Newtown Support Groups
Friday, April 4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist Dana Fradon To Lecture At WestConn
DANBURY — Western Connecticut State University has invited Newtow...
Nonnewaug HS Planning Reunion
The Nonnewaug High School Class of 1983 will host its 25th reunion on Saturday, July 5.
The event will be held at The Heritage Hot...
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Trucks Collide
An accident involving two trucks occurred about 1:50 pm on March 28 at the intersection of South Main Street, Meadow Broo...
Lose The Litter Day April 5
The Newtown Lions Club will sponsor Newtown’s 18th Lose the Litter Day on Saturday, April 5, from 9 am to 1 pm, with a r...
Recovered Wood
Becomes A Thing Of Beauty In Crafter’s Hands
By Nancy K. Crevier
When out on a “tree venture” with his ...
Occupation: I’m retired from Bayer Health Care where I spent 15 years. Before that I was in sales and marketing industry, and I was a nurse. Now...
NHS Student Works To Extend Voting Rights To 17-Year-Olds
By Martha Coville
Newtown High School student Mark Fernandez wants to change the oldest constitution i...
Antiques Shows______
Sundays (opening day 2008: April 4; running weekly through Dec): Elephant’s Trunk Country Flea Market, Rte 7, New Milford,...
Commentary—
Millions Of Iraqi Refugees Are Casualties Of War
by Simone Campbell
The humanitarian crisis unleashed by the Iraq war comes into dramati...
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).