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Plan Revamps Former Hospital Building Into Municipal Suites
By Kendra Bobowick
All eyes turned to the movie screen displaying a ren...
Another Stellar Performance
By Laurie Borst
The weekend before Thanksgiving saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire at Newtown High School. It was a bril...
Nancy Drive, Monroe
Thomas M. and Kelly A. Coppola sold their property at 11 Nancy Drive, Monroe, to Liam E. and Lori O’Driscoll of Stamford.
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Mr Scott, a longtime Newtown resident, will be talking about and reading from his new book, a murder-mystery set in the somewhat fictional town of Newbury, Conn...
Students’ Legal Procedures On Trial At NMS
By Laurie Borst
Gifted and Talented students at Newtown Middle School have been learning about courtroom ...
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Holiday Festival
Weekend Events
The first weekend in December is always busy in Newtown, and this weekend looks to live up to tradition. Stories and descrip...
Ecumenical Thanksgiving Efforts
Not only is Thanksgiving a time for families to come together, it is also a time to volunteer. Families from St Rose of Lima Chu...
DUI Arrest
About 10:20 pm on November 21, police arrested Dexter Munger, 73, of 36 Taunton Lake Drive on charges of driving under the influence, disobeying...
WWF Holding Inaugural Networking/Social Event
The Working Women’s Forum (WWF) will hold its first networking social Monday, December 4, at Proud Mar...
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).