What We Need
In A Candidate
To the Editor:
Watching the end of the Connecticut Republican gubernatorial debate, I was horrified that another election season wa...
It’s A Dog’s Life—
August — Dog Days
By Mary Jane Anderson
The phrase “dog days” came fr...
Man Injured In Hit-And-Run Accident Amid Vandalism Incident
By Andrew Gorosko
Police said they are investigating a hit-and-run accident in which an adult male p...
Bobby Lydon
Lydon, 13, will be an eighth-grader this fall. He was interviewed during the Murphy Basketball Camp at Newtown Youth Academy this summer.
Favori...
To the Editor:
The Connecticut Probate System is undergoing changes that will result in the consolidation of several towns into one regional probate office. Ri...
Doggone Etiquette —
Summer Games
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
As a puppy, you played games — catch-me...
Blood Drive Planned
The American Red Cross will be in Newtown this weekend for a blood drive. On Saturday, August 7, the gathering hall of St Rose School, 40 Ch...
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).