Program Looks At Science And Spirituality
FARMINGTON — A nationally recognized physician and author will join caregivers from the University of Conn...
Timothy Powell Memorial
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The American Legion Post 202 on Tinkerfield Road will hold its sixth annual Timothy Powell Memorial Golf Tournament on Frid...
Blockbuster Booth Book Sale Raises Over $80,000
By Jan Howard
It was a blockbuster of a year for the C.H. Booth Library’s annual Labor Day Book...
Volunteers Needed For STS Thrift Shop
SOUTHBURY — Southbury Training School Volunteer Services will host a new volunteer recruitment happy hour on W...
LITCHFIELD – The world-famous Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions of Austria, under the direction of Col. Ottomar Herrmann, began perfor...
Pack 170 Starting A New Year
As the school year begins and the long, lazy days of summer come to a close, Cub Scout Pack 170 will start a fresh scouting year. T...
Profile: Tara Coelho,
NHS Biology & Ecology Teacher
By Andrew Rote
Newtown High School welcomed new teachers this year. Tara Coelho is a new biology and ecolog...
Grange Fair Returns
This Weekend In Weston
WESTON — It will be a day of parsnips and pepper jam, guinea hens and geese when Norfield Grange hosts i...
MV Charges
Police report they lodged three motor vehicle charges against a local man August 30.
Police said they observed motorist Edward Moroney, 39, of 4...
Ryan M. Henry, son of Deborah and J. Robert Henry, Jr, of Head O Meadow Road, was named to the spring dean’s list. Ryan attended American Univer...
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).