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Christopher T. Downer of Greenville, South Carolina, and formerly of Newtown, passed away on October 24 of natural causes. He was born in New London to Thomas M...
UPDATE: This report was updated on Thursday, November 5 at 4:15 pm to include official local voting tallies, additional candidate comments, and related cont...
To the Editor:
I was so impressed reading [a letter] (The Newtown Bee, October 30, 2020, “Help Make The World Better”) written by two young girls, Clare and Ell...
To the Editor:
Dear friends and neighbors, thank you for again bestowing upon me the honor of representing you as Newtown’s voice at the State Capitol. This yea...
The United States Postal Service will host two passport events at Hawleyville Post Office, 23 Barnabas Road, Saturday November 7 and 14, from 8 to 11:30 am.
Tho...
VFW Post 308 will host a Veterans Day Ceremony this year.
Post Commander Paul Galietti said this week that despite COVID-19, the annual ceremony to honor those ...
A change of venue for the November 11 Veterans Day Ceremony presented by the Town of Newtown and Newtown High School has been announced, due to new COVID-19 res...
To the Editor:
As this election cycle comes to a close for town, state, and CT federal legislators and officials, the Newtown Republican Town Committee congratu...
Coming from the town’s historic and influential Glover family, Lee Glover, Sr, was an active member in the Newtown community for many years, much like his ances...
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).