Motorcycle DUI
Police report that while on patrol at about 10:24 pm on July 4, they spotted a motorcyclist swerving while traveling eastward on Wasserman W...
Town Players Heading To ‘Brighton Beach’ For Next Summer Offering
Brighton Beach Memoirs, the semi-autobiographical play by Neil Si...
Where Reading Meets Eating
The C.H. Booth Library in Newtown is accepting entries for its second annual Incredible Edible Book Contest, which will take place Sa...
Occupation: I’m retired, of course. I worked in the envelope manufacturing business for 38 years. Century Envelope was the first one, in Brookly...
Networking On Tap July 12
DANBURY — The Northern Fairfield Professionals, a networking group focusing on people in transition, will meet Thursday, J...
Share Newtown’s history with Newtown old-timers and newcomers alike by passing on photos of interest to The Newtown Bee. The Bee welcomes submission...
Job Well Done
To the Editor:
We would like to say “a job well done” to the members of the Newtown Historical Society and its members for...
Elizabeth Madigan
Stratford
Elizabeth “Betty” Madigan Stratford, 81, of Stratford, the beloved wife of the late Frank E. Stratford, die...
Inferno On Fire — Wins Districts
The Newtown Inferno baseball team captured the Cal Ripken 12 year old 46/60 District 5 championship by defeating Mi...
Fore! — Golf Results
Newtown Country Club and Rock Ridge Country Club golf highlights from this past week are as follows:
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Fourth of...
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).