Blue Team Prevails In All-Newtown Battle
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Colby James and Kim E. Matthews of Schenectady, N.Y., to Patrick Mulligan of Newtown, residential property at 52 Key Rock Road for $395,000. Joan Allison of San...
First In Flight: Free Summer Fun For The Entire Family
BRIDGEPORT — The Discovery Museum and Planetarium will host a one-day outdoor festival to com...
Occupation: I am the pastor at The Newtown Bible Church, on Sugar Street.
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Christine Howlett Named Music Director,
Conductor Of Danbury Concert Chorus
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New Sign Marks The Way To Eichler’s Cove Marina
By Kendra Bobowick
Amandio Santos stood nearly waist-deep in a shallow pit of bared roots and stones...
Helen Zemola Hallstrom
Cherished Mother
And Grandmother
Helen Zemola Hallstrom, 93, previously of Stratford, beloved wife of the late Kenneth Hallstr...
Library Program Teaches Crafts From Around The World
By Eliza Hallabeck
For the past few Mondays, the C.H. Booth Library has been hosting craft programs, overse...
Share Summer Fun With ‘The Bee’
With the 2011-12 school year starting last this month, on August 30, The Newtown Bee is looking for summ...
Toastmasters To Host Speech Contest
Newtown Toastmasters will host a speech contest on Wednesday, September 21, in the Parks & Recreation Conference Room at Tow...
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).