Pleased And Proud To Serve
To the Editor:
I am very pleased and proud to have been chosen as first selectman of Newtown. Thank you Newtown voters for your confi...
Time To Read The Health Bill
To the Editor:
You are probably sick of all the wrangling that’s been going on for months about a new Health Care Bill....
65th Wedding Anniversary
Andrew and Doris (Wildman) Charney of Sandy Hook celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on November 4, 2009.
The couple’...
The Inner Energy Of Painting
At the November 11 meeting of The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN), guest artist Edward Spaulding DeVoe will present a de...
Friday, November 6
Church Women United World Community Day celebration, dinner at 6, program at 7, Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street, $5 sugges...
Megan Casey
Casey, a senior captain on the Newtown High School girls’ volleyball team, has played volleyball for six years. The NHS volleyball team ...
Used Books Wanted For Upcoming Sale
EASTON — The Friends of the Easton Public Library will be collecting used books for the annual book sale from Sa...
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).