Follow PATH During Autumn Hike
BETHEL — Preservation Advocates for Terre Haute (PATH) will be leading “Terre Haute Foliage Hikeâ€&#...
No one ever said farming was easy, but life has become increasingly difficult for one farmer on Hundred Acres Road through a rash of what police call â€&#x...
Over the years, Newtown’s boards and commissions have had a rolling epiphany. It started with the conservation and land use agencies, which listed o...
Masonic Lodge Dinner Dance
The Masonic Lodge of Sandy Hook invites the community to its Second Annual Dinner and Dance on Saturday, October 29, from 7 pm to mid...
MONROE – A golf outing benefiting the family of Steve Furtenbacher will be held Thursday, October 20, at Whitney Farms Golf Club in Monroe.
The outi...
NHS To Host Band Festival
The Joseph P. Grasso Invitational returns to Newtown High School’s Blue and Gold stadium on Saturday, October 8, celebrati...
Parent Programs Moms Groups
Moms of Babies ages birth to 12 months will meet on Tuesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 am, runs through December 6. The fee is $...
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The Gunnery announced that Katherine Danziger of Newtown was among nine of its students to earn designation as an AP Scholar by the College Board...
Praxair Donates $4 Million To Danbury Hospital’s New Heart Center
DANBURY — Danbury Hospital has announced the naming of The Praxair Reg...
One New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine in East Granby was the first North American copper mine. It was chartered by the British Monarchy. When mining ceased in 177...
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).