Jazz Group
At Mattatuck, March 3
WATERBURY — After a hiatus of three months, Mattatuck Museum’s First Thursday after-hours event will re...
Yale Rep Anniversary Season Continuing
With A World Premiere
NEW HAVEN — Marcus Gardley’s dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory wil...
Tracy Paella scored 20 points and Joanne Duncanson added 19, the pair combining to drag down 14 rebounds, as Walsh Logging defeated Newtown Mobil, 57-47, in rec...
Multiple Charges Lodged
In Crash That Injured Six
By Andrew Gorosko
Three months after a one-vehicle accident in which six people were injured, police have arr...
RUBY
Ruby is a very affectionate and beautiful buff and white domestic short haired 10-month-old kitten. She is very clean and always uses her litterbox. She lo...
Outstanding Students Sought For Nicholas Green Award
WESTPORT — The Connecticut Association for the Gifted (CAG) is accepting applications for nomin...
Friday, March 3
Opening day for “Surroundings,” 12–5 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free, exhibition of oils a...
Fish Fries During Lent
SHELTON — First United Methodist Church will present its 4th annual Fish Fry every Friday during Lent, beginning March 3 and ...
QUEBEC CITY, ONTARIO, Canada – Josh Freitas of Sandy Hook scored four goals and assisted on another as the Pee Wee Rangers went 7-3 at the Championn...
Students Receive Confirmation Of Guinness World Record
By Susan Coney
Newtown High School seniors Chris Nuelle and Peter Oggeri were ecstatic when they received...
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).
Newtown schools have degraded over the 3+ decades I've lived here as the concentrated social experiment curricula driven by the state and small but loud groups. Yet we continue to dig into our pockets while we witness the downward spiral.