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A red oak tree and a plaque are now situated near The Little Red Schoolhouse on Middle Gate Elementary School’s grounds to honor late Town Historian Dan Cruson....
The gymnasium at Edmond Town Hall frequently hosts a wide range of events, and on Saturday, September 24, it seemed to hold all of them at once.
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On September 28, 2022, former Milford resident Carroll Loeber Hogan, loving mother of three children, passed away at the age of 92 in Charlotte, N.C.
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To the Editor:
Winter is coming, and it’s time for us to decide which candidate for Congress will help us keep our heating bills manageable.
Just last week, our...
To the Editor:
I feel so lucky to have Jahana Hayes as my representative in Congress!
Jahana is dedicated to everyone in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional distri...
To the Editor:
Election season seems to be in full swing with yard signs popping up, mailers arriving daily, and politicians consistently featured on TV and rad...
To the Editor:
“The servant-leader is servant first … It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brin...
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).