Warning From The Fire Marshal
The fire marshal’s office has issued a warning on a product known as the “Andre Microsilk Hairstyling Cape...
Children’s Book Discussion At Library
By Tanjua Damon
Students in grades four through six have an opportunity to take part in a book discussion of M...
Sandy Hook Was A Cultural Center When Its Grand Opera House Still Stood
By Jan Howard
J.H. Costello’s Sandy Hook Opera House was only in existence f...
Health Official Seeks To Quell Alarm Over Local Uranium Levels
By Steve Bigham
Last week’s media coverage of the town’s decision to cond...
Naming The Stadium . . .
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Newtown High School is forming a new committee which will tackle the issue of renaming the football stadium (formerly name...
Chester F.      Hayden
Chester F. Hayden, 82, of Trumbull, died January 31 in his home.
He is survived by a son, Jonathan Hayden, and his wife, Linda, of...
Jean (Hughes) Hayden
Jean (Hughes) Hayden, 80, of Trumbull, died February 1 in her home.
She is survived by a son, Jonathan Hayden, and his wife, Linda, of Newt...
Dog Charge
Police report they charged Melanie Ancin-Scott, 46, of 18 Mt Pleasant Road with allowing a dog to roam on the night of January 28, following a c...
State Troubadour At Coffee House
DANBURY — Kevin Briody of Ridgefield, who is serving as the 2001-02 CT State Troubadour, will be the featured perfo...
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).