Newtown High School and Newtown Middle School graduation dates, the 2019-20 school calendar, and a Sandy Hook Elementary School lightning protection project con...
Welcome to National Poetry Month! I won’t offend the poets among our readers by even attempting to wax poetic here, but I will offer a reminder that C.H. Booth ...
Sandy Hook Elementary School faculty welcomed third and fourth grade students to its Reading Campout on the evening of March 20.
Cynthia McArthur, the school’s ...
Newtown Middle School’s musical production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr is set to be staged this weekend, April 5 to 7, at the school, 11 Queen Street.
W...
Due to a significant number of design changes that were made to a planned large veterinary complex, known as Pleasant Paws Pet Center at 94 South Main Street (R...
The Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation (CVHF) announced in its spring newsletter on March 20 that phase one of construction is beginning to take place at the a...
Members of the Newtown Senior Center went on an organized bus trip to Fascia’s Chocolates in Waterbury on March 27.
The outing was part of Newtown Senior Center...
Occupation: I’ve been a reading specialist for more than 30 years for children with special needs, including dyslexia. I love it.
Family: My husband is ...
Newtown residents Jen Rogers and Hanna Roehrs returned home from New Haven last weekend with ribbons from the Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut.
The guild is pr...
The Hollywood musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) will be the next film in the Someday Cinema Series. Screenings are planned at Edmond Town Hall, 45 ...
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).