WETHERSFIELD - AAA offices in Fairfield and New Haven Counties are no longer providing any Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) services.
The termination of servic...
The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
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January 10, 1992
Newtown's jail will have one of the most advanced security systems in the state, but that does not pacify residents unnerved by the recent...
NORWALK - Norwalk Metropolitan Youth Ballet has prepared 26 of its dancers of Ensemble Ètoile and select dancers of its Apprentice Ensemble...
Veronica W. Seavey, 89, of Southbury died at her home January 5. Mrs Seavey was the wife of the late Chester W. Seavey, Sr. She was born in Bridgeport on Februa...
The newest member of Newtown's legislative delegation pulled no punches, offering harsh criticism after Governor Dannel P. Malloy presented a brief, 29-minute S...
Elsie M. Brennan, 93, died January 3 at a Pittsfield, Maine, hospital. She was born August 7, 1923, in Danbury, a daughter of Estelle (Burgess) and Max Eichorn....
Newtown Hikers is an open group welcoming anyone interested in hiking and the outdoors. There is no membership fee.
Hikes are Saturday mornings, with the group ...
BETHEL - Mutts Gone Nuts, a nationally acclaimed comedy dog show that has been presented on stages across the country, will offer a charity show this month for ...
Renate W. Moss, 76, of Sandy Hook died peacefully January 3 at Danbury Hospital, surrounded by family and friends. She was born August 9, 1940, in Landau, Germa...
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).