Rescue Call—
Nine Trapped In Elevator
At Edmond Town Hall
By Andrew Gorosko
Nine people were trapped in the new elevator at Edmond Town Hall on Tu...
Campus
Notes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., has announced the following Newtown students have earned degrees: Sarah Ashley Janisch, Bachelor of S...
Julie Ann Lis and Roy H. Krueger
Announcement is made of the engagement of Julie Ann Lis and Roy H. Krueger.
The bride-to-be is a resident of New Milford. She ...
Antiques Shows______
Saturdays
(through mid-Dec): 39th Season Woodbury’s Famous Antiques & Flea Market, 787 Main St South (Rte 6, near Rte...
Blumenthal Intervenes In Lake Management Plans
By Kendra Bobowick
Two days before a September 1 deadline, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has fired a legal ...
The Bertram Stroock Memorial Tennis Tournament and the Coopersmith Junior Championships will be decided this weekend at Dickinson Park.
The Stroock tournament â...
Greytak Earns e-Pro Designation
Peggy Nye, manager of the Danbury regional office for William Raveis Real Estate, announced that Ileen Greytak has successfully ...
Lieberman’s ‘Higher Calling’
To the Editor:
I commend First Selectman Herb Rosenthal and the Democratic Town Committee for p...
No Child Left Behind Standards Assert Reed Intermediate School Needs To Improve
By Laurie Borst
The scores are in. Reed Intermediate School students’...
DUI Arrest
Police report they stopped motorist Tony Aleixo, 20, of North Charleston, S.C., for driving erratically on South Main Street at about 2 am Augus...
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).