Commuters traveling through Sandy Hook Center on the morning of Thursday, June 20, may have be jolted by the sound of screeching breaks and honking horns in the...
July 22, 1994
We know some Newtown kids who are having an incredibly exciting summer. Some are traveling with the circus. Some are studying otters, and man...
On Monday, July 1, to honor a long-serving Newtown Police Department member, police and town officials gathered in the police station's roll call room where Fir...
Newtown Middle School automation and robotics class students created an assembly line as the final project of the roughly year-long course.
As approximately 20 ...
Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the fourth quarter marking period of the 2018-19 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade ...
WILTON — Middle-aged women are overdosing in record numbers, highlighting the need for more treatment programs for women as well as increased awareness about th...
Thirty years ago, the Mayflower Book Club was formed in Newtown.
Although a few members have left, the present group still meets once a month to discuss a varie...
Occupation: I am the owner of Newtown Pizza Palace. I’ve been the owner for three years and a chef there for about 20 years. In 2011, when Pizza Palace had ...
SHERMAN — The Sherman Players takes its summer audiences to an island full of intrigue, humor, and young love with The Tempest. Skillfully and imaginatively dir...
Middle Gate Elementary School fourth grade teacher Linda Baron ran a Flag Day assembly on June 10, and students and special guests were treated to history lesso...
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).