Newtown’s taxpayers will have their first opportunity ever to act on the request of the Board of Fire Commissioners for funds to purchase a new ladd...
Nov 4-5: 19th Annual Glass From The Depression Era ###10:54 A11/P11 others) Show 10:54 A11/P11 Sale, Southington High School, 720 Pleasant St, Southington, Sat ...
South Georges Hill, Southbury
David Lee and Christina Lee Den of Waterbury have purchased a home at 274 South Georges Hill Road in Southbury from Cendant Mobili...
30th Annual RWC Craft Fair
RIDGEFIELD — Ridgefield Woman’s Club will host its 30th annual craft fair on Saturday, November 18, at East R...
Theatre Reviews—
‘Rice Boy’ Becomes Something Of An Educational Experience
By June April
NEW HAVEN — Theatre sho...
Drawing The Townspeople Into The Process For Future Of FFH
To the Editor:
Many towns in Connecticut and surrounding states have wrestled with some of the same q...
Christian Heritage School
Receives Grant
TRUMBULL — Stephen E. Taylor, headmaster of Christian Heritage School (CHS), has announced that the school...
Commentary –
Case Of Rowland’s Nephew Shows How State Bungles Drugs
By Chris Powell
Some may enjoy the embarrassment to his family, and ...
Church Plans Christmas Bazaar
OXFORD — Oxford United Church of Christ will present its 32nd annual Christmas Fair on Friday and Saturday, November 3...
Newtown Fund Begins Annual
Depot Day Drive
The Newtown Fund next week will launch its annual Depot Day project. Residents and businesses are encouraged to sign ...
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).