Bits & Pieces
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By Kim J. Harmon
DRAFT DAY – No matter how well prepared I seem to be, I always find myself in a cold sweat as I head out...
Charter Offers Intern Program
Charter Communication CommuniTyVision 21 is accepting applications for its award-winning Community Access Internship Program. Inte...
Women In The Catholic Church
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield University’s first annual Anne Drummey O’Callaghan lecture on Women in th...
Hospital Offers Diabetes Course
WATERBURY — The Be Well Center of Waterbury Hospital is offering a four-week series, “Living Well with D...
Kristen Malloy, left, captured the Victor Coopersmith Junior Tennis Tournament girls’ 10-and-under championship this past weekend at Dickinson Park....
The 2000 season was a spectacular one for the Newtown Pop Warner Football program and the 2001 season – if the first week is any indication â€&...
Sharon Ciccone
Sharon Ciccone, 45, of Shelton, beloved daughter of Anthony and Sara (Valvona) Tarascio, Sr, of Florida, died September 1 in St Vincentâ€&#x...
Fall Domestic Violence,
Sexual Assault Hotline Training
DANBURY — The Women’s Center of Greater Danbury is now screening volunteers or ...
Ditto For Obtuse Road
To the Editor:
I would like to thank Carolyn Bergen for her letter of August 27 entitled “New Lebbon Rd Is Neither A Dump Nor ...
Animal Enrichment At Beardsley Zoo
BRIDGEPORT — Zookeepers will demonstrate techniques they use to keep animals physically active and mentally stimu...
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).