It begins on Friday night, when glimmering luminaria line the roadways in the town’s center, leading down to Ram Pasture, where Hawley Pond is surrounded by the...
State Senator Tony Hwang was making a donation recently to FAITH Food Pantry when he noticed the shelves were a little too sparsely stocked considering the onse...
Ice-covered branches clattering in the wind and layers of crusty snow greeted us on Monday morning, a reminder that winter is coming... or maybe, here. You can ...
The owners of six homes on and around Main Street have graciously volunteered their homes for the Holiday House Tours, an adored Holiday Festival activity where...
Published: Dec 06, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The Resiliency Center of Newtown (RCN) will be holding two December Days of Healing.
On Friday and Saturday, December 13-14, the center, at 153 South Main Stree...
In celebration of collecting donations for the annual Women Involved in Newtown (WIN) Thanksgiving Basket Program, the entire Sandy Hook Elementary School gathe...
John Woodall, MD, is a Board Certified psychiatrist who lives in Newtown. He has provided the following commentary as Newtown moves toward the December 14 d...
A group of Toddy Hill Road area residents attending a December 3 Police Commission session thanked commission members for the installation of some planned traff...
The Commons at Newtown, the assisted living community at 139 Toddy Hill Road, is planning a fundraising event for The Alzheimer’s Association.
The inaugural Fes...
Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue sent a letter to parents on December 3 to announce plans and preparations ahead of 12/14.
The letter reads, “As you...
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).