Bart Henderson, 52, of Newtown, loving father to Lucy Henderson, died in his home February 2. He was born June 6, 1962, in Bryan, Texas, and was the son of Clot...
Carol M. Jaeckel, 85, died January 31 in Danbury, of natural causes. She was born July 21, 1929, in Bayonne, N.J., the daughter of Rudolph and Rose Kunze Carnat...
The newest version of Annie, a film that was released in December, opened this week at Edmond Town Hall Theatre. The film continues daily through Sunday, Februa...
After the warm weather returns, the town plans to start installing a series of informational signs on local roads intended to promote bicycling safety.
The sign...
The newest version of Annie, a film that was released in December, opened this week at Edmond Town Hall Theatre. The film continues daily through Sunday, Februa...
After the warm weather returns, the town plans to start installing a series of informational signs on local roads intended to promote bicycling safety.
The sign...
To the Editor:
May I commend to your prayer list, the names of two faithful servants of God and compassionate friends to so many. Both died within the past two ...
In the hope of attracting more local input, an online survey to help the Distribution Committee of the Sandy Hook School Support Fund assess ongoing needs of th...
In the hope of attracting more local input, an online survey to help the Distribution Committee of the Sandy Hook School Support Fund assess ongoing needs of th...
A good measure of the crime deterrence of police on patrol stems from their high visibility both in their vehicles and on foot.
During the past few years, town ...
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).