Due to rains expected to move into the area during the midday hours of Friday, December 4, plans have been changed for the Silent Night Stroll planned at Ram Pa...
HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont announced December 4 that he plans to sign an executive order that expands eligibility to the federal Lost Wages Assistance (LWA)...
After hours of vetting and discussions on bonding for a Hawley School HVAC project, the Board of Finance decided to parse out $8 million in funding over three y...
The Board of Police Commissioners discussed the police department’s move into its new headquarters and began a discussion of traffic concerns for the Historical...
Snow days will be different this school year. The Board of Education approved a “Snow Day Expectations” document at its December 1 virtual meeting to outline ne...
HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont announced December 4 that he is directing U.S. and State of Connecticut flags to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset ...
Like other clubs at Newtown High School, the UNICEF Club has been meeting virtually and working online to further its efforts this year, and club founder Nidhi ...
Most people rely on the standard five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to understand the world around them.
Some navigate through the physical wo...
Linda Bates is concerned.
The president of the Newtown Fund, Bates says there is good news and bad news for the organization that is in the midst of its largest...
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).