Mr and Mrs Richard A. Giammattei
Margaret M. Forde and Richard A. Giammattei were married on April 24 at the Candlewood Inn by Justice of the Peace Deborah...
New Dog Licenses
Required In June
Town Clerk Cindy Simon advises Newtown dog owners that dogs 6 months of age and over must be licensed annually during the mont...
Safe & Sound Program June 14
DANBURY — Fairfield County Safe Kids will conduct a free Safe & Sound program for parents on Monday, June 14, from 6:30...
Lawmakers Ask EPA For Time
 To Fix Emissions Testing Program
HARTFORD (AP) — Lawmakers asked federal environmental officials Tuesday to give Connec...
Subdivisions And Recreation
To the Editor:
Now that P&Z is rethinking its open space subdivision regulations they might consider and encourage a new concept tha...
Two-Day Grisaille Painting Class
SOUTHBURY — The Mt Laurel Artisans are offering a two-day canvas painting class. The subject is an “Enc...
Amanda Leigh Cruz to Michael Paul Rosa
Mr and Mrs Philip Cruz of Currituck Road, Newtown, announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Leigh Cruz, to ...
Teen Conference At UConn
BETHEL — More than 100 teens will gather at the University of Connecticut from July 11 to July 13 for the Teen Connection C...
Newtown Youth Services
Moves To Sandy Hook
By Larissa Lytwyn
Six months into a tireless search for a new location, Newtown Youth Services has finally found a n...
Wonder Walkers Say Thanks
To the Editor:
The Newtown Wonder Walkers Team in the Relay For Life on June 12 and 13 would like to express our appreciation to our f...
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).