Campus
Notes
The following students have attained honor roll status for the third quarter of the 2006-2007 year at the Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton ...
Maypole Dancing At Waldorf School
The Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, presents its 16th Annual May Fair Saturday, May 5, from 11 am to 2 ...
Kids Day America Comes
To Sandy Hook May 19
On Saturday, May 19, communities worldwide will participate in the 13th annual Kids Day America/International, a hea...
Used Paperback Book Sale
EASTON — The Friends of the Easton Public Library will hold their annual used paperback book sale on Saturday, May 19, from...
A Job Well Done
To the Editor:
Last week, while the most eighth graders were on a field trip to Washington and Gettysburg, almost 500 incoming seventh graders a...
A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.
—Burt Bacharach
I hate small towns because once yo...
Newtown Flood Losses May Trigger FEMA Loans, Grants
By John Voket
First Selectman Herb Rosenthal said the best way to position local residents and business owne...
Children
’s Programs
*Mother’s Day Craft: Children ages 6 and up can sign up in the children’s department to make a ...
We may well have had other dictionaries at hand, but none were synonymous with the word dictionary the way Webster was. Newtown Historical Society will look i...
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).