Meet Your Inner Taogirl
CJ Golden, the author of The Tao of The Defiant Woman, will lead a workshop on Tuesday, March 14, at Mocha Coffee House.
“Li...
Erica Lynn Schweikert and William Joseph Venezia
The engagement of Erica Lynn, daughter of Walter and Peggy Schweikert of Newtown, and William Joseph, son ...
St Rose Gala Deemed A Social & Fundraising Success
The First Annual St Rose Crystal Ball, held February 25 at The Waterview, was an evening of glitz and glamour...
Mission Work Rewarding To Newtown Man
By Nancy K. Crevier
Kevin Donovan, III, of Newtown has found in mission work rewards far different than any he receives as...
The Newtown Pound has a number of animals looking for new families. If you can be provide a home, please call Newtown Animal Control at 203-426-6900 between 9 a...
WATERBURY – Dr Donna Harper will be at Post University in Waterbury for two seminars on Infrared Thermography.
The seminars will be offered in two o...
The Practice
Of Reike
WOODBURY — Reike is an ancient Japanese system of relaxation and stress reduction. Combined with yoga, it becomes a powerful ...
WOODBRIDGE – The Horse Environmental Awareness Program is now accepting applications for its 2006 Horse Farms of Environmental Distinction award pro...
Patricia H. D’Alessandro
St Rose Of Lima Communicant
Patricia H. D’Alessandro, 65, wife of Dr August D’Alessandro of Ne...
I try to do most of my traveling around in the daytime, when people can see me. Black cats at night tend to get ignored, and you know me… I love attentio...
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).