Members of the community are invited to gather for a prayer vigil for Las Vegas on Wednesday, October 4, at 7:30 pm, in the sanctuary of Newtown Congregational ...
It is a challenge for a team to overcome losing a senior starter to injury. A captain, even worse. Both captains ... and for likely a couple of weeks? Not good ...
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I would like to thank all of the guest speakers (our valuable town resources), NSC staff, and volunteers for taking time out of their busy schedu...
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It's an honor to run for re-election to the Board of Finance and truly a privilege to have served New...
To the Editor:
On Thursday, September 28, Governor Malloy made good on his promise to veto the bipartisan budget which would have restored $4,893,944 of Newtown...
Newtown Action Alliance invites the public to a vigil outside the headquarters for National Shooting Sports Foundation, 11 Mile Hill Road, on Wednesday, October...
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).