Area Rotary clubs are offering two foreign study trips to young Connecticut business and professional people under Rotary’s Group Study Exchange pro...
Bill Gaynor, Jr and Eileen Gaynor of Middlebury announce the birth of a daughter, Leah Jane Gaynor, on October 6 in Danbury Hospital.
Philip and Annmarie (Jacob...
Pack 170 Gets A Flying Start
With the beginning of the school year, Cub Scout Pack 170 of Sandy Hook started its year in a big way. On October 4, Cubmaster Mike...
Elm Drive
Sarah Bedichek of Fairfield recently purchased 10 Elm Drive from Richard and Susan Medve.
The property was listed and marketed by Bob Gleason of ...
After School Programs
For Middle Schoolers
Newtown Youth Services and Newtown Health & Fitness will offer after school programs beginning the week of November ...
Sandy Hook Woman Arrested On Multiple Charges
Police served several rearrest warrants against a local woman November 1, lodging more than a dozen charges agains...
Jewish Life In Russia
DANBURY — Congregation B’nai Israel will expand its “Jewish Experience in America” series ...
New Kindergarten Rooms A Success
By Erin Ruddock and
Samantha Wong
Head O’ Meadow Fifth Graders
The Kindergartners at Head O’ Meadow e...
Office Building Gets Permit
The Conservation Commission has granted a Sandy Hook firm a wetlands permit for the company’s proposed construction of a...
Now the seasons have really changed. The leaves will soon be all off the trees except the rich red oaks. The frost has taken most of summer’s garden...
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).