Residents followed luminaries that lined South Main Street and Elm Drive to attend the 33rd Annual Ram Pasture Tree Lighting, on Friday, December 1.
The event i...
Newtown's largest private landowner, the Newtown Forest Association (NFA), seeks to keep history, hayfields, and horses at Cherry Grove Farm through an agreemen...
If you scoured for deals on Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, and Cyber Monday and still haven't found the perfect gift for your four-legged canine companion, ...
The Newtown International Center for Education (NICE) and its NICE Parent Community Organization (NICE PCO) led initiatives in the district's school to mark Int...
Newtown's D14 cheer squad won the first-place trophy at the Regional Competition, held November 18 in Providence, R.I. Newtown competed against 11 teams from th...
Alvin H. Katz, 84, of Wycliffe in West Palm Beach, Fla., died November 21. He was born in the Bronx, N.Y., January 6, 1933, one of four sons (Lenny, Rudy, and B...
Competitive athletes have a lot to overcome - opponents, fatigue during intense game play, even teammates whom they battle with for starting positions.
Add inju...
David C. Harlow, 75, of Sandy Hook died November 28 at Griffin Hospital. He was the beloved husband of Mary Beardsley Harlow. He was born in New Haven on March ...
To the Editor:
Today I was the lucky recipient of a fender bender. Being in an accident, no matter how small can be upsetting and troubling to those involved.
W...
Jean Robstock "Jeannie" Sedensky, 85, of Trumbull, formerly of Bridgeport, beloved wife of 50 years to the late Stephen J. Sedensky, Jr, died peacefully in her ...
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).