Art Spaces in Fairfield County Libraries, a consortium of 13 libraries, will offer curated visual art exhibitions featuring the work of local and regional artis...
Newtown Bridge Club will host three programs beginning this month for bridge players who would like to polish their skills.
Sessions will be offered in the Alex...
ROXBURY — Hodge Library, at 4 North Street in Roxbury, will once again turn into a cozy pub where guests are welcome to eat, drink, and be merry, on Friday, Aug...
Following extensive discussion at a July 18 public hearing, Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members in a 4-to-1 vote modified an existing special zoning perm...
WASHINGTON DEPOT — Washington Art Association & Gallery (WAA) is presenting “Life in the Balance,” a collection of paintings and drawings by Caroline Harman of ...
Amid the high heat and humidity of a midsummer’s day, the Second Annual Newtown Day drew an estimated 5,000 people on Saturday, July 27, to an athletic field at...
Summer is one of the best times for you and your canine pal to spend quality time outdoors. It’s also the season that can be potentially dangerous to dogs as we...
“Our Mothers; Their Art,” on view at Newtown Municipal Art Gallery through the end of August, features the art of Florence Dohanos and Lucy Durand Sikes, the mo...
As state and other project demands on the low bidder for Newtown’s 2019 road maintenance work begins to lessen, local Public Works Director Fred Hurley has been...
The town is seeking federal grant money, which if approved, would cover half the estimated $1.9 million cost of replacing aging sanitary sewer lines at the town...
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).