Llewellyn Wininger
Jean Zitnay Wininger
Llewellyn J. Wininger, 74, and Jean Zitnay Wininger, 69, both of Gilmanton, N.J., died April 21 in South Carolina as a r...
The third annual St Rose Festival Chorus and Orchestra presented “Song of the Shadows,” under the direction of Joseph J. Jacovino, Jr, a...
The Newtown Soccer Club opened its 2003 spring season in earnest this past weekend and watched as the Girls U11 Rampage captured the championship in the Glaston...
Rotary Honors Middle School Students
Alex Hennessey (cluster 8-C) and Carra Buckley (cluster 7-B) were honored by the Newtown Rotary and were presented with a P...
Free OSHA Fall Protection Seminar
BRIDGEPORT — As part of its efforts to help employers and workers in Fairfield, New Haven, and Middlesex counties ...
Lions Club Kicks Off Annual Mustang Car Raffle
The Newtown Lions Club has begun its annual Mustang Car Raffle, the largest and most important fundraising activi...
Expert Tells Parents––
Newtown Not Immune To Teenage Heroin Use
By Tanjua Damon
Fairfield County is the “distribution course...
Town Players Auditions
Town Players announces auditions for its July-August production, William Shakespeare’s All
’s Well That Ends W...
NYCAAP And Newcomers Host AIDS Benefit Fashion Show
On Wednesday, May 7, at 7 pm, Newtown Youth Services’ peer AIDS education group, NYCAAP, in coll...
DOT Slates Session
On Bridge Project
Plans to replace a small bridge on South Main Street, which crosses over Cold Spring Brook, will be the subject of a publi...
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).