To the Editor:
A proposal will soon be presented to Newtown’s Planning & Zoning Commission by Wharton Equity Partners, LLC, for the development of a distributio...
To the Editor
Last week, I gave public testimony in support of the Medical-Aid-in-Dying bill, SB 88. Because I was a practicing physician before I retired, I go...
To the Editor:
If you ate breakfast or lunch at My Place Restaurant before the pandemic, you probably met Laurie Lincoln, the smiling face who worked so hard th...
To the Editor:
On March 17, people around the world will come together to celebrate the Irish holiday of St Patrick’s Day.
It’s always a good time to wear your ...
To the Editor,
In the real-world lives of our children and community, I think Boards of Ed are now more important than the President, Congress, Supreme Court, o...
To the Editor and Our Community:
Two weeks ago, an editorial in The Newtown Bee, and last week a letter to the editor by Paul Bluestein, focused on MAID (Medica...
To the Editor:
Too often, cost-driven health insurers treat patients like numbers on a ledger. We all know someone who was given a prognosis based on a statisti...
To the Editor:
Last night (March 1), the Chair of the Board of Education suggested that she is not prohibiting clapping at Board of Education meetings.
While on...
The Board of Education voted at its March 1 meeting to approve the 2022-23 school calendar, with December 14 to be a day off for Newtown Public School students ...
While the recently recommended municipal budget request equates to an 8% spending increase, that spending largely represents money being transferred into the to...
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).