MUST RUN 12/14
FITZWILLIAM & RICHMOND, NH, PLAN OPEN HOUSE, DEC. 29–30
ak/gs set 12/5 #721521
FITZWILLIAM and RICHMOND, N.H. — Start the...
HEADS AND CUTS AT BOTTOM OF RELEASE
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Modernism Show
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By Regina Kolbe; Photos by David S. Smith
NEW YORK CITY — The 22nd...
HEADS AND CUTS AT BOTTOM OF RELEASE
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Must run 12-21
Modernism Show
Fill 4 pages
By Regina Kolbe; Photos by David S. Smith
NEW YORK CITY — The 22nd...
Marleys ghost
“Marley’s Ghost,” original watercolor illustration by John Leech for Charles Dickens’s A ...
My Dad’s Truck Special Holiday Performance, Saturday
DANBURY — Roots Music Coffeehouse will present local performers My Dad’...
The More Things Change
To the Editor:
To say that I was deeply disappointed with Paul Mangiafico’s decision to vote with Herb Rosenthal to continue ...
Saturday, December 8
Breakfast with Santa, 9–10:30 am, Newtown Middle School, Queen Street, free, children of all ages invited to have breakfas...
Women’s Networking And Shopping
Local professionals and entrepreneurs looking for an enjoyable way to promote themselves and their business are invi...
Couple From North Pole
Stopping At Museum
MIDDLEBURY — Santa and Mrs. Claus will be arriving from the North Pole in their antique truck for a vis...
Prevent Slips,
Trips And Falls
DANBURY — Helping the elderly, patients recovering from surgery, and folks with disabilities prevent falls, a team of...
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).