With 42 team members — 36 swimmers and six divers, the most third-year Coach Becky Osborne has had — there will be plenty of in-team competition for roles durin...
The Newtown Public School District has announced there will be a three hour early dismissal on Thursday, September 6, due to expected temperatures.
The announce...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will kick off its 2018-19 season this month with an ice cream social followed by a discussion on using camera raw.
Digital ca...
Fisio Physical Therapy & Wellness LLC teamed up with the Hearts of Hope Newtown Chapter last month to sponsor a Paint with a Purpose event that will benefit The...
Priscilla “Sil” Black, 78, of Bakersfield, Calif., died August 28. The only child of Joseph and Lillian Black, she grew up in Newtown. She taught in the Newtown...
Carol Alexander McDonald, 93, of Southbury, formerly a longtime resident of Ridgefield, died September 4. She was born April 21, 1925, in Stamford, the daughter...
James P. Talarino, 75, a Newtown resident for more than 50 years, died peacefully September 1. He was born in Bridgeport and was the son of James Vincent & Star...
State police said they received a call from officials at Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road, about 12:13 pm ...
State police said that during the four-day Labor Day weekend from August 31 through September 3 inclusive, they ran a heightened motor vehicle violation enforce...
State Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106), was again endorsed for re-election by Connecticut Realtors, the state’s leading voice for residential and commercia...
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).