William J.     Keen, Jr
Industrial Engineer For Columbia Magnetics
William J. Keen, Jr, 77, a resident of Newtown, died April 3 at his home. Mr Keen ...
Tireless Dedication
To the Editor,
I wanted to extend congratulations and sincere appreciation to Dorie Carolan and Donna DeLuca for their tireless dedication t...
The dispatchers at Town Hall South list the following fire calls:
Thursday, March 30: 3:25 pm, brush fire, 3 Shady Rest Boulevard, Sandy Hook, Hawleyville, ...
Grand Passover Seders Planned In Litchfield & Southbury
This year celebrate Passover with family and friends at the eighth annual community Seder Series, this ...
Thoughts On The 2006-07 Budget
To the Editor:
A two mill tax increase will be a substantial burden for many citizens. Population increase results in the need fo...
Time Traveling Through Newtown’s Landmark Clocks
By John Voket
Christopher Locke is a very busy guy, traversing the state in his job as a telecommun...
Radio Thrillers
FAIRFIELD — “Golden-Age Thrillers,” a quartet of suspense-filled classic radio dramas, will be offered at Fa...
April 25 Vote Set—
Council Cuts Ed Budget
By Kendra Bobowick
& John Voket
Despite tension-filled pleas from some taxpayers to restore proposed educ...
Beekeeping Program With Observation Beehive
DERBY — The Naugatuck Valley Audubon Society, in cooperation with the Department of Environmental protec...
A Winning Decision
To the Editor:
The 2006 Post-Prom Party promises to be one of the best ever for NHS students. The decision to attend, to be with your friends...
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).