If you haven’t been to Dickinson Park in a little while, this weekend would be a good time for a visit. Saturday morning especially, Newtown Lions Club is hopin...
Memorial Day 2022 and the weekend leading up to it saw many Newtown residents taking the opportunity to mark the traditional start of summer, while at the same ...
RIDGEFIELD — To close out its very successful fourth season, ACT of CT has staged the enormously popular and moving musical Rent, with music, book, and lyrics b...
As detailed in last week’s Newtown Bee, Edmond Town Hall Theater is readying for a red carpet US film premiere of writer-director Matt Berman’s latest project h...
The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown is scheduled for Wednesday, June 8, at 7 pm, via Zoom. It will feature a free presentation about “Organizing G...
Howard Lasher, of Delray Beach, Fla., New York City and formerly Newtown, passed away peacefully at home in Florida at the age of 81 on May 15, 2022.
Howard was...
Pitching and power were said to be the strengths of Newtown High School’s baseball team back in preseason, when Coach Ian Thoesen suggested his team could compe...
For the second season in a row, the goodbyes came following a state playoff loss to an FCIAC team that made the trip to Newtown. And, for the second year in a r...
May 30, 1997
The Legislative Council’s finance committee will recommend to the full council that it support the acquisition of the Amaral property on Elm D...
Diane C. (Gasiewski) Heineken, 66, of Brookfield, wife of Eric Heineken, died peacefully at Danbury Hospital on Tuesday, May 31. She was born in Stamford on Nov...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?