Saturday, August 2
Car Wash, 9 am–noon, Century 21/Scalzo Group, 48 South Main Street, donations accepted, fundraiser for members of Newtown Co...
Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week With St V’s
BRIDGEPORT -—St Vincent’s Family Birthing Center and the WIC (Women, Infants ...
High Ridge Road, Brookfield
Marianne Dombroski and Christopher Sanzeni purchased a home at 49 High Ridge Road, Brookfield, from Linda and Jeffrey Klein.
Ca...
Newtown Youth Give Voice To Poetry
By Nancy K. Crevier
The five-member Connecticut National Youth Poetry Slam Team, including Newtown writers Haley Keane, a sen...
Sidewalk Needs Repairs
To the Editor:
With the beginning of another school year approaching, I would appreciate having the sidewalk in front of Newtown Middle S...
Town Officials And Realtors Agree: There’s Something About Newtown
By Kendra Bobowick
Some gathered by the fireplace where the scent of forgotten as...
The stone and pink stucco building with white and green trim is surrounded by greenery and an abundance of flowers, including several hanging baskets on the ful...
The Consequences Of
Misinformation
To the Editor:
Recently a young voter wrote: “An Uninformed Vote Is A Wasted Vote.”
While thatâ€...
Theater Review—
‘Altar Boyz’ Offers A Break From The Heat,
And From Serious Theater, At Long Wharf
By Julie Stern
NEW HAVEN...
Library Wowing Patrons
With Technology
By Nancy K. Crevier
“Wow!” is the response that the C.H. Booth Library is hoping for and â€...
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).