DANBURY — Close games have been the norm for Newtown High School’s hockey team this winter and a contest with the Brookfield-Bethel-Danbury (BBD) co-op at Danbu...
Newtown High School's girls' and boys' indoor track teams have finished off the regular season and look ahead to the postseason, which gets underway with the So...
The Kennedy Center’s Palm & Able resale shop is planning a special one-day sale this weekend at Butcher’s Best Country Market.
Located at 125 South Main Street,...
STAMFORD — On February 5 in Connecticut Superior Court, a former Newtown resident who headed the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission until two years ago en...
RIDGEFIELD — Whether you just enjoy hearing great music together, or you and your sweetie first fell in love to popular hits like “Hanging by a Moment,” or the ...
There is plenty to read at newtownbee.com, but so much more information to be found in print. If you read the print edition of The Newtown Bee, or subscribe, yo...
A Google spokeswoman in the January 12, 2020, New York Times article, “The Decimation of Local News Has Lawmakers Crossing The Aisle,” was quoted, “Every month,...
Published: Feb 07, 2020 at 07:00 AM
KATONAH, N.Y. — Wooster School proudly announces that three of its students have had work accepted into “Young Artists 2020,” the 37th annual exhibition at Kato...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public to attend its next program, “Know Your Camera & Fun Photography,” a presentation by club member Charlie Ba...
This event smacks of the hope of spring: The Victory Garden, in cooperation with the Newtown Forest Association (NFA) and the Tom Sawyer School of Arboriculture...
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).