Although a cold, wet, blustery day, the environmental faithful turned out on the front lawn at Newtown Middle School at Queen Street on Saturday, April 27, to c...
The Newtown Police Department’s Facebook page this week displayed a blurry surveillance photo of a man believed to have committed identity theft that resulted i...
SHERMAN — The Sherman Players are performing The Graduate as their spring production.
Directed by Susan Abrams, performances began in mid-April and continue for...
STORRS — Student finalists in grades K-12 from throughout the state will compete at the Connecticut Invention Convention on the morning of Saturday, May 4. The ...
Behind an 80-year-old brick façade was a cavernous hall filled with banging, heavy machinery, aromas of fresh pizza, and eager conversation.
Partners Mark Tamba...
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week, C.H. Booth Library will host an art show by four local author-illustrators, with a panel discussion,...
Margaret Janice Lovering Bevan, of Newtown, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. She was 85 years of age.
Jan is survived by her loving husba...
Volunteers from FAITH Food Pantry (FFP), located on the campus of St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, 46 Church Hill Road, will be outside Stop & Shop this w...
UPDATE:
Motorists traveling in the Church Hill Road area lying west of Interstate 84 should expect travel delays during the next two weeks, while a repaving pr...
KEENE, N.H. — With three small desks, open backpacks, and a rug with a cartoon map of the United States, the space Newtown High School 2015 graduate Haley Kean ...
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).