To The Editor,
Newtown has always prided itself on our open and transparent government where all people can come to raise concerns and have their perspectives h...
To the Editor:
I believe that Newtown sends its kids to school to learn their ABCs, not their “DEIs.”
I believe we want school funding and energies allocated to...
To the Editor:
Well boys and girls, little Johnnie got his oil tank filled today. When he uses half a tank, time to reorder.
So today was the big day. Driver le...
To the Editor:
As we enter Black History month, let us take time to acknowledge that Black history is American history. As community members, let us make the ef...
To the Editor:
It is hard to imagine a world without Lincoln Sander.
Lincoln was everybody’s friend. He was there to offer help for whatever the need.
My acquai...
To the Editor:
Let’s put this talk of cutting the sales tax by .36% (.0036) in perspective.
On purchases of $100,000 in taxable goods a CT resident would save $...
Newtown Public Schools are closed Friday, February 4, due to the weather. All afternoon school activities are also canceled.
The announcement was made early Fri...
At a mostly impromptu ceremony at the February 1 Police Commission meeting, 20-year Newtown Police veteran David Kullgren was sworn in as the new chief of polic...
First Selectman Dan Rosenthal and Legislative Council Chairman Jeff Capeci both offered measured reactions February 2, shortly after learning about Governor Ned...
After accepting technical adjustments made to the superintendent’s proposed school district 2022-23 budget, the Board of Education unanimously approved the budg...
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).