Blood Drive At NCC, Monday
The American Red Cross will conduct a blood drive on Monday, May 4, at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
The event will ...
NHS Holds Schoolwide Chess Tournament
After four rounds of competition and three hours of play, Newtown High School student Haotian Zheng emerged victorious in...
NHS Expansion Project Clears Public Building And Site Commission
By Eliza Hallabeck
The Public Building and Site Commission unanimously passed the Newtown High ...
Alzheimer’s Training, Driver Safety Refresher Available
SOUTHBURY — A four-part Alzheimer’s Association Training Program for...
Swine Flu Update—
Health District Prevention Plea:
‘If You Are Sick, Stay Home!’
By John Voket
Newtown Health District Dire...
NHS Baseball Splits With Brookfield—
 13-Run Performances (One Not So Lucky) For Hard-Hitting Nighthawks
By Andy Hutchison
The Newtown High Schoo...
Andrea Works Her Magic From Hair To Weaves To Wigs
By John Voket
Former Newtown resident Catherine Stanley remembers many trips to have her hair cut and styled ...
Refunding Will Offset $710K Debt On HS Borrowing
By John Voket
Newtown taxpayers who voted Yes on this week’s budget because they thought it was the...
Police Plan Sobriety Checkpoint
For The Weekend
Police plan to hold a sobriety checkpoint at an unspecified location in town during the evening hours of Saturd...
Lillian Roberta Hollick
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Momz
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Lillian Roberta Hollick, 64, of Sandy Hook, died at the home she made and loved in Sandy Hoo...
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).