As part of the ongoing Rochambeau Bridge reconstruction project, the navigable channel between some of the bridge’s pillars will temporarily be closed to marine...
On Wednesday evening, September 8, the Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present guest artist Gary Eckhart, who will offer a demonstration on usin...
RIDGEFIELD — Thrown Stone Theatre Company is presenting The Suburbs, a unique, peripatetic presentation. Three short plays are performed in three separate and s...
August 30, 1996
Thursday morning saw approximately 4,500 students returning to Newtown public elementary, middle and high school classrooms for their first...
Following an unbeaten, South-West Conference North Division championship season, Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team is again striving for a title in what t...
The hot humid days of summer are still upon us, but Newtown’s NewArts leadership is already fully focused on preparing for this winter’s production of A Christm...
Phinney’s, a local grocery store that specializes in local ingredients and high-quality pantry items, introduced its community supported grocery program earlier...
While there will not be a Newtown Labor Day Parade for the second year, one resident continues to finalize plans for an alternate offering next Monday morning. ...
The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites members and the public to its 2021-22 season, which will be held virtually at least through December. All competi...
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a large contingent of motorcycles, joined by a police escort, will roll through Newtown and other area towns to honor those who...
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).