To the Editor:
Thank you Newtown for affording me the honor of serving you for another term on the Legislative Council.
Our town faces many challenges just as o...
To the Editor:
Thank you to the all the voters of Newtown for their support and for electing me to a position on the Board of Finance. I look forward to working...
To the Editor:
At the time of this writing, an investigation unanimously supported by the Board of Education may be on hold, pending further discussion. The in...
To the Editor:
Thank you to the all of the Newtown residents who came out yesterday and voted. It was great to see and talk with many of you at the Reed School...
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the voters in District 3 for reelecting me to the Legislative Council. I would also like to thank all those who supported ...
Newtown High School will celebrate 50 years of football and honor the 1965 team at its game against New Milford, on Friday, November 6. Former players will be o...
To the Editor:
I am honored to have been selected as one of district two’s representatives on the Legislative Council for the next two years. Thank you to all t...
Blake Edwards’s 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s will be shown at 4 and 7 pm Sunday, November 8, at Edmond Town Hall. Costumes are encouraged and awa...
The Board of Education voted at its meeting on Wednesday, November 4, to direct its chair to look into hiring an investigator following an announcement by board...
Stuart P. McCarthy, 63, of Newburgh, N.Y., and formerly of Newtown, died unexpectedly November 2 at St Luke Hospital, Newburgh. He was born February 17, 1952, i...
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).