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To the Editor:
As a veteran of the Armed Forces, a senior, and a former chair of Newtown's Commission on Aging, I'll be casting my vote for Eva Zimmerman to rep...
To the Editor:
Today I'm writing to urge my friends and neighbors to cast their vote for state representative for Eva Zimmerman. Six years ago when I met Eva I ...
The Matthew Curtiss House, home of Newtown Historical Society, is one of the oldest buildings on Main Street. Located at 44 Main Street, it was constructed abou...
To the Editor:
I'm writing this letter to endorse Mitch Bolinsky for re-election as the state representative for the 106th District. Mitch has represented us we...
To the Editor:
This statement represents the opinions of the presidents of all seven of the Newtown Public School PTSA/PTAs. We thank the members of the Future ...
To the Editor:
I remember a time when Connecticut was a place where taxes were low, where children went to quality schools, and where businesses were allowed to...
To the Editor:
Eva Zimmerman is a hardworking woman. She has been out meeting her Newtown neighbors since March going door to door. She wants to know what is im...
To the Editor:Washington Post, a net of almost 5,000 of our recent college graduates move elsewhere. Those who remain have been taxed to compensate for the outf...
To the Editor:
My family and I are relatively new to Newtown. We moved last July from New Milford. We moved almost solely to find a better school district and c...
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).