain the same, volunteers staffing the new Fairfield Hill...
Antiques Shows______
Saturdays (through mid-Dec): 38th Season Woodbury’s Famous Antiques & Flea Market, 787 Main St South (Rte 6, near Rte 64),...
Two Local Residents Join Staff Of Regional Heart Center
DANBURY — Donna M. Duris of Newtown and Thomas Doherty of Sandy Hook are members of the sta...
Rell Puts More Women In Key State Jobs
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s first woman in the governor’s office in 25 years has si...
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).