Hitting Academy
Newtown Parks & Recreation and Matt Memoli, Newtown High School’s baseball coach, offer a hitting academy which will run for six wee...
Police List Road Closures, Parking Bans For Parade
Staging the town’s annual Labor Day Parade will require that roads leading to the town center be ...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls:
Between 5:47 pm on Thursday, August 25, and 6...
Ready For The Road Race?
The sixth annual Newtown Road Race 5K and Kids Run are scheduled to take place at 9 am, beginning at Dickinson Park on the Saturday, Se...
Finance Board Candidate
To the Editor:
I am honored to have been nominated by the Independent Party of Newtown as a candidate for Board of Finance. In my profes...
Paul Simon’s 70th Birthday Tribute
At Love & Knishes
SOUTHBURY — In recognition of music legend Paul Simon’s upcoming 70th...
Less Labor Day Travel Expected
HAMDEN — Economic concerns, tight budgets, and lagging consumer confidence are taking their toll on Labor Day vacatio...
In The Wake Of Irene,
School District ‘Pretty Much Intact’
By Eliza Hallabeck
Following Tropical Storm Irene’s stint in New...
River’s Art At Easton Library
EASTON — Edith Wheeler Memorial Library is hosting “Crossing Borders,” a collectio...
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).