To the Editor:
On September 10, 2001, my friend Michael Pascuma, Jr, told me to pull out the black date book that I carried to note of all my commitments. He to...
Stephanie Helen (Komornik) Tomasko, 100, of Trumbull, died September 1, at Connecticut Hospice in Branford. She was born in Bridgeport and was the daughter of t...
The Newtown Public Schools were back in session as of Monday, August 29, and the day was filled with smiles and cheer.The Newtown Bee, available in local stores...
This is the final segment of a three-part series covering the history and impending closure of St John's Episcopal Church.
Parishioners of St John'...
In "a week and only half a day," as Acting Up Theater Company Owner Barbara Distinti said, young actresses and actors prepared for the recent showing of The Mos...
This is the second article in a series looking at historic artifacts that are in the care of the town historian.
Residents may be unaware, but in the 1700s...
Where can you find athletes with eight decades of age separation competing in the same event? The 11th Annual Newtown Road Race & Newtown Prevention Council Kid...
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) has announced its fall schedule of classes. All classes will meet at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at th...
This report was updated September 3 at 2:30 pm with input from the First Selectman.
Newtown Police Captain Joe Rios is poised to retire to take a position ...
DANBURY - As long-time buddies, premier banjo player Béla Fleck and mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist Chris Thile...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?