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NHS Is Forging Further Ties With Its Sister School
By Eliza Hallabeck
Newtown High School Assistant Principal Jason Hiruo said ...
Newtown High School First Quarter
High Honor and Honor Rolls
The following are the students who made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the first quarter m...
Poetry Series Is Returning
To Its Original Home Town
Wednesday Night Poetry Series, the longest running weekly poetry series in Connecticut, is moving back to ...
Friday, December 4
Tree Lighting, gathering begins 6:30 pm, lighting at 7, Ram Pasture, Elm Drive at Hawley Road, town’s tree lighting will inc...
Sobriety Checkpoint Yields Three Drug Arrests
Although police did not arrest any motorists on drunken driving charges during a sobriety checkpoint held on the ...
Local Motorists Have High Seatbelt Compliance Rate
By Andrew Gorosko
Police statistics compiled for the recent “Click-It or Ticket” seat...
NHS Football Team Upsets Masuk 36-22 In Finale
By Andy Hutchison
MONROE — The Newtown High School football team made sure Thanksgiving Dinner would ...
Joseph A. Heneghan
World War II Veteran
Joseph A. Heneghan, 88, of Prospect, formerly of Newtown, died November 25. He was born in Trumbull, May 2, 1921.
H...
A Selectman Steps Down
With Gratitude
To the Editor:
Now that I have completed my term on the Board of Selectmen, I want to thank the people of Newtown who hav...
Beverly Susan MacCarty
A Special Person
Beverly “Bebe” Susan MacCarty, 56, died November 11, at Danbury Hospital. Born August 12, ...
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).