Vocalist, Saxophone At Love & Knishes Lunch
SOUTHBURY — On Wednesday, July 6, the Love & Knishes Lunch features the music of Bob Lupi of Oxford on k...
Squeezed Enough
To the Editor:
The time is near again when all of us have to pay our real estate taxes. Neither the town nor the state has really shown serious ...
Foundation Seeks
Applicants For Grants
The Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation is now accepting applications for grants to be awarded in 2011. These grants ar...
Penny Auction Sites Could Cost A Chunk Of Change
By Candice Choi
NEW YORK CITY (AP) — An iPad for $88.07? An Xbox for $15.33? Sold!
The television c...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
Every man, every woman carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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Rep Hovey Impressed With Curtis Packaging
State Representative DebraLee Hovey, who represents about 1,000 families in one southerly Newtown voting district, vis...
Nicholas Stephen Summo
An Angel Watching
Over All
Nicholas Stephen Summo, 24, of Sandy Hook, died peacefully, June 27.
He was the son of Barbara B. ...
Inferno Second In Tourney
The Newtown Inferno baseball team earned second place in the 11 year old Jimmy Fund Tournament this past Sunday in Bethel.
The Inferno...
Michael Rhine & Jessica Oswald
Sandy Hook residents Linda and Fred Oswald announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Eileen Oswald, to Michael Ward...
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).