The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will welcome Adele Moros as its guest artist for the first program of the new year.
The current president of SCAN...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Cor...
Newtown Choral Society, under the direction of Mary Andreotta, has announced openings in all voices for its spring concert, set for May 16 at Newtown Meeting Ho...
Roughly 55 Newtown High School students recently took part in the school’s version of CS50x Puzzle Day, which challenges students to work in small groups to sol...
Fundraising has begun for the 2020 trip being planned by Newtown Ecumenical Workcamp Servants (NEWS).
The group is comprised of Newtown youth in grades 9-12, re...
Name: Ellen Therrien Position: Advertising Sales Manager
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As 4 o’clock approached on December 26, traffic on Main Street slowed and even stopped a few times, as moviegoers vied for the few on-street parking locations a...
The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will open the new year with their annual Roundtable Discussion.
Whether you received new gear for the holidays or just ha...
RIDGEFIELD — Sandy Hook Promise , a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating gun violence in schools, will be the beneficiary of a fundraising concert on...
Gift giving arrived on Christmas Eve morning as Newtown Rotary Club President David Freedman presented a $500 check to Edmond Town Hall for its music series.
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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).