Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass
At NUMC, Saturday
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church in Sandy Hook will be on February 4 in the churchâ...
Voices Heard
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the members of the Planning and Zoning Commission for their decision to disapprove the application by Pine Cre...
The Cub Scouts of Pack 270 held their annual Pinewood Derby race on Thursday, January 19, at Middle Gate Elementary School. Racing in the Pinewood Derby has bee...
JODI
Jodi is a four-and-a-half-year-old American Pitbull Terrier mix. She has a beautiful brindle coat and weighs 58 pounds. She walks beautifully on a leash an...
School Bd Seeks Public Comment On Space Needs
The Newtown Board of Education will hold a special board meeting on Monday, February 6, at 7:30 pm in the lecture ...
Attorney Activist To Speak At Fairfield U
FAIRFIELD — Anita Hill, the attorney and educator who came to prominence during Justice Clarence Thomasâ&#...
Parent Connection Lecture
In response to the 2005 Governor’s Survey of Newtown youth, which outlines a poll taken of Newtown high school and middle...
Scholarships Available
Friendship Cottage Cheese will award a total of $20,000 in scholarship money to 16 eligible high school seniors across Connecticut who pl...
John D. Watts, Jr
Passionate About Boating
John Donald Watts, Jr, 62, died at his home in Easton, Md., January 25. Born July 1, 1943, in Poughkeepsi...
Harold Spiegel
Bronze Star Recipient
Harold Spiegel, 82, of Queens Village, N.Y., died suddenly January 23 at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Born in Brookly...
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).