Frances J. McCarthy Kleitz, 90, of Trumbull, died peacefully May 31, at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was the beloved wife of the late Andrew K...
Charles Frederick Guck, 82, of Easton, Md., formerly of Newtown, died May 31, at Talbot Hospice House. He was born September 13, 1935, in Long Island, N.Y., the...
On the evening of Monday, June 4, Bridgeport police pursued a vehicle from Bridgeport into Monroe and then into Newtown in seeking to stop a driver for reported...
To the Editor:
On April 28, a public forum was held at Newtown High School as part of the World Health Organization's Livable Community initiative. Newtown join...
Newtown High School's Carly Swierbut won the 400 meter dash as the girls' and boys' track teams participated in the State Open track and field championships, at...
To the Editor:
I wanted to share this story with everyone in our community because without the help of two Sandy Hook residents and two Newtown Lions, the duck ...
Christopher Charles "Chris" Canfield, 31, of Pompano Beach, Fla., died May 28. He was born July 10, 1986, son of Lea and Charles Canfield, Jr, in Bridgeport.
Mr...
To the Editor:
I am proud to join the Newtown Democrats in endorsing Rebekah Harriman-Stites as our candidate for the 106th Assembly District.
Rebekah is not on...
What a season it was for Newtown High School's boys' volleyball team. The Nighthawks, coming off winning the South-West Conference championship, saw their Class...
To the Editor:
[The Newtown Lions Club] wants to give a big shout-out to our [Duck Race] sponsor - Norcom Mortgage Force of Shelton. We also received a generous...
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).