Maple Avenue,
Danbury
Mary Lewis recently sold her home at 57 Maple Avenue, Danbury, to Rubia A. Magalhaes, formerly of Danbury.
Patty Gaffney of Pru...
The Be Well Center Pampers Women in January
WATERBURY — During the month of January, The Be Well Center of Waterbury Hospital is pampering women wit...
The Storm In A Hurry Could Have Been Worse
By Steve Bigham
Newtown’s highway department plowed an estimated 38.1 million cubic feet of snow this pas...
By Kim J. Harmon
MONROE – It was four minutes into the second quarter of Newtown’s first-round matchup with Masuk in the 19th annual Mas...
By Kim J. Harmon
WHITE PLAINS, New York – It wasn’t too long ago (only about 25 years ago) that kids were flipping their bubble gum card...
Children’s Cough
by Jeff Cersonsky, MD, FAAP
“My four-year-old son has had a cough for two weeks. What does this mean?”
I ge...
Connecticut Blaze
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The Connecticut Blaze is taking signups for its 2001 clinics and tryouts. All clinics and tryouts will be from 9 am to 12 noon at...
Four-Vehicle Crash
Police report a four-vehicle chain-reaction accident on northbound South Main Street near Laurel Road about 6 pm December 28.
Police sai...
By Kim J. Harmon
MONROE – The championship game of the Masuk Holiday Tournament was almost anticlimactic in a way with the undefeated Newtown High S...
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).