BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN
Contact Michael or Susan Dutton
364-1738; MDutton@bestweb.net
Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; discussion...
Bits & Pieces
By Kim J. Harmon
It seems pretty cut and dried to me, but if I win the Newtown Blue & Gold Booster Club raffle then I’m heading t...
Goodwill Trailer Damaged
Sometime overnight on September 30/October 1, someone did more than $250 of damage to the rear section of the Goodwill Industries ...
Historical Society’s Show
A New Opportunity For Antiques Shoppers
By Shannon Hicks
Newtown Historical Society was counting on the good reputation o...
Playwrights Collective On ‘Center Stage’
The next episode of Center Stage will feature an interview with members of Brookfield Center fo...
Charlotte Hickox Isham
A memorial service will be held October 4 for Dr Charlotte Hickox Isham, a former teaching principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Dr ...
Celebrating Charles E. Ives’ Birth
DANBURY — On Sunday, October 19, Danbury Music Centre will present the latest of its annual series of...
Volpe Seeks
Strides Walkers
There is still time to join the team being assembled by Judy Volpe of Avance Esthetiques Day Spa in Newtown to participate in the a...
Director Elia Kazan Dies;
Former Sandy Hook Resident
By Dottie Evans
Elia Kazan, 94, renowned stage and motion picture director and author, died September 28 at...
The Work Of The United Way
To the Editor:
On September 10, 800 volunteers from 38 local companies spread out into the local communities and completed 40 project...
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).