To the Editor:
Jordana Bloom knows how lucky we are to live in beautiful Newtown: she has lived all over the world, and 17 years ago, she chose Newtown as the p...
To the Editor:
I am formally announcing my candidacy for another term on the Board of Finance. I have served on the board for nearly four years, and during that...
To the Editor:
I am asking you to vote to Alison Plante for Legislative Council in the Third District. Alison comes with outstanding credentials: a University o...
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The Newtown American Legion Post 202 is proud to sponsor a Cardiology Prevention and Flu Clinic for all Connecticut Veterans and First Responders...
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I’m happy to share with you that I am seeking reelection to the Legislative Council, representing District 1.
I’m proud of the work my colleagues...
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I am writing to encourage all of our friends and neighbors to reelect Rebekah Harriman-Stites for Board of Education. She has been a consistent, ...
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I would like to “Second” Janet McGeown’s letter of last week and add an additional thought. While I am not a Newtown native, I have lived here wi...
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My name is David Schill, and I am running for Legislative Council representing District 2. My wife, Sandy, a native Newtowner, and I have lived i...
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My name is Ben Toby, and I am running for the Planning and Zoning Commission in the upcoming election. I have been an alternate on the P&Z since ...
To the Editor:
I am writing to ask the you, the voters, to support Steve Hinden for the Board of Finance (BOF). It is more important than ever that every Newtow...
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).