Ogden House To Open For Season
FAIRFIELD — Ogden House & Gardens, an 18th Century saltbox farmhouse at 1520 Bronson Road, will open for the season o...
Occupation: I have been head custodian at Newtown Middle School for the past two years.
Family: My wife is Barbara. I have a daughter, Jessica, who is 2...
Police Officers Receive Awards Of Merit
Two town police officers have received Awards for Merit from the police department for the actions they took during a v...
The Spinning Wheel Moves In A New Direction
The Spinning Wheel Inn on Route 58 in Redding began as an inn and tavern in 1742, and the original beams, flooring a...
Richard Recht
Former Member Of Newtown Legislative Council
Richard Recht, 71, died May 28 surrounded by his wife and children. The husband of Carol Diem Re...
A Record Weekend For
Coffee And…
To the Editor,
Boy Scout Troop 370 enjoyed beautiful weather over this Memorial Day weekend while hosting their annual ...
Hospital Dedicates Praxair Regional
Heart And Vascular Center
DANBURY — Danbury Hospital formally dedicated its Praxair Regional Heart and Vascula...
DUI Case
Newtown police report they stopped motorist Jean Messemer, 54, of 8 Bayberry Drive while she was traveling on Route 302 about 10 pm May 26, after ...
CL&P Investing $23 Million In Summer Preparations
BERLIN — The Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) is in the final stages of a $23 million pr...
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).