Private Agendas And Conflicts
To the Editor:
Our first selectmen, current and past, not a whisper campaign, have allowed the perception of conflict of interest ...
Tour De Newtown Signups
Tour De Newtown organizers invite cyclists, ages 16 and older, to make the annual series of bike rides a part of their summer plans. In ...
Stray Kats Theatre Company To Present ‘Fibber McGee And Molly’
The Stray Kats Theatre Company, a notÂfor-profit, professional theater c...
Why I Didn’t Vote
To the Editor:
I just read this morning (Wednesday) in The Newtown Bee, online, that the proposed charter change failed to pass. T...
Wildflowers Of New England
John Pawlowski will be the guest speaker for The Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown on Wednesday, April 13, at Newtown Senior Ce...
Yale-Griffin Prevention Dept Offers PHINDER Database Of Health Programs
DERBY —Prevention, health promotion, and chronic disease management programs...
Ladies Night Out Fashion Show Planned
SOUTHBURY — Home Instead Senior Care of Sandy Hook and Trumbull, and River Glen Health Care Center in Southbu...
Hospital Teams With Masonicare For Talk On Cardiac Technology
Danbury Hospital and Masonicare of Newtown invite the community to a discussion titled â€	...
Spirit Of Women Has Room For Men, Too
NEW MILFORD — Join New Milford Hospital for its inaugural Spirit of Women member event in the hospitalâ€&...
A Business Framed By Friendships
To the Editor:
After 24 years of conducting our frame shop in Newtown, John and I, with much consideration, have decided to mov...
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).