An award honoring the memory of the late Steve Ketchum, a retired Newtown police officer who died in March, has been added as a feature of the 2nd Annual Wester...
Mary Stella D'Angelo, devoted wife and mother, died peacefully at Hewitt Health & Rehab on October 3. Stella was born October 27, 1922, and raised in West Haven...
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We at Golden Opportunities wish to thank everyone who made our 10th anniversary celebration on September 11 a fun and successful event. More than...
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I wish to publicly commend, albeit belatedly, and acknowledge the contributions and efforts of Mr Howard Lasher since 9/11 to keep alive the memo...
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On Saturday, October 8, from 11 am to 4 pm, the Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity (SHOP) is sponsoring the Sixth Annual Passport to Sandy Ho...
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On September 17, we had our 23rd annual Health Fair - held at the Reed Intermediate School. The day was exceptional due to the work of many, many...
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First, I would like to be clear that these comments are my own and are not on behalf of the Legislative Council of which I am a member.
This is q...
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I would like to take the opportunity to endorse Senator Tony Hwang in his race for reelection. As part of my involvement with the Connecticut Sta...
The nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" plays eerily in the opening of a classic murder mystery, setting the tone for The Town Players production of the longest ru...
Theodora "Teddy" Joffe Edelman, 88, of Ridgefield died peacefully at home on October 4, surrounded by her loving family. She is survived by her husband of 66 ye...
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).