Occupation: I’m an attorney. I’ve been working for a company in Norwalk for the past five years, but I just accepted a new position. I’ll be starting with a...
NORWALK — To some fans, John Tesh will always be the friendly guy next door who hosted Entertainment Tonight for more than a decade. To others, he served as a d...
September 23, 1994
Sam and Rose Mauro of Fieldstone Drive planted some zuccho seeds their friend, Stanley Frystak brought back from Italy. The one vegetable gro...
To the Editor:
Every tenement began as some developer’s plan to create congested housing in an effort to line his pockets. Developers Frank Caico of Newtown and...
By Andrew Gorosko
After learning that police held warrants for their arrests, a Danbury man and a Sandy Hook woman both went to the police station about 12:10 a...
A local landscape and construction firm is banking on the goodwill of customers needing a dumpster to help a local family who lost a loved one to the insidious ...
Newtown Hikers is an open group welcoming anyone interested in hiking. There is no membership fee.
Hikers participate at their own risk and are asked by the New...
A typical competitive high school soccer game ends something like 1-0 or 1-1. For a high-scoring match, maybe 3-2.
How about 5-4?
That’s what Newtown High Schoo...
FAIRFIELD — The Pollinator Pathways Project is an initiative by area town conservation organizations to establish pollinator habitat and food sources along a co...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?