‘Laughter’ At Abbey Theater
BETHLEHEM — Laughter at The Heart of Things, a collection of comedy shorted directed by Timothy ...
Two Helpful New Guides Available From Visitors Bureau
The Northwest Connecticut Convention and Visitors Bureau has published two new guides to help local reside...
Senior Boys A
Newtown 7, Guilford 5 – Ned Emerson scored a goal and assisted on three others to lead Newtown past Guilford. Tim Wheeler sco...
Thousands Of Coins For The Cure
To the Editor:
The Coins For The Cure — To Wipe Out Leukemia’s annual fund drive topped out at $5,500! T...
Sean Kennedy singled, doubled and homered to lead Tobin Plumbing to a 15-1 win over Biscoe Excavating in Newtown Babe Ruth Baseball Minors Division action. Here...
Candlewood Lake Lecture On June 10
DANBURY — The second of four lectures in a series to examine the history, ecology, economic importance and future...
BRIDGEPORT – Connecticut’s best Level 5 and 6 Gymnasts will gather on Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6, for the USA Gymnastics Connecti...
Danbury Destination:
Nick’s Restaurant
Nick’s Restaurant & Catering, “a gathering for family and friends,” has b...
A New Indian Restaurant—
Nuance And Culinary Skill Are In The Spice Rack At Kolam
By Kaaren Valenta
The phone call from Newtown resident Pushpa Kapu...
Historical Walk
Of Sandy Hook Center
Town Historian Daniel Cruson will lead a historical tour of Sandy Hook center on Sunday, June 6, at 1 pm.
The walk will m...
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).