Girl Scout Dinner Dance A Success
To the Editor:
The Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecticut held its Annual Gala CampOut Dinner Dance and Silent Auction...
Kelly Fegler poured in 24 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as Imagine This handed Colorgraphics its second loss of the season, 68-62, in The Gym At Newtownâ&#...
Dear Mr Droppo,
When members of the greater Newtown community drive up and down Main Street this Friday evening (12/5) to see it dressed in its glowing best, th...
Open House At Irish Art Gallery
The Traditional Irish Art Gallery, exclusively representing the Irish-American artist Edmund Sullivan, will host an open house S...
Combating Underage Drinking
By Larissa Lytwyn
Community education and media coverage strategies predominated Newtown Prevention Council’s 2003â€...
Danbury Hospital Nearing 20,000 SignaturesTo Support Advanced Cardiac Care
DANBURY — With less than 1,000 signatures to go, Danbury Hospital is stri...
Dr Frederick J. O’Neill
Dr Frederick J. O’Neill of Driftway Road, Danbury, died of lung cancer, November 16, at his home. He was the hus...
Supporting Newtown
Through The United Way
To the Editor:
This is the time of year when we all pause and consider what we have to be thankful for.
We live in o...
Pete Dittmar finished 178th at the Footlocker Cross Country Championships at Vancortlandt Park in New York last weekend. He ran 18:06 on the five-kilometer ...
Seventh Graders Learn About The Sum Of Success
By Larissa Lytwyn
Newtown Middle School’s grade 7 “Green Cluster” recently l...
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).