Viola Morgan
Loved Life
Viola Morgan, 101, a resident of Seacrest in West Haven and formerly of Milford, died April 26, in St Raphael’s Hospita...
Ex-Policeman Sentenced In Embezzlement Case
By Andrew Gorosko
DANBURY — A Danbury Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced the former president o...
The Boogie Man
Is Alive
To the Editor:
After reading the opinion piece “Fanning The Flames Of Racial Division,” [Letter Hive, 4/27/12] ...
Sandy Hook Vintage Base Ball Team Wins Twice
By Ray Shaw
The Newtown Sandy Hooks Vintage Base Ball team hosted the Lyme Taverners for the first time at McLaugh...
Old Farm Road, Oxford
Monica Lee and Frankie Lee, Jr, purchased 15 Old Farm Road in Oxford from Jennifer and Gerard Busillo.
Birgitta Cole of William Pitt ...
Police Chief Saw ‘Solvable Case’ Developing Against John Heath
By John Voket
Twenty-eight years and one month to the day John Heath told...
‘Planting A Tea Garden’
DERBY — The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) will present a prog...
St Rose Parents, Msgr Weiss Respond
To Proposed Busing Option
By John Voket
St Rose of Lima’s Monsignor Robert Weiss believes the parish that helpe...
Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass Music At NUMC, Saturday
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church will take place on May 5 in the churchâ€...
Mary Adamise Antolini
Area Resident For Nearly One Hundred Years
Mary Adamise Antolini, 97, of Fairfield, beloved wife of the late Ernest Antolini, died Ap...
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).