Newtown
Support Groups
Friday, December 3Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion....
Bits & Pieces
By Kim J. Harmon
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I love sports, but I also hate sports. For all those thrilling moments (like the playoff series between the New York Yank...
Tamarack Avenue, Danbury
Robert E. Scalzo purchased a home located at 41 Tamarack Avenue, Unit 104, Danbury, from Carol A. Russo.
Carolyn Bloomberg of Curtiss &...
DANBURY — The Western CT State University theatre arts department will present a director’s festival of one-act plays in The Reimold The...
By Kim J. Harmon
The plan seemed so simple, but the execution of it seemed near impossible.
Head coach Ken Roberts was awfully matter-of-fact last week when he ...
St Joseph High School Honors Community Leaders
Richard A. Bishop, president of St Joseph High School in Trumbull, and a Newtown resident, served as an award pre...
Holiday Shopping At IAIS Store
WASHINGTON — On weekends only through December 19, several Native American vendors from the Summer Indian Market pres...
Excellent ‘Memories’ Being Made By Town Players
By Julie Stern
The Town Players have chosen to end their season with a beautifully craft...
A Winter Beach Party
WILTON — Children of all ages are invited to a Winter Beach Party on Sunday, December 5.
Beginning at 12:30 pm, Annie & The Nat...
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).