IN-HOUSE
Boys U14
With three straight wins, the Woodchucks captured the Boys U14 In-House soccer tournament championship.
In a 4-1 win over the Strike...
Holiday Closings
All town offices will be closed on Monday, July 4, in observation of the legal holiday for Independence Day.
The senior center, the C.H. Booth ...
John R. Tolster Memorial
Friends and family are invited to attend a memorial mass for John R. Tolster, formerly of Sandy Hook, Saturday, July 9, at 11 am. in St...
Many Good Samaritans
To the Editor:
On June 15, my wife and I were driving north on Route 34 in Newtown near Berkshire and Zoar Roads and were involved in a ser...
No Short-Term Solution For
High Gas Prices, Snow Says
By John Christoffersen
Associated Press
TRUMBULL — Treasury Secretary John Snow said Monday th...
By Kim J. Harmon
A triple play, a deep smash to the tree in left field, the ol’ hidden ball trick – these were just three of the highlig...
Three of our readers correctly identified the brick building (inset) pictured here last week as the pump house on Wasserman Way. Jim Wilkins of Taunton Lane, Ed...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The ...
Openings In Middlebury Event
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary will be holding its annual craft fair on Saturda...
Fire Company Sponsors Golf Tourney
The Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Co. Inc is sponsoring its 18th Annual Timothy and George Powell Memorial Golf Tourname...
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).