EverWonder Children’s Museum, at 31 Pecks Lane, has announced its calendar for January 2019.
This month, visitors to the Yellow Art Lab will be invited to creat...
Thanks to Trout Unlimited and the Pootatuck Watershed Association, and BSA Troop 270, this New Year offers the opportunity to give long-lasting meaning to a usu...
A new state law concerning police enforcement actions during domestic violence incidents took effect on January 1.
Under the terms of the law, a peace officer, ...
Police report that on the morning of December 27, they arrested Bryan Gomez, 18, of Newtown, on a warrant at Connecticut Superior Court in Danbury, charging him...
We hear from Ben’s Bells founder Jeannette Maré that the ceramic chimes continue to have an impact around the globe. As of the end of 2018, more than 62,000 Bel...
UPDATE (Sunday, January 20, 2019): Due to a winter storm, the library is closed today. All programs have been canceled.
UPDATE (Wednesday, January 23,...
Knitters, crocheters, spinners, felt makers and needle felters, dyers, weavers, embroiders, rug hookers, and anyone into fiber arts, yarn, and textiles are all ...
Songs emphasizing kindness echoed out of Hawley Elementary School’s gymnasium on December 21, when the school held a full-school assembly to celebrate its annua...
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have Alain Picard painting a painterly landscape in pastel at its first meeting of the new year, scheduled f...
Professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and the public are invited to join The Working Women’s Forum on Wednesday, January 9 for a panel discussion and n...
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).